HIGH The new boss fights are challenging, creative encounters.
LOW Things can get a bit too hectic with four players.
WTF There should’ve been an “easy online” mode from the start…
HIGH The new boss fights are challenging, creative encounters.
LOW Things can get a bit too hectic with four players.
WTF There should’ve been an “easy online” mode from the start…
As a child, I remember playing the Carmen Sandiego series at school. While it was a videogame, it was intentionally educational and meant for kids.
HIGH Correctly identifying my first spirit!
LOW Trying singleplayer mode.
WTF Why is there a full ribcage in this garage?
HIGH Surviving the final wave of a horde mode swarm when all seems lost.
LOW Crashing to the desktop, three times in a row.
WTF The available cosmetics are… uninspired… to say the least.
HIGH AI is here, and it truly adapts to player input.
LOW Franchise mode updates feel incremental and obligatory.
WTF Seriously, can someone explain what “Chel” is?
HIGH The WNBA mode is inching closer to completion. (Thanks to the class of ’24!)
LOW Microtransactions still permeate the landscape.
WTF Why am I so enamored with realistic mesh fabric and beads of sweat?
When poker moved largely online, the human element was stripped out of it. No longer were players able to read their opponent, analyzing their body language and tone of voice for cues to the strength of their hands. Suddenly poker, as much a game of psychology as it is of chance, had been reduced to a math problem. Any player armed with a calculator knew their odds of winning any given hand, and the only information they had to base their analysis of the opposition on was the length of time it took them to commit to a move.
HIGH This is the smoothest, most visually appealing Madden to date.
LOW Not enough changes to modes and features.
WTF Is the physics model really called “BOOM Tech”?
HIGH Plenty of blood and bullets.
LOW Three thousand years of slumber and apparently, exposition.
WTF They fly now? They fly now.
HIGH That moment when your old dorm is accurately represented in a videogame.
LOW Mode selection is a little lackluster.
WTF Academic performance tracking is my weekly nightmare come to life.