The Good: Well-written and clever story Better puzzle design Funnier script Amusing sets and creative character designs Double the length of its predecessor. The Bad: Puzzles aren’t very difficult Still riddled with bugs, months after its initial release. [...]
Star Wars is on everyone’s mind right now. With the release of Episode VIII: The Last Jediand the Disney train going full speed ahead on the franchise, it’s difficult to not find someone talking about Star Wars. Two years after EA rebooted the Star [...]
Premature Evaluation is the weekly column in which we explore the wilds of early access. For the first foray of 2018, Fraser’s been trying to save humanity from hordes of peckish zombies and other undead beasties in survival RTS They Are Billions. It’s a [...]
The Good:Thick atmosphere, natural use of room scale and hand interaction, and surreal visuals create an otherworldly experience that can be very immersive. The Bad:The story is mostly nonsense, and the gameplay is little more than a linear series of [...]
With no sign of Nintendo’s Advance Wars strategy series returning any time soon, a game that attempts to fill the void like Tiny Metal is easy to get excited about. Thankfully, developer Area 35 has delivered a game that captures the spirit of the [...]
layerunknown’s Battlegrounds, colloquially known as PUBG(pronounced pub-gee), is if nothing else conceptually efficient. 100 players parachute onto an island. The last one alive wins. An unoriginal idea executed in an original fashion: That’s the merit [...]
This year has been a sort of renaissance for the character-based platformer. It warms my heart to be playing so many whimsical games featuring cartoony characters and plenty of jumping puzzles. While some of these games failed to capitalize on what makes [...]
layerunknown’s Battlegrounds, colloquially known as PUBG(pronounced pub-gee), is if nothing else conceptually efficient. 100 players parachute onto an island. The last one alive wins. An unoriginal idea executed in an original fashion: That’s the merit [...]
