Wise Words for You

First Released Nov 8, 2019 America is broken, and it's up to you to put it back together again. It's a tall order. A lot of people believe in it, but you're not sure you do. It'll take a lot of lonely, dangerous walks and exceptionally heavy lifting, and it's not really clear what America means in the first place. For some reason, you set out anyway, trudging through wetlands and rocky hills on foot, not fully knowing or understanding where you're going. Other than the monsters you can't quite see, there's not really anyone else around most of the time--just you and your thoughts, one foot in front of the other. On one level, Death Stranding is about America. But your actual goal in setting out across the country is to help people, bring them together, and forge connections, not for the vague concept of America but for the sake of helping the people within it. Death Stranding is unrelenting in its earnestness and optimism--certainly not without ...

Detroit: Become Human posits a well-worn future, when androids have become so lifelike and so deeply integrated into human society that surely it's only a matter of time and circumstance until they break through to the other side and achieve consciousness. There isn't much time spent examining how such a seemingly preventable event might be possible; Detroit is primarily focused on androids' experiences during the process of their awakening, and their shock when looking at humanity with eyes unclouded for the first time. Ultimately, it's up to you to decide how they react in the face of adversity. It is a game play-light experience broken up into dozens of chapters with hundreds of decisions to make during cut scenes and explorative sequences. The only real challenge is to be fast, thorough, and perceptive enough to guide characters towards decisions that match your moral compass--or not, if you prefer your stories messy and chaotic. As a result of the myriad cro...

Snake is in for another richly cinematic, occasionally convoluted, and ultimately satisfying adventure in Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater, the latest installment in Konami designer Hideo Kojima's long-running stealth action series. Much like its predecessors, Metal Gear Solid 3 begs to be talked about, if nothing else. After all, during the course of the game, you'll experience a story dense with detail and intrigue, one that's often presented using some of the most dramatically staged video game cut scenes to date. You'll also spend about half your time with the game just watching (or listening to) the story unfold, and for every sequence that's extremely exciting and thought-provoking, there's a part that seems needlessly drawn out. Meanwhile, the game play itself--despite an all-new setting in a Soviet jungle during the 1960s--really hasn't changed much since the last installment, and it's aged noticeably during these past few years. Consequent...

The estimated  Cyberpunk 2077   file size has been revealed several months before the game’s release. Pre-orders for CD Projekt RED’s hotly anticipated sci-fi RPG have now begun on the PlayStation Store and it’s this PlayStation Store listing that has given fans an idea of just how large the game will be. The description for  Cyberpunk 2077  on the PlayStation Store reveals that the game will take up at least 80GB of space on the PS4’s hard drive. CD Projekt RED is probably still optimizing the game to make it as storage friendly as possible and with just under 10 months to go until the game’s release, some assets could be made much smaller. However, if the game does end up being around 80GB, some PS4 players may end up needing to buy an external hard drive. CD Projekt RED may be able to optimize some parts of the game, but the way that the developer has described  Cyberpunk 2077  does suggest that it will be a huge title. The developer has gone for ve...

Vice City Stories improves upon some of the flaws found in the first game, not the least of which is improved length and direction, as well as a great deal more personality. The story's still pretty sub par, though, and as much as this is very much Grand Theft Auto, certain conventions of the series are starting to feel a bit antiquated. Additionally, much as was the case with Liberty City Stories' transition to the PS2, Vice City Stories loses a lot of its appeal when played on a console versus the PSP. Still, it's cheap to buy, and if you don't own a PSP or just never got around to playing it upon its original release, this isn't a bad way to go if you absolutely, positively must get your GTA fix. Vice City Stories returns to the pastel- and neon-colored excesses of the 1980's and Vice City. Modeled after '80s-era Miami, GTA: Vice City told a  Scarface -inspired tale of Tommy Vercetti, a shunned mobster who found himself sifting through the af...