At Night, The Monsters Come to Play
HIGH Every time I dove off of a skyscraper and activated my paraglider.
LOW The last boss fight is a s-l-o-g.
WTF I think they accidentally created the same mission twice.
Dying Light 2: Stay Human Review
Tag: Techland
Torment: Tides of Numenera Review
With All Your Power
HIGH Stepping out into the Reef of Fallen Worlds for the first time.
LOW A bug that can lock the game up during its best sidequest.
WTF A delightful Easter egg in the Sagus Cliffs bar.
Dying Light: The Following Review
Driving in the wrong direction
HIGH "What the? This is my power bill!"
LOW Superbosses get their life back if I die, but I don't get my resources back.
WTF I'm collecting all this gasoline and I can't make more molotovs?
Dying Light: The Bozak Horde Review
Beat the clock… with a sledgehammer.
HIGH Playing what amounts to first-person Prince of Persia.
LOW Trying to accurately throw something heavy without the benefit of a predictive arc. This is stuff we need, developers.
WTF "So you've managed to kill all my zombies, have you? Maybe it's time to start killing each other! No, I don't have any idea why you would do that."
Dying Light Review
The Vaulting Dead
HIGH Watching a horde of zombies immolate as a molotov explodes in their midst.
LOW Falling off a zipline to my death for the tenth time in a row.
WTF Sure, I'll just toss all this medicine in a fire. No chance it'll be useful later!
Dead Island: Riptide Second Opinion
Redoing Your Voodoo, Bitch
HIGH There's a mission entirely about shutting off Sam B's awful damn song.
LOW The nearly-immortal chainsaw maniac final boss.
WTF The developers were so sure I would use boats that water enemies don't even trigger if you walk right up to them in the canals.
Call of Juarez: Gunslinger Review
Call of Juarez: Humdinger
HIGH Getting a high combo streak and topping it off by swerving out of the path of an otherwise fatal gunshot.
LOW The dueling is standard fare, and not much fun.
WTF According to Silas, he's crossed paths with nearly every notable figure from that time period.
Riptide, Soul Sacrifice and Mars War Logs
Readers will know that I am a huge fan of the first game, and even though it had some rough edges, it was a pretty brilliant experience. Unfortunately, Riptide isn't able to match up to that first title. The new character who uses hand-to-hand combat is lots of laughs, but the game itself feels like it was slapped together with very little care and isn't nearly as immersive or as atmospheric as the original.
Dead Island: Riptide Review
Lifeless
HIGH The new character's hand-to-hand fighting style is a hoot.
LOW Watching zombies infinitely spawn, clown-car style out of a tiny wooden shack.
WTF It's got the jankiest menu system ever created. How was this approved?
Game of the year… 2011?
If you read this blog with any regularity, you probably remember that I was a huge fan of Dead Island last year. So huge, in fact, that I was one of the critics who chose it as our overall game of 2011. We got more than a few funny looks from other critics when we made the announcement, but I still feel good about the choice in comparison to what the competition was, and I definitely think it was the right direction to go.
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