Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy from Square Enix and Eidos-Montreal is, essentially, all about that: guarding the galaxy. Well, and trying to make money. And failing. And getting caught. And screwing up. But don’t worry, as the game constantly reminds players, you’ve got this. Probably. And for the most part, it’s a pretty enjoyable ride...
Nintendo’s Metroid franchise has long been known for its high quality. While the series has had a couple of missteps over the last 35 years, games like Super Metroid and Metroid Prime are regarded as some of the greatest of all time. Metroid Dread is the first game in the franchise to appear on Nintendo...
The Good Life is going to test you. It posits an interesting question about whether or not speeding through life makes it a worse-off, more challenging experience overall. Incorporating real life, seemingly random punishments on top of innocuous activities and tasks, The Good Life can make even the most routine activities seem daunting through smaller...
The Far Cry series has always known how to keep players busy, and Far Cry 6 is no different. Yara feels bigger than most open-world playgrounds and is filled with things to do, though unfortunately for completionists, many of those activities seldom feel rewarding enough to pursue. A superb villain made even more special considering...
The FIFA franchise moves fully into the realm of next-gen console gaming with FIFA 22. Yes, last year’s edition ended up getting a release on PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X|S, but the game came out before the consoles and the only real difference was a slight upgrade in graphics and gameplay. FIFA 22 feels like...
Blizzard Entertainment has released a remaster that many have been waiting for for quite some time with Diablo II: Resurrected, the action role-playing game that has been referred to by many as one of the greatest video games of all time. With this new remake, the company responsible for this classic game made some major...
In 2010, Remedy Entertainment, best known for creating the gritty action game Max Payne and its sequel, released Alan Wake, a horror-fantasy thriller, exclusively onto Xbox 360 and eventually Windows PC. The game soon became a cult classic, earning critical acclaim and a devoted fan following, but not a large enough player base to make...
When the original Judgment first released back in 2019, it became my first experience with Sega’s Yakuza franchise. Like many others who have dipped their toes into this expansive world in recent years, I quickly fell in love with Judgment and it became one of my favorite games of the console generation. As such, when...
Hot Wheels Unleashed at its best is breakneck entertainment with a nostalgic coat of paint. At its worst, it’s a budget racing game hidden by the aforementioned nostalgic coat of paint. Milestone’s new racing game has a surplus of good ideas left unrealized by insufficient polish and ill-advised design choices. At times, Hot Wheels Unleashed...
In the early 2000s, Sega released two of the definitive games of the Nintendo GameCube era with Super Monkey Ball and Super Monkey Ball 2. The games were critical and commercial successes, but subsequent entries have been a mixed bag. In honor of the franchise’s 20th anniversary, Sega has gone back to the beginning with...
