Ben Thomas


193 games reviewed
70.7 average score
71 median score
42.0% of games recommended
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Oct 30, 2015

Batman: Arkham Knight expands brilliantly on its predecessors with a massive city and a Batmobile that serves many roles.

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Nov 17, 2015

While the campaign is lacklustre and Zombies is over-designed, Call of Duty: Black Ops 3 succeeds thanks to the multiplayer's perfect mix of structured maps, diverse specialists and liberating movement.

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Dec 3, 2015

Authenticity comes at a price—Star Wars: Battlefront is beautiful but makes too many mistakes when it comes to maps, balancing and spawning. These issues cause anger, and anger leads to hate.

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79 / 100 - DiRT Rally
Dec 27, 2015

DiRT Rally carefully simulates the endurance of rally and offers a brutal driving experience that builds satisfaction through vehicle and track mastery.

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83 / 100 - The Witness
Feb 4, 2016

The Witness is a challenging and eye-opening puzzle experience that has been designed with such precision that it can alter your thought process for a long time.

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74 / 100 - Unravel
Feb 15, 2016

With a delightful main character and tight-knit platforming mechanics, Unravel is a simple adventure that is worth playing.

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69 / 100 - Layers of Fear
Feb 23, 2016

Layers of Fear is a competent demonstration of jump scares compressed tightly into an ever-changing and dark mansion.

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84 / 100 - Far Cry Primal
Mar 14, 2016

Far Cry Primal takes the franchise cleverly into the Stone Age era with a minor and important survival influence.

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77 / 100 - ADR1FT
Apr 4, 2016

ADR1FT uses simple mechanics to create a subdued and freeform space journey that is worth experiencing.

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81 / 100 - Grim Dawn
Apr 30, 2016

Grim Dawn is a satisfying, complex and clever hack-and-slash adventure that provides great value.

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78 / 100 - Doom
May 24, 2016

Nostalgia is prominent throughout Doom's intense and repeating action encounters against glorious and tormenting foes.

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If you can withstand its tiresome first half, Dreamfall Chapters offers intriguing concepts and a satisfying continuation of the adventure series.

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Aug 25, 2016

Deus Ex: Mankind Divided is another outstanding entry in the series containing many viable gameplay options, framed around a fascinating—if not thoroughly conclusive—narrative.

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73 / 100 - The Turing Test
Sep 9, 2016

The Turing Test’s smart new energy orb device meshes carefully with standard elements of the genre to create a puzzler that is worth experiencing.

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76 / 100 - Obduction
Oct 7, 2016

Players seeking an adventure through fantastical worlds, with a slew of mechanical and spatial puzzles, will discover that Obduction is a gold mine.

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87 / 100 - Battlefield 1
Oct 27, 2016

With open maps and confronting action, Battlefield 1 is a stable, balanced and exhilarating multiplayer shooter.

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Nov 18, 2016

With an amazing space campaign and a frenetic Zombies mode, Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare is worth the fuel needed to reach orbit.

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74 / 100 - Lara Croft Go
Dec 10, 2016

Lara Croft GO is a brief, intelligent, relic-hunting, snake-shooting, boulder-bypassing, turn-based puzzler.

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Shadow Tactics: Blades of the Shogun is a great stealth experience featuring a diverse squad of deadly assassins ready to implement the perfect plan.

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50 / 100 - Phoning Home
Feb 16, 2017

Phoning Home is a mediocre survival adventure through excessively large game spaces with a slow robot and his inept companion.

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