HIGH Excellent racing and presentation.
LOW Lacking some customization features.
WTF Laughing too hard at a talking horse.
Tag: 2K Games
Mafia: Definitive Edition Review
Family Is Forever
HIGH The quiet scenes when Tommy talks to Sarah.
LOW Noticeable glitches. Also, I suck at driving.
WTF This game had me craving whiskey.
Mafia II Definitive Edition Review
Leave This Game, Take The Cannoli
HIGH A story Scorsese would be proud of.
LOW That checkpoint system.
WTF This is what they call a remaster?
XCOM 2: War Of The Chosen Review
I Choose You!
HIGH The tweaks revitalize the campaign. Finishing several missions with a 100% hit rate.
LOW Getting all of the DLC properly activated is counter-intuitive. Performance issues.
WTF Seriously, don’t play Iron Man mode.
Mafia III Review
Bored On The Bayou
HIGH The sharply-paced opening sequence and its climactic cutscene.
LOW Competing in the awful, rubber-banded street races.
WTF Cops won’t reliably go after me for shooting a guy, but if I dent a cop car, they’ll gun me down. Just like real life!
XCOM 2 Review
XCOM-municated
HIGH Dashing across the map to chop up alien scumbags with the Ranger's Reaper ability.
LOW The current PC build is a technical horror show.
WTF My entire squad missing every shot during a perfectly-planned ambush.
Sid Meier’s Civilization: Beyond Earth Review
Not Enough Beyond
HIGH Squeezing out a transcendence victory just as my main competitor starting shoveling units into the Emancipation Gate.
LOW Finishing the Exodus Gate on a map that had far too little free space to actually achieve the victory.
WTF Getting condemned as a warmonger because none of my enemies would negotiate for peace.
Xcom: Enemy Within Review
Mechs come
HIGH My Mec unit punching an Exalt scumbag through a wall and halfway down the street.
LOW It all feels a little too familiar despite the changes.
WTF Those engineering lads at Xcom suggested cutting our agents apart just a little bit too quickly for comfort.
The Bureau: XCOM Declassified Review
Is It XCOM? No. Is It Great? Yes!
HIGH Fantastic style and a great story with genuine surprises.
LOW Brutal starting difficulty. The endgame has too many mobs.
WTF Finishing only one investigation short of a perfect run!
BioShock Infinite Review
Schrödinger's Dunk
HIGH The classic revisionism of the Hall of Heroes.
LOW The lazy, pointless, and offensive "equivalence" narrative that opens the second half of the game.
WTF I've been finding machine-gun rounds in pickle barrels the whole game, but there's no ammo in this armament crate?
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