Reviews, Video Games January 27, 2023 Star Wars Battlefront II: Review EA's Lootbox-Free Battlefront Game Is Part Shooter, Part Fighter, And Completely Mesmerizing If a time traveler visited me when I was in college and told me that in the year 2020, I would be eating Star Wars “Rebel Crunch” yogurt while wearing my favorite Chewbacca shirt, I would have called him a liar and a lunatic. In those days, my favorite movies were Stalker, Yojimbo, Santa Sangre, ...
features, Video Games January 27, 2023 Controller Wars: Xbox Elite 2 Versus Scuf Vantage 1 Versus Xbox Elite 1 Microsoft's Elite 2 is a Serious Upgrade Over the Elite 1. Both Elite Controllers Blow the Scuf Vantage Out of the Water Since the time we wrote our last Scuf Vantage versus Xbox Elite review, we’ve purchased both a Scuf Vantage 1 and the new Xbox Elite 2. We bought the new Elite because John’s old Elite broke; details about what went wrong are below. We never wanted another Scuf until we discovered Star Wars Battlefront 2’s ...
features, Video Games January 27, 2023 Lost in Code Vein Getting Lost was One of the Defining Features of Code Vein. We Wanted to Find Out Why “When I had journeyed half of our life’s way, I found myself within a shadowed forest, for I had lost the path that does not stray. Ah, it is hard to speak of what it was, that savage forest, dense and difficult, which even in recall renews my fear: so bitter-death is hardly more severe! ...
Reviews, Video Games January 27, 2023 Five Reasons We Uninstalled Ghost Recon: Breakpoint Breakpoint Is Not the Game We Thought We Bought, but We Couldn't Get Into What it Is, Either This year at Co-op Gaming Dot Info, we spent the dog days of summer playing Ghost Recon: Wildlands. We loved that game. We never wanted to stop playing it. We even played its DLCs. You can imagine how hotly we anticipated Breakpoint’s release. In fact, we dreamt of playing Ghost Recon indefinitely. We wanted to ...
features, Video Games January 27, 2023 Everything You Need to Know About Playing Code Vein Co-Op Here at Co-op Gaming Dot Info, the two of us play every game together, start to finish. Monster Hunter, Dark Souls, and other Japanese games we’ve played have a completely different set of co-op mechanics than open-world Western co-op games such as Far Cry 5 or Dying Light. Japanese co-op systems tend to work great ...
features, Video Games January 27, 2023 Flying in Anthem Sucks Comparing Flight in Anthem to Starlink Made Us Hate The One Good Thing About Anthem There’s a lot that sucks about Anthem, but we all love to fly in video games. Every Anthem player agrees that zooming around in your robo-suit is the best part of the game, which is why gamers everywhere were shocked to learn flight had been removed and reinstated several times over the course of the ...
Reviews, Video Games January 27, 2023 Four Reasons We Uninstalled Dauntless A Lack of Inspiration With a Wealth of Microtransactions Made Us Dislike Dauntless Here at Co-op Gaming Dot Info, we usually review games we’ve relentlessly played for months. For a game to keep our attention every night, it’s usually awesome. We wanted to give more coverage to games that we tried and decided not to play—games that didn’t give us a moment’s hesitation when we uninstalled them to ...
Reviews, Video Games January 27, 2023 Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon Wildlands: Review Simple Tools, Objectives, and Systems Give Players Carte Blanche in This Cerebral Game. Highly Recommended. Ghost Recon: Wildlands is the most pure and refined two-player video game we’ve ever played. It’s fitting that the game’s subject matter is cocaine—playing is a chemical-like experience where you’re locked into each moment, and clearing your head as the future unfolds is a struggle. Focus. That’s what Wildlands demands of its players, and the ...
Books, Reviews, Video Games February 3, 2023 Death by Video Game: Review Simon Parkin's 2015 Book Doesn't Deliver On Its Premise Browsing for books about video games on Amazon, I didn’t find many options. Death by Video Game: Tales of Obsession from the Virtual Frontline was easily the most sensationalist title. Its description reads, “In Taiwan, a spate of deaths at gaming cafés is raising a question: why is it that some of us are playing ...
features, Video Games January 27, 2023 How We Learned to Stop Searching for Couch Co-op Games and Love Gamesharing Splitscreen Is a Thing of the Past, but Gamesharing on Two Systems Can Be Even Better Console games used to be designed for friends and families to play together in their living rooms. Split-screen functionality, with as many as four players using the same screen, was a standard feature. XBox Live launched in 2002, and games haven’t been the same since. Online party joining and voice chat freed game developers from ...
