Numbers Game
HIGH Mopping up a roomful of baddies with a buddy in short order makes you giddy.
LOW My low level runthrough gave me +5 Gray Hairs.
WTF Me: "Did we just murder the Ninja Turtles?"
Tag: 2K Games
XCOM: Enemy Unknown Review
Long Absent, a Little Different, but not Unknown
HIGH The resurrection of a long-absent, fan favorite franchise.
LOW Restarting after ten hours due to crushing poverty.
WTF Walls don't function properly in this universe.
Spec Ops: The Line Second Opinion
A Serious Trial of Suspending Disbelief
HIGH Occasional funny dialogue.
LOW Zero gameplay variety or innovation.
WTF Make me feel guilty after forcing me to murder 200 people? Yeah, right.
Spec Ops: The Line Review
Do You Feel Like a Hero Yet?
HIGH White phosphorus.
LOW White phosphorus.
WTF This many soldiers were abandoned for six months?!? Get real.
Mafia II Review
Actually, it is for Nothing
HIGH Eddie and Joe singing along drunkenly to "Return to me" in the car.
LOW The preceding half-hour, during which they vomit constantly.
WTF I failed one mission because the guy I was tailing ran into a taxi of his own accord.
BioShock 2 Second Opinion
Rapture Without Reason
HIGH Guiding Little Sisters to Adam-filled corpses.
LOW Being a Big Daddy doesn't feel very Big or Daddy.
WTF Does anybody really sit and listen to all those audio logs?
BioShock 2 Review
The Waves are Many, but the Sea is One
HIGH Sloshing through the darkness at the end of Siren Alley.
LOW The unimaginative construction, storyline, and objectives in Dionysus Park.
WTF Doesn't it matter to you that I killed all those innocent men?
Axel & Pixel Review
Absurdly Delightful
HIGH The surreal, abstract nature of the adventure.
LOW Putting important collectibles in action sequences without checkpoints.
WTF Pretty much everything you see on-screen.
Borderlands Review
Stranded (And Bored) In The Wasteland
HIGH Millions of guns to choose from, theoretically…
LOW The "adventure" is pure contrivance, utterly lacking a soul.
WTF Where's the onscreen mini-map? Why do weak guns auto-equip?
BioShock Third Opinion
"There is no terror in a bang, only in the anticipation of it." -Alfred Hitchcock
HIGH Wonderful art style & environment.
LOW Game feels too easy at points.
WTF I didn't realize so many people in the 50s kept audio diaries and left them laying around in random boxes, air vents, and dead bodies.
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