IGN's Reviews
Skull Island: Rise of Kong is a boring, buggy, totally unambitious game that isn't even interesting in its failures.
Mortal Kombat 1 proves to be too much for the Switch's dated hardware. The load times are egregious, there are numerous bugs plaguing both graphics and gameplay, making for a poor quality port of a great game that's all around aggravating to play.
Greyhill Incident is a tedious horror game that mangles everything from its story to its stealth.
Lucius can be unexpectedly funny and darkly satisfying but suffers from questionable and frustrating design choices.
CrossfireX's pair of single-player shooter campaigns are sloppy, soulless, and mercifully brief.
Dated design, clunky multiplayer systems, and unacceptable load times make playing Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles Remastered Edition a terrific chore.
Cooking Mama: Cookstar is a stale, undercooked simulator that needed a lot more time in the oven.
Underworld Ascendant is a buggy, repetitive, and boring mess of an RPG.
Clumsy, superficial, and in many ways fundamentally broken, Crisis On the Planet of the Apes is an often infuriating VR game that plays like a bad arcade rail shooter from the early ‘90s. Far from reaching the artistic heights of the rebooted film series in whose world it takes place, it takes a silly, action-heavy approach to the material that doesn't respect your intelligence. It's perhaps the worst thing to happen to the Apes franchise since Mark Wahlberg saw the monkeyfied Lincoln Memorial.
Like the chess move it's named after, Alekhine's Gun puts its pieces in the right places, but then it fails to follow through with any quality or grace. It's hard to feel accomplished after pulling off a clean kill when the targets lack the competence to even defend themselves.
Raven's Cry would be a bad pirate game even if it weren't in such a buggy, unfinished (and unfinishable) state.
We didn't ask for this. Deus Ex: The Fall on PC is an awful repackaging of a respectable mobile game.
A shallow, on-rails experience that really can't make much of a case for itself in 2014.
Basement Crawl is a limp, poorly presented, and broken Bomberman clone, and easily the worst PS4 game to date.
Blue Estate is a by-the-numbers rail shooter with gameplay that's just as outdated as its social politics.
I am certainly not immune to the charms of 80s and 90s game design, but the NES version of Double Dragon wasn’t a great example for Double Dragon 4 to follow. It’s not just that this simplistic beat-em-up formula didn’t age well graphically or mechanically, it’s that it simply isn’t very fun or engaging to play in 2017.
Sadly, even loading an MP3 of ‘90s favorite “Mr. Jones” by Counting Crows didn’t make any of these four music mini-games and passive experiences any less boring or more bearable. If my friends came over to check out my new $400 VR headset, Harmonix Music VR is the last thing I’d want to show them.
With weak combat, useless violence, and pay-to-win multiplayer, Devil's Third is not worth your time.
Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 5's rare moments of nostalgic joy are drowned out by its abundance of faults.
Left Alive's mix of inconsistent stealth and aggravatingly unbalanced action make it a complete chore to play, and it runs terribly to boot.