Tom Hoggins


193 games reviewed
78.6 average score
80 median score
73.7% of games recommended
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The Legend of Zelda has always had its delightful idiosyncracies --aggressive chickens, sultry fairies, Tingle-- but 1993 Game Boy adventure Link's Awakening has always been one of the most curious.

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Sep 20, 2019

In the annual football sim faceoff, fans of Konami's Pro Evolution Soccer have always hung their scarves on the idea that PES is far superior on the pitch than monied rival FIFA.

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Sep 18, 2019

Of all the things I expected from Gears 5 --ear-splitting gunfire, chainsaws and alien heads popping like watermelons-- bursts of laughter were not on the list.

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Aug 30, 2019

Sam Barlow's BAFTA-snaffling Her Story was a fabulously tight and taut whodunwhat as you pieced together the tale of a mysterious young woman from a jumbled collection of police interview clips.

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5 / 10.0 - Days Gone
Apr 25, 2019

Days Gone is a game that is, at once, both so close and so far from being what it could have been. There are certainly things here to enjoy and sufficiently pass the time. Those dusty roads of Oregon being the most prominent, but when that world is so empty and its inhabitants so vacant, it starts to become a real challenge to care.

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Apr 12, 2019

From much of the creative talent behind the revered Burnout series, does Dangerous Driving rekindle its rambunctious racing?

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Apr 11, 2019

Nintendo's Labo VR kit sees the Japanese gaming giant's foray into family-friendly virtual reality.

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Mar 29, 2019

Yoshi's Crafted World is a great, fuzzy stress ball of a game.

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Few games task you so harshly or dare to drive you to such frustration, but few games are as rewarding or exhilarating when you succeed.

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Mar 13, 2019

One of the things that has surprised me during my first hours in The Division 2's ravaged Washington DC, is just how thoroughly competent it all is.

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Feb 24, 2019

It would be easy to write off the bewildering state that Anthem is in as the result of video game design by committee.

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Feb 24, 2019

There is a train of thought that Tetris is, was and forever will be the finest piece of game design the world has ever seen.

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Feb 15, 2019

It all feels mightily uneven. For every thrilling gunfight or anecdote-worthy encounter in the wilderness are other stories of frustration or key non-player characters wandering away from the objective and getting stuck on a rock

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Feb 13, 2019

As the third entry in the fearsomely oppressive survival-shooter series, Metro Exodus appears to set its stool out early.

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Feb 6, 2019

If there is one thing that Respawn's potential Fortnite killer Apex Legends appreciates, it is the delights of a properly executed slide.

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Jan 22, 2019

Labelling this new version of Capcom's survival-horror classic a 'remake' somehow feels like an curious understatement.

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At times it can feel that Capcom's samurai adventure Onimusha is one of the PS2's forgotten classics.

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Jan 10, 2019

Sega has released Catherine Classic, Atlus's surreal cult puzzle-platformer, as an upgraded PC port on Steam today.

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Super Smash Bros Ultimate, for all its accessibility and riotous multiplayer fun, may be one of the few mainstream Nintendo games that isn’t necessarily for everyone. But that’s okay. Because in pursuing its more technical elements and providing its most substantial solo adventure yet, it's hard to see Super Smash Bros. Ultimate as anything other than a series’ best.

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Nov 19, 2018

Battlefield 5 is without doubt one of the most perplexing video game releases of recent years.

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