It stands apart from its contemporaries for relying heavily on audio over visual cues.
The combat levels are gleefully challenging, even on Normal difficulty; your team will be crushed if you don’t maintain total battlefield awareness no matter how many aliens are shooting at you.
There are plenty of crazy firearms, like the appropriately titled Dubstep Gun, but they basically feel like an afterthought. The frenzied, souped-up president aspect renders everything else comparatively dull.
By the end of this two-to-three-hour journey, it isn’t just the house that’ll seem lived-in, as the characters are equally realized and relatable.
Slim Shady’s back with a brand new song from the soundtrack to the latest installment of the first-person shooter game Call of Duty.
The game is far from sleepy, and as with previous installments, Dream Team takes on the properties of its new hero. It’s a more confident, more attractive, and more powerful RPG.
The most protrusive sin committed by Dragon’s Crown has nothing to do with the size of its sirens’ breasts, but rather an unfortunate economical decision made by the publisher.
Everything is aglow with a unique visual sheen that dutifully demonstrates the graphical capabilities of the Wii U’s hardware.
Before Shadowrun was a cRPG, it was an RPG of the pen-and-paper variety, a medium that did more than a thousand junior-high workshops to encourage young people to tell each other thought-out stories.
Not only is the game an unsightly, tedious, and mind-numbingly dimwitted distraction, it’s also completely unnecessary—a nearly bottomless descent into uncompromising mediocrity.
The biggest problem with Dynasty Warriors 8, and the series as a whole, is that it loses its value as quickly as Koei publishes another sequel.
Luigi in the hero role may still take some getting used to, but in the case of New Super Luigi U, the irritations are well worth the rewards.
Leisure Suit Larry: Reloaded is both the longest and shortest two hours of your life.
The game deserves praise for its efficient blend of stylish anime-inspired artwork and handsome third-person exploration.
This clumsy attempt at RPG matchmaking throws together a super-casual dating simulation with a sluggish battle system.
His passing not only marks the end of an era, but leaves a hole that will be felt by anyone who knew him in any capacity.
Muramasa Rebirth can stand alongside Gravity Rush and Guacamelee! as one of the best-looking games the system has to offer
It’s a credit to the strength of the iconic stature of the characters that seeing their bafflingly scripted journey to its end becomes an unavoidable errand.
It’s telling that much of Game & Wario was initially conceived as a customary demonstrative package of some of the Wii U’s snazziest features.
A game that truly knows its audience and makes little effort to lure in stiff-necked skeptics to its particular school of bureaucratic thought.
Portions of the game may deliver high-octane thrills, but its paramount moments are frightening because they’re understated.