Wolfenstein: The New Order

Post-Launch Review
Wolfenstein: The New Order (PC)
Developer: MachineGames
Released: May 2014
Played: complete in 11h:24m

About

Suddenly using extraordinary new technology, the Nazis won World War II and took over the entire world. U.S. Army special forces captain William Blazkowicz pulls out of his coma in 1960 and joins the resistance to liberate the world from the overwhelmingly powerful Nazi new order.

Ghostbusters

Post-Launch Review

Ghostbusters: The Video Game (PC)

Developer: Terminal Reality

Released: June 2009

Played: complete in 7h42m

About

Original Ghostbusters actors Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd, Harold Ramis, and Ernie Hudson reprise their roles in a new story set in the 1991, two years after the events of Ghostbusters II. The Ghostbusters are successful contractors for the City of New York - successful enough to be hiring. You're the new recruit brought on just in time for a major new paranormal event with ties to old foes Gozer and occultist architect Ivo Shandor. 

Kholat

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Kholat (PC)

Developer: IMGN.PRO

Released: June 2015

Played: complete in 3h48m

About

In February 1959, an experienced student expedition vanished on the mountain Kholat Syakhl in northern Russia, and were later found dead under strange and still unexplained circumstances (this is a real thing that happened). Years later, you explore the harsh mountain, attempting to piece together what happened to the expedition... But you're not alone, and there's more out there than just you and the dead.

Assassin's Creed Rogue

Post-Launch Review
Assassin's Creed: Rogue (PC)
Developer: Ubisoft Sofia
Released: November 2014 (X360/PS3) / March 2015 (PC)
Played: 100% sync in 34h

About

Shay Patrick Cormac is a young Assassin rising in the ranks in the North Atlantic around the St Lawrence River when he's sent on a mission that leaves him horrified with the direction and outlook of the Assassins. Left for dead and seething over his feelings of betrayal and abandonment, Shay is taken in by people he used to believe were enemies and sets out to stop his former friends from fulfilling their plans... at any cost.

Life Is Strange

Post-Launch Review

Life Is Strange (PC)

Developer: Dontnod Entertainment

Released: 2015 (first episode January, last episode October)

Played: 100% complete in 15h (all 5 episodes)

About

Max Caulfield returns to her home town to attend an art school for photography, but when she sees her childhood friend attacked, Max discovers an ability to rewind and alter time. Max initially uses her power to help people in minor ways but soon uncovers a dark secret lurking behind Blackwell Academy and the town of Arcadia Bay - and she believes that solving the mystery is the key to preventing a massive tornado that will destroy the town in five days.

SOMA

Post-Launch Review

SOMA (PC)

Developer: Frictional Games

Released: September 2015
Played: complete in 8h:42min

About

Simon Jarrett gets a brain scan to determine how to help him recover from a car crash. He wakes up a hundred years later, disoriented and alone, in a damaged underwater facility populated only by confused robots and strange hostile creatures. As Simon tries to discover what happened to him, to the people on the station, and to the rest of the world, he's forced to confront questions of who he is and what it means to be human.

Shadowrun: Dragonfall - Director's Cut

Post-Launch Review

Shadowrun: Dragonfall - Director's Cut

Developer: Harebrained Schemes
Released: January 2015 (standalone)

Played: complete in 18h:12min

About

What should have been an easy job goes horribly wrong and your crew of mercenaries suddenly finds itself in the middle of a dangerous conspiracy. A dragon that was believed killed decades ago after a post-Awakening rampage is actually alive, and now that you know, it wants you dead. The only way to protect your teammates and your home is to discover the dragon's plans and put a stop to them.

Shadowrun Returns

Post-Launch Review

Shadowrun Returns (PC)

Developer: Harebrained Schemes
Released: July 2013 (PC) / September 2013 (mobile)

Played: complete in 10h:36min

About

Set in a future where magic has returned to the world, you are a shadowrunner, a mercenary operating in the underworld independent of the megacorporations. Your friend Sam has died, and he's left you a message offering you a huge payout to find his killer. You're on the job, but the case quickly grows bigger than you imagined...

Endless Space

Post-Launch Review

Endless Space

Developer: Amplitude Studios

Released: July 2012

Played: 5 games over 19 hours

About

Choose your race, establish your empire, and colonize the galaxy. Travel across the stars to discover systems with unique planets and strategic resources. Dominate your opponents with economic, military, science, expansion, diplomatic, supremacy, wonder, or score strategies.

Saints Row IV

Post-Launch Review
Saints Row IV (PC)

Developer: Volition
Released: August 2013

Played: story complete with 96% world progress in 21h

About

Following the successes in Steelport, the leader of the Saints has been elected president of the United States... just in time for an alien invasion. The Saints are abducted and trapped within simulations, at the mercy of the galactic warlord Zinyak. Hacker Kinzie Kensington and vice president Keith David are the first out. They rescue the Boss, who immediately launches a campaign of destruction and revenge to save his/her crew and all of humanity.

Transistor

Post-Launch Reviews
Transistor (PC)
Developer: Supergiant Games
Released: May 2014
Played: story complete in 8h; 100% complete in 13h:12min

About

A man dear to popular singer Red lies dead with a sword called the Transistor in his body, but his consciousness has been taken into the Transistor. Pursued by the mysterious Camerata who stole her voice and robotic entities called the Process, Red races through Cloudbank to discover why she was targeted and why the Process are re-shaping the city.

