Game Reviews8.5/10
Battlefield 3: The Multiplayer Masterpiece That Carried a Generation
Battlefield 3 review: DICE's 2011 shooter brought back jets, prone and 64-player PC battles, sold 5 million in week one, and scored 8.5/10.
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Category: Game Reviews
Every game we have scored, from the NES library to current releases.
Game Reviews8/10
Heavy Rain Review: A Father’s Fear, Still Uncomfortable in the Right Way
Heavy Rain review: Quantic Dream's 2010 thriller follows four people hunting the Origami Killer and still lands its hardest scenes. 8 of 10.
Game Reviews6.9/10
Fifteen Years On, Rage Still Can’t Fix Its Car Controls
Rage review: id Software's post-apocalyptic shooter opens with Apophis hitting Earth in 2029, then stumbles through a thin story and excellent gunplay.
Game Reviews8/10
Carbine’s sci-fi MMO bet on hardcore group content and lost
WildStar launched June 3, 2014, scored 8/10, went free-to-play in 2015, and shut down November 28, 2018 when NCSoft closed Carbine Studios.
Game Reviews8.4/10
Volition’s open-world crime spree still holds up, 15 years on
Saints Row: The Third review: the Saints become a brand, Steelport belongs to the Syndicate, and Volition's sandbox balances gag and violence. 8.4/10.
Game Reviews7.1/10
Hotline Miami’s mask-and-mayhem loop still lands harder than the games that copied it
Hotline Miami review: Dennaton's neon 1989 shooter still stings, but the controls and back half never got fixed. Score: 7.1 of 10.
Game Reviews8/10
Ace Attorney’s fifth entry turned courtroom theatrics into a moody, emotionally charged thriller
Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney - Dual Destinies brought Phoenix back, added Athena Cykes and the mood matrix, and gave the 3DS a darker courtroom.
Game Reviews8/10
NetherRealm’s Injustice: Gods Among Us — A Fighting Game Where Superman Is the Villain
Injustice: Gods Among Us review — NetherRealm's DC fighter pits a tyrant Superman against Batman's Insurgency. Story mode, stage transitions, 8/10.
Game Reviews8.7/10
Pokémon X traded sprite-work for polygons, and the series never went back
Pokémon X brought the series into full 3D on Nintendo 3DS in October 2013, with new Pokémon, turn-based battles, and a worldwide launch.
Game Reviews8/10
Mario & Luigi: Dream Team: A Dream Worth Having
Mario & Luigi: Dream Team brought Luigi into the spotlight on 3DS in 2013, splitting play between Pi'illo Island and the Dream World.
Game Reviews8.5/10
Salt and Sanctuary Still Plays Like a Souls Game Drawn by Hand
Salt and Sanctuary review: Ska Studios' hand-drawn Soulslike Metroidvania, its 600 items, skill tree, Saltborn lore, and why it still scores 8.5.
Game Reviews8.1/10
Velocity 2X Review: Two Genres, One Teleport, and a Score That Holds Up
Velocity 2X review: FuturLab's 2014 shooter-platformer hybrid still holds up, braiding top-down flight with on-foot teleporting platforming.