If the nonstop firefights of Modern Warfare 3 and Battlefield 3 have left you with post-traumatic stress disorder, consider this latest Tom Clancy–stamped shooter a sort of smart-weapon therapy.
If this game’s initials don’t give you a clue about its theme and setting, then either you’ve suffered a battle-ax blow to the head or you’ve never chucked a 20-sided Dungeons & Dragons die.
Ten years may have whizzed by since the release of Diablo II’s last expansion, but hard-core fans are still roaming the game’s randomly generated landscapes, on the hunt for legendary loot.
A different sort of futuristic shooter, this first-person update to a classic PC strategy game pits its hero—a trench-coat-clad company man-against evil corporate drones instead of the usual alien armadas.
Known for its titillating girl-on-alien-girl sex and intergalactic blasting, the Mass Effect series is more accessible for the average dude than your typical fantasy-flavored roleplaying game.
You’d expect monster vehicles, inventive weapons, 16-player online matches, and sprawling battlegrounds in a reboot of the road-rage-fueled franchise that perfected offensive driving on the consoles...