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.
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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.
Game Reviews7.8/10
Dragon’s Dogma’s pawns still outthink most open worlds
Capcom's Dragon's Dogma (2012) review: the Arisen, the dragon Grigori, nine vocations, and the Pawn system that made borrowed companions a real idea.
Game Reviews7.5/10
NBA 2K13 Review: Jay-Z, the Dream Team, and a Very Good Basketball Game
NBA 2K13 put Jay-Z in charge as executive producer, with Blake Griffin, Kevin Durant and Derrick Rose on the cover. A solid 7.5/10 basketball sim.
Game Reviews7.8/10
LittleBigPlanet 3’s campaign never matched its creation tools, and the players proved it
LittleBigPlanet 3 review: Sumo Digital's 2014 PS3/PS4 platformer adds Oddsock, Toggle and Swoop, but a short campaign and technical issues hold it back.
Game Reviews7.4/10
Get Even’s story is buried under its own combat
Get Even is a first-person shooter that punishes you for shooting, wrapped around a memory-reading device. A look at The Farm 51's 2017 psychological thriller.
Game Reviews7.9/10
One Button, One Chance: OlliOlli’s Perfect-Landing Obsession
OlliOlli review: Roll7's one-life skateboarding game on Vita, its perfect-landing scoring, Daily Grind, ports, sequels, and a 7.9 score.
Game Reviews7.5/10
Pac-Man 256 turns the most famous bug in arcade history into a feature
Pac-Man 256 turns the arcade's level 256 kill screen into an endless runner, from Crossy Road studio Hipster Whale. Our review scores it 7.5/10.
Game Reviews7.5/10
A fox changes the seasons to solve a forest’s puzzles, and the game’s calm is the point
Seasons after Fall review: a gentle 2016 puzzle-platformer where a red fox switches seasons to reshape the forest, with no enemies and no death.
Game Reviews7.5/10
Stranger of Sword City strips the dungeon crawler down to its bones and trusts you to keep up
Stranger of Sword City review: Experience Inc.'s first-person dungeon crawler for Vita, Xbox and PC, where class changes cut levels and traps punish every step.