Marvel Snap Impressions
I’m starting to feel like the card game genre is the new MOBA of video games. A Warcraft-based game pushed the genre into the public eye (Dota for MOBAs, Hearthstone for card games), everyone started piling on and now you’ve got card games by the dozens with only a few standouts. Just like how DC jumped into the MOBA space we now have Marvel entering the card game realm with Marvel Snap, a relatively casual and incredibly mobile-focused card game that has spent the last week unironically ruining my life because I’ve been playing it when I should be doing far more important things. Let me tell you why. There’s a lot of very strange mechanics in Marvel Snap, at times I’d swear almost intentionally so (this is a mobile game after all) so let’s start with the basics and expand outward. Marvel Snap is a mana-based card game like…
Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2 (2022) Campaign Review
The reboot of the Modern Warfare franchise in 2019 was a breath of fresh (if ironic) air into Call of Duty and after a few less exciting games from the other primary CoD developers Infinity Ward is back with Modern Warfare 2. The last time we had a Modern Warfare 2 it was a very exciting and bombastic follow up to Call of Duty 4 in 2009, and with the early access to the new game’s campaign we can see at least if the single player of the new MW2 will live up to its predecessor. The Modern Warfare of 2019 had a campaign with some great moments punctuated with some of the difficulties of combat in an urban environment that so many other video games ignore, but it got a little repetitive by overusing those good ideas and ended up just being “okay” in my opinion. There’s only rooms…