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Chad Sapieha


387 games reviewed
76.0 average score
80 median score
54.8% 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.
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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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 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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Professor Layton and the Azran Legacy is bursting with conundrums, but the series' puzzling allure is beginning to wane.

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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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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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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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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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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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8.5 / 10.0 - Trials Fusion
Apr 15, 2014

Latest entry in popular side-scrolling motorbike franchise gets glitzier graphics, a more robust track editor, extreme tricks, and an ATV.

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8.5 / 10.0 - Child of Light
Apr 27, 2014

Ubisoft Montreal's artsy and affordable RPG will draw you in with its gorgeous looks and keep you playing with great turn-based combat.

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May 5, 2014

The long-awaited fifth game in Nintendo's beloved golf series ditches its predecessor's heralded RPG-like progression system to focus on multiplayer.

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May 13, 2014

Zoink!'s new game about a paper guy with a pink telepathic hand sprouting from his mind defies description, but it had us in stitches.

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May 19, 2014

MachineGames' curious sequel has the franchise's requisite screaming Nazis and cybernetic supersoldiers, but it also chews on some unexpectedly big ideas

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5.5 / 10.0 - Transistor
May 21, 2014

Supergiant Games' follow-up to the critically acclaimed Bastion is doggedly, aggravatingly abstruse in both narrative and game design

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9 / 10.0 - Watch Dogs
May 26, 2014

Ubisoft Montreal's vast, multifaceted, and thoughtful open-world action game presents a world in which a simple phone is your key to a heavily networked city

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Telltale's latest episode puts players waist-deep in formative moments that will determine what sort of adult young Clementine is going to become.

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Jun 2, 2014

The series that turned tower defence on its head closes out with Anomaly Defenders, a surprisingly traditional bit of turret-based tactics

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Jun 5, 2014

Square Enix's Gumshoe-cum-ghost adventure had potential to be one of the most interesting games of the year, but ends up an case study in wasted potential.

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5 / 10.0 - Entwined
Jun 23, 2014

Pixelopus has nailed the audio and visual aspects of poetic game making. Now they just need to work on what players do...and what it all means.

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