The three acts of Deadlight cater to three different tastes. One is for the people who love rainy film noir, the other is for fans of hardcore platformers, the third one feels like a summer blockbuster. It's a pity that Deadlight is too short to satisfy the appetites of even one of these groups.

In the end, you are forced to entertain yourself, because all levels look the same, differing only in gravitational force and the amount of enemies. What's worse, the game ignores the traditions of the arcade genre. Monsters randomly walk about levels instead of moving along pre-determined routes, and there are no bonuses or pick-ups except for boring med kits and ammo.

In theory, every new idea introduced in Hitman: Absolution is a good one and, technically, should make a Hitman game more enjoyable. But the reality is that when combined, Absolution's overbearing story, "Instinct", over-reliance on scripted events and a weird checkpoint system take a lot of fun away.

Lacking innovations and overly simplistic, Hell & Damnation is still much better than other Painkiller games – the abominable Redemption, Resurrection, and Recurring Evil.

FIFA Manager 13 is worth buying only if you suddenly feel the urge to throw away some money. You'll get a slightly retouched FM 12 with one interesting, but non-working idea and Lucien Favre on the box cover.

If it weren't for some very unfortunate flaws, Fallen Enchantress would have been a great game.

To take Black Ops 2 seriously is to admit that this collection of absurd ideas, worn-out gameplay clichés, and soapy plot twists bears any significance to the first-person shooter genre.

Natural Selection 2 has quite a few things to be nitpicky about. Pared down strategy elements, scanty arsenal of weapons, lack of single-player missions and decent tutorials – yep, it's all there, but, in contrast to shooters that come off big assembly lines, the developers put love and effort into making of this game.

Harvey's New Eyes is ridiculously easy to beat, but fun, not quite beautiful, but very stylish, never gets boring, but goes out with a whimper.

Liberation feels like it was made only to honor the agreement between Sony and Ubisoft that required the latter to produce a Vita-exclusive Assassin's Creed game.

I wonder if the developers themselves knew what exactly they were trying to create. Is it a stealth game? a tactical strategy? a top-down arcade? Kitschy, bold artwork is only there to cover up the lack of cohesive ideas, and crude execution.

The subtitle is the weakest part of Need for Speed: Most Wanted, because it invites comparisons. That's when you realize that the new game is a step down from its 3- and 7-years old predecessors.

Four years is a long time. The once humdrum, but spectacular console slasher is now a humdrum, plain-looking PC game.

What is the point of this "improved" edition if it looks much worse than the original DOOM 3 with the fan-made Sikkmod installed?

It's a pity that for such a good-looking game, Lili is absolutely lifeless.

Babel Rising is equally boring in Survival, competitive and cooperative modes.

Judging by the empty servers, no one wants to play a Battlefield 2 clone with very few gameplay features and outdated graphics.

Chivalry is, hands down, the best online slasher set in the Middle Ages out there right now.

Secret Files 3 looks and plays as if even its creators did not give a damn about the final product.

Medal of Honor: Warfighter is a slavish imitation of Call of Duty, while its multiplayer doesn't hold a candle to EA's own Battlefield 3.

Revolution is not without its flaws, but you can live with them, because finally, this is a real successor to Worms World Party.

R.A.W. is aeons away from both Diablo 3 and Torchlight 2. Even finding a new shiny trophy is not fun here.

Bad Piggies is a mediocre arcade/puzzle hybrid that really wants to look smart.

Dishonored rarely challenges the players, but it doesn't take them for fools, either, so that's an achievement compared to other games in the genre. Just don't expect strokes of genius like the Shalebridge Cradle level from Thief: Deadly Shadows.

Crossfire is such a shallow, boring, predictable experience that asking money for it should be a crime.

FIFA 13 offers good arcade-style football, and its multiplayer is next to exemplary. But it needs to grow up if it wants to become a simulator.

Their Finest Hour doesn't come with flashy new features, but every change that it brings is meaningful.

First thing that you notice upon launching Dungeon Lords MMXII is that it's plagued by the same many flaws as the original game 7 years ago.

This game is just an awkward attempt to mimic Eufloria.

A well-made platformer with a nice pedigree, albeit too short.

War of the Roses is a good base to build upon in future installments, but until then, Mount & Blade has nothing to worry about.

