Recent reviews by dryfire

This is a great, great, great tactical shooter! Attention to detail on weapons, environment, and the many modes of play (and temporary creative variations) make this a great combination of realism and fun that hasn't met its match yet!

This game was an immersive, heartfelt, thoughtful, well-made experience. I enjoyed every minute of my first play through and will be coming back for more. Great job to all involved!

It's pretty much everything I hoped Left 4 Dead 3 would have been, if Valve was ever gonna create it. Already looking forward to Act 5 and beyond!

This is an exciting, fast-paced game that tickles your cravings for mental stimulation as well as fun. The game of soccer has new life again in Rocket League!

Fun blast-'em-up game with a wide variety of weapons, items, and abilities. Truckloads of fun stages and loads of clever enemy types. If you like teamwork and shooting freakish monsters, this'll do!

Dirty Bomb is quick and dirty (hee hee) fun for anyone who enjoys team-based shooters. It has a reasonable learning curve but doesn't totally leave you behind players who have several hours' worth of experience.

I like the details in the character models, voice acting, weapon models, and most of the gameplay aspects. The variety of maps and game modes is somewhat limited, but the development team has made great strides in those areas in recent months. I think the character types and abilities could stand to be a little more nuanced, but that's a tangent personal opinion of mine.

I am a "latecomer" to FO3; that is to say, I didn't even think about playing it until I confided to a friend or two that I would like to play a game that's "like Skyrim, except with guns."

To be sure, this game is much, *much* more than just Skyrim with guns. From the intro screen, to the environment, to the NPC conversations, to the ever-important Pip-Boy menus, this game is relentlessly and beautifully immersive. I can count on one hand the number of times in which I felt so much as if I was part of the world generated by the game, and FO3 is definitely one of the proud few.

FO3 also has an impressive and compelling storyline that has a lot of "heart and mind" invested into it. Even the DLCs- some of which are definitely "out there" as far as plot and setting are concerned- bring a worthwhile component to the overall gaming experience. I never once felt that I was doing a quest or handling a conflict just so I could "get it over with," in fact I appreciate the design and flow of the several different quests such that they are able to be intermingled with each other- and not necessarily the ones that follow the main storyline either!

To wrap things up, FO3 is an excellent RPG as imagined through an innovative FPS, open-world format. The graphics, variety of NPCs and enemies, weapon selection, environment design, clever application and/or tweaking of scientific and historical fact, brain-teaser puzzles, and dramatic encounters are all well-done and worthy of applause. I think this game has something for everyone, and would gladly recommend this game- even today- to someone who asks for one or more of the experiences that FO3 offers to the player.