Have You Played? is an endless stream of game retrospectives. One a day, every day, perhaps for all time.
The dawning of a year means a little more of what was once the near-future is now the present. While most games set in 2018 squandered this just-out-of-reach year by simply speculating that sports teams might have slightly different lineups–a shameful lack of vision from PES 2018 and NBA 2K18–one dreamed big. 2018 is the year of Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance. 2018 is the year to swordfight a giant robodinosaur. Here in 2018, we drink from spines. In 2018 a US senator tries to spark international war as part of a plan to– and he actually says this–“make America great again.” It’s 2018 and hell, I’ll take any excuse to talk about Revengeance again. (more…)