Hollow Knight: Silksong is beautiful, nuanced, and deeply rewarding, but it's also tuned to be grueling in ways that aren't always fun in the traditional sense.
Hollow Knight: Silksong is beautiful, nuanced, and deeply rewarding, but it's also tuned to be grueling in ways that aren't always fun in the traditional sense.
Though its narrative and level design sometimes get in the way, the entire package is still a setpiece-filled action romp and one of the year's best shooters.
Its adorable aesthetic and wordless storytelling make this brief adventure one worth sharing with family or a friend, but its distant camera angle and visual filters were frustrating obstacles on an otherwise picturesque road.
Though many of the series’ core elements remain intact, Gearbox has refined and reconfigured them in such ways that Borderlands 4 rises beyond anything the series has accomplished to this point.
Hell is Us isn’t perfect, but it’s a bold and respectable debut that largely delivers on its puzzle-solving promise, despite middling combat and uneven storytelling.
L.A. Noire uses Rockstar’s familiar
open-world template as a jumping off point to deliver a deliberately
paced adventure game that stresses conversation over gunplay.
Many twin stick shooters put players in a box and send endless waves of enemies in their direction until they get hit and blow up. Gatling Gears is not one of those games.
LEGO Pirates of the Caribbean doesn’t enhance the LEGO franchise as the
Clone Wars game did a few months back, but it offers another
well-executed entry.
Section 8 Prejudice doesn't rank alongside the Call of Dutys and Battlefields of the
world, but it's worth a look for FPS fans itching for a new experience.
Section 8 Prejudice doesn't rank alongside the Call of Dutys and Battlefields of the
world, but it's worth a look for FPS fans itching for a new experience.
Borrow from enough different sources, and you end up with something entirely new. That’s the design mantra that fuels Outland, a visually arresting downloadable title with enough solid gameplay to back up its ample style.
Borrow from enough different sources, and you end up with something entirely new. That’s the design mantra that fuels Outland, a visually arresting downloadable title with enough solid gameplay to back up its ample style.
Don’t let the name fool you; Darkspore has virtually nothing to do with
Maxis’ 2008 release, Spore. Luckily the gameplay that takes the
place of this customization is much more focused and addictive than
Spore.
