GosuNoob Video Game Reviews

Assassin’s Creed IV: Black Flag was universally praised mostly because of its addition of sailing and ship combat to the main Assassin’s Creed gameplay loop….

You have a supernatural problem, but the Ghostbusters with proton packs are three hundred years away. Who you gonna call? The Witcher? Tough luck, he’s…

It is not a total disaster everyone dreaded it would be. Or hoped. Considering the development hell it suffered, Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League…

Pokémon with guns. That ad-hoc definition was the flying cigarette butt that lit the fuse of the gaming masses’ explosive enthusiasm. Palworld, an unknown and…

Ubisoft, a major publisher with a glorious past but a struggling present, can hope for a brighter future if it hedges more bets like this…

Viral sensations. When they are bad, like COVID-19, they suck major balls, but sometimes they hit the spot and set the world on fire in…

Games glorifying banditry are legion, but only a few lionize law enforcement. Taking a conscious risk of sounding like an average grandfather, I’ll label that…

Hyperviolent android, obsessively in love with a girl, tearing foes limb from limb and screaming in a futuristic, dystopian environment. Sounds familiar? No? You may…

Science Fiction sets its stories in worlds humans have never seen using technologies that do not exist. All these contemplations about what could be in…

The third game from developer Owlcat Games, Warhammer 40,000: Rogue Trader marks a major milestone for the WH40k franchise – with it being the first…

One of the few good consequences of the Great War was the unstoppable wave of national liberation movements. Many European peoples took advantage of the…

The original Flashback (1992) was one of the most important games of the late Amiga era. This sci-fi cinematic platform game broke popularity records and…

There have been several games striving to emulate the simple ingenuity of Portal. Quantum Conundrum, Q.U.B.E, Antichamber, and others were mostly competent from the technical…

I’m tempted to use big words when trying to explain what exactly is going on in Alan Wake 2. Almost everybody on the internet does…

Experts agree that the American purchase of Alaska from Russians was the finest strategic and macroeconomic deal ever. The second best was probably the snagging…

The first Lords of the Fallen came out when rarely anyone else made souls games other than From Software. Nine years later we get a…

You ain’t going to believe this, but the last decent grand strategy game involving Star Trek is a quarter of a century old. Star Trek:…

Without moderation, good things can be equivalently soul-crushing as bad things. Assassin’s Creed Valhalla and to a lesser extent, its predecessor, Odyssey, were too big…

Everyone loves an uplifting story of rebirth and redemption. It doesn’t matter if the protagonist is a pile of compiled code rather than a human,…