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Man, I'm so conflicted here. I had a lot of fun with it for a month or two. It was arefreshingexperience for someone who is worn out on the usual EA slop. It took a lot of influences from the old FIFA Street games and it was just a really fun time. Time went on, people became very familiar with the game's systems... and the holes within those systems. And now every match is nothing but annoying exploits. The ball glitching, disappearing, and showing up 10ft away. The impossible-to-guard against deke exploits. It's a nightmare and just not fun. There's nothing worse than taking losses in a game where you can, quite literally, do nothing to stop it from happening. I am average at this game. If I try to use the exploits, I am unstoppable. I have footage of me scoring 8 goals in less than two minutes using these same exploits. That was my first and only game doing so, solely to see how easy they were to do. Because theamount of people online using these exploits is INSANE. I now see why. It's incredibly easy to u, but also incredibly not fun. No thanks. The main problem I have is the developers. Small team and they seem kind of clueless to the problems in their game. My evidence of this? After two months of exploitative nonsense, they finally released a "big" game-fixing patch yesterday and it made the exploits even WORSE. And the issue is it seems like most of the game's really big issues re: exploits are just... not fixable without changing the way the game inherently functions due to it's wonky version of physics. I think I've maxed out my time with this game, but it was fun for a while. Just be prepared for **** including but not limited to disappearing balls and balls going right through your hands and body as a GK.

I'm not a huge Elder Scrolls fan. I played Oblivion when it came out originally, didn't complete it, it just wasn't for me. I played Skyrim when it released, I liked it quite a lot, but I much prefer the Fallout games to Elder Scrolls when it comes to Bethesda. I played this game with middling expectations and the game basically met them. I was able to finish it unlike when I tried the original over a decade ago, but still. The download size is kind of absurd, and I'm not sure why. It performs like ****, looks alright, but it runs terrible on console.

It is **** definitely scratches an itch and is fun to play in short bursts, but there's just not much to it IMO.

Horrid game. I cannot believe this took so much time to develop. The amount of lies the devs spewed only to drop THIS? I hope they never make another game again. The industry is worse with them in it.

Honestly kind of blown away by all the great reviews. Huge fan of Supermassive's games usually. Have enjoyed the TDPA for the most part, and I feel like this is their worst game by a very wide margin. It feels awful. Like, the "gameplay" part of these games has never been their strong points. But this game feels particularly bad and janky. The story, albeit shallow, could have been interesting, and I gave it every chance to get interesting, but it's really not. It starts shallow, stays shallow, and ends shallow. Your choices matter less than they ever did in TDPA games and they feel less weighty. Genuinely just feels like a flip of a coin this time. There's no logic re: "if I choose this, this could happen." Which I think is kind of crucial in a choose-your-own-adventure type game. I'm sorry, but this is horrible. Not sure what the BTS on this game was like, but this feels like it was made by the studios' C Team or something. The characters are also just... bad. No real standout performances, brutally bad dialog, there's just nothing good here. Happy some people seem to enjoy this game, I guess. Absolutely puzzled by it, but it is what it is.

Great game. There is a bit of a lack of depth the longer you play, but the game as a whole and the loop of it all is terrific fun and surprisingly charming. When the game was done, I was kind of over it, but I enjoyed my time with it quite a lot and would recommend it to everyone who thinks it looks even remotely interesting.

So absolutely mid. Considering this is Ubisoft and they are absolute garbage, shocked at the restraint of scummy microtransactions. They try, don't get me wrong. But no MTX I've seen in this game so far is good. Battlepass or otherwise. Everything is so ugly and bland. I've never been so... not interested in giving a F2P game my money. So kudos for that.

Kind of a terrible game. Even if it ran and performed well - it doesn't - this game wouldn't be good. I appreciate how they've handled the post-launch DLC, but other than that? This game is a disaster. Even when playing with friends.

