Zack Furniss

Resident Evil‘s been a roller coaster of quality for twenty years now. The first handful of games terrified players by making them exceedingly vulnerable in a world where a biological weapon turned living beings into various nasties that wanted nothing more than to kill you in horrendous ways. Stagnancy raised its head eventually, and Capcom knew that it needed to inject the series’ ol’ corpse with some much-needed life, and we received Resident Evil 4. Depending on your perspective, that game w

Since releasing in 2014, Ubisoft’s Watch Dogs has meant something different to almost everyone who played it. Though the open-world hack-a-thon is often critiqued for lacking personality and the graphical downgrade debacle, it still sits pretty at an 80 on Metacritic (whether or not this means anything to you is highly subjective). As oft-maligned as it seems to be, reviewers and players clearly saw potential.

In my review-in-progress for Doom, I mentioned that “if what I’ve played so far is indicative of the rest of the campaign, the late embargo is absolutely nothing to be worried about.” That was based on four hours of ripping the heads off of demons, finding secrets, grabbing keycards, and smashing monitors.