Despite fumbles with its new melee combat and difficulty balancing, Control Resonant's storytelling, world, and bizarre quests kept me eager to explore its distorted New York.
Simon Ordell’s journey through the Scottish town of St. Amelia in 1996 is not without its shortcomings, but the experience is an affecting one buoyed by the first-person perspective.
Building on the already-great remake of the first game, Trails in the Sky 2nd Chapter masterfully updates the gameplay and timeless story, adding up to what is now the Trails series’ defining entry, and one of the best RPGs of the year.
Once I stopped snickering over the idea of playing as incapacitated cop
John Tanner, inexplicably blessed with the power of astral projection, I
was completely hooked on the latest Driver.
Chains of Olympus and Ghost of Sparta are great games –
without needing to apply the “for a handheld” qualifier. This fact is
clearer than ever now that they are bundled together in God of War:
Origins Collection.
With Ion Storm dead and celebrated creators Warren Spector and Harvey Smith each in new stages of their careers, developer Eidos Montreal faces the difficult task of bringing back one of gaming’s most celebrated series.
Poor Travis Touchdown just can’t catch a break. The less impressive of his two games has debuted on HD systems, giving potential new fans an unfortunately flawed first impression.