I like this game quite a lot, still in 2024. The singleplayer is nothing special but I enjoy the Ghost War online portion of it. It feels different than a lot of other PVP games out there right now, and I think it's much better than even the more recent Ghost Recon game. I wish it leaned more into being tactical and a bit less arcadey, but it's fun. I still play it regularly and have a good time.

Huge fan of the film and have eagerly awaited this game since it was announced. The game itself is... fun. But there isn't enough there. The Klowns and most of their weapons/abilities seem severely underpowered and spend half the game running from the humans, not vice versa. The class system does virtually nothing. All characters feel the same. Small guy is slightly faster, the fat one is slower, but other than that, the Klowns play the same. No uniqueness. Same could be said for the humans. Very slight stat differences don't do much. The classes should offer something unique. They don't and it's not looking like that'll be changing. Even some subtle passive abilities would do wonders for this game and its characters. The devs don't seem eager to fix a lot of the game's true issues and lack of features. So I'm afraid this game is DOA. It's fun when you can get a full lobby, but it's very underbaked.

Fun game you could complete in one sitting if you wanted. Very nice graphically, but leaves a lot to be desired gameplay-wise. There's just not much here.

This game is awesome. What a throwback. Linear, hyper-violent, gory, and the type of B-movie story we could expect consistently during the X360/PS3 era of games. This game harkens back to that era of games and before. It's so much fun to play and was a genuine surprise. Games like this are hard to come by nowadays, but I'm happy to have found this one. The only negatives are mostly performance problems. Stuttering, weird periods where all audio doesn't play except for dialogue, etc. The game can also get a bit repetitive with its mini arena fights. Kill X amount of enemies, move on, etc. But thankfully the game itself is consistently fun to play, so I didn't mind.

Dreadful. One of the worst games I have ever played. Worst game mechanically in the entire series and that's saying something. There is nothing about this game that is an improvement over the last iteration, which was 3 years ago and a last-gen game. The lighting is slightly better, literally the only thing that's noticeably different in a 'positive' way. Avoid this pos.

I would say this is the best Spider-Man game of all time and deserves a 10. But the last third of the game is a bit rushed and I just wanted more.

Genuinely a pretty poor game. Gotham just feels empty. The combat feels uninspired, and the story feels kind of lazy. It's not terrible. I enjoyed my time with it - to a degree. It can be fun, the differences between using the 4 Knights is pretty neat for a few hours, and some of the combat encounters can play really nicely. The customization is pretty alright once you get past the RPG lite numbering system with the gear that renders almost everything you come across useless. The game just feels subpar and runs very poorly. This game does not look nice enough to not run at 60fps - let alone a SMOOTH 30fps. It's just poorly optimized. Graphically it looks a generation below Arkham Knight and that's not a joke. That game is almost ten years old and it looks/plays so much better than this game.

My experience with this game has been mostly positive. I would say my initial feelings towards this game are more positive than they were with Friday The 13th which I Was very fond of and Dead by Daylight. This is just more enjoyable in my opinion. The game very much favors the victims, though. As someone who likes to play killer, I run into a lot of the same annoyances in every game when a halfway decent part of Victims is on the opposing team. Leatherface feels underpowered and every other killer at times seemingly needs like 7+ hits to actually kill someone. It's a bit much. I also worry about future content. I'm really hoping they have a long roadmap of future killers, victims, maps, etc. Because this runs the risk of becoming very stale very fast if semi-regular updates don't come.

