Orbs, Innit
HIGH It’s more or less free.
LOW Yet it’s still barely worth playing.
WTF The complete under-utilization of Terry Crews.
Tag: Open World
West Of Loathing Review (PC)
Shut Up And Take My Meat!
HIGH All the depth of an RPG with a fraction of the commitment.
LOW Spooky resistance is hard to come by.
WTF The Ghostwood questline.
Astroneer Review
Neerly There
HIGH Establishing the first fully-featured base feels awesome.
LOW The experience is fairly buggy.
WTF All this space age tech, and no simple method to descend into caverns.
Far Cry New Dawn Review
Wasted Wasteland
HIGH Repeatable outposts.
LOW Forgettable villians in a series known for memorable ones.
WTF The Aurora Borealis? At this time of year? At this time of day? In this part of the country?
Far Cry: New Dawn Preview
Earlier this month, GameCritics was invited to a preview event featuring Far Cry: New Dawn, and the first thing I noticed about it was how colorful it was. Not that its predecessor Far Cry 5 was a bland game — far from it. It’s just that in New Dawn, nature seems to have taken on a more […]
Just Cause 4 Review
No Real Reason
HIGH The destruction wrought by the new weather effects.
LOW The lack of commitment to said weather effects.
WTF The grapple upgrades, which have zero practical use.
Assassin’s Creed: Odyssey Second Opinion
An Odyssey Worthy of Zeus
HIGH Kassandra is the one of the best game protagonists in recent years.
LOW The mercenary system feels tacked on.
WTF The framing story set in the present day still exists.
Red Dead Redemption 2 Review
Ain’t No Trouble
HIGH The best fog effects in the history of gaming.
LOW The momentum-killing epilogue.
WTF We’re still holding a face button to run? What year is this?
The Subtle Morality Of Far Cry 4
Far Cry is a diverse series that has varied wildly across its sequels. Far Cry 4 broke this trend by not only being in the same universe as Far Cry 3, but by reusing a majority of the same gameplay ideas. Another way it broke the cycle? By adding choice.
Spider-Man Review
Amazing At Last
HIGH The utterly perfect webslinging mechanics.
LOW The usual open-world busywork.
WTF A weird fixation on pigeons.
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