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.
Both the cartoon
and game take a lighthearted approach to crime fighting more in tune
with Adam West’s live-action show from the ‘60s. Cheesy one-liners are
thrown as often as punches, but they elicited genuine laughs.
The Wii NHL scene is getting competitive, and this is 2K developer's Visual Concepts second crack at it. How will fare against EA's new NHL Wii product?
The sign of a good mystery is that it keeps you guessing until the
end. For all of its goofy characters, motion-based minigames, and
occasional frustrations, Guilty Party does just that.
Toy
Story 3 ultimately succeeds in the same way that Pixar’s films do –
it’s attractive to young people who get a great surface experience and
for older audiences who appreciate extra layers of depth.