Your local arcade isn’t officially an arcade unless it has a dusty and weathered cabinet of Sega’s classic The House of the Dead somewhere on its floor. The rail shooter is one of the most beloved of its kind and spawned a franchise that’s been strong for over two decades, but for sheer nostalgia and its wonderfully camp tone, the original wins out.

You play as Alyx Vance, the only man who is able to stop the incoming alien invasion via The Combine. You’ll need to do various missions, grow your research, build new weapons, and most importantly, you need to survive. Take Left 4 Dead, turn the metal music up to a million, and crank the B-movie goodness as far as it can go. What do you get? Killing Floor 2, one of the maddest, most exhilarating team shooters around today. Released in 2016, it has itself a very dedicated set of fans, and it’s easy to see why. If you never want to touch another Call of Duty but will miss Zombies, Killing Floor 2 will set you straight And for the most part, it did. The game changes the narrative from the first title, you’re a person who has entered a massive new city, and is in search of someone, and in search of the truth about yourself. But what happens next is up to you. You’ll complete missions for various missions and factions, and your choices will affect the very city you’re housed in, both in big and small ways. And while it’s been in Early Access for perhaps too long at this point following a 2018 release, the small team at Gamepires are adding new content and mechanics fairly regularly. Better try it out before everyone gets obsessed with it again at 1.0. House of the Dead: OVERKILL” embraces a bold and unique approach, adopting the retro look that’s all the rage in the grindhouse film genre. This means everything is magnified to ridiculousness—violence, taunts, and a storyline that revels in its B-game status. If it’s subtlety you’re after, you’re in the wrong blood-splattered alley! VARIOUS GAME MODESPlatforms: Xbox Series X and Series S, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, PlayStation 5, Nintendo Switch, Microsoft Windows Fans of Star Wars The Clone Wars series will find themselves right at home with this title, taking place between the first and second seasons. Developers made sure to capture the heart of the series making this series feel like a well-crafted lost episode. The player control several characters from the series universe while they battle their way through the legendary Clone War. Seen from a third-person perspective the game throws you in a series of levels mostly alongside another character, where the goal is to blast your way through hordes of enemies using lightsabers or even blasters.

Much like their movie counterparts, there is an awful lot of bilge to wade through until you find some walking cadaver fare worth investing your time into. For every Left 4 Dead, there’s an innumerable amount of wannabes, such as The Grinder and Revelations 2012 – the best thing about the latter is that it actually came out in 2012. There’s nothing else there. The Wii version is a grindhouse themed first-person shooter, [48] the PlayStation and Xbox versions are top-down shooter games. The developer High Voltage Software originally revealed the title in 2009 as a Wii exclusive, later revealing a different version for the other consoles. Since that time the firm has laid off staff, leaving the status of the game's development in question. [49] A surreal game where an outbreak of zombies infects many classic fairy tale settings, leaving only Little Red Riding Hood and Momotarō to defend themselves from the invasion. [68] You are a man who has gotten a message from his supposedly dead wife. She tells you she’s trapped in a place in New Orleans and that you need to go save her. But what awaits you is not just a crazed family, but monsters that can be behind every corner. Survive if you can, find the truth, and make sure nothing stands in your way. #4 Left 4 Dead If you’re a fan of roguelike titles, this action-adventure game is one that you can’t miss out on. Death Road to Canada is funny, bloody and full of memorable characters.Killing Floor 2 is not a game that prides itself on story. It’s a game that puts you in various scenarios that allow you to blast your way through hordes of bad guys without a care in the world, because all you REALLY want to do is just have fun and kill things with a vengeance.