Game Reviews7.4/10
3D Dot Game Heroes: The King Who Banned Sprites, and the Voxel Homage That Worked
3D Dot Game Heroes review: Silicon Studio's PS3 voxel homage to 8-bit Zelda, its full-health sword mechanic, and why it scored 7.4 out of 10.
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Every game we have scored, from the NES library to current releases.
Game Reviews8/10
Buzz!: Quiz TV brought Sony’s party quiz series to the PlayStation 3 in 2008, and it brought a lot more with it
Buzz!: Quiz TV brought wireless buzzers, online play and user-made quizzes to PS3 in 2008 — a party quiz that still wants a crowded room.
Game Reviews7.5/10
Hunt: Showdown 1896 Review: The Bounty Is the Whole Game
Hunt: Showdown 1896 review: Crytek's bayou bounty shooter makes the reward the danger. A 7.5/10 look at PvPvE tension, period weapons, and the Bloodline grind.
Game Reviews7.7/10
Folklore: Playing a Dead Woman’s Memories in a Village That Hates Her
Folklore, Game Republic's 2007 PS3 action RPG, hides a haunting Irish village mystery behind its Sixaxis soul-reeling combat. A 7.7/10 retrospective.
Game Reviews7.3/10
Sengoku Basara: Samurai Heroes Review — A Hack-and-Slash That Knows Its Audience
Sengoku Basara: Samurai Heroes review — Capcom's 2010 hack and slash brings camp control, branching history and split-screen co-op to PS3 and Wii.
Game Reviews7.8/10
EndWar’s Voice Controls Were the Whole Point, and Nobody Wanted Them
Tom Clancy's EndWar stripped the mouse from real-time strategy and put voice commands in its place. A 2008 Ubisoft experiment that deserved better than 7.8.
Game Reviews7.3/10
Tera Review: Cross-Hair Combat That Still Holds Up
Tera's cross-hair combat, Arun and Shara's dream world, and a decade of renames — a review of Bluehole's action MMO, scored 7.3 of 10.
Game Reviews6.1/10
Batman: Arkham Origins Blackgate: A Prison Split Three Ways
Batman: Arkham Origins Blackgate review: the 2013 handheld Arkham game, its three-way prison, branching endings, cast, deluxe edition, and 6.1 score.
Game Reviews7.4/10
Blackguards 2 Review: A Mean, Branching Tactics Game That Wants You to Wreck the Room
Blackguards 2 review: Daedalic's turn-based hexfield RPG with trap-filled battles, a 20-character party, and Cassia's march on the Shark Throne. Score: 7.4/10.
Game Reviews7.2/10
Strafe’s gore-soaked roguelike shooting holds up nine years on
Strafe, Pixel Titans' 2017 roguelike FPS homage to Doom and Quake, reviewed: procedural levels, three guns, blood-covered acid pools and 25 modifiers.
Game Reviews7.9/10
Ibb & Obb’s Two-Screen Gravity Still Has No Rival 13 Years On
Ibb & Obb splits the screen with a horizon line that flips gravity, forcing two players to trust each other through a short, sharp co-op puzzle game.
Game Reviews7.9/10
Anomaly 2 Review: Humans as the Anomaly
Anomaly 2 review: 11 bit studios' 2013 tower-offense sequel still works, with a tense convoy campaign and an uneven tower defense vs. offense multiplayer mode.