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Without question, this is the version of The Binding Of Isaac that I'll be turning to for the forseeable future, and the version I'd recommend buying if you're new to the series. Given it's much broader of content than the original and still packed with surprises I've yet to uncover,...
Dreamfall Chapters
Most importantly, the story still has intricacies and a powerful emotional core, and after a decade and a half, I'm still happy to wait for an ending, even if this one was a little abrupt. Whatever levity and controversy occurs between now and then, I don't expect a dry eye...
Door Kickers
Offering fresh, friendly, and (sometimes) fiendishly difficult combat choreography at a very reasonable price (£12 to £15 depending where you look) Door Kickers is a game that will fill a five minute play gap as effectively as a five hour one. If you like your puzzles pausable and plausable, your...
Costume Quest 2
In other words, despite its combat being such a chore, take that on the chin and Costume Quest 2 just about finds its way to being the sort of game we want Double Fine to make - a puzzle-adventure with gags and fun characters silly ideas. Only just about, though.
Alien: Isolation
Isolation is the best Alien game I've ever played, I'm in no doubt about that. Even in its awkward moments it is doing something interesting with the license, exploring the edges of what is possible in its world, quietly and discreetly. I expect the debate about certain design choices to...
Defense Grid 2
The chattering narrators and a noodling plot about not a whole lot are the major stumbling blocks for me. Defense Grid the first stood out from the TD masses because it successfully combined character and carnage, but this comes across like two different games strapped loosely together. It's not without...
Wasteland 2
** Companions are available to join the original party of four. An early recruit is almost indispensable, which is peculiar considering she can be entirely bypassed if you don't search a dead-end in the starting area. I often felt like I should be digging up every loose patch of dirt...
Planetary Annihilation
Planetary Annihilation is a slick, modernised RTS, engineered from the ground up to appeal to the fast-paced, competitive, hotkey-loving esports crowd. For people like me, it is a bruising gauntlet of defeat. But even I can see the appeal. Putting aside the fact that to play online you need a...
Dead Rising 3
- By default the game is locked to 30FPS. You can unlock it by creating a text file called user.ini containing just the line "gmpcr_unlock_frame_rate = True" with no quotes, and putting that file in the same directory as the game's executable. However, in my experience the frame rate has...
Metro Redux
Both Redux games are running very well for me on my still-hangin' in there PC (i7 2.8GHz, Nvidia GeForce GTX 660 Ti) with the settings almost cranked up all the way. 2033 Redux crashed once -- immediately, the very first time I tried running it -- but it's been smooth,...
Sacred 3
It’s spectacularly bad. Bad not like Sacred games have been bad before, where maps stopped working or the game just crashed. In this game crashing would be a welcome feature. Here the awfulness is hard-programmed into the code, wilful, deliberate. It’s a series of abysmal choices strung together in a...
