In Asterix & Obelix Slap Them All 2 the asset reuse rhymes with a missed occasion. As the drawn graphic and the original plot tries to do something new for its genre, the game falls again into a massive reuse of what done in 2021. It’s still a fun game and it can be a good solution to share some good evenings playing together with a friend, but only the most irreducible fans will accept to buy it.

Pirate's life is not an adventure in Port Royale 4.

It really is a pity that Chase: Cold Case Investigations didn't have the budget needed to make it stand out, or, at least, to make it as good as Cing's two DS adventures. Instead, what we have here is a very short and simple game, whose gameplay, number of locations and variety are somewhat too limited to make it worthwhile.

An easy puzzle game to play and understand, but with unbalanced puzzle difficulty. Better suited for the most hardcore puzzle fans.

Midnight Murder Club feels like one of those games that had the right idea but the wrong execution. The concept of using darkness as a gameplay mechanic is intriguing, but it’s as if the developers turned on the flashlight, showed a glimpse of its potential, and then immediately switched it off again, leaving us wandering through a huge, empty mansion.

Cossacks 3 is the comeback of GSC Game World and brings back the player at the time of the old RTS, but the AI has some serious problems.

Resident Evil 0 has some big issues related to its old style gameplay, an awkward control system and no extras for this Wii version. It's still a good-looking game on the Wii, but after eight long years fan would’ve definitely deserved some more.

Dogs Of War is a game with extremely deep gameplay mechanics, very well balanced maps and good character design. Graphics are pretty bad and music and sound effects are nothing special. Occasional crashes and matchmaking issues compromise the final result.

Inheritance reuses some of the gimmicks already adopted by Layers of Fear. The sections from the past are weak because of some questionable choices in the level designing. The plot is shallow and does not explore in sufficient detail the protagonist's character and life.

Seeing the Warren Spector name on such a mediocre title breaks the heart. Epic Mickey 2 has a solid nucleus, one with potential, but everything crashes to the ground in the end, due to the bad A.I. and the not-so-great gameplay mechanics.

The new adventures of Bub and Bob has many problems. Although it has not changed the basic idea, it generally varies less than the original title. Graphics, questionable stylistic choices, and anonymous sound effects make us regret the original game. Control system is accurate and raises the gaming experience. Rainbow Islands therefore appears as a middling product which, although amusing at times, failed to repeat the magic of the original because of some unfortunate choices in the development phase.

Holobunnies: Pause Cafe is a little minigames collection that delivers a funny, but very short, trial and error platform experience.

An interesting hybrid between a shooter and a party game, 5 Minutes Rage might be fun to play with friends for a short time. The gameplay and the level design, though, show some flaws.

Thalassa: Edge of the Abyss is a walking simulator with a compelling story, but it feels and looks like a game from at least ten years ago.

Monster 4x4: Stunt Racer it’s better than the previous episode, but at the same time not entirely convincing. This time Ubisoft has treated more technical aspects, good response of the Wii Wheel, and has attempted to offer a complex product varied and rich in ideas. In reality, however, the title does suffer because of a not sublime feeling of speed, some evidence is not properly inspired and that perhaps some game options were not studied with great care. The ideas are good and overall have fun for a few hours either alone or with friends. The inevitable comparison with the ancient Excite Truck humiliates Stunt Racer 4x4 does not disappoint at all, but does not reach that stretched enough.

Perception starts with good ideas, but fails to build a really original game around them. The atmosphere is good during the initial minutes, but it feels like a guided walking simulator without real scares.

A modest game, that suffers from a lack of modes and content. You might be interested only if you're looking for a simplistic and short experience.

In an era where everyone’s chasing the next big thing in multiplayer, FBC: Firebreak dares to be weird, borderline, and at times deliberately off-putting. It’s a game that doesn’t demand your daily grind, doesn’t punish you for skipping a week, and doesn’t crave your undivided loyalty. And maybe that’s exactly why it ends up having something to say. Maybe not much — but it says it with a style that sticks. If you’ve got two friends and a few hours to spare for some paranormal chaos, with zero expectations for emotional depth or narrative weight, FBC: Firebreak is well worth the price of admission.

007 Legends intends to recreate a mix between FPS and a stealth game, but it fails its aim. Multiplayer is instead really entertaining, especially with friends in a 4 players split-screen.

Thanks to an intelligent checkpoint disposition and a gentle learning curve, Toy Stunt Bike mechanics manage to be intriguing yet not frustrating, representing a valid intermission between bigger products.

