When you insult your audience by coughing up some of the weakest physics and AI ever coded for a PC racer, then kudos quickly turns into Bronx cheers. [May 2003, p.62]

An innovative format for a mystery but lacking in story and performances, and overly reliant on peer approval.

A wonderfully absurd tale of insurrection and kicking stuff in a cheery-looking world.

Refreshingly, cheating is often the best way to go. [Sept 2004, p.70]

No other game comes close to the major league statistical detail offered in this addictive simulation of our national pastime. [Sept 2007, p.60]

Even if you have the skill to complete the single-player game, you'll have only scratched the surface of this thorough war simulator. [Aug 2007, p.62]

People don't typically play action-RPGs for their riveting narratives. They want fast-paced combat, lots of environments and beasties, and tons of cool magic weapons, armor, and loot. Sacred's got all that in spades. [June 2004, p.69]

While it doesn't fulfil its potential, Flat Eye is an intriguing management sim that's more than the sum of its parts.

Tiny Glade is a stress-free building game with some lovely ideas, but it too often feels restrictive rather than meditative.

Though hokey, tired and periodically shambolic, the campaign has a few new tricks, but it's the fulsome multiplayer that saves Blops 2 from shame.

Though much too easy, Dead Rising 4 is sandboxy zombie-killing adventure that recaptures the series' fun.

A gentle and engrossing underwater sci-fi game that will have you thinking about more than what lies beneath the waves.

Destination: Treasure Island may not break any significant new ground, but it nevertheless delivers one of the PC's better adventure-gaming yarns since "Monkey Island".

The third episode maintains the series' excellent standard for laugh-out-loud writing and voice-over work, and the puzzles, while tilting toward the easy side, are enjoyable and witty. [Apr 2007, p.54]

Me like game. Me like unlocked mini-challenges, movie trailers, and other extras. It only $29.99. The Hulk is strongest one there is. [Aug 2003, p.63]

FATE has all the touchstones of a BIT.TRIP game--the hunt for flawless execution, the grueling score optimization. It serves up the same boiled-down punishing appeal. [Nov 2013, p.74]

A confident mishmash of a few different Resi games. [July 2015, p.70]

A lovingly crafted action RPG with challenging, satisfying gunfights and an extraordinary cyberpunk setting.

This is a game about smashing up artwork with a big rock, and there's nothing wrong with that. [Holiday 2011, p.79]

A solid tactical RPG frustratingly buried under a terrible port.

John Wick Hex is a movie tie-in that doesn’t go for the lowest common denominator. What could easily have been a generic real-time action game works wonderfully in this form—converting the pace of the movie action into a very elegant illusion of it. It works admirably despite the within this somewhat sparse presentation, and feels like an idea that the developer could evolve into something really special in the future—with or without the John Wick license.

Not as unique as you’d perhaps expect given the premise, but still a very stylish, characterful and funny adventure.

The city builder sequel is packed with big improvements but a fair share of disappointments.

Despite the missteps with combat, and another storyline that is just too dry to get invested in even with well-produced cutscenes, I still recommend Catalyst. It’s annoyingly close to being the ideal Mirror’s Edge game, but retains a few of its predecessors’ issues, even if those problems have manifested in different forms. If you loved the first game as much as I did, there’s so much to enjoy about running around this big, gorgeous playground—I just wish DICE had stuck the landing.

Fun for kids and adults alike(the original <i>Pac Man</i> is even included in emulated form)--just be sure to bring a quality game-pad to the party. [July 2006, p.99]

A slick cinematic thriller, but interaction is limited and the story loses focus in the final act.

Dead in Vinland combines resource management, RPG combat, uneven writing, and a lot of diciness into something I couldn't stop playing until I finished it.

Fresh out of the box, it's disappointing. But with patches, it could be the king of RPGs. [Sept 2000, p.95]