El Paso, Elsewhere
Rockstar Games isn’t going to make a new Max Payne game anytime soon. (And no, I don’t count that remake from Remedy.) So, someone needed to step up and fill that very specific gap of action-packed neo-noir third-person shooter with hardboiled narration. And El Paso, Elsewhere showed up, found its niche, and delivered one of the best games of 2023 in the process.
Calling this shooter a Max Payne clone isn’t doing it justice. El Paso, Elsewhere goes in its own direction, featuring a story about vampires, the end of the world, and a terrible elevator that will keep you gunning and jumping until you reach the end just to see how it all wraps up. And lucky for all of us, it’s a damn good shooter, too. — Zack Zwiezen