This game is incredible. I went in skeptical, and I feel like a fool. It has the odd bug and graphically it looks a generation or two behind sometimes. But as a game? This is spectacular. The 30fps is a nonissue. It's almost always consistent and a smooth 30fps goes a long way. A lot of people, by default, look at 30fps as a severe negative. But I'm a believer that **** can hit a near-constant 30fps, it's really not that bad at all. Starfield and RDR2 are two of the finest examples of 30fps actually being 30fps and thus being entirely playable. I would rather a game be locked at 30fps than it advertise itself as a 60fps game only for it to constantly fluctuate between 30-60fps, especially in moments of action. This game is a testament to what gaming could be. And, IMO, it may be Bethesda's best game ever. The scale, the story, the world-building, the characters., the depth. It's an experience. This made me feel things that an RPG hasn't made me feel in years outside of my first time playing Oblivion, New Vegas, and maybe The Witcher 3. It's special. This launching on Game Pass is insane and appreciated. I will undoubtedly be purchasing it, in full, soon for another playthrough in the future. I genuinely have no complaints that aren't just nitpicks. When I was 7 hours into this game, I hadn't even started the first actual full-on main story mission the game presents you with. I fully expect my hours in this game to come close to, if not exceed, triple digits. And I welcome it. I ran into plenty of very annoying bugs but they didn't ruin the experience too much. My only complaint with the actual game is that Bethesda has deliberately included a lot of mechanics that hinder gameplay to a degree. Inventory management, fast travel, stamina, the entire map system, etc. There are a lot of smaller nitpicks that do add up and cause some annoyances. Despite these, I'm enjoying my time with the game immensely.

Bit of an odd game. If you liked Judgment, you would like Lost Judgment. Better than the first game in some aspects, noticeably worse in others. Your mileage may vary in that regard. I do think the story overall was much more intriguing than the first game.

A great little game. My only complaint is the menus and the slight tedium that comes with navigating stuff like your inventory. Even then it's not terrible, it just could be smoother. Doesn't take away from the game and I still enjoyed my time with it quite a lot.

Every release, NFS gets more and more bland. This continues that trend. Some basic, cartoon effects don't distract from that.

I was very much into everything this game seemed to be. Loved the art style, loved the atmosphere, loved the vibes. But the gameplay lets it down big time. It's clunky and just doesn't feel very intuitive. I honestly feel like this game would be better with less actual combat.

Genuinely enjoyed this game quite a bit. I do wish it was longer. A few more levels before the ending would have been nice. But other than that, it's a nice throwback and overall fun to play.

Alan wake has always been a good game. Solid narrative, interesting gameplay mechanics, stellar atmosphere, but that's kind of where the positives end. As a game, Alan Wake is closer to an 8. As a remaster of an old game, this is nowhere near that. TEchnically flawed, it plays and looks worse in some areas than it did on the X360/PS3. There isn't much of a remaster here that helps the game at all. Cutscenes are constantly stuttering as well. Technically, it is a mess. Just a piss-poor remaster of an otherwise solid game.

Seriously pretty phenomenal. In terms of shooters on the market, this may be one of the best options today - and it's a fraction of the price of most AAA releases despite having more to offer. It is not perfect, but based on first impressions after 20~ hours? Very impressive. It's not perfect, and some of the progression, maps, etc need work. But overall, it's just fun to play. And that's all I want in a game I spend money on.

Absolute drivel. I cannot believe this is just... the standard that people accept these days.

Great game if you're a Ghostbusters fan, though it's not much of a remaster.

I appreciate what it offered and brought to the often-overlooked couch co-op game genre, but looking back, it is so incredibly bland. Especially when compared to the studio's next game. I realize that's unfair, but it's impossible not to. If this laid the foundation for what they delivered with It Takes Two, then I will always have a deep appreciation for it. Worth a play if you've not experienced it.

Very good game if you're up for it. Interesting narrative, and there's a bit more depth to the game mechanics than I was expecting. I liked it.

Not for everyone, but a solid enough visual novel. I enjoyed it more than I thought I would.

5 is all this game deserves. Arguably the best Far Cry in terms of scale, but it's severely lacking in almost every area. It's fine but very mediocre. A fun enough time to play through the base game with some side content, but it wears thin very quickly. Beat it, forgot it, and moved on. Went in with low expectations, and they were basically met. I would be absolutely pissed had I spent money on this game. Thankfully, I didn't, so I'm just indifferent towards it. If you like Far Cry, this is more Far Cry. If you don't like Far Cry and its game design trademarks, avoid it. This does nothing to change it up, At all,

There is nothing groundbreaking gameplay-wise, but this is a pretty stellar narrative, story-book style game. It has arguably the best use of truly branching paths I have ever seen, too. A lot to like here, and a unique experience from start to finish -- even if it was a little too light on gameplay for my liking.

