Insulting to the city and the people it rips off.

An experiment that cannot survive its own landing.

It's games like this one that made me want to avoid the look of my peers in the hallways of the film department.

Eye-gouging levels of bad.

Scorching atomisation of the self, not vague critique of the military-industrial complex, is what makes Spec Ops : The Line stand on its legs almost ten years later.

Sufficiently expressive in both gameplay and narrative for me to want to play Deathloop.

Videogames weaponized as dreamed objects of meaning.

This level-design - or lack thereof - won't cut it, though.

Arkham City reduces the one-man effort of being Batman to a series of rythmic clicks. You aim, press a button and suddenly a bad guy is defeated. Press another and the pit is avoided altogether. Pedestrian.

Nobody is denying that Batman is a cop.

The real crime is not extracting anything interesting out of this observation.

Acrobatic and directionless.

I prefer Fallout 3's radical humanism but it's impossible to deny New Vegas its charms.

Probably the best ghost story in videogames.

A waste of time and space.

It's a doomed project, but one filled with zombie dropkicks and insane feats of parkour. Fruitlessly electrifying.

With a bigger budget - and grander ideas about humanity - maybe I Am Alive could have been more than an effective proof-of-concept.