It’s evident NHL 27 is a leap year for the franchise as it doesn’t innovate on the modes and immersion already present. Instead, it soft-launches patches that barely pass as a winter update.
Insomniac once again captures what works about a famous comic book superhero, but that makes this a very different game from the studio's prior releases in the genre.
With the Kirby charm and some novel gameplay mechanics, Mass Attack beats Squeak Squad, Super Star Ultra, and Canvas Curse as the best franchise entry on DS.
The Bit.Trip games aren’t just fun games in the style of arcade
classics, they’re tiny time machines. The Bit.Trip series transports you
back to a time when a game didn’t need advanced enemy AI, weapon
leveling, or skill trees to be fun.
When everyone else is doing minigames and dance sims on Kinect, Sega stepped up to the plate and took a risk. But perhaps the others tested it out and found
it didn’t work.
Hard Reset is a return to a simpler time in shooter history, with only modern graphics
and a simple upgrade system marking the passage of the last two decades.
This remake might not be the AAA first-party killer app the 3DS needs, but it’s a solid piece of nostalgia for longtime fans and an exceptionally strong shooter for newcomers to the series.
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.
