Game Reviews7.3/10
Silicon Knights’ Norse Epic Arrives With Rough Edges After Eighteen Years
A Norse god, less cybernetic than his kin, wages war upon machines—yet his tale stumbles oft upon its own feet.
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Tag: Xbox 360
Game Reviews6.7/10
Armored Core 4 Puts the Series Online and Makes It Faster, But the Mech Formula Stays the Same
A mech of iron and steel, a colony and a father's vengeance — Armored Core 4 brings tighter combat and online multiplayer to two consoles.
Game Reviews6.2/10
Smash Court Tennis 3 Review: Solid Roster, Shaky Ambition
A review of Smash Court Tennis 3, a PSP and Xbox 360 tennis title with a roster of real stars, customization, and mental pressure.
Game Reviews6.3/10
Rise of Nightmares Review: Kinect Horror Works, Motion Controls Don’t Pay Off
A tale of terror in a haunted mansion, wherein a husband seeks his abducted bride through dread corridors of shadow.
Game Reviews7/10
Sixteen Years On, Lost Planet 2 Still Makes Snow Run Cold
A decade later, E.D.N. III grows warmer, and its monstrous Akrid rise anew in this tale of battle, energy, and strife.
Game Reviews6.8/10
Madden NFL 10 Review: Two Covers, One Solid Step Forward
Madden NFL 10 brings Online Franchise mode, PRO-TAK animation tech, and a two-player cover for Troy Polamalu and Larry Fitzgerald.
Game Reviews7/10
Spider-Man: Edge of Time Review — Two Spiders, One Time-Traveling Story
Two Spiders, one time-traveling tale: a review of Edge of Time, where Peter Parker and Miguel O'Hara join forces across the ages.
Game Reviews7/10
Tiger Woods PGA Tour 13 Review: A Solid Swing, a Shallow Career
A review of Tiger Woods PGA Tour 13, wherein Kinect swing control is novel but flawed, and the career mode is thin.
Game Reviews6.8/10
Virtua Tennis 4 Review: Fast Pace, Modest Ambition
Virtua Tennis 4 trades realism for arcade fun, offering a career mode, licensed athletes, and motion control across consoles.
Game Reviews6.5/10
Vin Diesel’s Wheelman Puts Solid Driving in a Forgettable Open World
Wheelman (2009) review: Vin Diesel's open-world Barcelona driving game, built on the Airjack mechanic, scored 6.5/10.
Game Reviews6.1/10
Bodycount Review: A Shreddable World, a Hollow Game
Bodycount, Codemasters' 2011 spiritual successor to Black, promised a shreddable world. It delivered a competent shooter with no reason to exist.
Game Reviews6.1/10
The Avatar Tie-In That Got the Movies’ Scale and None of Their Wonder
James Cameron's Avatar: The Game shipped on seven platforms in 2009. Ubisoft Montreal's licensed tie-in scored 6.1/10 — a working shooter that never sings.