Jared Stewart

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Daredevil’s Disney Series Lays a Blueprint That a Game Should Follow

6 days ago | gamerant.com | Jared Stewart

With Daredevil: Born Again’s premiere season in the rearview and a second season in the middle of filming, it’s fair to say that Disney’s newest Marvel streaming service show is a healthy return to form for ‘television’ content.
What if… Jesse Never Died in The Last of Us Part 2?

1 week ago | gamerant.com | Jared Stewart

Of all The Last of Us Part 2’s supporting cast of characters, there’s a lot to love in both Ellie and Abby’s corners. Owen is a fairly divisive and complicated character, for example, while Dina is easy to admire due to her unwavering loyalty.
Doom: The Dark Ages’ Cosmic Realm Should Have Walked Before It Ran

1 week ago | gamerant.com | Jared Stewart

Doom: The Dark Ages boasts a remarkable medieval setting that is not only immersive but is an earnest and eager segue after both the 2016 Doom reboot and Doom Eternal laid its expository brickwork tremendously well. Doom: The Dark Ages doesn’t abandon science fiction during its medieval jaunt, either; instead, science fiction is indelibly and brilliantly enmeshed with fantasy to account for ancient spacecrafts and technology in the Sentinels’ civilization, as well as the Maykrs they worship.
A Star Wars Battlefront 3 Has the Weight of a Galaxy on Its Shoulders

1 week ago | gamerant.com | Jared Stewart

With seemingly no plans for a third Star Wars Battlefront following DICE and EA’s 2015 reboot and DICE, Criterion, Motive, and EA’s 2017 reboot sequel, a hypothetical third reboot entry has been struck with bittersweet optimism via Star Wars Battlefront 2’s highest ever concurrent player counts on Steam, which Star Wars Battlefront 2’s own Iden Versio, Janina Gavankar, shared in a social media post. All stars seem to be aligning in terms of player and developer demand.
Doom: The Dark Ages’ Serrat Should Be a Level Design Status Quo Moving Forward

1 week ago | gamerant.com | Jared Stewart

Forgoing claustrophobic corridors almost wholly, Doom: The Dark Ages boasts level designs that are considerably wider and more open with regard to exploration. Not all chapters have maps with immense landscapes to traverse, but those that do feature a ton of secret areas, gold, rubies, wraithstones, collectible toys, and weapon skins, most of which are locked behind passageways that require a color-coded key or key card.
Oddly Enough, One of Doom: The Dark Age’s Best Gunplay Changes is an Omission

2 weeks ago | gamerant.com | Jared Stewart

Likewise, anyone hopping into Doom: The Dark Ages who grew accustomed to Doom (2016) and Doom Eternal’s progression formulas may be taken aback by how alien its upgrade system is. One of the most surprising changes made to upgrades in id’s soft reboot trilogy is that this prequel entry abandons its predecessors’ weapon mods. Yet, The Dark Ages is proof that the franchise has grown beyond traditional weapon mods in favor of a simpler system of upgrade branches.
How Doom: The Dark Ages’ Parries Fill a Void Left by Glory Kills

2 weeks ago | gamerant.com | Jared Stewart

In what is surely one of its most divisive points of discourse, Doom: The Dark Ages’ Glory Strikes, essentially watered-down finishing blows on enemies who’re left dazed (a stun state signified by a purple glow), are composed of swifter yet more lackluster animations that pale in comparison to the creative violence portrayed in Glory Kills. The issue, then, is that Glory Kills were removed with almost no trace in Doom: The Dark Ages—thankfully, this is not without a tenable reason.
Marvel Rivals Season 2.5 is All About Dive Counter Metas

2 weeks ago | gamerant.com | Jared Stewart

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Intergalactic May Not Be Alien to The Last of Us, Uncharted in Story Alone

2 weeks ago | gamerant.com | Jared Stewart

It’d be second nature to predict what gameplay will look like in Intergalactic: The Heretic Prophet given the announcement trailer’s tease of combat. It’ll be exciting to learn more about what Jordan A. Mun’s ‘blade’ weapon actually is in Intergalactic: The Heretic Prophet, for instance, while Naughty Dog’s bread-and-butter gunplay doesn’t seem to be going anywhere as Jordan holsters what appears to be an SMG on her thigh.
Helldivers 2’s Battle of Super Earth Demonstrates the Illuminate’s True Might

2 weeks ago | gamerant.com | Jared Stewart

After doling out the previously leaked Illuminate enemy faction in a compartmentalized corner of the Galactic Map, Helldivers 2 finally brought the alien threat to humanity’s doorstep when the Meridian Singularity began gradually careening toward Super Earth. Helldivers 2’s Galactic Emergency was a mere appetizer course, all things considered, accompanying a new Premium Warbond, Masters of Ceremony, that would be released not much later.