Derek Johnson


93 games reviewed
71.5 average score
80 median score
65.2% of games recommended
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Feb 24, 2022

When every aspect of Dying Light 2 comes together, it's an experience to behold, but the problem is that it happens so rarely that the game struggles to justify the price of admission.

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Feb 11, 2022

Not For Broadcast isn't for everyone, but fans of 2013's Papers, Please will not find a better title on the market.

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Nov 11, 2021

Call of Duty: Vanguard does little to change up the Call of Duty formula, but it's still a fun way to kill the nine months until next year's title releases.

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5 / 10 - Far Cry 6
Oct 13, 2021

For a game all about revolution, Far Cry 6 does little to evolve the aging series, but at least your dog can ride in your car.

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Jul 30, 2021

Hell Let Loose could've been a great game, but because its maps are too big and its community is too upsetting, anyone looking to experience the hell of World War 2 should look elsewhere.

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Apr 5, 2021

Endzone: A World Apart is a carbon copy of Banished, both for better and for worse.

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8 / 10 - Mutropolis
Feb 25, 2021

Mutropolis is, simply put, a fantastic homage to the point-and-click classics of the '90s.

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8 / 10 - Olija
Feb 16, 2021

Olija has a fun gimmick, great visuals, and is only occasionally let down by levels that don't quite fully make use of its fun, core mechanic.

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Dec 15, 2020

Cyberpunk 2077 has some seriously major technical problems, but it's worth putting up with them to experience a fantastically down-to-earth story that's accompanied by solid shooting and great music.

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3 / 10 - Empire of Sin
Dec 10, 2020

Empire of Sin has too many bugs and too many balancing issues to make it worth putting up with its insanely uninspired combat and lacklustre story.

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10 / 10 - Per Aspera
Dec 3, 2020

Per Aspera is not only the best city builder to come out in the past decade, but one of the most interesting games to grace computers in a long, long time.

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Call of Duty Black Ops: Cold War's multiplayer is terrible, its campaign is forgettable and its zombies are okay, which all makes for a game that feels like a much worse iteration of previous installments into the franchise.

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Nov 5, 2020

Watch Dogs: Legion has some good ideas, but its story is downright terrible and it suffers from so many technical problems that it's hard to recommend the game over a different, more refined, Ubisoft sandbox game.

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Oct 21, 2020

Partisans 1941 combines fun real-time stealth strategy gameplay with some stupidly enjoyable base-building mechanics for an overall experience that genuinely makes you feel like a leader of a group of guerrilla fighters.

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9 / 10 - Squad
Oct 15, 2020

Squad may not be for everyone, but if you're willing to deal with its slow-paced combat and communication-heavy gameplay, it offers an experience that simply cannot be found anywhere else.

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Trollhunters: Defenders of Arcadia's gameplay is okay, its visuals are fine and its story is either a mess or passively engaging depending on your level of interest in its source material, which all makes for a game that should be skipped unless you're insanely desperate for another form of media from the Trollhunter universe.

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Oct 2, 2020

Mafia: Definitive Edition maintains its source material's amazing story, adds some solid gameplay and brings the graphics into the 21st century for an overall experience that's one of the few remakes that is genuinely worth a purchase.

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6 / 10 - Serious Sam 4
Sep 30, 2020

Serious Sam 4's core shooting is as fun as can be, and the writing is on par with Hollywood's best action flicks, but everything else in the game is too dated for the overall experience to be truly enjoyable.

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9 / 10 - Going Under
Sep 25, 2020

Going Under is a superb dungeon crawler wrapped in some stupidly stylish and silly art that comes packaged with writing that hits a little too close to home for anyone who's ever held a job.

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The Dungeon Of Naheulbeuk: The Amulet Of Chaos is the game equivalent of a Netflix knockoff of an HBO show: it's not terrible and it has occasionally fun ideas, but it's still worse than the source material in almost every conceivable way.

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