Of Orcs and Men is based on a great concept that should have been tackled by a bolder, more talented team.

Lush visuals are the only saving grace of this Sherlock Holmes. It pains me to see so much style and no substance.

For every flaw of XCOM, there is a dozen virtues.

Halo 4 may be utterly derivative, but it is the best Halo so far.

Unlike its rogue-like brethren, FTL is not a game that you'll be enjoying for hundreds of hours, but still, saving The Federation is a lot of fun for a first few times.

Borderlands 2 is awfully simplistic as a first-person shooter, and it's not deep enough for an action/RPG game.

PES 2013 continues the course that Konami charted three years ago. It's more confident, makes less mistakes, but still, it lost the final battle for soccer domination in this generation of gaming platforms.

Torchlight 2 is a very player-friendly action/RPG. It could have gotten a better score if not for its truncated Act IV.

Those who still crave for more of the same gameplay from AGEod, will enjoy this interactive panorama of the Roman Empire.

The main character of Inquisitor is quite creative when it comes to torturing heretics. You can rack people, make them drink boiling water, or put them into the iron maiden… But the game itself is an even worse torture – not everyone can suffer through 100 hours being bored and annoyed at the same time. Inquisitor is not a hardcore RPG; it just hates the player.

Black Water is too peculiar to warrant an "instant buy" recommendation, but if you're into westerns, this is a great find.

A revolting prequel to a disgusting game.

Shad'O is a beautiful story of overcoming one's fears wrapped in a TD-style gameplay.

A few nitpicks aside, Armored Kill is the best Battlefield 3 expansion so far.

Wild Blood is in a desperate need of Infinity Blade-style polish. The controls are abysmal, frequent slowdowns are annoying, and epic fights are few and far between.

It is almost a masterpiece and a horrifying example of bad Japanese game design at the same time. But, if you want to be challenged, get Dark Souls, and you will discover a very captivating RPG.

This episode delivers excellent drama at the cost of killing the non-linear storytelling.

I have no idea why someone ported this mindless iOS game to PC.

Is it possible to tell a deep, touching story about a bunch of emo teens? Yes, and the 30-hour campaign of The World Ends with You is the proof.

Legends of Pegasus is a warning to all other developers in the 4X strategy genre – if you can't make a solid game, don't bother trying. In space, no one will hear you squeal.

This is an honest DLC – 4-5 hours of joy for 10 bucks guaranteed!

Rise to Fame is a typical "mobile game" - cute in its own way, but way too simple and shallow.

The final cinematic of the game ends with a character crying. There is a good reason for that – I Am Alive is such a waste of a great concept.

A soulless movie tie-in.

Compared to the original, this Death Rally is twice as better, but that is hardly a compliment. We've played many great racing games since then, both with and without shooting, but this one still tries to party like it's 1996.

Tower Wars looks colorful and steampunk-y, but doesn't offer much. Three maps, one race… And this is in a multiplayer-oriented game?

This game will bring you only pain and humiliation. It will drive you insane, filling your nightmares with many-colored bears.

My first impression after completing Leviathan was, "Too bad this did not make it into the core game!" In the perfect world, this DLC would have been available for free, just like Extended Cut.

Darksiders 2 managed to rise above the original game by fixing broken gameplay elements and adding good new ones.

The title Sleeping Dogs is a reference to "let sleeping dogs lie". Well, the developers should have heeded this ancient wisdom and let True Crime: Hong Kong die.

Mutant Blobs Attack is just as enjoyable as its console predecessor, the PS3-exclusive Tales from Space: About a Blob. Absent cooperative multiplayer aside, the game is still amazing.

It's not a game – just a prototype of one. And they charge money for that?!

The first fruit of Zynga's "new model of partnership" really shows what modern mobile devices are capable of, but as far as the gameplay goes, the world of Horn is empty and lacks fresh ideas.

If you never missed a Twilight premiere, if you know the lineage of the Stackhouse family and follow the adventures of the Salvatore brothers, then this expansion pack is for you. For the rest of the world, it's just a content pack that adds nothing new to the game's mechanics.

Global Offensive is a decent modern online shooter as far as convenience goes, but in terms of content, it's Counter-Strike v1.6 with slight improvements.

