Review by Matt S. I feel sorry for the developers of Ultimate Racing 2D. They’ve done the best they can to make something that punches well above its weight in terms of the quality and quantity for a hyper-indie project. I was genuinely surprised to see that there were so…
Read MoreReview by Harvard L. Need for Speed is a franchise which needs little introduction; it’s celebrating its 25th anniversary with 2019’s entry, Need for Speed: Heat, and for its long and illustrious history it’s always been a fixture on the console market. The series has been EA’s eminent basically-one-release-a-year homestay…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. Get trash like Asphalt 9 off game consoles. Just as Apple is taking steps to mitigate against this kind of delinquent free-to-play nonsense with its Apple Arcade, the Nintendo Switch gets a high profile example of it. Opening your device to stuff like this isn’t the…
Read MoreReview by Jim S. FlatOut 4 is a sequel to an absolutely terrible game. Sure the first two, in a series that stretches back as far as 2004, had been decent enough, but FlatOut 3 was that bad that it should have been a franchise ending event. Thankfully that was…
Read MoreReview by Brad L. TrackMania is a series that made its name on PC and Nintendo consoles in the mid-2000s, without any such release on a Sony or Microsoft console for over ten years. After nine games in the series, that trend has finally been bucked with the release of…
Read MoreI was disappointed with Fuel Overdose. When I’d discovered that I would be the one reviewing it, I naturally read some impressions about the game to get a feel for how it matched people’s expectations. So I went into it expecting one of those games so bad they’re kind of…
Read MoreIt was so very tempting to simply state “this Need for Speed game kicks off with a music introduction by Muse,” and leave the entire review at that. After all, what better way to point out that the Gods of cool racing, Criterion, still have that sense of style and…
Read MoreIn so many ways Forza Horizon feels like it’s a game trying to play catch-up. Apparently inspired by some of the superb open-world racers we’re seeing these days (not least of which those of the brilliant EA studio, Criterion). Forza Horizon is at times carbon-copy of those games. Within the…
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