Combat is extremely fun and very easy to control - you can play the entire game using just your keyboard's Numpad. [Feb 2005, p.46]

You're limited by a strict materials budget on each puzzle, but the solution is limited only by your imagination, your passion for tinkering, testing, and rejiggering, as well as your tolerance for roughhousing an innocent armadillo. [Nov. 2006, p.120]

If Blizzard can continue to deliver, Legion sets the stage for what could be the best chapter of World of Warcraft yet.

A massive, bountiful RPG with richly descriptive writing, a well-realised setting, and deep tactical combat.

Doom Eternal is a ceaseless, panicked nightmare that pushes you to point and click with more skill and style than ever before.

It’s impressively well thought-out, and a highly engaging MMORPG that’s kept me captivated for the last few weeks solid. [Jan 2002, p.80]

A masterpiece that will have you soaring like an angel through the depths of hell.

A beautiful adventure platformer with a cheerful pixel art veneer, but with very modern themes.

My favorite horror game of 2024, and one of the year's best narratives, period.

TH4 is so packed with content and character that even a non-skater should have a wicked time when armed with a solid gamepad. [Dec 2003, p.109]

A beautiful, heartfelt coming of age story that says something about life, and cracks a few jokes in the process.

Challenging and gorgeous, Ori is a classic platforming genre modernized and done strikingly well. Use a controller and save often.

Unless you're looking for a hardcore sim, Forza Horizon is still the best racing series around.

Don't steal, but lie and cheat if necessary. As a gamer, it's your duty to own Diablo II. [Aug 2000, p.75]

Last minute collapse onto its own silver sword aside, this is one of the most impressive RPGs you'll ever play.

Omori's ending is brutal, but its characters and humour put some heart behind the horror.

Halls of Torment's specific aesthetic couldn't be more attuned to my sensibilities as a child of the ARPGs of the late '90s and early 2000s. Give me two honking great orbs representing my health and mana and a protagonist who has no articulating joints in his legs and I'm a happy man, and HoT makes me very happy indeed with its lo-fi heroics and diffuse, stygian levels. If I could play this thing on a beige CRT while Rob Zombie screamed in my ears I wouldn't know it wasn't 1999. Actually, wait, I can do that. If anyone needs me, tell them I'm busy for the next… foreseeable future.

Lovely, beautiful, heartwarming, and unable to convince me it needed my input as a player at all.

Nathan Drake's last outing is still at the top of the action-adventure genre.

Doom 3 is a masterpiece of the art form - staying true to the frantic legacy of the Doom series, while ambitiously reaching new heights and bashing down the doors of the next generation of PC shooter. The bar is raised. Let's see someone else climb over it. [Sept 2004, p.34]

A smattering of technical issues keep Subnautica from true legendary status, but only just.

Stormblood’s rousing tale of rebellion and exceptional boss fights aren’t just exquisite by MMO standards, but rival even the most beloved Final Fantasy games.

This is an extraordinary remaster of an essential RPG, and as unmissable today as ever.

A beautiful, deep, and endlessly replayable murder sandbox, featuring some of the best levels in the series.

Pragmata's confidence in its punchy shootouts and old-school cool pays off, and the two leads roved their way into my heart despite a predictable plot.

A huge improvement (thanks to a ground-up rebuild) over last year's version... Hardball fanatics everywhere owe it to themselves to try this great game. [Oct 2004, p.96]

True, the learning curve is Himalayan, but once I got sucked in, my love of strat games was instantly rekindled. [Feb 2002, p.73]

All multiplayer modes have the spy needing to complete a set of objectives, like swiping top-secret vials, while the mercs try ot keep the spy from succeeding. The resulting match-ups are breathtaking. [June 2004, p.68]