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New Game Reviews
Latest game reviews by members. New and old game reviews for Wii, Playstation 3, Xbox 360 and more. Write your own +
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Ghost Squad |
Rating of: 3.5/5
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Efficiently executed light gun shoot 'em up based upon an arcade game and as such is rather brief but reasonably good fun while it lasts. |
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Jak and Daxter: The Precursor Legacy |
Rating of: 3.5/5
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Open world 3D platformer that's pretty to look at and pleasant to play but feels rather flimsy compared to the best Nintendo has to offer. More Crash Bandicoot than Super Mario Galaxy. |
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Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag |
Rating of: 2.5/5
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Belongs in Davey Jones’ Locker
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Back in 2013, Ubisoft was a hive of scum and villainy, pushing crappy games that never made it onto my radar… that is to say, they were effectively the same as they are now. Yes, Ubisoft did go through a bit of a Renaissance during the last decade, but after spending a few years on the top, they’re back down on the bottom. What’s even more amusing about the last decade of Ubisoft is that it... |
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Ginga Force |
Rating of: 3.5/5
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"Ginga Force"
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Colourful, frenetic vertical shmup that ticks all the right boxes, although the strategy and variety of mid-level weapon changing is absent preferring a system based upon "buying" upgraded weapon systems with experience points that are far too easy to come by. For this reason it feels more like a phone game than a console one and as such is just good rather than great. |
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Tiny Tina's Wonderlands |
Rating of: 3.5/5
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Just Like Tabletop…
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“Tiny Tina’s Wonderlands” (“Wonderlands”) began life as an “Assault on Dragon Keep”-style DLC expansion for “Borderlands 3”… But then the COVID-19 pandemic hit and threw wrenches into nearly everyone’s business. “Wonderlands” suddenly shifted from a typical Gearbox development cycle to being entirely remotely developed. In the process, the project allegedly exceeded its ... |
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Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart |
Rating of: 4.5/5
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Gender Swapping and Dimension Hopping
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When Insomniac, now a Sony first-party studio, released “Ratchet & Clank: Into the Nexus” in 2013, it seemed like the long-running series of 3D Platformer/Third-Person Shooter hybrid games was at an endpoint. The release of a feature film in 2016 based on the IP as well as a remake of the original “Ratchet & Clank” from 2002, with bits and pieces from the movie grafted on, ultimately met ... |
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MechWarrior 5: Mercenaries |
Rating of: 4/5
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Heavy is the Mech That Shoots You Down
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Mech games are quite fun - but it's few and far between that seem to do things right. MechWarrior as a series is venerable but MechWarrior 5 is the first main entry to come out in a long time, and it seems that developer Piranha Games has stumbled on to a winning recipe that has old-school charm but suitably modern touches. It has been quite awhile since I last played a mech game, but with friend... |
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Rage 2 |
Rating of: 3.5/5
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Why U Mad Bro?
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I remember playing the first Rage in co-op and having a decent time with it - a solid enough FPS from ID Software. I never expected a sequel but here we are. Rage 2 ditches the co-op and instead churns out an open-world style game that shares more with games like Far Cry and more recent Assassin's Creed than ID standards DOOM or Quake. With open-world games becoming so prevalent, Avalanche Softwa... |
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Cthulhu Saves Christmas |
Rating of: 4/5
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Deck the Halls with Tentacles
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Cthulhu Saves Christmas is an old-school throw-back turned-based parody RPG done right. This games is a prequel to Cthulhu Saves the World. Once again, Cthulhu loses his powers and embarks on a quest to save Christmas in the hopes Santa Claus can give him his powers back as a gift. The narrative is hilariously twisted with remarks and comments from Cthulhu, combined with plenty of festive (or n... |
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The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild |
Rating of: 4.5/5
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A Breath of Fresh Adventure
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Breath of the Wild deviates from the traditional Zelda formula and storytelling. Set in the new expansive kingdom of Hyrule, Link awakens from a century-long slumber and needs to recover his memories and slowly discovers he needs to defeat the menacing Calamity Ganon and save Hyrule. The story unfolds gradually and non-linearly, allowing players to uncover the mysteries of the world at their own... |
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