Interesting puzzle game with a great aesthetic. Bit on the tedious side at times, but enjoyable nonetheless.

Absolutely shocking game. This game and its developers and its publishers are everything wrong with modern-day gaming. Pathetic. Zero effort. Straight-up shovelware. Complete garbage. The state of this game would've been insulting as an early-gen PS3/360-era game. Nevermind nowadays. The worst part is that they officially released marketing footage and photos that were abysmal. The game looked awful even then. And somehow in the actual game, it got 10x worse. Every studio involved with this game is inept. I got my refund, so I'm all good. But I'd like it if nobody else gave these people a cent.

Phenomenal game. Seriously a genre-defining experience and IMO the best in it's class. It's a showcase for the PS5 in almost every single way, and it's an absolutely fantastic time. Extremely well-made to the point that I have zero faults with it. No bugs, no glitches, nothing. Insomniac may be the best developer going right now. They don't ever miss and everything they release is consistently high-quality. I went in expecting terrific graphics, I got that. There were times where the graphics legitimately stunned me. The fact that the game constantly looks as stellar as does with absolutely no hitches in terms of framerate? It's kind of nuts. The gameplay is fun, constantly involving, and almost always captivating. I expected all of this from Ratchet & Clank and Insomniac. I was worried about the replayability. A shorter game, but it has all the replayability you can ask for. It's deceptively dense and the worlds are filled with places to explore. The NG+ introduces new weapons - two of the best in the game - and adds Omega variants to all 18 weapons you can collect in your first playthrough. These change gameplay enough that your weapons feel different, and it also opens up much more upgrade possibility with said weapons. I love this game and would trust Insomniac with my life at this point. Mfs don't miss.

One of the worst games I have ever played. Absolutely shameful release from Microsoft and Bethesda/Arkane. Pathetic. Not even just because it looks like it could've released in 2014.

Absolutely amazing little indie gem here. Wish it had more variety in terms of locations, but even that feels like serious nitpicking because there is variety. Plenty. I just wish there was... more. Total throwback to imo a better time in gaming.

Really enjoyed my time with this game. A hidden gem for sure. Combat can be janky, but it's mostly pretty solid. Wanted to platinum it, which is rare for me. Won't be thanks to the achievement that wants you to collect every armorset and weapon. I've besten the game, done everything, explored everywhere. I'm missing a few pieces and the game makes it impossible to track where to find said pieces, so nah. I'm good. Regardless, solid game.

It's not for everyone, but it's a pretty great indie. Lots of heart and clearly built by people who cared about what they were putting out. This is one of the only games ever where I think it gets exponentially worse once it's form of "combat" is introduced. Still recommend playing, even if for just a few hours. It's a charming and unique game.

One of the biggest disappointments in recent memory and genuinely slightly confused by all the egregiously high scores, but preferences and stuff. Nothing about this game will stick with me outside of the visuals. The combat is clunky, the world and the exploration within it are kind of bland and quite repetitive, the boss fights are uninspired as hell and absolutely frusturating. Not even because of difficulty, but because the game does not play very well. The story is fine albeit for sure nothing worth remembering. I understand it's a new studio and in a lot of ways it's definitely an impressive outing in that regard. But I'm not rating based on that fact or based on the idea that future sequels may have potential. I'm rating this game and it just, simply put, is not very good. It does nothing great, few things well, and most things pretty poorly.

