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It's Descent -- complete with flat textured walls. Minor gripe: No thief bot. I miss that bugger.

Chaotic co-op platforming action + over the top 80's parody humor.

The most comprehensive city-builder currently available. If you're coming from SimCity, it takes awhile to get used to.

The mutant-superpowered offspring of Harvest Moon.

This is what it would look like if Michael Bay made a racing game.

This game gets a bad rap. It isn't finished. But what is here is very polished and engaging -- especially if you're into dinos. Some of the missions are wonky and the controls can be unbearably fiddly. Also, the game doesn't do a good enough job of letting you know what's going on in your park.

This is a slim recommendation, but I make it with the expectation that Frontier will improve on it over time, as they are not a developer known for abandoning their games after release.

tl;dr: you already know whether or not you want to buy this.

A few improvements to the original, but still makes all the same mistakes as the original did. If you liked the original, by all means, take the dive. But if you found the original frustrating, boring or hated the scavenger-hunt style of quest design, you will find nothing has changed. Expect lots of vague objectives and wandering around aimlessly for hours at a time whilst waiting to stumble on the solution to quests. Saving and reloading the game is the primary progression mechanic and the enemies in this game will routinely wipe you out instantly on anything but the easiest difficulty setting.

I recommend you avoid this game unless you're personally pretty sure you'll like it. It is meant for a certain type of gamer (ones pejoratively dubbed 'The Commentocracy' by game critic Jim Sterling) and I am not one of them. That said, it's likely everyday folks might eke out some extra enjoyment from the excellent co-op mode, which is the only feature that makes these games worth buying imho -- having a friend along dulls the impact of the terrible design issues the rest of the game has. Or maybe misery loves company.

Despite having everything going for it in practically every other way, the godawful quest design turns what would otherwise be an exceptional PC RPG into a miserable slog. Avoid unless you think you can cope with these issues.

The unofficial sequel to System Shock 2. Be warned, however, that this game has awful, uneven and buggy sound design that sometimes pulls me out of the experience. If the game weren't otherwise so good, this would be a negative review because the sound issues are so pervasive. That said, one of the best immersive sims you can play to this day. If you can get over the general glitchiness, I'm positive you'll have a ball.

In Loving Memory
Arkane Austin
2006 - 2024

A fine immersive sim, and gameplay wise comparable to any other title in the series...

Sadly, what is an otherwise perfectly servicable game is marred by loading times that are nothing short of rediculous. 2-3 minutes every time I decide to change zones or load a saved game (in a game that practically demands save-scumming no less). This is the first and only time I would decline to recommend a Deus Ex game. Some people don't seem to have this issue, others have been able to resolve it with third party hacks... but I still can't bring myself to recommend it.

Tragically, these issues will probably never be fixed. There's a great game in there somewhere... perhaps behind all the loading screens.

Much potential, this one has.