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Atomfall (PC) – Review

By the 60s, the UK was returning to a decent economy with low unemployment, and Atomfall’s alt-history proposed a somewhat similar time frame. However, the fire at the Windscale nuclear power plant in 1957 seemed to be a bit of a setback;…

Sniper Elite: Resistance (PC) – Review

Bonjour, je M’appelle le buisson. Then again after that whole World War I business, I don’t know how many bushes are left in France. Joining the Jedburghs and the SAS in the SOE operation to establish a foothold in Europe ahead of…

Sniper Elite 5 (PS5) Review

The modern shooter has become something drastically different than when I started playing the genre with Halo in the early 2000s. With a hyper-focus on lax trigger-fingers and a need for peak reflexes, the pace in any first or third-person shooter is at…

Evil Genius 2 (Xbox One) – Review

The year was 2004, and while Pierce Brosnan was trying to rip the clothes off of Halle Berry two years before, the years of Thunderball‘s eye-patched villain Emilio Largo was gone. Instead, those cartoonish villains were reduced to a cinder by the likes…

Evil Genius 2: World Domination (PC) Review

If you happen to have been following my written work here on Phenixx Gaming for at least the past year or so, you may remember that I whipped up a roundup of every game announced at 2020’s PC Gaming Show last June.…

Sniper Elite V2 (PC) Review

Over the course of my time with Rebellion’s Sniper Elite V2, I’ve found myself quoting Valve’s 2009 Team Fortress 2 video “Meet the Sniper” almost incessantly. As far as I’m concerned, quotes from that particular video either apply perfectly to everything that…