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.
While EA Bright Light positioned its puzzle game Create as a sandbox for
imagination and toolset for ingenuity, I often felt uninspired and
outright frustrated while playing.
Can Treyarch
come through with a blockbuster hit in the vein of Modern Warfare? Yes and no, but Black Ops is the best game Treyarch has made,
and a hell of a good time no matter how you slice it.
This expansion pack builds on the successes of Divinity II while
mitigating its failures, but the goalposts haven't been moved terribly
far on either end.