The idea of making a Sacred 2 Remaster wasn't wrong, but the final result is an anachronistic product, a ghost in a market now dominated by giants like Diablo 4 and Path of Exile 2, which fails to justify its cost and, above all, our time.

Despite decent graphics and some funny game modes, Vancouver 2010 suffers from the complete lack of a career mode, which makes it feel like a mere succession of events, without any progression to be had. Fans of this kind of production will find some good gameplay elements, while players used to bigger and better game dedicated to the single sports should stick to those.

Cooking Mama 2: World Kitchen will be loved by users that want to have simple entertainment, but "hardcore gamers" will not feel any interest for this game. Anyway, the title is quite good ad fans will appreciate that first version issues have been resolved.

Toast Time basically suffers of dynamics overly linked to chance, which is why the challenge could amuse during the first stages, but tends to soften quickly.

A devilishly hard puzzle game disguised as a casual game. It’s pretty basic, both in mechanics and graphics, but might be fun for Rubik cube lovers and puzzle aficionados.

On one side, Nintendo Switch 2 Welcome Tour is a good entry point for whoever wants to discover the console's potential, but on the other side you have to pay for it as you would any other game, without nothing more to show for it.

A challenging mix between a platform and a puzzle game, with a good level design; the chance to have complete control on the rotation of the camera is interesting, but the control system is rather tricky.

Carcassonne on Switch is a good porting, with the incredible absence of the online multiplayer.

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 Campaign Remastered is just an effort to play on the old fans' nostalgia, offering a remastered that ends up being worse than the original.

Last Stop tells a weak story where your choices doesn't really matter, with minimal and guided interactions.

A peculiar product, that reaches a sufficient level of quality if you look at the strategic factor.

Blind Fate: Edo No Yami finds its strength in some intriguing ideas, but it lacks balance and doesn't fully deliver what it tries to do.

Dreamcast fan would be honestly sad about this compilation, once again SEGA puts a couple of game released everywhere, lastly on XBLA and PSN, such as Sonic and Crazy Taxi. There are a lot of old SEGA IPs to rediscover but it seems that it's never going to happen.

Fans will love the chance to create their own beyblade, but the repetitive gameplay kills all the fun.

Short and boring, one of the worst Star Wars game ever made. The only interesting side is the multiplayer mode, but the fun won't last long.

Although it is not certain of a revolutionary product, the solid gameplay mechanics that underlie Wyv and Keep: The Temple of the Lost Idol make it an interesting title and able to offer the right level of challenge, even for the most experienced users.

Space Hulk really lacks polish and just twelve missions are not enough to keep the interest for long.

With the exception of some small twists, A Crooked Mile is not convincing and leaves the player unsatisfied for almost the entire duration of the chapter. Only in the final minutes a glimmer of light touches the production, though perhaps too feeble to illuminate the entire series.

The scenarios that want to give a glimpse of Norse mythology are evocative and impressive, but alone are not enough to convince, especially if not supported by a real plot that could prevent an exaggerated fraying of the basic concept.

Planet of the Apes: Last Frontier is basically a story driven tie-in, inspired by the trilogy from 20th Century Fox's franchise. Too short, too smart. In one word: forgettable.

South Park: Phone Destroyer is a title with good potential, but with an identity crisis. It keeps trying to remind us of its license with its humor and satire, but gets held back by its gameplay, that gets influenced by the microtransactions.

Seven years have passed since the first Dynasty Warriors Gundam, but we don't notice it. There are all the flaws of the series, we went back to a classic graphic style abandoning the cel shading and gameplay-wise there are no major or significant innovations.

With Squids Odyssey, Nintendo earns a sort of Angry Birds with a RPG taste, adding an arrow to the bow of its eShop. While the game is not perfect. you won't find anything similar on the other next gen consoles.

Akiba's Beat is a generic, me-too JRPG that takes inspiration from both the Persona and the Tales of series, without adding any new ideas, failing to recapture the feeling and gameplay of both of them. Still, it can be a solid choice for the uninitiated to the genre.

A simple and yet hard to master rhythm game, with a good selection of indie songs. Still, the game is a bit repetitive if you play it for long sessions, and it is almost useless to play on a device without a touchscreen.

We certainly didn’t expect Squirrel with a Gun to be a high-quality masterpiece, but after playing it, we found some of its ideas so clever and fun that they left us with a bit of regret about the overall final result. It’s a project with a high level of nonsense, but it also genuinely shows how much the developers must have enjoyed themselves during its design and release. Enhanced by numerous unlockables and collectibles, the game is wild, delirious, and technically rough (at times unforgivably and frustratingly so). Yet, it’s this blend of mismatched characteristics that, at least partially, gives it a reason to exist in the market.

