There is, after all, something quietly revelatory about a big-budget videogame that has as much in common with the work of Bennett Foddy as Ubisoft's boilerplate sandboxes. Far from a masterpiece, then, but Kojima's first post-Konami release HAS laid the foundations for something greater. Which is fitting, since that's what he's had us doing for 60-odd hours. [Issue#341, p.102]

It takes a level of persistence that many won't be inclined to reach. [Issue#340, p.120]

It spits you out, head spinning, with a message about overcoming failure through unorthodox thinking; one last surprise in a game that encourages you to readjust your perspective in every sense. [Issue#340, p.118]

One thing is certain: Concrete Genie's identity crisis proves its creators still have some maturing left to do. [Issue#340, p.106]

There are no 'game over's, only a zen-like cycle until you are enlightened enough to progress beyond it. [Issue#340, p.11]

Those vibrant looks belie a challenge that is sometimes tough but - with one notable exception - exquisitely fair. [Issue#340, p.112]

Modern Warfare is precariously balanced. On a straightforward level, its multiplayer is admirable in its reform and a touch undercooked in its execution, while the inventiveness in its six hours of campaign remind players why this became such a juggernaut name in the industry. But underneath that, there's an unease about the way Modern Warfare pushes the player's buttons without demonstrating respect for or responsibility to its source material. [Issue#340, p.110]

To focus on what's missing would be to overlook the joys that remain. [Issue#340, p.106]

To focus on what's missing would be to overlook the joys that remain. [Issue#340, p.106]

To focus on what's missing would be to overlook the joys that remain. [Issue#340, p.106]

For now, though, we'll settle for appreciating those moments, the ones that outlast the frustrations, where we sit back in our chair and marvel at the results of our own work. And on that basis, Planet Zoo is a triumph. [Issue#340, p.102]

As uneven and unpolished as it is, Fallen Order is still the best game to emerge from EA's stewardship of the Star Wars license, even if that's to damn it with faint praise. [Issue#340, p.98]

Only the length disappoints us. Even by the studio's standards, Pilgrims is a slip of a thing. [Issue#139, p.122]

If not quite a five-star ride, Neo Cab is an empathetic and stingingly perceptive insight into the challenges of freelance life. [Issue#139, p.121]

It's competent but insufficient and disparate, full of ideas that haven't been fleshed out or meaningfully linked, as if it's all stripped back from a broader original vision. [Issue#139, p.120]

Memorable? Undoubtedly. But we'll have that drink now, thanks. [Issue#139, p.119]

This simply has the air of a development team biting off more than it could chew. [Issue#139, p.118]

As for a return trip to hell to see how alternative choices might have played out? It would have to freeze over first. [Issue#139, p.116]

Crazy as they may seem, it's these musical dreamers that ensure Kine makes your heart skip as your head rings - wrong notes and all. [Issue#139, p.114]

As a whole, it just doesn't hang together as seamlessly as we'd hoped. [Issue#139, p.112]

It might not always say what you want it to hear, but the words stay with you. [Issue#139, p.110]

The super-soldier fantasy's lost beneath generic mechanisms for grinding. [Issue#139, p.108]

Shadowkeep delivers on our expectations, giving us more of the things about Destiny we like, while reminding us that nostalgia ain't what it used to be. [Issue#139, p.106]

It feels best when you're making snap decisions, the action moving along with a satisfying pop, pop, pop rhythm that echoes the films. [Issue#133, p.104]

Disco Elysium's skill system is a marvelous reworking of calcified genre conventions. [Issue#339, p.100]

Then it interrupts the action for a bit of brazen padding, inviting you to trudge back through earlier floors to track the spectral pawprints of an elusive cat, and you wonder if you were right first time. [Issue#339, p.96]

It's a bold first effort from the studio - the first spark of something great, perhaps. [Issue#338, p.122]

Early on, we wondered why they don't make games like this more often. Within a few short hours, we were grateful they don't. [Issue#338, p.120]