Game Reviews8.1/10
Borderlands 3: The Best-Feeling Shooter in the Series, Attached to Its Weakest Conflict
Borderlands 3 review: three action skills, a billion guns, and the Calypso Twins. Great shooting, weak villains, and loot worth the grind.
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Every game we have scored, from the NES library to current releases.
Game Reviews8.1/10
Battlefield V Review: A Grinding, Human World War II
Battlefield V review: DICE's World War II shooter built on limited ammo and resources, with War Stories, Grand Operations and Firestorm. Scored 8.1 of 10.
Game Reviews8.2/10
The Fractured but Whole turns South Park’s combat into a puzzle, nine years on
South Park: The Fractured but Whole review — Ubisoft's 2017 superhero game adds ten classes, a battle grid and the Ultimate bar. Score: 8.2/10.
Game Reviews9/10
Capcom did not soften Monster Hunter: World for a bigger audience. It cleared the brush instead.
Monster Hunter: World review — Capcom's 2018 hit keeps the series' hard rules while removing technical walls, with 14 weapons and open zones.
Game Reviews8.2/10
Middle-earth: Shadow of War Review — A Bigger, Brighter Sequel That Trusts Its Strangest Idea
Shadow of War review: Monolith's 2017 sequel trusts its strangest idea — that orcs are people — and builds a bigger, brighter war around it. 8.2/10.
Game Reviews7.8/10
Into the Breach Review: Chess With a Countdown
Into the Breach review: Subset Games' turn-based mech strategy game shows you every enemy move, then dares you to answer. Score: 7.8/10.
Game Reviews9.2/10
Forza Horizon 4 turned Great Britain into a playground, then changed the weather on it every week.
Forza Horizon 4 turned Britain into a shared open-world racer with weekly seasons, 750 cars, and a route creator — now delisted since 15 December 2024.
Game Reviews8.2/10
Dead Cells Still Sets the Standard for Roguelike Action After Eight Years
Dead Cells review: Motion Twin's 2018 roguelike-Metroidvania blends Soulslike combat with procedural dungeons and a head-that-possesses-bodies hook. 8.2/10.
Game Reviews9.2/10
Celeste Review: A Tiny Moveset, a Mountain of Anxiety, and One of the Best Platformers Ever Made
Celeste review: Maddy Thorson and Noel Berry's 2018 platformer pairs a tiny moveset with a story about anxiety, self-forgiveness, and Badeline.
Game Reviews8.3/10
Call of Duty: Black Ops 4: The Campaign Is Gone, and Blackout Is the Reason to Return
Black Ops 4 dropped the campaign and found Blackout, the battle royale that became the reason to return. Our review scores it 8.3/10.
Game Reviews8.3/10
Assassin’s Creed Origins Review: Ubisoft Montreal’s Egyptian Reinvention Pays Off
Assassin's Creed Origins review: Ubisoft Montreal's Ptolemaic Egypt rework with Bayek of Siwa, RPG systems and hitbox combat scores 8.3 out of 10.
Game Reviews8.3/10
Ubisoft’s Ancient Greece Is Still the Best Open World It Ever Built
Assassin's Creed Odyssey review: Ubisoft Quebec's ancient Greece RPG picks Alexios or Kassandra, hunts the Cult of Kosmos, and scores 8.3 of 10.