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Phantom Blade Zero’s Combat Is So Good, You Won’t Care The Story Makes No Sense

Phantom Blade Zero’s Combat Is So Good, You Won’t Care The Story Makes No Sense https://ift.tt/KPSX6di S-Game, the Chinese studio behind Phantom Blade Zero, clearly understands the core tenets of character-action games. If your melee combat isn't tight, responsive, and oozing cool, then what's the point? Some games might have better combat, but few can match Phantom Blade Zero's style.  Every moment feels like you're in the middle of a Chinese martial-arts movie, pulling off moves that shouldn't be feasible--moves that go against what we expect from third-person action games--yet are baked into the mechanics. The game is not without issues, and they do hold it back from reaching the genre's upper echelons, but the highs are stratospheric. Character-action games aren't typically known for telling riveting stories, and Phantom Blade Zero is no different. You play as Soul, a stoic assassin who dies in the game's opening moments when a sword tears t...

Mortal Kombat 1 Teaser Shows First Look At Homelander In Action

Mortal Kombat 1 Teaser Shows First Look At Homelander In Action https://ift.tt/LIR3fvs

Omni-Man and Peacemaker made waves when they joined the Mortal Kombat 1 roster as guest characters in the past few months, but one more teased guest has yet to make his debut. During the MK1 Pro Kompetition over the weekend, we got a quick look at that final guest, Homelander from The Boys, and the tease is equally exciting and nauseating, just like the source material.

The Homelander teaser is only 45 seconds long, but there's a lot packed into the blink-and-you'll-miss-it preview. After a, uh, unique intro scene where the supervillain stops to quench his thirst, the teaser previews both of Homelander's Fatalities--one uses Homelander's heat vision, the other makes creative use of a commercial plane flying overhead.

A major question surrounding the upcoming character is who will be voicing him, as while this version of Homelander looks like his actor Antony Starr, Starr recently said on Instagram that he wasn't going to portray his character in MK1. We do get to hear Homelander speak briefly, but the three words aren't enough to determine whose voice it is.

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