Game Reviews9/10
Darkness II Turns Jackie Estacado’s Grief Into a Playable Weapon
The Darkness II review: Digital Extremes' 2012 sequel splits Jackie Estacado's grief-driven campaign from a four-player co-op dark comedy, scoring 9/10.
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Game Reviews7.9/10
Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning Review: Great Combat, a World That Outruns Its Story
Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning review: the 2012 open-world action game from 38 Studios and EA, with combat that still holds up and a story that does not.
Game Reviews7.8/10
Company of Heroes 2: The Eastern Front as Tragedy, Not Power Fantasy
Company of Heroes 2 puts you in command of the Soviet Red Army on the Eastern Front, framed by a 1952 interrogation. A review of Relic's strategy game.
Game Reviews7.3/10
Neverwinter’s free-to-play D&D experiment has outlasted most of what launched alongside it
Neverwinter is a free-to-play D&D action MMORPG from Cryptic Studios. PC 2013, Xbox One 2015, PS4 2016. IGDB critic score: 7.3/10.
Game Reviews7.9/10
Trials Fusion’s best tracks sit behind a paywall, 12 years on
Trials Fusion review: the 2014 physics bike game from Ubisoft RedLynx, its quad bike, create mode, late online play and 1.7 million sales.
Game Reviews8/10
Mario Golf: World Tour Review: A Strong Return for the Series
Mario Golf: World Tour brought the series back to 3DS in 2014 with online play and Super Shots, but Castle Club's short Mii-only story let it down.
Game Reviews7.4/10
Octodad: Dadliest Catch Review — A Cephalopod in Human Clothing
Octodad: Dadliest Catch review: Young Horses' 2014 octopus-in-a-suit comedy, its two-tentacle controls, co-op chaos, and that aquarium twist.
Game Reviews7.2/10
LEGO The Hobbit turned Middle-earth into a toy box in 2014, and for the most part the pieces fit
LEGO The Hobbit review: Traveller's Tales' 2014 Middle-earth game, its Dwarf abilities, open map, 2019 delisting, and a 7.2 verdict.
Game Reviews7.9/10
Kirby: Triple Deluxe Review — A Confident Handheld Platformer with a Soft Center
Kirby: Triple Deluxe review: the 2014 3DS platformer's 3D depth mechanic, Hypernova, Kirby Fighters, Dededetour! and why it scores 7.9.
Game Reviews7.9/10
The English village where nothing is left to do but listen
A review of The Chinese Room's 2015 adventure game Everybody's Gone to the Rapture: an empty Shropshire village, a strange light, and a story you must walk.
Game Reviews7.9/10
Skylanders: SuperChargers Review — A Supercharged Vehicle Pivot That Shrinks the Roster
Skylanders: SuperChargers launched September 20, 2015, adding 20 vehicles and 20 new figures to Activision's toy-to-life series. Our review scores it 7.9.
Game Reviews7.4/10
The Surge Review: A Great Idea Welded to a Dark Souls Skeleton
The Surge review: Deck13's 2017 sci-fi Soulslike welds an exoskeleton onto you awake, then makes dismemberment the loot system. Score: 7.4/10.