9 years ago
Tiny Troopers: Joint Ops review: Kinda cute
If you want to have a commercially successful game, just take a popular franchise or genre and make a toy version of it. Tiny Troopers: Joint Ops is a twin …
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9 years ago
The Walking Dead: Michonne Episode 1: In Too Deep review: Not deep enough
For better or worse, the first episode of The Walking Dead: Michonne gave me a story I didn’t expect. The game is advertised as having an explanation as to why Michonne left her …
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9 years ago
Unravel review: A ball of yawn
Unravel‘s unveiling at Electronic Arts’ E3 2015 media briefing made it the indie darling of the games industry’s biggest show. Coldwood Interactive’s puzzle-platformer may not have been able to live …
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9 years ago
The Flame in the Flood review: Rollin’ on the river
In the past week I’ve suffered from starvation, dehydration, hypothermia, bacterial infections, multiple lacerations and broken bones. I drowned many times, was attacked by packs of wolves, gorged by a …
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9 years ago
Rocket League review: A true gentlemen’s sport
Last year was a big one for games, and one of its most surprising successes was Psyonix’s Rocket League. It debuted on PS4 and PC last summer and became an instant hit. The indie …
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9 years ago
Layers of Fear review: A psychedelic look at horror
Layers of Fear calls itself a horror game, but in actuality it has far more similarities with Gone Home than it does with mainstays of its supposed genre like Outlast. Layers of Fear is …
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9 years ago
D/Generation HD review: Maybe it’s just me?
D/Generation HD is a remake of a PC classic. After being completely stuck within the first five minutes, I had to go read up on the game and watch YouTube …
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9 years ago
Agatha Christie – The ABC Murders review: Fifty shades of the little grey cells
In the interest of full disclosure, I have to admit that I’ve been a fan of Agatha Christie’s iconic Belgian detective, Hercule Poirot, since I was a boy of only …
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9 years ago
In Space We Brawl review: Captive audience
With a clear aim of recreating Bomberman-like gameplay In Space We Brawl is primarily a local multiplayer experience built upon the concept of an arena-based, twin-stick shooter, and although it …
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9 years ago
Q*bert REBOOTED: The XBOX One @!#?@! Edition review: @!#?@! indeed
Q*bert REBOOTED: The XBOX One @!#?@! Edition is Q*bert. They say it’s “rebooted,” and the description includes such hype-quotes as “reimagined” and “state of the art 3D gameplay,” but really, it’s just Q*bert.
That doesn’t mean it’s bad. If you like Q*bert and don’t feel like booting up your Atari 2600, it will certainly give you your fix. If you don’t know about Q*bert — or you’re like me and played it as a kid but had no clue what you were doing — you basically just have to jump on 3D cubes to change their color, all while avoiding myriad obstacles. It doesn’t really get more complicated than that, although the difficulty does get pretty hard, pretty quick.