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Nitro Express Review: A 30fps Throwback To Classic 2D Platform Shooters

By MrCheater June 24, 2025PC, ReviewNo Comments

Players: 1
Platforms: PC
Release Date: May 19th, 2025
Developer: Grayfax Software
Publisher: PlaySim
Availability: Steam Store
Rating: Buy It

Grayfax Software has an illustrious future ahead of them if they can produce more games like this at this quality. Nitro Express is their nascent entry in the interactive entertainment industry, and it’s a real rocking title, if I must say so myself. It hearkens back to the classic 16-bit era of side-scrolling, action-platformers, but mostly focuses on a bullet-hell type experience, where the action is frantic yet focused. The highlight is that the game has a modest five hour runtime (if you include the story missions and the the mission mode levels), and has a pretty cool story to boot.

Everything Good And Bad About The HF8 Haptic Gaming Pad

By MrCheater August 23, 2024Nintendo, PC, PlayStation, Review, XboxNo Comments

Next Level Racing decided to turn the gaming world upside down with a haptic feedback seating pad, known as the HF8 Haptic Gaming Pad. It’s a neat little device (that’s actually not that little) that slides on top of your current chair, whether it’s an office chair or a gaming chair; heck, you could even skap it on your couch if you were so inclined. The device requires being plugged into an outlet and connected via USB to your computer, and it has built in native support for various games but can also operate via an audio input mode. As a result, you have a device that can give you rumbling haptic feedback based on the games you play, the music you listen to, or even the movies you watch. But let’s go more in depth about the good and bad of this particular gaming accessory.

Everything Good And Bad About Jagged Alliance 3

By MrCheater August 21, 2024PC, PlayStation, Review, XboxNo Comments

I finally got around to playing Jagged Alliance 3, which is currently available for the PS4, PS5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X, and on PC. I was pleasantly surprised at just how good this game was. It contained a lot of everything that I enjoyed when it comes to turn-based games, and managed to improve on some things I felt the turn-based genre lacked, but also contained some things that I felt could have been done better. Nevertheless, I decided to put together a quick rundown of what it did good and what it did bad, and how I felt about it and maybe you can chime in with your own opinions as well.

Wanted: Weapons Of Fate Review – Underrated Hidden Gem

By MrCheater June 26, 2022ReviewNo Comments

Players: 1
Platforms: Xbox 360, PS3, PC
Developer: Oberon Media, Grin
Publisher: Universal Pictures, Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment
Release Date: March 23rd, 2009
Rating: Play It

Wanted: Weapons of Fate is a post-movie, licensed-based, tie-in game. It’s a mouthful, no doubt. But that’s exactly what the game is. It released a year after the movie, working as a pseudo-sequel of sorts. Oberon Media and Grin were tasked with the development under the super vision of Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment and Universal Pictures. They even managed to land a somewhat all-star cast for the game, minus the likes of Morgan Freeman and James McAvoy. Interestingly enough Thomas Kretschmann, Peter Stomare, Paz Vega, Common and Terence Stamp all lend their voices to the game, helping bring the story to life.

Terminator 3: Redemption Review: Grand Theft Terminator

By MrCheater June 24, 2022ReviewNo Comments

Players: 1 – 2
Platforms: PS2, Xbox, GameCube
Release Date: September 9th, 2004
Developer: Paradigm Entertainment
Publisher: Atari
Rating: Try It

Where do I begin with this one? Terminator 3: Redemption is a movie tie-in game to the Terminator 3 film that came out back in 2003 to middling reviews. A year late and a few features light compared to most video game fanfare of the era, and Terminator 3: Redemption fits into a rather odd slot as a game that’s not quite as bad as a typical movie-game, but not quite good enough to warrant much acclaim. Like many movie games of the era, there are some really good ideas underneath the hood, but the execution is rather poor, and that dampens the overall appeal of this particular outing.

