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Chris Capel


Favorite Games:
  • The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker
  • Monkey Island 2: LeChuck's Revenge
  • Deus Ex

163 games reviewed
73.6 average score
80 median score
52.8% of games recommended

Chris Capel's Reviews

Professional writer (it says so on his card), in-between novel writing Chris J Capel has been writing about videogames for over ten years. From humble beginnings on LucasArts fansite The International House of Mojo Chris fulfilled his lifelong dream and joined the team on the UK's greatest ever gaming magazine, PC Zone, for their last two years of life. These days Chris can mostly be found at GameWatcher.com, the new name for the now fully PC-focused games site previously known as Strategy Informer. He writes reviews, features, editorials, previews, and the odd bit of news as well as create as many entertaining videos as he can get his hands dirty on. And yes, he'll finish that novel soon.
2.5 / 10.0 - Raven's Cry
Feb 20, 2015

It's the worst game of 2015 so far, and it'll probably hold that title until Alone In The Dark: Illumination comes out. Avoid, please god avoid.

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3 / 10.0 - Umbrella Corps
Jul 3, 2016

How bad does a game have to be to lose “Resident Evil” from the title?

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May 29, 2017

More like Wasted Journey

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4 / 10.0 - 2Dark
Mar 10, 2017

No, it's not a sequel to that terrible vampire stealth game. That would've been preferable

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Nov 19, 2013

It tries hard but I'm afraid Journey of a Roach needs a good stomping. Yes, I've been waiting all review to say that.

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4 / 10.0 - Warhammer Quest
Jan 6, 2015

Don't buy it. And there's no multiplayer either, in case you were wondering.

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Apr 28, 2014

The story makes no sense and goes nowhere, characters are unappealing and badly written, puzzles are uninspiring and commit at least three Adventure Gaming Sins, and the entire end chapter of the game felt like I was actually being tortured. I'm sure the Gabriel Knight series is good but as far as I'm concerned this is where Jane Jensen's reputation dies. Avoid at all costs.

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4.5 / 10.0 - The Technomancer
Jun 28, 2016

Just what the world needed, a sequel to Mars: War Logs!

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4.5 / 10.0 - FIRE
Apr 13, 2015

Unless you're looking for a quick cheap adventure to play on iPad I cannot recommend Fire at all… and it's not even on iPad.

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4.5 / 10.0 - NaissanceE
Feb 17, 2014

NaissanceE could've been a neat game but Limasse Five should've just stuck with making a cool artistic world and left the actual gameplay at home. I may have then complained that there wasn't enough game in it, but at least I would have actually enjoyed it.

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Sep 7, 2018

The final DLC expansion for Far Cry 5 is dead on arrival

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5 / 10.0 - The Little Acre
Dec 13, 2016

Sadly it’s pretty bad. I don’t mind short games but at two hours (including puzzle solving) the game doesn’t leave much room for storytelling, character and world building, compelling puzzles, or much of anything really.

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5 / 10.0 - 8-Bit Armies
Apr 24, 2016

We can’t remember the last time a game disappointed us so much. Petroglyph are a gifted RTS developer filled with industry veterans, and their last title Grey Goo was superb. 8-Bit Armies though is not.

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Feb 15, 2016

Chris Capel tries to get his little grey cells to work

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5 / 10.0 - Gauntlet
Oct 1, 2014

If you're going to get it do so now, because there won't be anyone around to play with by Christmas. Gauntlet needs fun, badly.

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Nov 28, 2014

All in all though I can't think of a single reason you'd want to play Escape Dead Island over a thousand similar, better games on Steam. Most of them have zombies in them anyway.

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5.5 / 10.0 - Armikrog
Oct 5, 2015

Wait and hope for some major patches for now, but even then Armikrog still won't feel actually finished. Shame.

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Apr 30, 2015

Space Colony is not without its charm or satisfaction, but you'll want all the idiotic colonists to die long before you reach the credits.

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5.5 / 10.0 - Hack 'n' Slash
Sep 29, 2014

I'm sorry guys, but Hack 'N' Slash needs a bit more time in the programming oven.

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6 / 10.0 - Call of Cthulhu
Oct 29, 2018

Call of Cthulhu is an undeniably fun adventure game with some great ideas, cool stealth moments, and it never devolves into a shooter like Call of Cthulhu: Dark Corners of the Earth did.

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