Game Reviews8.1/10
F.E.A.R. Review: Monolith’s Horror Shooter Still Earns Its Name
F.E.A.R. (2005) review: Monolith's horror shooter pairs reflex-time slow-mo with weighty weapons and tense firefights against telepathic clone soldiers.
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Game Reviews8.2/10
Assassin’s Creed: Revelations Review — The Most Uneven, Most Moving Chapter of the Ezio Trilogy
Assassin's Creed Revelations review: Ezio's last chapter in Constantinople, the Hookblade, bomb crafting, and why it's the trilogy's most uneven game.
Game Reviews8.8/10
Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare — The Break From World War II
Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare (2007) left WWII behind, killed a playable character, and made multiplayer leveling the reason to keep playing.
Game Reviews8.3/10
Alan Wake Review: A Writer Hunted by His Own Unfinished Sentences
Alan Wake review: Remedy's 2010 thriller traps a blocked novelist in his own manuscript. Light as a weapon, six episodes, and a score of 8.3/10.
Game Reviews8.3/10
Donkey Kong Country Returns Brought Back the Ape’s Hardest Platforming After a 16-Year Wait
Retro Studios' Donkey Kong Country Returns sold 6.53 million copies on Wii. Our review scores it 8.3/10, praising level design but faulting motion controls.
Game Reviews8.8/10
Mega Man 9 Proved Retro Could Be a Design Choice, Not a Gimmick
Mega Man 9 review: Capcom's 2008 retro throwback looks like 1987 but hides a sharp story about obsolete robots, plus eight Robot Masters and brutal difficulty.
Game Reviews8.2/10
Dust: An Elysian Tail Review — A Hand-Painted Metroidvania With a Strong Idea at Its Core
Dust: An Elysian Tail review: Dean Dodrill's hand-painted Metroidvania about a sword-wielding amnesiac, the Sen-Mithrarin, and a million-copy indie hit.
Game Reviews8.5/10
MLB The Show 16’s Franchise Mode Still Does What Later Baseball Games Don’t
MLB The Show 16 review: the last PlayStation 3 entry, Josh Donaldson's MVP cover, deep fatigue and scouting systems, and the 2020 server shutdown.
Game Reviews8.6/10
The DJ Hero sequel that finally made the turntable controller worth owning
DJ Hero 2 review: FreeStyleGames kept the 2009 turntable, added mix-specific freestyle samples and a third singer, and earned 8.6 out of 10.
Game Reviews8.1/10
Theatrhythm Final Fantasy: Curtain Call Review: The Definitive Version of a Good Idea
Theatrhythm Final Fantasy: Curtain Call review: 221 songs, button controls, and Chaos Maps make the 2014 3DS sequel the definitive version. Score: 8.1/10.
Game Reviews8.5/10
Trine at Seventeen: Three Heroes, One Body, and Physics That Still Hold Up
Trine (2009) review: Frozenbyte's three-heroes-one-body puzzle-platformer still holds up, from Zoya's grappling hook to Amadeus's conjured planks.
Game Reviews8.3/10
2064: Read Only Memories — A Sapient Robot and a Kidnapping in Neo-San Francisco
A review of 2064: Read Only Memories, MidBoss's point-and-click adventure about a sapient robot and a journalist in Neo-San Francisco.