PAX West once again visited the Emerald City, and with it came a tsunami of games both indie and triple-A upon its show floor. I was there for three days and played too many games to count. Instead of doing a typical Best Games of PAX West! list, I wanted to take a closer look at the ones that I kept thinking about after I left the show floor, and the ones that I wanted to keep playing after the demos ended.
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?
HIGH Going to new worlds instead of rehashing old ones… again.
LOW Expecting someone to play every game to get the plot.
WTF Did we really need Let It Go in its entirety?
GameCritics was recently invited to a preview event offering roughly 5 hours of The Division 2, and it’s shaping up well. Based on what I played, it addresses many of the issues I had with the previous title while also seemingly focusing upon the endgame — something that was sorely lacking before.
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 […]
HIGH Seeing the series go back to its roots.
LOW The voice acting is 80’s anime bad.
WTF Why do your massive, high-tech, drone-launching superweapons use propellers?
HIGH The explanations for common, pre-apocalypse items.
LOW The majority of mutations are lackluster.
WTF I refuse to accept “Shut the duck up” in any serious capacity.
HIGH The choices offered in the Flashpoints.
LOW Feels more like a bulky patch than an expansion.
WTF My urge to have a King Crab mech lead a lance of Crab mechs.
I’ve been watching Mutant Year Zero: Road to Eden for a few months now and always had a passing interest in it, but had yet to get my hands on it. This post-human apocalyptic turn-based strategy game has anthropomorphic characters and an interesting setting, but it wasn’t until actually playing that I realized my initial thoughts about it were slightly wrong.
HIGH It’s one of the most gorgeous worlds I’ve ever seen.
LOW It’s bloated beyond any sense of reason.
WTF Hyper-aggressive chickens too eager to fight.
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