Articles by Jeremy Peel

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Gears Tactics review: a bird’s eye view brings faithfully chunky combat but no new perspective

27 4 月, 2020 Jeremy Peel 0

There’s an animation I’m particularly fond of – the one that plays when I order Augustus Cole to charge an enemy with his bayonet. All 230 lbs of the Cole Train tips forward, Thrashball pads glinting in the sun, as he barrels blade-down across the battlefield. The yell that emerges from his throat isn’t so […]

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Fallout 76 Wastelanders DLC adds NPCs, but it still remains Bethesda’s quietest, most lonesome RPG

21 4 月, 2020 Jeremy Peel 0

You can still see glimpses of the game Bethesda thought Fallout 76 might be. Wander through West Virginia for long enough and you’ll happen across a workshop – a camp you can capture for a steady stream of resources, so long as you can defend it against waves of feral ghouls, super mutants, or potentially, […]

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Modern Warfare cheapens its campaign by resurrecting a dead hero to sell a battle pass for Season 3

16 4 月, 2020 Jeremy Peel 0

“Alex,” Ghost mutters in the cinematic that introduces Modern Warfare’s third season. “Thought you were dead.” We all did, in fact: players of Modern Warfare’s single-player campaign made their goodbyes to the charming CIA operative in the closing moments of the campaign. Yet there he is, standing astride the tower of Gunfight’s Rust map in […]

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Call of Duty’s Verdansk is a telling collage of the places we consider warzones

9 4 月, 2020 Jeremy Peel 0

Verdansk International Airport is glass-fronted, so that passengers can look out onto the runway while they wait for their gate to be called. By now, though, most of the panes in those windows have been blown out; the terminal building greets the world with the staccato-toothed smile of a meth addict.Inside, a spec op in […]

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