Game Reviews8/10
Metro: Last Light Review: Bullets as Currency, Survival as Thesis
Metro: Last Light review — 4A Games turns bullets into currency, and every firefight becomes a spending decision. Score: 8.0/10.
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Every game we have scored, from the NES library to current releases.
Game Reviews7.6/10
Ridge Racer Unbounded: A Competent Bet That Cost the Series Its Home-Console Future
Ridge Racer Unbounded (2012) let players smash tracks apart. A look at Bugbear's destruction racer, its 7.6/10 score, and why it ended the series on consoles.
Game Reviews7.5/10
Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon: Future Soldier Review: Patience, Camouflage, and the Sync Shot
Ghost Recon: Future Soldier review — Ubisoft's 2012 tactical shooter, its Sync Shot and adaptive camouflage systems, globe-trotting campaign, and a 7.5 score.
Game Reviews7.5/10
Dead or Alive 5’s fighting engine holds up, but its story mode buries it
Dead or Alive 5 review: Team Ninja's 2012 fighter keeps the interruption triangle, adds Power Blow and Cliffhanger, and buries it in a tangled Story Mode
Game Reviews7.8/10
Nintendo’s Wii U Zombie Game Asked Players to Lose Everything They’d Built
ZombiU, the Wii U launch survival horror from Ubisoft Montpellier, reviewed: permadeath, the GamePad, the cricket bat, and the 2015 Zombi port.
Game Reviews7.5/10
Call of Juarez: Gunslinger Review — A Great Story Wrapped Around a Good Shooter
Call of Juarez: Gunslinger review — a 1910 saloon, an unreliable narrator, and the best storytelling in the series wrapped around a solid shooter.
Game Reviews7.9/10
Sonic’s Transforming Kart Racer Was Better Than It Had Any Right to Be
Sonic & All-Stars Racing Transformed review: Sumo Digital's car-boat-plane kart racer, its roster, weapons, and why its transformation gimmick returned in 2025.
Game Reviews7.4/10
The Wonderful 101 Review: 100 Heroes, One Drawn Symbol, and a 7.4 That Never Matched the Ambition
The Wonderful 101, PlatinumGames' 2013 Wii U superhero game by Hideki Kamiya, gets a retrospective on its Unite Morph combat, 2020 remaster, and sales failure.
Game Reviews8.1/10
Disney Infinity’s toy box asked players to buy the fun in pieces
Disney Infinity review: the 2013 toys-to-life platform with a $100M budget, NFC figures, playsets, and a Toy Box sandbox that outlasts them. Score: 8.1/10.
Game Reviews7.2/10
Scribblenauts Unlimited hands you a notebook that makes anything real
Scribblenauts Unlimited review: how 5th Cell's Objectnaut engine turns typed words into real objects, and what the open world costs the puzzle design.
Game Reviews7.7/10
Prototype 2’s open world turns traversal into the main event, and the mission design can’t keep up
Prototype 2 review: James Heller hunts Alex Mercer across New York Zero in a 2012 open-world sequel with great combat and a repetitive middle.
Game Reviews8/10
Wasteland 2 Still Asks More of Players Than Most Modern RPGs
Wasteland 2 review: inXile's crowdfunded, turn-based post-apocalyptic RPG of 2014, its murder mystery, party building, and Director's Cut.