In fact, I've always been drawn to character-driven, 3D action platformers — the games that spawned from Super Mario 64 and its ilk. There's something infinitely entertaining about running, jumping ...

A quick glance at the beautiful but complicated ReCore engenders a lot of questions. Who is the protagonist? What are those robot dogs? Why does this look like Bionic Commando? ReCore feels ...

Recore is a game rooted in decade old conventions. Designed in concert by Armature Games, a studio comprised largely of developers who worked on the beloved Metroid: Prime series, and Japanese ...

In a lot of ways, ReCore feels nostalgic. This is not just a dig against its outdated graphics. ReCore, which comes out September 13 for Xbox One and PC, is about a girl tasked with making a ...

How do you introduce a game and tell everyone everything they should know about it without saying a word or showing them a moment of gameplay? How do you make the coy interesting? Those are the ...

If you’re the type of gamer who could care less about story and are only concerned with skill challenge, ReCore is going to make you very angry, very often. I was willing to put up with bugs, uneven ...

Last September, Comcept Games’ ReCore launched on Xbox One and PC to poor reviews. While the game showed promise prior to release, the final game was simply not finished: Its narrative went nowhere, ...

Texas-based Armature Studio “really enjoyed” co-creating ReCore by using influences from both the Mega Man and Metroid franchises. The good news is that the developer would love to work on a follow-up ...

ReCore will be a welcome blast from the past for some, but others will struggle to come to terms with the more archaic components of the experience. From the moment that ReCore was announced at E3 ...

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A throwback to a different age, Recore's enjoyable adventure is ultimately undone by a litany of problems. They don't make them like this so much anymore. Recore, a spirited action adventure from a ...