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Chad Sapieha


389 games reviewed
76.0 average score
80 median score
54.5% of games recommended

Chad Sapieha's Reviews

Chad has spent nearly 20 years writing about games for newspapers, magazines, and websites. He has produced documentaries about games for national radio and has appeared as a subject matter expert on games for national television and radio broadcasts. When playing games for kids he often recruits his daughter to play with him and provide her own opinions for publication. The Last of Us is currently the post by which he measures all big budget games.
8 / 10.0 - LEGO The Hobbit
Apr 7, 2014

Warner Bros.' latest plastic block adventure is a blast, but also a bit misleadingly titled since it only covers the first two films.

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Apr 6, 2014

Xbox One's first truly Kinect-driven game showcases the new sensor's superior motion detection – and its enduring issues.

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Mar 30, 2014

First major expansion for Blizzard's popular dungeon crawler adds a new act, a new end-game mode, and significantly tweaks critical game systems.

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5.5 / 10.0 - Yoshi's New Island
Mar 21, 2014

Nintendo's latest 3DS platformer, while generally competent and sometimes fun, mostly just makes you wish you were playing a better game.

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The series' young Clementine is only 11, yet proves herself confident, reliable and sometimes even a leader among the adults surrounding her.

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Professor Layton and the Azran Legacy is bursting with conundrums, but the series' puzzling allure is beginning to wane.

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Feb 24, 2014

As zany and colourful as the game that inspired it, PopCap's online third-person shooter is a fresh alternative to its grittier competition.

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9 / 10.0 - Thief
Feb 23, 2014

Eidos Montreal's smartly designed reboot will pilfer dozens of hours of your free time – and you'll wish it would take more.

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Feb 18, 2014

The Wii U's latest exclusive is a well crafted trial of reflexes that rewards tenacity and endurance with the satisfaction of having achieved something far from easy.

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8.5 / 10.0 - Bravely Default
Feb 10, 2014

Silicon Studios and Square Enix have delivered an almost classic, very Final Fantasy-esque Japanese role-playing game for Nintendo 3DS

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Feb 6, 2014

TT Games' terrific take on the Warner Bros. film is an ode to building bricks; a Lego game made for Lego lovers

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8.5 / 10.0 - Broken Age: Act 1
Jan 28, 2014

Indie studio's massive crowd-funding campaign results in a very enjoyable – if perhaps overly easy – point-and-click adventure game

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8 / 10.0 - Dr. Luigi
Jan 13, 2014

Final game in Nintendo's Year of Luigi sends Mario's younger brother out with a bang

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Jan 12, 2014

Sequel to Max & the Magic Marker is filled with clever conundrums, suffers from trial-and-error action sequences

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7.5 / 10.0 - Peggle 2
Dec 16, 2013

It's a hoot while it lasts, but the Xbox One-exclusive sequel to PopCap's popular puzzler feels a bit abbreviated.

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A daring premise and fearless hero make Freedom Cry a bold, if not quite completely satisfying, supplement to Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag

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5 / 10.0 - Powerstar Golf
Dec 16, 2013

Zoe Mode's Xbox One golf game delivers the bare essentials, plus a few unappealing frills.

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Sure, you get to take control of loads of loveable characters, but broad-smiling fun is as elusive as Jamaican bobsledding gold

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9 / 10.0 - Tearaway
Nov 26, 2013

Media Molecule's latest is a profoundly innovative platformer that empowers players to make real papercraft models of most everything they see in the game.

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7.5 / 10.0 - Ryse: Son of Rome
Nov 20, 2013

Crytek's visceral Xbox One launch exclusive melds strategic split-second decision making with some truly vicious Roman combat

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