Reid McCarter

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Latest Reviews

While its open world is stunning, its combat is robust, and its dual-protagonist design is somewhat novel, Assassin’s Creed Shadows proves too repetitive and dramatically flat to wholeheartedly recommend taking its trip back in time.

Frostpunk 2

Frostpunk 2

September 16, 2024
8

Frostpunk 2 makes clever reconsiderations of, and expansions on, the first game’s design, offering a better rounded, even harsher follow-up to the original’s concept.

Broken Roads

Broken Roads

April 9, 2024
4

Despite the promise of its setting and philosophically informed morality system, Broken Roads fails to set itself apart from or come remotely close to matching the many post-apocalyptic games it’s inspired by.

Alan Wake II

Alan Wake II

November 3, 2023
unscored

With its latest game, Remedy Entertainment nails a formula that’s been in the making for over 20 years.

Marvel's Spider-Man 2
unscored

An objectively good game, the latest Spider-Man title expands on what made its predecessor great—wish fulfillment, emotion, and showing the human side of both Peter Parker and Miles Morales.

Baldur's Gate 3

Baldur's Gate 3

September 3, 2023
unscored

Larian's take on the classic RPG shows that the shrewd shall inherit.

Starfield

Starfield

August 30, 2023
unscored

Bethesda’s latest action role-playing game makes a huge world even bigger with an endless supply of enticing side quests.

Final Fantasy XVI
unscored

The franchise wanted to grow up. But at its heart, the game is true to tradition, both for good and ill.

Company of Heroes 3
unscored

An old favorite is back, and in surprisingly excellent form for a game that could otherwise feel out of place and time.

Assassin's Creed Valhalla
3/5

A fantastic historical setting is once again weighed down by all the cruft we've come to associate with Assassin's Creed.