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Remember Me's rough edges outweigh its ambition by tenfold. While I respect the risks Dontnod took with certain aspects, so much of the game is mired in banality that it'd be impossible for me to give more than faint praise for what does work.
Dontnod Entertainment has said that casting Nilin as the lead in its upcoming Remember Me "just felt right", but the Creative Director Jean-Maxime told Shacknews that the game is more about gender equality than the developer first envisioned.
Awakened, and Dead Space entirely as of late, thinks it's far more clever than it actually is. It's over-complicating and bloating things to the point of confusion and lost me along the way.
Anomaly 2's motif may be transformation, but the core of what made its 2011 prequel so refreshing remains largely unchanged. What I saw of the game so far already feels incredibly polished and ready for release.
While I had no problem with how Mass Effect 3 ended Shepard's story, Citadel is a more formal—and wholly welcome--farewell that doesn't insult the finality of what's come before it chronologically and through the narrative. Bravo, BioWare.
Aliens: Colonial Marines has no redeeming qualities whatsoever. That pretty much says it all.
Dead Space 3 Executive Producer Steve Papoutsis talks about co-op, ice planets and meeting expectations.
When asked about his decision to not make a PC optimized version of Dead Space 3, executive producer Steve Papoutsis went on the defensive.
Mass Effect 3's Omega DLC feels like and add-on, and an poorly implemented one at that. High points were fleeting, giving the bulk of the content a superfluous feel. Not the best of BioWare's attempts to expand the ME3 universe.
If anything ties Call of Duty: Black Ops: Declassified together, it's inconsistency. The entire package reeks of a lack of care and oversight and feels like a slapdash cash-in on the franchise's name. Everything from controls to campaign design and multiplayer lacks the coherent vision and level of quality Infinity Ward and Treyarch have cemented on their PC and console releases over the past decade.
