Though there’s substantially less content and replayability than its primary contemporary, Sonic Racing: CrossWorlds is concise and effective in its mission, offering the most well-rounded kart racer of the year.
Though there’s substantially less content and replayability than its primary contemporary, Sonic Racing: CrossWorlds is concise and effective in its mission, offering the most well-rounded kart racer of the year.
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.
The changed vision for the Dragon Age franchise may disappoint hardcore fans of the original, but this sequel still delivers – though not in the ways you’d expect.
The changed vision for the Dragon Age series may disappoint hardcore fans of the original, but this sequel still delivers – but not in the ways you’d expect.
The last time I had this much stupid fun blowing things up in a video
game was years ago with Painkiller. My time with Magicka was cut short
before I'd had my fill of its flexible combat system, though, and not
because of any impending deadline.