Game Reviews7.4/10
EA Sports UFC’s ground game can’t keep up with its striking
EA Sports UFC launched June 17, 2014 as EA's first UFC game after buying the THQ license, with Precision Movement, Dynamic Striking and MMAi AI.
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Tag: Xbox One
Game Reviews6.5/10
Kinect Sports Rivals is a tech showcase with nothing to play
Kinect Sports Rivals was Rare's final Kinect Sports game, a 2014 Xbox One launch title whose motion controls never quite worked.
Game Reviews7.1/10
Styx: Shards of Darkness Review: A Goblin, a Grappling Hook, and a Knife as a Zip-Wire
Styx: Shards of Darkness review: a goblin stealth game with grappling hooks, clones and a knife zip-wire. It scores 7.1/10 and knows exactly what it is.
Game Reviews6/10
Necropolis Builds a Dungeon It Never Bothers to Fill
Necropolis review: Harebrained Schemes' shifting dungeon roguelike has atmosphere but a punishing single save file. It scores 6 of 10.
Game Reviews7.9/10
Arcade racing game Onrush threw out the finish line, and eight years on nobody has copied it
A review of Onrush, Codemasters' 2018 team racing game with no finish line, where boost and takedowns win matches — and why its 2022 server shutdown stings.
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 Reviews7.2/10
The Final Station asks you to run a train through the end of the world and decide who gets to ride
The Final Station review: a bleak train-survival shooter from Do My Best Games, scored 7.2/10 — strong world-building, but linear station levels wear thin.
Game Reviews7.4/10
EA Sports UFC 2 Nails the Fighting but Buries It Under Bloated Modes
EA Sports UFC 2 review: 250+ fighters, Ronda Rousey and Conor McGregor on the cover, and a game whose visuals outshine its thin mode design.
Game Reviews7.6/10
Dead Rising 3’s zombie sandbox is worth the trip, but its story keeps getting in the way
Dead Rising 3 review: Capcom Vancouver's Xbox One launch title delivers the series' best zombie sandbox and its weakest story, scoring 7.6 of 10.
Game Reviews7.7/10
Dead Rising 4 Review: Frank West Returns to a Mall Without a Clock
Dead Rising 4 review: Frank West returns to a zombie-infested mall in 2016, but without the timer and co-op that made the series tense.
Game Reviews7.6/10
Far Cry Primal’s Stone Age setting does the heavy lifting its hunting and crafting cannot
Far Cry Primal review: Ubisoft swaps guns for spears in 10,000 BC, and the animal taming carries the Stone Age sandbox.
Game Reviews7.7/10
Quantum Break Review: Time Stop, Time Rush, and a Television Show That Never Quite Fuses
Quantum Break review: Remedy's 2016 time-freeze shooter still shines with Time Stop combat and a strong villain, even if its live-action TV episodes fall flat.