Recent reviews by Warlocke

L4D2 is 15 years old, and people still play the heck out it.
It's less than 2 bucks, when on sale.
What more do you need to know? Go shoot some zombies!

Removing content the customer paid for sure seems like theft to me.

I don't need the new Skullgirls devs to be my moral compass, nor do I need them to approve of what content I consume.

The not-exactly-like-the-original nature of the OG cartoon's theme song, which plays at the beginning of this game, may set old school fans' teeth on edge, but the game itself is a class act, throughout.

It's a bit fast, but completing the achievements adds more replayability.

Want to wash the taste of Doom 3 out of your mouth?
Want to have a great time doing it?

Buy this game.

Once upon a time CoD: MW3 may have been worth the money; that is simply no longer the case.

The single player campaign keeps you on the rails so tightly it will make your nose bleed and is one of the least compelling reasons to buy this game. The other single player offerings get old fast.

There are no single player bots, so you won't be seeing any deathmatch action offline.

This brings me to the multiplayer aspects. Multiplayer in MW3, as of 2022, is basically dead. Most of the players have moved on to the newer CoD titles, and the paltry remainder are spread so thin that it often makes even connecting to a match very uncertain. Out of MW3's many game types, only Team Deathmatch and Kill Confirmed seem to have any players at all. When you do manage to connect to a Team DM lobby, there is a good chance it is a hacked lobby running a different game type or allowing one player to alter the gameplay so that you find yourself running far too quickly or floating helplessly in the air, while they zip around the map with unlimited ammo, killing everyone.

Far more likely though is that the lobby will be normal, but one or more people in it are cheaters who simply jog around the map letting their aimbot decimate anything that gets within line of sight, until they rack up enough kills to drop a MOAB.

At this point in time, MW3 is a waste of money for all but the most desperate. DO NOT BUY IT.

If you simply can't help yourself, or you already own MW3, do yourself a favor and do not buy the DLC. It is outrageously overpriced, especially for a game that came out more than a decade ago. More importantly, though, is that since so few people have the DLC, you'll find yourself unable to connect to any multiplayer matches AT ALL until you disable the DLC. That being the case, the only reason to have the DLC is for the single player additions... which again are barely worth considering.

MW3 used to be a good game. However, unlike classics such as Doom and Super Mario World, you cannot go back and enjoy what once made MW3 enjoyable: Hackers and a general lack of players have rendered it a frustrating and nearly unplayable mess.

(For the record, only time played in single player shows up here, but as of the time of this review, I have played at least 662 hours of multiplayer.)

Do you like playing with building blocks or opening treasure chests? Do you like killing things, taking their stuff, and using what's left of them as ingredients and/or building materials? How would you like to collect plants, mushrooms, and other ingredients so that you can create magical potions. If so, Terraria can help you.

Do you want to build a tunnel that stretches all the way across the world? Or maybe drill all the way down to Hell... so you can drain the ocean into it! Heft that pick and start stacking the bricks, my friend, but you'd better enjoy fighting the local wildlife while you do it.

Maybe you'd just like to build a moat full of lava and watch creatures burn in it when you throw the switch and make the floor vanish from beneath them, all from the comfort of your tastefully decorated hovel/castle/tower that's so tall gravity is weaker at the top.

Are you interested in playing cooperatively with your friends to explore and tame one of a limitless number of randomly created worlds, or maybe go PVP and bury your enemy's house by dropping sand from the skies above, while wearing a top hat you took from the body of a zombie groom?

Or maybe you're the type who wants to construct a flamethrower that runs on slime gel, so you can more efficiently kill slimes, so you can harvest more slime gel, so you can use your flamethrower some more? Nothin' like a hobby that supports itself, eh?

There are no "levels" in this game, and any advancement your character experiences is based almost solely upon whatever items you have equipped. Strip them naked and, other than permanent health and mana upgrades, there's no difference between a character you just created and one you've been playing for 500 hours.

There are some "boss" creatures, some of which attack you when your health is high enough, while others must be purposely encountered or summoned.

Don't look for a storyline or anything, though; this game is all about things like gathering the resources to make mythril armor while fighting off angry unicorns and spiteful goblin armies, so you can build your own Great Wall or Panama Canal, fueled on homemade potions, soup, and ale.

If any of the above sounds interesting to you, Terraria can deliver, and for a price that's hard to beat. If there were a "Biggest Bang for Your Buck" award on Steam, this game would have it locked down tight.

Edit (Fall 2013): The recent updates to the game have added massive amounts of new content. There are scads of new items, materials, music, environments, weapons, armor, monsters, and exciting new bosses and events, like the Eclipse and Pumpkin Moon. Now, more than ever, whether you buy it on sale or at full price, this game is an absolute steal!

Edit (Fall 2016): Since my last update, the game has added more special events, more bosses, more biomes, new weather, enemies, and items. New changes to the game's wiring system have made engineering easier and more rewarding than ever. Terraria doesn't get older, it just gets better.

Edit (Fall 2019): The final update is coming in 2020, and is sure to be a triumphant end note to what continues to be an amazingly entertaining game. It is a bargain at twice the price; buy it and you won't regret it!

Edit (Fall 2020): The final content updates have arrived, adding lots of new items, new functionality for builders, and plenty of new clothing items for people who like to look good while they're saving (and building!) the world.