Adam Mathew


53 games reviewed
82.8 average score
85 median score
86.8% of games recommended
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Jul 10, 2026

DOOM: The Dark Ages – Revelations is exactly what a great expansion should be. It doesn’t reinvent the foundation established by the base game. Instead, it strengthens it, expands it and quietly fixes one of its biggest shortcomings by restoring the glorious speed that made DOOM Eternal so addictive in the first place.

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It doesn’t feel like Ubisoft trying to improve Black Flag. It feels like Ubisoft finally allowing Black Flag to become the series GOAT it always wanted to be.

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Comfortably earns its place as one of the Nintendo Switch 2’s best action games

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Jul 3, 2026

The core minigame design is as sharp as ever, the multiplayer additions are genuinely transformative for group play, and the soundtrack is as sticky as anything the series has produced.

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9 / 10.0 - Star Fox
Jun 25, 2026

Star Fox serves as a welcome reminder that elegance never goes out of style

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8 / 10.0 - Dark Scrolls
Jun 23, 2026

It’s an easy recommendation for anyone who enjoys games that demand persistence, precision and just a little bit of stubbornness

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9 / 10.0 - 007 First Light
Jun 5, 2026

007 First Light doesn’t merely earn its licence to kill. It earns its licence to stand alongside Naughty Dog with its kennel full of best action-adventure games of this modern generation.

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TT Games didn’t just rebuild Batman here. Along with their last stellar showing, LEGO Skywalker Saga, they’ve slapped down a duplo-sized brick in a larger plan to rebuild my faith in the entire LEGO games formula.

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5 / 10.0 - Bubsy 4D
May 21, 2026

Bubsy 4D isn’t the great mascot claw-back tale it could’ve been.

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9.5 / 10.0 - Forza Horizon 6
May 14, 2026

Japan could have collapsed beneath impossible expectations, but instead it delivers the strongest, most atmospheric and most cohesive Horizon yet.

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May 12, 2026

MachineGames already unearthed one of the greatest Indiana Jones games ever made. Nintendo Switch 2 simply lets you take that treasure with you in your satchel / manpurse.

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9 / 10.0 - Mixtape
May 8, 2026

This is a game more interested in emotional honesty than traditional challenge, and while that approach occasionally leaves certain gameplay ideas feeling undercooked, the overall experience lingered in my thinkin’ machine long after the credits roll.

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8 / 10.0 - Invincible VS
May 1, 2026

Invincible Vs lands its best punch by selling you the fantasy of overwhelming power, then quietly teaching you how to shred your opponents to tinsel properly.

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9 / 10.0 - Saros
Apr 24, 2026

When I reviewed Returnal back in 2021, it felt like Housemarque had one foot in the AAA door, politely knocking while clutching a fistful of bullet hell credentials. With Saros, they’ve kicked that thing clean off its hinges

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8.5 / 10.0 - DOOM: The Dark Ages
May 9, 2025

What’s here is a medieval mosh pit of mayhem that’ll leave you grinning under your helmet, even if it doesn’t quite outshine its elders. Some of the flesh of Doom 2016 and Eternal has been peeled back sensibly in service of a new way; some chunks of epidermis shouldn’t have been extracted at all.

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9 / 10.0 - Split Fiction
Mar 5, 2025

Split Fiction was like stepping into a delightful video game / pop culture time capsule. It feels like almost every major game – or hilarious industry meme – that ever mattered is here for you to Leo DiCaprio point at excitedly.

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8 / 10.0 - Stellar Blade
Apr 25, 2024

Stellar Blade is a provocative sword guard thumb-pop that ought to make every fan of the genre snap to attention.

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Mar 21, 2024

Providing Team Ninja iron out some of the creases in a post-launch patch, this could still be seen as a retainer—possibly a worthy companion piece to anybody hooked on the Shogun miniseries.

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Feb 23, 2024

I cherished almost every hour I spent with this sequel, and I’m already Buster Sword hilt deep in a second run on Hard. Rest assured, the phoenix rise of this remake is still soaring on an upward trajectory.

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Feb 13, 2024

When it comes down to that final eulogy, I have way more fond memories of Banishers: Ghosts of New Eden than I do regrets.

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