This game is very good after all the updates. I pre-ordered, waited the better part of two years, could barely run the game on my PS4, sold it immediately, and was hugely disappointed. Fast forward all this time, and I gave it another shot on next-gen. The game works. It is fun, and honestly a pretty top-tier FPS RPG game. With that being said; incredibly flawed. Visuals are on par with a PS4 game, it doesn't run great and struggles to consistently hit 40-50fps on the 60fps mode, and it is buggy as **** I've never encountered so many game-breaking bugs in one game before. This is AFTER years worth of updates too. It is unbelievable. If you know what you're getting into; it is quality. I'm not a graphics stickler by any means. I can deal with the dated visuals and stiff animations, but the way the game runs holds it back massively. I would recommend giving it a second look if you didn't play it before. Where the game struggles performance-wise, it excels with a good story and an impressively-built world. Despite my score, I have more positive things to say about this game than negatives, but I just need to be a realist and tell it how it is. Anybody giving this a 10 is either outright lying or has an extremely loose definition of what makes a perfect game. The game itself will go down as a classic for me, but it is poorly optimized and full of glitches. You can't ignore that despite how good the actual game is. Especially considering the fact a lot of the problems with the game effect gameplay and progression directly.

Really high-quality platformer. It's honestly pretty fantastic and has a ton of charm. It makes me desperately want another Little Big Planet, more than I already did, but this is a fine alternative.

Kind of a mid game. Very fun at first, with some unique mechanics, but it just plays poorly. Needs a current-gen update on XBOX very badly.

A classic. Was a 10/10 the first time, and I am tentatively calling it a 10 this time as well. LAck of multiplayer hurts the package tremendously, but the games are still terrific.

Very good -- surprisingly good, tbh. One of the better pro wrestling games of the last decade. WarGames is a disappointment, but everything else is a blast for the most part.

Initially, I was kind of blown away by this game. It wears off quickly. It's a typical, paint-by-numbers Far Cry game but with less effort put into it because the game's time period and setting can be used as an excuse to defend the overall lack of effort and ingenuity.

It is fine. One of the weaker games from the dev, but fine nonetheless. It's structurally all over the place, and the writing is mostly piss poor, but it's carried quite a bit by pretty solid performances across the board. The game feels like it was developed with a big budget by a C-Team within the studio, honestly. I wanted to love it. And I initially did, but it falls off pretty quick. No real ending either. We get a montage telling us things we already know. It ****.

I really quite liked this game despite its flaws. The actual on-field gameplay is pretty boring. Intentionally simple and pretty barebones, but after you've played a game or two, you've experienced just about everything there is to experience. I think the game is at its best when not actually playing soccer. The different areas look different and stand out from each other, but the actual sidequests you do get very bland and repetitive. A ton of guesswork with not a lot or care put into the actual structure of the way things work. More variety here would've helped the game massively. Overall, fun little game. Was pretty surprised with how much I enjoyed it, but I have to acknowledge how much better it could have been. It is very buggy. Things not loading until you've restarted the game multiple times, etc. Seemingly happens every 15 minutes. It is ridiculous.

