Reaper Actual is a hard sell. It's a plain-looking modern military extraction shooter with Web3 stuff, and I've seen enough of those to know that I'd probably rather be playing Battlefield.

But the man behind Reaper Actual, former Sony Online Entertainment and Daybreak head John Smedley, has snared me before. I spent a whole summer as an EverQuest halfling and did a few tours in the sci-fi MMO wars of the PlanetSide series, and Smedley has again teamed up with PlanetSide 2 creative director Matt Higby and PlanetSide 2 senior art director Trammel Isaac (who also made art for the original Fallout games) for this game.

I'm still not sold, but after an hour-long call with Smedley about his "dream game," I've at least been convinced to give Reaper Actual a shot.

The red flags

My ears partic

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