Tim McDonald


118 games reviewed
69.1 average score
70 median score
47.0% of games recommended
8 / 10 - Anomaly 2
May 15, 2013

Cheap, beautiful, entertaining, and highly replayable: Anomaly 2 is well worth your money.

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Sep 3, 2013

Rayman Legends is one of the finest platform games on any system. It's bright, colourful, clever, well-designed, and the vast majority of it is a sheer joy to experience.

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5 / 10 - Battlefield 4
Nov 1, 2013

Another day, another PC launch riddled with bugs and issues. Battlefield 4 is a perfectly decent game with a crashing client, crashing servers, and a whole host of issues that cause lag, disconnections, graphic and sound glitches, and plenty more. When they get fixed it's easily worth a purchase; right now, it's a frustrating experience.

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Nov 8, 2013

An utterly horrible PC port mars an otherwise very, very average Call of Duty game. Nothing to see here.

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6 / 10 - Contrast
Nov 15, 2013

Like its name implies, Contrast is a game with a sharp difference between its highs and lows. There's a lot to like here, but it doesn't make it all that easy to do so.

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Nov 26, 2013

A worthy expansion that refreshes and improves XCOM: Enemy Unknown in just about every way that matters.

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Jan 16, 2014

Whimsical, witty, and beautiful: this is a sumptuous adventure with all of Double Fine's usual care and attention lovingly lavished throughout.

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Jan 23, 2014

A bit buggy and a bit uninventive, but a loving, enjoyable tribute to RPGs of olde.

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Short, but beautiful. The Wolf Among Us continues to impress.

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6 / 10 - Strider
Feb 27, 2014

Enjoyable, authentic, and oh-so-cool... when it doesn't break.

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Mar 4, 2014

It would've been nice to have trickier combat or more real RPG bits and bobs, but as an interactive South Park title, this hits pretty much every mark. The Stick of Truth is puerile, authentic, and constantly hilarious.

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8 / 10 - Titanfall
Mar 17, 2014

Do you like fast-paced multiplayer shooters? Then I can pretty much guarantee you'll love the hell out of Titanfall.

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7 / 10 - Luftrausers
Mar 20, 2014

Often frustrating and sometimes unfair, but the glorious flight mechanics, general compelling gameplay, and attention to detail mean Luftrausers is easily worth considering.

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Mar 24, 2014

Nobody asked for this.

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Telltale's profanity-laced murder investigation continues to balance the fantastic and the horrific with aplomb, and this episode provides some of the strongest character moments thus far.

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Apr 16, 2014

Not without its flaws, but very few of those flaws matter too much: Moebius is, on the whole, a well-written and interesting investigation.

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Apr 30, 2014

Child of Light perhaps doesn't shine as bright as it might, but it's nonetheless quite a dazzling sight.

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Tex Murphy is back, and that's exactly as good – and as bad – as it sounds.

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May 23, 2014

A solid and surprising well-written shooter that should easily please fans of the genre. It doesn't do too much more than that, but that's not really a complaint.

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6 / 10 - Watch Dogs
May 27, 2014

Decent, but not great. Watch Dogs is certainly worth playing, but it's not even close to living up to what's been shown off since it was announced.

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