Onimusha 3 Demon Siege

What's stranger than a PlayStation 2 game costarring The Professional's Jean Reno and House of Flying Daggers' Takeshi Kaneshiro that's all about killing hordes of ghoulish samurai monsters? A budget-priced PC port of that same game two years later, coming from a completely different publisher. Ubisoft did the bare minimum in translating Capcom's original PS2 version of Onimusha 3: Demon Siege to the PC, so not even the game's references to the original control scheme have been modified. However, since the underlying source material is great stuff, and since the game still looks good and mostly runs smoothly, this version of Onimusha 3 holds up quite well.

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Outlaws

Weren't so long ago that the Spirit of Digital Western Gaming roamed these plains, moanin' and cussin' something fierce about getting no respect. Mayhap he didn't rightly deserve much - you might remember Sunset Riders or maybe Mad Dog McCree - mere tinkles in the comprehensive wind of the Western genre - and what else comes to mind? Dust, maybe (a fine game, but a little too Nice, and you can guess what happens to "Nice" out these ways). Still, the lack of true Western computer games was a crime, a terrible crime.

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