Replica is an interesting indie game, built over the idea of searching terroristic proofs in someone else phone, under the orders of a totalitarian government agency. While the plot is well written, and the setting is peculiar, graphically the game is really poor and the gameplay suffers a lot for the simplification of the game structure. In the end, it is a title just for people that like well written adventures, and that are able to accept a lot of limitations about all other features.

Rogue Trooper was an anonymous third person shooter back in 2006 and it still is today. Even if the game is visually good, especially compared to the original release, the game really shows its age gameplay-wise.

This DLC gets a sufficient score only because the three maps are well made, with a significant difference between the gameplay on foot and the one on the Titans, featuring situations that are always different and extremely entertaining. But the contents are rather scarce.

Although suffering a not-excelling technical framework, the overall result is fairly good, offering engaging and functional gameplay. The guys at Stainless Games brought this new chapter of Carmageddon to life addressing their work toward the brand lovers. That is, we can't recommend the game to everyone but it will surely be appreciated by the franchise fans - ready to dive in this perverted mix of crazy cars - as well as by the outsider old-school game seekers. The newbies may find it quite trivial though: the entertainment is strongly hooked to the 90s concept without any significant change.

Pineapple Smash Crew is a missed occasion for the developers to create a remarkable product. As a matter of fact, even if the fast-paced combat system and the pretty cool retro feel given by the graphics and the sounds could make the game looks good, the absence of a real campaign and any kind of multiplayer mode added to the excessive repetitiveness don't allow the game to really shine, even though it had some pretty good ideas.

Good graphics and tense situations can't really save the player from the slow and tedious exploration and the cheap deaths. This kind of devices aren't exactly great from a game design standpoint, and relegate this product to a meager passing grade.

Elena delivers a rather interesting story, which is paired with an explorative gameplay. The game is rather short, it shows some minor (although tedious) technical problems, and it is sold at a price that seems to be a little too high for the offer. Still, a quite suggested title if you are into games like Gone Home.

Corruption 2029 is a mix made of exploration in real time and turn based combat. It has some good ideas, but it is very repetitive due to the same maps and uninspired missions.

It's very hard to recommend Tetris Ultimate when you can find better solutions on the eShop for a fraction of the price asked by Ubisoft last work. It's not a particularly brilliant rehash, either.

Awakened is a fun and enjoyable DLC. The gameplay of Dead Space 3 is enriched by the visions that affect Isaac and the atmosphere is very good. The cost is too high, the nature of post-final and the very short duration would be enough to reject, but in the end, Awakened is good for the fans of the series.

Sparc is a fresh and entertaining vSport that resembles the old classic Pong; however, the fun isn't long-lasting because of the small amount of content the game has to offer.

For the bargain price that is available on Steam, Desura and Xbox Live Marketplace, I, Zombie proves to be a title which is able to provide a lighthearted entertainment. Nevertheless, the game works better on a mobile device.

A strategic game pointing more about amarcord rather than on its effective qualities, much more limited than the amount of feature would initially suggest. A varied product but, definitively not exciting.

Set in the far east, Stronghold: Warlords is the new RTS made by FireFly Studios, but it can't bring back the good old times.

The Lord of the Rings: Return to Moria is overshadowed by the name it carries: Free Range Games have indeed managed to recreate the atmospheres that Tolkien's fans will love but, in terms of gameplay, the game fails to shine as it should.

The atmosphere of the anime makes up for the basic gameplay and forgettable plot, making this game enjoyable at least by the fans.

DriveClub VR delivers a thrilling experience, but poor graphics and lack of new content, together with the absence of local multiplayer and the lack of players in the online department, hold it way back from greatness.

Strife starts with an interesting approach to its single-player element, but in the end it remains a simplistic MOBA, that cannot really stand out. Its best elements are those that break the common mold of the genre, but those are not nearly enough.

The atmosphere of the anime makes up for the basic gameplay and forgettable plot, making this game enjoyable at least by the fans.

Every Need for Speed fan will be let down by the awful driving model and the lack of serious innovation of this arcade racing game. better avoid it unless you're looking for a simple (and simplicistic) four wheels game.

It's Crazy Taxi as you already know it: if you've already played it, there's no reason at all to spend more money for the same deal.

Monster Menu: The Scavenger's Cookbook is a dull dungeon crawler which fails to fully deliver on its premise.

It's Crazy Taxi as you already know it: if you've already played it, there's no reason at all to spend more money for the same deal.

Not a good porting: graphics look lame, and gameplay feels repetitive. Just for the die hard fans of Dante.

