Phantom Covert Ops Preview – Gently Down The Stream
Ever wanted to go for a peaceful paddle in the middle of hostile territory? Phantom Covert Ops does just that, and looks to be providing a tense stealth experience for the VR crowd.
Ever wanted to go for a peaceful paddle in the middle of hostile territory? Phantom Covert Ops does just that, and looks to be providing a tense stealth experience for the VR crowd.
Gears Tactics tries some new things, but ultimately results in a game that’s less tactics oriented than the name suggests.
Boasting incredible production values, a compelling story, and gameplay that makes VR truly compelling, Half Life: Alyx is a remarkable achievement. It’s the best VR game yet, and maybe, just maybe, the best in the Half Life franchise.
It might not be necessary, but the Dual Shock 4 Back Button Attachment makes some games’ tricky control schemes much more approachable on a standard pad.
Doom Eternal cranks the dial to 11, throws gas on the fire, puts the pedal to the metal. Pick any cliche metaphor you want: Doom Eternal holds its slayer horns high and proud, refining just about everything Doom 2016 did well. It’s tense, frantic, and absolutely transcendent. Doom Eternal is metal as f***.
Listen, you already know if Nioh 2 is going to be your jam. There are a lot of good, and even great things here for fans of the genre, but in the end it’s another ‘one of those’. Nioh 2 is stylish, and polished, and well designed, and I hate playing it.
Here we go again. Yet another Walking Dead property in an endless stream of properties trying to cash in on Robert Kirkman’s landmark comic saga. Surely we’ve seen and done it all at this point, right? Not exactly.
If you’re looking for precision movement, combos, or in depth mechanical structure, you won’t find them in Kentucky Route Zero. That may matter to some, but not me. Not in this game. Kentucky Route Zero is a brilliantly told story that takes chances, and unapologetically is what it is.
Every year, COGconnected editors gather in the Press X To Podcast battlebridge to suss out the ten best games of the year. Or maybe it’s better to say our best games of the year. In any case, these are our ten best games of 2019.
As we close the book marked 2010’s, we’re looking back on the past 52 weeks with a critical eye. What was the best game of the year? Which were the most disappointing? Who’s the sexiest hero of the year? All shall be revealed come December 22nd.