Game Reviews6.9/10
Survival Is the Only Resource That Matters in This 2012 Apocalypse Game
I Am Alive review: Ubisoft Shanghai's survival game turns a stamina meter and a machete into seven years of tension, scarcity, and a hollow middle.
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Tag: Xbox 360
Game Reviews6.3/10
Lionhead’s Kinect-Only Fable Spinoff Was the Beginning of the End
Fable: The Journey was Lionhead's last game — a 2012 Kinect-only Fable spin-off set 50 years after Fable III. We break down why it scored 6.3/10.
Game Reviews7.5/10
Armored Core V: A Deliberate Step Back That Mostly Works
Armored Core V review: FromSoftware's 2012 mecha game slows combat down, adds OVERED Weapons and Scanning Mode, but its 5v5 online died in 2014.
Game Reviews7.6/10
F.E.A.R. 3 puts two brothers in the same campaign and gives them nothing to say to each other
F.E.A.R. 3 review: the 2011 co-op shooter puts Point Man and Paxton Fettel in one campaign with identical levels and dialogue. Reflex time still holds up.
How Crackdown Became the Surprise Star of the Halo 3 Beta, Far Beyond Its Pack-In Role
A tale of a game deemed but a pack-in, yet it proved a mighty superhero power fantasy, worth far more than its price.
Game Reviews7.4/10
Lost Planet: Extreme Condition Review — A Solid Shooter With a Cold That Means Something
Lost Planet: Extreme Condition review: Capcom's frozen shooter, its thermal energy survival clock, Vital Suit hijacking, and a story that runs cold.
Game Reviews7.5/10
TimeShift Review: Rewinding Time Still Beats Backward Into Something Worth Playing
A soldier learns to move backward through time, changing past moments to save the present in this bold shooter.
Game Reviews7.5/10
Rock of Ages Rolls Boulders Downhill and Into a Genre All Its Own
Rock of Ages review: ACE Team's tower defense boulder-roller for Xbox 360, PC, and PS3 — building, rolling, Sisyphus, and a 7.5 verdict.
Game Reviews7.3/10
EA Sports Active 2’s Online Services Are Gone, and the Game Went With Them
EA Sports Active 2 turned living rooms into gyms in 2010 with a 30-day challenge and Kinect support, until EA killed its online features in 2012.
Game Reviews7.4/10
NHL 07 Review: Two Games Wearing One Title
NHL 07 split into two games: a rebuilt Xbox 360 version with analog stick control and puck physics, and unchanged ports for Xbox, PC and PSP.
Game Reviews6.5/10
Microsoft’s motion controller launched with six sports and not much else to do
Kinect Sports review: Rare's 2010 Xbox 360 launch title for the Kinect sensor, ranked across six sports, eight mini-games and Party Play. Score: 6.5/10.
Game Reviews7.4/10
Charlie Murder: A Punk Rock Apocalypse That Treats Its Premise as a Question
Charlie Murder is Ska Studios' 2013 punk-rock brawler with RPG bones, four-player co-op, and two endings hidden behind a collectible.