Rob Zacny

Gothic shooter The Darkness II is a great exercise in comic-book style and tentacle gore, but it gets tangled up in genre fiction. Rob Zacny explains how.

A game about racing across the streets of America ought to be gripping and chaotic. That’s why Need for Speed: The Run does away with the rules and fairness of a real car race. So how does it end up feeling confined and joyless?

We review a new cyberpunk-themed shooter that seems more concerned with being a cyberpunk-themed shooter than with being interesting.