No vampire abilities, new dragon shouts or, let alone, crossbows will ever substitute for a well-told story. Unfortunately, Bethesda Softworks sucks at storytelling.

Rebellion is clearly an improvement over the original Sins of a Solar Empire, but it's still a not very successful attempt to cross an RTS with a 4X strategy game.

Iron Brigade could have become an alternative to Dungeon Defenders, if not for annoying bugs, blurry graphics and very low difficulty that kill most of the fun.

Deponia is a refined adventure game – beautifully drawn, creative, incredibly funny and so close to the classic definition of the genre that it takes your breath away.

Unmechanical is nice to look at, but overly simple and not that interesting.

By blindly copying the first game, Radical killed most of its original ideas and made a lot of mistakes. Prototype 2 is a derivative tale of a stupid superhuman who walks in a city made of shoeboxes.

Asphalt 7 is basically Asphalt 6, only with more pathetic attempts at social integration and obnoxious offers to share your progress with your friends.

The story of Harley Quinn's vengeance adds nothing to everything that's been said in done in Arkham City. If you're having a greed attack over the $10 price tag of this DLC, well… just ignore it.

It's not easy to create a worthy sequel to a great game, but Robot Entertainment managed to go around the now-familiar gameplay formula by adding new ways to develop the characters and a very addictive coop mode.

You squeeze a laugh or two from Precipice of Darkness 3, but why putting up with the boring gameplay and ancient visuals when you just go and read a fresh comic strip by Penny Arcade?

The drama is well-directed, but as soon as The Walking Dead tries to straighten its shoulders, it immediately runs into technical issues, like stiff animation, poor facial gestures, and the lack of ambient sounds.

This is probably the shortest single-player campaign I've ever seen in a racing game.

Six hours of your life, roughly one hour per each level, will drain away, leaving you only with disappointment.

Dark atmosphere, unprecedented drama for an App Store game, amazing finale. Finally, the iOS platform has discovered its own thatgamecompany.

Autumn Dynasty is a bright spot in a sea of faceless tower defense clones, but it doesn't hold up when compared to a decent RTS game. Everything is too predictable and simple.

If Cannon Fodder 3 had been released a decade ago, it would have become a cult hit. Now, it's a just a decent old-school arcade game.

If American Nightware were an episode of an actual television series, I would have switched the channel long before the end of the first act.

A solid, but all in all cookie-cutter adventure game.

I imagine that some of the SpellForce fans will love this expansion. For the rest of the world, it's a weird genre hybrid with horrible graphics, silly premise and dubious gameplay mechanics.

If not for its poor technical execution, Game of Thrones would have taken its rightful place in the 80+ range.

Just a tie-in product, nothing more, like an Ice Age-branded mug or a mouse pad.

Top Gear host Jeremy Clarkson once wrote in his blog that he honestly doesn't remember anything about a car that was sent to him for reviewing – it was that unremarkable. I had a similar moment with DiRT Showdown – I forgot to review it upon release.

Amazing Alex is not as brilliant as Armadillo Run, or charming like Crayon Physics Deluxe.

In my mind, I do understand that Endless Space is not without its flaws. But the mere sight of such a coherent space strategy game is mesmerizing.

Multi Massacre looks and plays exactly like its boring 2009 predecessor, Foreign Legion: Buckets of Blood. In fact, this is not a sequel, just a bunch of new levels and multiplayer modes that should have been released three years ago.

Look past the thick veil of colorful visual effects, and you'll see Dead Trigger for what it really is – a compilation of the worst features of freemium shooters that plague the App Store.

A few years ago, we had three very distinct shooter franchises: Call of Duty, Battlefield, and Ghost Recon. Now we have just one: Call of Duty from Activision, Call of Duty from EA, and Call of Duty from Ubisoft. I'm willing to accept this new direction of the series, but Future Soldier hasn't got a single memorable moment.

The weak narrative sucks all the emotional drama from the game's story, while beautiful hand-drawn backgrounds are saddled with the ugliest examples of character animation.

London 2012 is almost an exemplary sports compilation – nice-looking, somewhat challenging, with a good selection of disciplines.

A short campaign is the only downside of this otherwise amazing platformer.

The already excellent Crusader Kings 2 just got a second wind – now with a spicy Middle-Eastern flavor!

The Act is a cute, but very short animated cartoon disguised as an experimental "game".