Your Destiny Lies Elsewhere
HIGH The music’s really nice!
LOW The endgame feels like a pointless waste of time.
WTF Main bad guy annihilates humanity’s last refuge, then sits on his ass for the rest of the campaign.
Tag: Activision
Ghostbusters Review
Busting Makes Me Feel… Bored
HIGH Some nice art and models
LOW Horrible writing and audio
WTF No online co-op
Overwatch’s Heritage
Originally I had written parts of this article for my Overwatch review, but I couldn’t justify another 700 words of straight Team Fortress 2 comparison. Those words now go here, since I wanted to go into more detail about just how much Overwatch is a spiritual child of Team Fortress 2. The TF2 heritage goes beyond aesthetic qualities and deep into the mechanics of its characters. Thus, seasoned TF2 veterans will recognize these similarities very quickly.
GameCritics.com Podcast Episode 152: Overwatch Playcast
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutants In Manhattan Review
Go back to the sewers
HIGH The disco dance party special attack.
LOW the never-ending second sewer level.
WTF What’s up with the turtles’ weird noses?
Overwatch Review
Team Fortress 3?
HIGH: Launching into the air and landing the perfect Pharah ultimate
LOW: The feeling of helplessness against a Bastion/Reinhardt combo
WTF: A Play of the Game in which Junkrat kills himself and three others by flooding a room with grenades.
White Night Review
Scary for the wrong reasons
HIGH It attempts to revive the fixed-camera horror genre
LOW Every attack is a one-hit kill
WTF Where are the flashlights?
Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 5 Review
So here I am, doin' everything I can't
HIGH Solid level design and one excellent unlockable skater!
LOW Framerate and screen-tearing issues abound.
WTF Lil' Wayne is a playable skater, but doesn't appear on the soundtrack.
Transformers: Devastation Review
Transfabulous
HIGH Realizing it really looks as good as it does in trailers.
LOW Escaping from the plasma core.
WTF The Decepticons aren't playable in any mode?!?
Diablo 3: Reaper of Souls Review
Clawing itself out of the abyss.
HIGH Nearly everything I hated about vanilla Diablo 3 has been fixed and improved.
LOW Hundreds of Blood Shards wasted, with nothing to show for it.
WTF It took way too long for the Real Money Auction house to disappear.
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