Jet Li’s Rise To Honor Retro Review: One Of The Best Beat ‘Em Up Games Of All Time

By MrCheater May 25, 2022PlayStation, ReviewNo Comments

Players: 1
Platforms:PS2
Release Date:February 17th, 2004
Developer: SCE Foster City Studio/Team Triad
Publisher:Sony Interactive Entertainment
Rating: Play It

Wow, what a game. What else can I honestly say? This is one of the most original and unique beat-’em-up, action-adventure games ever made. It mixes cinematic action-movie set pieces with a storyline that very well could have come from Chung Sun, Sammo Hung or John Woo crime-drama flick from the 1980s. This is one of those rare games where it wasn’t quite a licensed-based title themed around an accompanying film or big Hollywood production, but it has all the hallmark trappings of a licensed-based property with the inclusion of a lot of big Hong Kong stars attached to the product and it clearly shows. From the stunt choreography to the absolutely awesome motion-capture work done by Jet Li himself, this game hits almost all the right notes in almost all the right ways with a few exceptions.

Black Retro Review: One Of The Best FPS Titles From Any Generation

By MrCheater May 18, 2022PlayStation, Review, XboxNo Comments

Players: 1
Platforms: PS2, Xbox
Release Date: February 23rd, 2006
Developer: Criterion Games
Publisher: Electronic Arts
Rating: Play It

Do you remember the single-player first-person shooter game from Criterion and EA called Black? It was for the PS2 and OG Xbox, had a decent marketing campaign but didn’t really make waves in terms of post-launch mind-share other than that everyone who played it felt it was one of the best first-person shooter titles ever made. I originally missed out on it while playing other games of the era, but recently had a chance to get around to it again, and it’s easy to see why it’s the cult-classic everyone claims it to be.

Blacksite Area 51 Review: Best Left Forgotten

By MrCheater May 15, 2022PC, PlayStation, Review, XboxNo Comments

Players: 1 (Multiplayer PvP)
Platforms: PS3, Xbox 360, PC
Release Date: November 12th, 2007
Developer: Midway Studios
Publisher: Midway Games
Rating: Skip It

Why? That’s all I really have to ask. Why? This game is like one of those titles that was hodge-podged together on a blackboard with almost no oversight, a budget both too big and too small for what they wanted to do, and no discernible direction that would have actually resulted in this project becoming anything more than a forgettable Saturday-afternoon romp before being carted off to a GamStop where it would spend the rest of its carbon existence collecting dust in the $9.99 or less bargain bin. That really sums up the entirety of Blacksite: Area 51, which – unfortunately – I can’t even say had potential to be a good game.

American Fugitive Nintendo Switch Review: Unique For Its Era

By MrCheater April 29, 2022Nintendo, ReviewNo Comments

Players: 1
Platforms: PS4, Xbox One, PC, Nintendo Switch
Release Date: May 21st, 2019
Developer: Fallen Tree Games
Publisher: Curve Games, Teyon
Rating: Play It

Fallen Tree Games’ Grand Theft Auto-inspired isometric open-world crime game, American Fugitive is a throwback to a time long passed in today’s gaming era. We no longer get to play as masculine, capable, intelligent straight, white-males in a modern environment where they can be capable, intuitive, tough, and compelling while attached to an original and thrilling storyline. That age is simply gone. Heck, we rarely even get crime thrillers in the video game space these days, much less open-world crime thrillers. That in itself makes American Fugitive a unique entry in today’s world of video games.

Urban Reign Retro Review: Frustratingly Fun

By MrCheater February 24, 2022PlayStation, ReviewNo Comments

Players: 1 – 4
Platforms: PS2
Release Date: Septehmber 13^th, 2005
Developer: Namco
Publisher: Namco
Gebre: Beat-’em-up/Fighting
Rating: Try It

Urban Reign is a little known beat-em-up that Namco rolled out in between Tekken 5 and Tekken 6 back in 2005. It’s essentially an arena-battle mode that mimics the beat-em-up qualities that Namco was experimenting with via the Force Mode from Tekken 3 (which was further evolved in the subsequent sequels). However, unlike the Force Mode from Tekken, Urban Reign’s battles are sadly limited to arena levels instead of progressing stages like in the Tekken games.