The Da Vinci Disappeareance offers a very short add on for the single player mode, focusing more on the online features. It's not cheap, still a must have for online ACB players.

The Da Vinci Disappeareance offers a very short add on for the single player mode, focusing more on the online features. It's not cheap, still a must have for online ACB players.

Despite decent graphics and some funny game modes, Vancouver 2010 suffers from the complete lack of a career mode, which makes it feel like a mere succession of events, without any progression to be had. Fans of this kind of production will find some good gameplay elements, while players used to bigger and better game dedicated to the single sports should stick to those.

Perils of Man is an adventure game that will involve you with its well-structured narrative and its characters, but it will not give you the same sensations of the great old masterpieces.

Same problems of the HD consoles version. Mickey deserve better games than this.

If you are a simulation fan, then Heroes Over Europe is definitely not for you. However, if just like to have fun with a decent action game, you will be happily surprised as the use of bullet time and the breathtaking challenges hundreds of meters in height will be almost worth the while.

The XBLA market has grown a lot in the last couple of years, and The UnderGarden is a game too simple to find a space on digital market as of now. There are a lot of better games that you could buy.

Sclash tries to build on Bushido Blade success and ideas and, despite an intriguing art direction and some well-crafted mechanics, it still has a lot of room for improvement.

A bad A.I. will keep most of the Formula 1 fans away from an, otherwise, discrete game.

Lost at Sea fails to tell a decent story about life and everything in between. It looks like a generic game with simplistic gameplay and a lot of downtime.

Toby: The Secret Mine is basically a more colorful clone of Limbo. Same pros, same cons, with some puzzles that occasionally pushes too hard in the direction of the "trial and error".

The boss fights and the variety of situations are not enough to plug the redundancy of the game mechanics. This game needed ideas of a completely different caliber.

Duke Nukem Forever is not just a game, it's a relic from the past. Not a great one, unfortunately. With a campaign that mixes some good moments with a lot of boring ones, Duke's return isn't the game everyone wanted it to be. It's a passable shooter, with some decent level design, nothing more.

This new version of Titan Quest shows so many failures and problems about graphic and technique, maybe due to the low quality of the whole work done too fast and with less content than the previous editions, alas.

Duke Nukem Forever is not just a game, it's a relic from the past. Not a great one, unfortunately. With a campaign that mixes some good moments with a lot of boring ones, Duke's return isn't the game everyone wanted it to be. It's a passable shooter, with some decent level design, nothing more.

Even being the best title inspired by the Sonic Boom cartoon (Ryse of Liric and Shattered Crystal were both a mess), Sonic Boom Fire and Ice fails to impress long time fans of the blue Sega mascot, due to a bland level design, a childish difficulty level and the unimaginative repetition of the same puzzles and monster types.

A great visual and emotive impact get somehow wasted by scarce interaction and the overall linearity.

An interesting mix between fiction and reality, Archimedes delivers a sufficient story and some catchy dynamics. However, the title is barely definable as a game, and more as an interactive experiment.

It can be fun with friends, but the lack of depth makes the game feel dull and boring way sooner than it should.

A well dropped strategic with original but extremely peculiar ideas, best suited to all the fans of chess and board games rather than those of turn-based games.

The Crew is a mammoth title: Ubisoft wanted at all costs to bet on the vastness of the map and on the amount of things to do, but we would have really preferred events on a smaller scale than an area that turned out to be as wide as it is absolutely useless.

Gear Up is a funny game, with some problems with controls (using both keyboard or pad), useful to entertain groups of friends without any need to have high-performing PCs, starting maybe with the free-to-play version and decide later if basic or premium pack are worth it.

A decent adventure game, allthough the story could've been told way better.

NeverDead had a good chance to bring something new in the videogame market but it failed due to an awkward development. Rest in peace Bryce.

Same old story again. Three new maps, one remake and a new totally overpowered weapon for fifteen euros. Infinity Ward is doing terribly wrong with cod and this DLC did not fix any of the problems from the original game. Luckily Extinction saved it from a bad failure.

Without too much risk, this new chapter featuring the most famous chef on 3DS does not make sensible improvements and proposes that same recipe that has enchanted hundreds of thousands of gamers. Despite this, the award-winning formula is starting to feel a bit tired.

Spark created a good combat system, then threw it in a blender full of chaos and confusion, ruining most of the experience. When Yaiba works as intended, it's good fun. Unfortunately it mostly doesn't.

In an attempt to insert into Impire too many ideas and different features inspired by other games in the genre, Cyanide Montreal has created a product characterized by an extremely limiting gameplay, ironically making the game even more repetitive than it would have been with a simpler formula.