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In the end, Prey is a really, really good game. I’d even venture that it’s borderline great. While I can and will ding it a bit for the annoyance of repetitive returns to previous locations and for the overly annoying mimics (particularly from an aural standpoint), there is so much to like, so much to discover, so much to learn that I would put Prey up there as one of the best games of the year so far and that’s some pretty impressive company.
Before someone points it out, yes, mundane enemies and boxes / destructible items drop stuff too, sometimes even weapons or armor but not in the quantity we’ve come to expect from today’s ARPGs. What we’re left with in Vikings is the endless grind for materials to build the town to get better loot. Sounds good but the implementation falls flat.
Yes, in every possible way, it is Mass Effect. Whether it’s the combat system that is both new and familiar or multiplayer with its improvements or the interesting variety of quests or the epic score that screams Mass Effect, it all gels together into a whole. Ryder’s galaxy is as well-suited to her as the Milky Way was for Shepard. If we’re lucky, there are a lot more adventures in store for Ryder and her crew.
Crate Entertainment has finally released Grim Dawn, no small feat for an independent development studio that crowd-funded before crowd-funding was a big deal. With the game's release, fans of darkly themed ARPGs with deep levels of class customization and visceral combat tied to a great story have gotten at long last the "spiritual successor" to Diablo 2 that fans have been pining about for years.
The Incredible Adventures of Van Helsing comes to a close in the final episode in the trilogy. While some elements will appeal to fans of the series, others will be troubling.
There is no better way to begin a review of BioWare’s Dragon Age Inquisition than to say that anyone who has been hungering for a magnificently crafted role-playing game will find a place to love and in which to play for years to come. DAI stretches a player’s abilities and emotions all the way from the game’s first moments through the final epilogue following the credits, all wrapped up in some of the most visually stunning environments ever created.
Runic Games' Torchlight II is the second big action RPG to be released in 2012. We've been putting TL2 through its paces and trying -not- to make comparisons to that other ARPG that released in May. See what we think of Torchlight 2 before adding your ideas to the comments.