Madden NFL 27 can offer up unforgettable moments through gameplay, but when it comes to being the coach/GM of a team or its superstar, it doesn’t fully deliver.
Madden NFL 27 can offer up unforgettable moments through gameplay, but when it comes to being the coach/GM of a team or its superstar, it doesn’t fully deliver.
Combat is the best part of Beast of Reincarnation, courtesy of a satisfying combat system filled with experimentation and tense fun. If only the rest of Game Freak's venture into the action space matched it.
Can Treyarch
come through with a blockbuster hit in the vein of Modern Warfare? Yes and no, but Black Ops is the best game Treyarch has made,
and a hell of a good time no matter how you slice it.
The
entertainment value provided by this trio of games ranges from mediocre
to dreadful, reminding players that “more” doesn’t always translate to
“better.”
Thanks to Sony’s new hardware, The Shoot provides crisp HD visuals and
impressively accurate gunplay, but misguided design makes this rail
shooter far less entertaining than it could be.
This expansion pack builds on the successes of Divinity II while
mitigating its failures, but the goalposts haven't been moved terribly
far on either end.
Ken’s Rage is the kind of throwback that should have me bouncing in my seat, but thanks to Koei, I may never want to see this Fist of the North Star's spiked mullets again.
With Kinect’s Dance Central, Harmonix took a risk on a
new piece of technology and succeeded in creating the most authentic
and entertaining virtual dance experience to date.
Sonic Free Riders uses Microsoft’s Kinect
technology to place you in the Sonic universe as you zip around a
limited number of courses – or at least try to. Spotty body detection
turns what could have been a unique racing experience into a
wreck.
Kinect Adventures is exactly the kind of all-in, jump around experience
that Microsoft must have envisioned for its Kinect peripheral. As a pack-in title, it
does a brilliant job of demonstrating what the tech can do.
Activision’s re-imagining of Rare’s GoldenEye is an attempt to scrub the tarnished franchise clean, but what we’re left with is a lackluster game that fails to hit the same high notes of the original, or keep pace with modern shooters.
