Video Game Reviews

• Interactive Fiction Reviews - Reviews of interactive fiction (text adventures).
• Beyond Good and Evil - 9/10. A great platformer game with a great story. (PS2) (2004-01-10)
• Broken Sword: The Shadow of the Templars (AKA Circle of Blood) - 7/10. An acceptable modern conspiracy adventure game (PC) (2009-02-20)
• Broken Sword: The Smoking Mirror - 6/10. A so-so follow up to the original (PC) (2009-02-20)
• Broken Sword: The Sleeping Dragon - 5/10. Recommended only for fans of the series (PC) (2009-02-20)
• Contra 4 - 6/10. Brutally hard, classic gameplay that hasn't joined the twenty-first century. (DS) (2007-11-25)
• The Chronicles of Riddick: Dark Athena - 8/10. A solid stealth action first person shooter. (PC) (2009-06-17)
• Dreamfall: The Longest Journey - 4/10. A promising game destroyed by a premature, completely unsatisfying ending. (PC) (2006-07-04)
• Far Cry - 8/10. A beautiful first person shooter with genuinely long range outdoor game play. (PC) (2005-12-03)
• F.E.A.R. - 9/10. A genuinely creepy first person shooter with a satisfying conclusion. (PC) (2005-12-03)
• King's Quest: Quest for the Crown (1990 Enhanced Version) - 4/10. Frustrating and illogical. (PC) (2009-01-04)
• King's Quest II: Romancing the Throne - 4/10. More frustrating than the first game. (PC) (2009-01-04)
• King's Quest III: To Heir is Human - 6/10. The first playable King's Quest game. (PC) (2009-01-04)
• King's Quest IV: The Perils of Rosella - 5/10. An okay game marred with several terrible puzzles (PC) (2009-01-04)
• King's Quest V: Absence Makes the Heart Go Yonder! - 5/10. Nice graphics aren't enough to cover for frustrating gameplay (PC) (2009-01-04)
• King's Quest VI: Heir Today, Gone Tomorrow - 7/10. A good game, and the best of the series. (PC) (2009-01-04)
• King's Quest VII: The Princeless Bride - 6/10. A muddy mess that doesn't match the rest of the series. (PC) (2009-01-04)
• Medal of Honor: Rising Sun - 6/10. A regrettable step backward for the Medal of Honor line. (PS2) (2003-12-23)
• realMyst - 9/10. A dreamlike, satisfying adventure game (PC) (2008-09-06)
• Riven - 8/10. A solid, satisfying adventure game (PC) (2008-09-06)
• Myst III: Exile - 7/10. A solid addition to the Myst series (PC) (2008-09-06)
• Myst IV: Revelation - 6/10. Pleasant but flawed. (PC) (2008-09-06)
• Myst V: End of Ages - 5/10. A mediocre, hamfisted game that seems disconnected from the rest of this noble series. (PC) (2008-09-06)
• Quake 4 - 7/10. Sharp looking, old-school fun. (PC) (2005-12-13)
• Resident Evil 4 - 8/10. An enjoyable action game, but only middling as a horror game. (Gamecube) (2007-04-07)
• Psychonauts 2 - 10/10. A goofy and occasionally dark 3D Metroidvania of exploring brains (2021-10-31)

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