This is a near miss, but as anyone who has ever played a turn-based game will tell you, a near miss can be all the enemy needs to take you out. This is an interesting, but hardly essential, addition to the Gears family.
Despite its imperfections, fans of tactical strategy games should snatch XCOM: Chimera Squad up as soon as possible.
Sadly, Days of War feels like its developers tried and failed to reach a bridge too far, and that’s a real shame.
MechWarrior 5 is impressive when it’s able to work long enough to live up to its own potential.
The theme is a bait and switch, but the gameplay is at least somewhat interesting
It all adds up to a game that feels like an excellent first draft. Fans of battle royale games and open-world survival games should feel right at home — that is, until they run up against a mob that’s too big to handle on their own.
Sci-fi adventure set in ’60s Germany is a beautiful, artsy letdown
There were moments where it felt like I was playing the same game that came out when I was 11. But the look was just a bit more lavish, and the funky bass line was arranged just differently enough. Back in the Groove is the perfect mix of polish and nostalgia, and one that I can’t wait to play through again.
DayZ is still broken, still beautiful, and still unfinished
All these issues of performance and balancing make for an unenviable situation for the developers at DICE.