A solid, slightly underwhelming game. The Bioshock vibes are very much there, but it just made me want to play Bioshock. A lot of this game is essentially Bioshock if it were mid. A commendable effort and by no means a bad game, there just isn't much here that I will remember a few days from now. The story is nothing special, the writing is abysmal, and the voice acting is fine. It comes across as weak, but the performances were perfectly OK. The writing does it no favors, unfortunately. Graphically not much stands out. This is a mid-life-cycle PS4/X1 game graphically for the most part, though some of the environments really do look great. They admittedly do some cool things with the lighting and whatnot. The environments - shocker - are only memorable when they seem ripped right out of the world of Bioshock Infinite. I swear, there are parts of this game that would be indistinguishable from that game if looked at in a still image. The game usually nails the atmosphere. It is incredibly unsettling at times, but not quite a horror game. They do a phenomenal job of adding something ominous to environments that would otherwise be beautiful. It doesn't always hit, but when it does, it's pretty great. The gameplay is janky as hell and reminds me of the bad aspects **** like Dying Light. It's playable, but it's not great. The gameplay really leaves a lot to be desired. It's fun a good amount of the time, it's just super underwhelming. It doesn't perform very well either. Lots of dropped frames and buggy objectives depending on the area you're in. I had ZERO desire to explore the open world. I don't even know if there is side content. I focused completely on the main story. Nothing about this world is compelling. It's mostly similar, ugly-looking areas littered with tons of enemies, and the combat is not good enough that I want to clear out enemies to explore any of the open world. It's a complete clusterheck, and I didn't enjoy it. At all. I found out 6h into the game you could drive, lol. I don't recall it ever being mentioned. But yeah. You can drive. Thanks for telling me. This game wears the influence of so many other games on its sleeve. Little bit of Far Cry, a little bit of Fallout, a good dose of Wolfenstein, a whole lot of Bioshock, etc. Unfortunately, 90% of it is evident in the bad parts. The melee reminded me of the worst aspects of games like Dying Light. The world reminded me of a toned down and bland versions of things seen in Bioshock Infinite, the "powers" were a less fleshed out and borderline useless version of things seen in the OG Bioshock, the gunplay reminded me of Fallout games 10+ years ago, the driving reminded me of the worst driving ever seen in the Far Cry games, the world building and dialog was like a middle-school version of the newer Wolfenstein games. I'd recommend a playthrough if it looks intriguing to you, but temper those expectations. This is one of the most mid games I have ever played, and I will not remember anything positive about it in a few weeks.

Mostly a pretty great game. I wish there was a bit more mystery and detective work, but what is there really is pretty fantastic. For sure, one of the most "alive" open worlds in these "Yakuza" games, the PS5 surely helps with that even though I am positive they aren't scratching the surface of what can truly be done on this more modern hardware. Still, it looks really good. Yagami is, for the most part, a layered and enjoyable protagonist. Not close to topping Kiryu, but who can, really? It doesn't come without its issues. Tons of irritating enemy pop in with the random gang encounters. It becomes a bit much late in the game. There are a lot of bugs I encountered. POIs not loading in when they should, being stuck on the screen you get briefly after winning a fight, missions not loading, etc. My biggest issues with the game? Pretty big ones. First and foremost; it is too long. Straight-up, too long. Around Chapter 6 or so this game feels like it's coming to an end, but no, you're only halfway done with the game at that point. I don't necessarily have a problem spending 50+ hours on a game. But this game lacks the depth to make that interesting and the story slows down to a slog at that point. It doesn't feel like it warrants the playtime. This brings me to my second big complaint. Yakuza games have long had combat that does get a bit old and boring over time, but it's usually far more layered. It's not here. This is the most shallow combat I've ever played in these games. On one hand, maybe it makes sense. You're a detective, not a super-hardened martial arts dude. But still. It hurts the overall gameplay. Two combat styles that visually look a bit different, but feel identical to play. One is more kick-heavy and focused on taking on groups, the other is more punch-focused for taking on a single, stronger enemy. But you can use the styles interchangeably without many hindrances at all. One style may be better in every scenario even. It just misses the mark and lacks depth or any thinking-on-the-fly re: fights. Just button mashing -- and not even typical Yakuza button mashing. Way worse. Last half of this game I avoided every single street encounter because the fights became very boring. Worth a playthrough, just know what you're getting into.

I enjoyed my time with it, but it started to drag a lot in the final hour or two. At least IMO, and that's a very bad sign considering this is a pretty short game. I love the new art style, I enjoyed a lot of the interactions with characters & dialogue, but the puzzles were straight-up irritating at times. Not due to difficulty either, just tedium. Also; I went into this game feeling very nostalgic and planning a 100% run. But throughout the entire game, I had at least 5 different achievements simply... not pop-up when they absolutely should have. I'm past the point where I'll fight with a game's **** when I know I'm doing everything correctly. So I gave up that 100% run entirely relatively quickly. Still, a fun playthrough for the most part.