GameTap writes: "Videogames have examined so many different wars from so many different angles that it's awfully nice to see something new. Turning Point's premise is just such a creature: The fiction is that Winston Churchill never survived being struck by a taxi in 1931, and thus wasn't around to slow Hitler's advance across Europe. This has allowed the Nazi menace to advance across the continent, and eventually across the Atlantic to invade New York.
I know, Nazis--not terribly original. But the idea here is that you're fighting a guerilla war on the streets of America, and that's a spin that we haven't really seen before. It puts the player in a role that Americans (and consequently, a great number of war-related videogames) don't have a lot of experience with: the role of the invadee."
Pros: Thought-provoking premise; addresses the notable scarcity of games in which you kill Nazis in New York.
Cons: Profoundly glitchy; unreliable controls; uneven graphics; moments of astonishingly poor taste
It’s time to wander through the Game Graveyard. A haunting, foggy location in which overlooked and forgotten video games rot under the murky surface of the earth. Unmarked tombstones litter the landscape and the tears of developers that once floated upon the air are now just dissonant wails in the distance.
Not all First Person Shooters will go do in history as a legend. What about the shooters that didn’t quite hit the mark? The hidden gems or the forgotten ‘next big thing’ which didn’t even turn out to be a small thing? Or perhaps the first-person shooter that was so damned awful that everybody tried to forget it exists?
HAZE = LMAO
Cryostasis: Sleep of Reason = This was a nice game. The water Physics, over all physics, and eye candy were TOP NOTCH thus the high system requirements. Nice pick up for those who couldn't run it on Ultra back in the day.
Project: Snowblind was a pretty awesome game that never got the love it deserved.
Oh, come on... Some of these are good. XIII, Cryostasis, and NOLF are my favorites on here. Nobody forgot NOLF though. Huge fan base for the two original titles!
But then we see Haze and Legendary. Seriously? Legendary is horrible! No gamer would say otherwise. It's just trash.
Shawn Long of GAMINGtruth.com takes a look at yet another game that had potential to be great, but just fell flat on it's face.
I remember being excited before booting up this game's demo. I had hoped, like you, that the creators would live up to the story. Sadly, it just didn't happen.
Man, when this came out, I was dying for it to be awesome!
Sadly, that wasn't the case. Great article!
