
Topic > game reviews


Nights into Dreams HD is too brutally difficult to overcome nostalgia (review)

XCOM: Enemy Unknown is peerless in modern game design (review)

Dishonored lets you take sweet, sweet revenge (review)

Sonic Adventure 2 HD runs back to the beginning of the franchise’s fall (review)

FIFA Soccer 13 strives for perfection through gameplay imperfection (review)

Bad Piggies is a painfully challenging departure from Angry Birds (review)

Resident Evil 6 thrives on its silliness but stumbles when things get serious (review)

Pokémon Black and White Versions 2 take few risks but still offer classic thrills (review)

Threeview: Borderlands 2 reviewed by a critic, an analyst, and an academic

Hell Yeah: Wrath of the Dead Rabbit is an homage to bad ‘90s platformers (review)

Torchlight II is a poor man’s Diablo that’s rich in content but not originality (review)

Borderlands 2 nearly perfects the blend of shooter and role-playing game (review)

Tokyo Jungle is a comically rewarding journey through the vicious circle of life (review)

Even with robots, dinosaurs, and tons of action, Joe Danger 2 repeats the same stunts (review)

Touch controls make LittleBigPlanet Vita the series’s definitive entry (review)

Fractured Soul is a clever, challenging platformer that requires all your brainpower (review)

Tekken Tag Tournament 2 delivers entertaining yet uninspired beat downs (review)

Avengers Initiative delivers thrilling bite-sized superhero combat but not much else (review)

Mark of the Ninja is the new king of stealth-action games (review)

The Walking Dead Episode 3: Long Road Ahead is a dark, emotional tale (review)

In Transformers: Fall of Cybertron, you either change or die (review)

Persona 4 Arena proves that role-playing games and arcade fighters can mix (review)

In Darksiders II, Death overstays his welcome, but he can still wield a scythe with style (review)

Papo & Yo creates a toybox of a city with a fractured foundation (review)

The gloriously flawed Sleeping Dogs is an interactive Hong Kong action flick (review)

Hybrid is a fast-paced but thoughtful shooter that suffers from some technical hiccups (review)

Dust: An Elysian Tail is beautiful but drowns in repetition (review)

Sounds Shapes lets you create and share your own musical worlds (review)

New Super Mario Bros. 2 is too obsessed with reliving the good old days (review)

The Dark Knight Rises fails to soar above the mediocrity of licensed games (review)

Deadlight sets a poetic survival-horror tone but stumbles with melodramatic writing (review)

Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater HD is a decent update to the original but brings along some baggage (review)

Dyad is a psychedelic treat for the senses with gameplay to match (review)

NCAA Football 13 is a fun experience that’s still too raw to turn pro (review)

Only a mad man could love Spelunky (review)

The Walking Dead Episode 2: Starved for Help turns the gore up to 11 (review)

Dawnguard finally brings a sense of urgency to The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim (review)

Lego Batman 2 tries to redefine the franchise but stumbles (review)
