The Sinking City 2 is a respectable scare fest boasting entertaining puzzle-solving. However, middling combat, flawed progression, and an underwhelming narrative hold it back from reaching the horrific heights of its more celebrated contemporaries.
Resonance: A Plague Tale Legacy executes familiar genre staples and delivers a moving story starring a charismatic pirate on what may be the most impactful and tragic adventure of her life.
Wii Sports introduced players to motion-based boxing, but YouTube videos
of babies and grandpas alike breezing through the bouts proved how much
of a joke the concept was. So how does The Fight: Lights Out compare?
Now Sonic is taking his platforming antics to the
stars with Sonic Colors, but unlike Nintendo’s plumber, this hedgehog is
stuck floating in a gaping void of mediocrity.
Developer Dimps
has been leading the handheld charge with terrific Sonic platformers
from GBA to DS, and it continues its run of entertaining titles with
Sonic Colors.
Can Treyarch
come through with a blockbuster hit in the vein of Modern Warfare? Yes and no, but Black Ops is the best game Treyarch has made,
and a hell of a good time no matter how you slice it.
The
entertainment value provided by this trio of games ranges from mediocre
to dreadful, reminding players that “more” doesn’t always translate to
“better.”
Thanks to Sony’s new hardware, The Shoot provides crisp HD visuals and
impressively accurate gunplay, but misguided design makes this rail
shooter far less entertaining than it could be.
This expansion pack builds on the successes of Divinity II while
mitigating its failures, but the goalposts haven't been moved terribly
far on either end.
Ken’s Rage is the kind of throwback that should have me bouncing in my seat, but thanks to Koei, I may never want to see this Fist of the North Star's spiked mullets again.
With Kinect’s Dance Central, Harmonix took a risk on a
new piece of technology and succeeded in creating the most authentic
and entertaining virtual dance experience to date.
Sonic Free Riders uses Microsoft’s Kinect
technology to place you in the Sonic universe as you zip around a
limited number of courses – or at least try to. Spotty body detection
turns what could have been a unique racing experience into a
wreck.