The Bureau: XCOM Declassified

Post-Launch Review

The Bureau: XCOM Declassified (PC)

Developer: 2k Marin / Australia / China
Released: August 2013
Played: story complete in 10h:38min; Hangar 6 complete in 2h:10min

About

It's the height of the Cold War in 1962. A covert American organization known only as the Bureau is investigating a mysterious pathogen when an alien attack destroys a military facility and exposes CIA agent William Carter to an unknown artifact. Recruited into the Bureau, Carter leads a team of field agents investigating and combating the alien threat, hoping to keep the war covered up and discover a vulnerability before the aliens take over the world.

Alien: Isolation

Post-Launch Review

Alien: Isolation (PC)

Developer: The Creative Assembly

Released: 7 October 2014

Played: story complete in 15h:30min

About

15 years after the disappearance of the Nostromo, Amanda Ripley is still trying to find out what happened to her mother. After all that time a real lead turns up on the remote decomissioned space station Sevastopol: the flight recorder from the Nostromo has been found. But that's not the only thing that's been found. Amanda barely manages to make it on to the severely damaged station to find it in lockdown, with half the population dead and the other half terrified of what's lurking in the shadows. Amanda will find out what happened to her mother, but not in the way she'd hoped...

XCOM: Enemy Unknown

Post-Launch Review

XCOM: Enemy Unknown (PC)

Developer: Firaxis Games
Released: October 2012

Played: 7 hours of Enemy Unknown; Enemy Within complete in 17h

About

Alien invasion! Humanity's only hope against the overwhelmingly advanced threat is XCOM, a secret organization dedicated to researching and defeating the aliens. XCOM's commander struggles to balance technological and biological research, facility expansion, training and recruitment, and global panic while deploying squads of soldiers to repel attacks and seize research material.

Halo: Combat Evolved Anniversary

Post-Launch Review

Halo: Combat Evolved Anniversary (XBox 360)

Developer: Bungie (original) / 343 Industries (Anniversary)

Released: November 2001 (original) / November 2011 (Anniversary)

About

Chased by the aliens known as the Covenant, the human ship Pillar of Autumn crash lands on a mysterious, ancient alien ring-world called Halo. Cybernetically enhanced soldier Master Chief and the artificial intelligence Cortana search for Halo's control room, hoping to use it against the Covenant, but Halo holds dangerous secrets...

Metro: Last Light

Post-Launch Review

Metro: Last Light Redux (PC)

Developer: 4A Games

Released: May 14 2013 (original) / August 25 2014 (Redux)

Played: story complete in 13h:30min

About

Recognized as a hero for destroying the nest of the mysterious and dangerous Dark Ones, Artyom was catapulted into the ranks of the rangers defending the Metro. Now, one year later, evidence surfaces of a lone remaining Dark One - a child. Artyom's orders are to find it and kill it before it can hurt anyone, but the mission is not that simple. Others are interested in the young Dark One, and a war is brewing between major factions in the Metro...

F.E.A.R.

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F.E.A.R. (PC)

Developer: Monolith Productions

Released: October 2005

Played: story complete in 6h:12min (replay)

About

The First Encounter Assault Recon unit - F.E.A.R. - has received their first assignment. Experimental psychic commander Paxton Fettel has gone rogue, taking control of a battalion of clone soldiers. The mission: take down Fettel to stop the soldiers. But it's not that simple. Fettel has an agenda, and it involves a dangerous research project that was shut down and covered up decades ago...

Lost Planet 3

Post-Launch Review
Lost Planet 3 (PC)
Developer: Spark Unlimited
Released: August 2013
Played: story and most extras complete in 14h:42min

About

Jim Peyton has come to E.D.N. III, an ice world covered in hostile bug aliens known as akrid, to work as a contractor and send that huge danger pay back home to his family. But as Jim settles in on the remote world, he stumbles across some huge secrets that will determine the future of the planet, and he'll have to decide where his loyalties lie.

Vanquish

Post-Launch Review

Vanquish (XBox 360)

Developer: Platinum Games

Released: October 2010

Played: story complete in 6h

About

After a Russian nationalist group seizes control of a space colony and repurposes its microwave power transmitter to boil San Francisco alive, an American military force launches an all-out assault to reclaim the station. Joining the squad is Sam Gideon, outfitted with the DARPA Augmented Reaction Suit, which enhances his reflexes and allows for high-speed jet boosts. Sam and Lieutenant-Colonel Robert Burns are tasked with retaking the station before it fires again on New York City.

S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Call of Pripyat

Post-Launch Review

S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Call of Pripyat

Developer: GSC Game World

Released: October 2009 (CIS) / February 2010 (worldwide)

Played: complete in 13h:24min

About

Shortly after Strelok disabled the Brain Scorcher during the events of S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chernobyl, there's a rush to explore and exploit the centre of the mysterious and anomalous Chernobyl Exclusion Zone. Military helicopters have gone missing during a scouting mission, and Major Alexander Degtyarev is sent in undercover as an independent stalker to identify the reason for the choppers' disappearance.