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Reflections: Titanfall Beta

February 18, 2014March 13, 2014 Eric Hollis 0 Comments electronic arts, first person shooter, microsoft, Respawn Entertainment, Stephen Barton, Titanfall, titanfall beta, titanfall opinion, titanfall preview, titanfall report, titanfall review, xbox 360, xbox one

Ejecting out of your Titan while it turns into a nuclear bomb and torches your opponent is absolutely thrilling. You can actually sabotage Titans while in soldier mode which keeps the playing field a little more even. My favorite moment over the 25 matches I participated in was ejecting out of my Titan, launching my would-be Titan-jacker into the air, and then shooting him in the face before I hit the ground. I’ve never played a game where I could do that.

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Gamer Profile: Stephen Barton

January 25, 2014October 10, 2014 J.A. Laraque 0 Comments afterlight inc, composer, Gamer Profile, Stephen Barton, titan fall, video game music

I loved 3D Monster Maze on the Spectrum ZX, but Doom really reset the bar entirely. The soundtrack was awesome (especially given the resources available), but what really got me hooked was that it was the first game I ever played involving a network. That you could be on one computer and playing someone on an entirely different computer in a different room with just a null modem cable between the two, before we even had an internet connection – that was special.