Despite fumbles with its new melee combat and difficulty balancing, Control Resonant's storytelling, world, and bizarre quests kept me eager to explore its distorted New York.
Simon Ordell’s journey through the Scottish town of St. Amelia in 1996 is not without its shortcomings, but the experience is an affecting one buoyed by the first-person perspective.
Building on the already-great remake of the first game, Trails in the Sky 2nd Chapter masterfully updates the gameplay and timeless story, adding up to what is now the Trails series’ defining entry, and one of the best RPGs of the year.
When each Sims installment only offers a slightly different flavor of the
same gameplay, they all start to blend together. Despite the problems
with The Sims Medieval, at least it isn’t more of the same.
Episode 3 of Telltale’s Back to the Future adventure series turns
Hill Valley on its head, and shows that one man’s vision for utopia can
be everyone else’s nightmare.
Even with so much of the gameplay clinging to the formula Traveller’s Tales created for its first LEGO game, The Clone Wars offers a vastly different experience that captures the best of both of the LEGO and Star Wars licenses.
Torchlight makes the transition to Xbox Live Arcade almost entirely
intact. I'll still be playing on PC, but I wouldn't point anyone away
from this edition of a great game.
The changed vision for the Dragon Age franchise may disappoint hardcore fans of the original, but this sequel still delivers – though not in the ways you’d expect.
The changed vision for the Dragon Age series may disappoint hardcore fans of the original, but this sequel still delivers – but not in the ways you’d expect.
