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Rad Rodgers: Volume One is a short, but sweet platforming romp.
Crystal Rift might keep players exploring for a while, but it feels like a prototype for a better game which doesn’t yet exist.
Steep is not a perfect game.
OneShot makes players question the reality that surrounds them.
The Last Guardian is Team ICO's magnum opus.
Fans can rest assured, Dead Rising 4 is still a Dead Rising game despite some controversial decisions.
How We Soar is greater than the sum of its parts and is an incredible experience that should be played by all PlayStation VR owners.
Digital pinball can’t replace real pinball, but it does an excellent job of approximating it.
After ten long years of development, Final Fantasy XV ends up being more style than substance.
While the game concept and interaction methods are simple, Bounce has some heft to it. Fifty discrete levels that can be solved in ridiculous ways gives it quite a bit of staying power. The only limit is how over the top the player wants to be with the tools on hand. Anyone looking for a solid puzzler in VR will have a great time with Bounce.
Had it not been for its plagued release on PC — not to mention the niggling texture work that pops up from time to time — Dishonored 2 just might have been in strong contention for best game this year.
Pokémon has been a classic series for twenty years and with 2016 being its 20th, Pokémon Sun and Moon is a perfect way to celebrate such a milestone. It still holds all the charm and fun from the original titles yet creates an entire new world to explore. It’s a must-have for fans and a worthy place to begin for newcomers. The future of the Pokémon series shines bright like Pokémon Sun and beautiful like Pokémon Moon.
Planet Coaster clearly has aspirations of expanding itself through a larger base of players, embracing user-created content to the fullest and allowing players to show off their various parks to each other.
While Xanadu Next is buggy and its menus just plain busted for controller use, the rest of the game is a wonderful trip through a classic JRPG world.
Despite all of the complaints, there is some inherit value to Dragon Ball Fusions.
Japanese School Life is not a new idea in the visual novel space – Go! Go! Nippon and the confusingly similarly named Tokyo School Life both offer a similar plot.
Perhaps the most surprising thing about Alicemare is that it is as engrossing an adventure now as it was upon initial release.
The new activities and areas will provide countless hours of new content in an already giant game. It is also nice that this new expansion will not be microtransaction based, and a one time payment will unlock all new content, though all other optional microtransactions in RIFT will still be available. Again, if this game sounds interesting but you haven’t played RIFT or MMOs in general, check out the base game and see if you enjoy it enough to explore the expanded content. For those who already play and anxiously want more RIFT this expansion will not disappoint.
Developers Teku Studios clearly poured a lot of love and effort into Candle and it shows.
Loaded with humor, skill-based action and interesting brainteasers, the original Darksiders is one of the best games to come out of the last generation. It takes numerous recipes from other games and creates an adventure that’s worth taking. Having a better looking version of that sold at a fair price made available to the current gen makes Darksiders: Warmastered Edition absolutely worth the time.