Not much has changed in Crackdown town. The game drops me into the shoes of an agent brimming with potential who is tasked with tearing through a corporate controlled city to restore order. The only verbs with which I can interact with the world involve firing rocket launcher shells into crowds of nameless people or [….]
Hope County has got thoroughly shafted by life, if you ask me. First in Far Cry 5 its inhabitants survive a psychopathic cult leader and his cronies straight-up drugging the water supply and brainwashing innocent civilians, then when it just starts to look like they’re finally beat, what happens? Nuclear bombs drop and wipe almost everyone and everything out. [….]
Stabbed. Strangled. Electrocuted. Drowned. Technically, Hitman 2—like its predecessor—is an incredibly violent game. Your job as master assassin Agent 47 is to ensure a hit list of rich jerks meet a macabre end, preferably silently, with no witnesses or alarms. But—again, like its predecessor—Hitman 2 doesn’t revel in its violence. It’s not gruesome or gory. [….]
