Reviews
Need For Speed: Heat Review – Crossing the Finish Line in Style
Need For Speed: Heat launched November 8 on PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and PC. After a few exciting hours with the game, it turned out to...
Doug Flutie’s Maximum Football 2019 Review
It’s pretty safe to say that I’ve been one of Maximum Football’s biggest critics over the past three years. I’ve criticized the series for feeling...
WWE 2K20 PC Pre-Patch Review: A Pre-Show Botched Finish
Only one week removed from the anticipated launch of WWE 2K20, we finally got our hands on this year’s game. Despite, most of its worst qualities...
CHIKARA: Action Arcade Wrestling PC Review: Wrestling Made for Everyone
The wrestling genre is pretty slim in terms of selection. While other choices to the blockbuster franchise do not measure in terms of visual presentation,...
The Fisherman – Fishing Planet Review: Hook, Line and Sinker?
I have always wanted to learn how to fish growing up. I remember my uncles talking about their adventures fishing and how big the fish...
GRID Giveaway: Win Codemasters’ Latest Racing Title
GRID, the rivalry-focused revival of developer Codemasters’ classic racing series, is out now on PC, PlayStation 4, and Xbox One. GRID’s expansive career allows you...
GRID Review: Worth The Grind?
For those who aren’t familiar with the GRID franchise, its roots go back with the TOCA series on the Playstation many years ago, which is...
Axis Football 19 Review
McDonald’s has Burger King; Coke has Pepsi; Lamborghini has Ferarri. Alternatives are almost everywhere so if you don’t like something, there’s bound to be a...
eFootball PES 2020 Review: A Game With An Identity Crisis
When you bring up soccer video games, it’s far too common to hear someone bring up EA Sports’ FIFA franchise before any other title. For...
NHL 20 Review: RPM Takes Center Stage
NHL 20 marks six installments since the franchise made the jump to the PlayStation 4 and Xbox One. And while the series is clearly better...
NBA 2K20 Review: Sinking Threes, but Missing the Free Throw
When you’re the top basketball game in the market it’s easy to get complacent, but to NBA 2K’s credit they’ve continued to improve. However, with...
NASCAR Heat 4 Review
NASCAR Heat 4 is more than just the next installment in a racing franchise. It’s a game that shows that developers do, in fact, listen...
Draft Day Sports: Pro Football 2020 Review
The start of the NFL season is upon us, and you may be in the mood to play some football to celebrate the beginning of...
Madden 20 Review: Is It Worth Your Money?
With the launch of Madden 20, it marks 15 years since the Madden NFL series has faced any actual competition. Over this last decade-and-a-half, there...
NHL 20 Beta: Full Impressions
For the first time since its announcement in June, fans were able to get their hands on NHL 20 with the launch of the game’s...
Tour de France 2019 Review
Reviewed by Sam aka FIFA Brit Tour de France 2019 is a game that was released on the 27th of June as the latest installment of the...
F1 2019 Review: First Place Finish
For the better part of the past decade, Codemasters has delivered racing hit after racing hit for gamers. From the Dirt Series to Grid to...
Draft Day Sports Pro Basketball 2019 Review
When you think of sim-style games, you think of names like Out of the Park Baseball and Football Manager. Those titles have done a tremendous...
Dangerous Driving Review: Burning Rubber
Full disclaimer: I love the Burnout series. In fact, if you were to ask me to rank my favorite game franchises of all time, the...
MLB The Show 19 Review
MLB The Show has never been a game to make huge overhauls year in and year out. Instead, they take what they have and improve...
RBI Baseball 19 Review
Six installments after its revival, RBI Baseball has given fans an outlet for those seeking a more casual type of baseball experience than the flagship...
Dirt Rally 2.0 Review: Stay Focused
Dirt Rally 2.0 is as satisfying of a racing experience as Codemasters has ever developed. It can even be stated that it’s as satisfying of...
Monster Energy Supercross 2 Review
After years of subpar releases, niche sports are back to seeing games released that are worth playing. From Steep to OnRush, these impressive games have...
Gear Club Unlimited 2 Review: A Worthy Switch Racer?
The Nintendo Switch has no shortage of great games available, but what it does lack is a great sim racer. Gear Club Unlimited tried to...
Super Smash Bros. Ultimate Review: Smashing
If Super Smash Bros. Ultimate were the last Smash Bros. game in the series, I wouldn’t be upset. Overall, Super Smash Bros. Ultimate is a...
Ride 3 Review: Best Motorcycle Racer Ever?
There’s something about being on a motorcycle that just makes you feel free. Maybe it’s the fact you aren’t enclosed in a metal and plastic...
Football Manager 2019 Beta Review: No Red Cards Here
Soccer (or football, depending on what part of the world you live in) games have become quite popular in recent years, thanks in part to...
NBA 2K Playgrounds 2 Review: Thin Bench
If you’re expecting NBA Jam or NBA Street out of NBA 2K Playgrounds 2, you’re going to be vastly disappointed. While NBA 2K Playground 2...
WWE 2K19 Review – 2K Kicks Out At Two
WWE 2K19 refuses to shy away from the shortcomings of its predecessor. Instead, as a proper sequel or successor, it builds off the foundation laid...
Franchise Hockey Manager 5 Review: A First Line Showing
Opening Franchise Hockey Manager 5 was like going to an old friend’s house I haven’t been to since high school, but once you walk through...
Axis Football 18 Review: Another Step Forward
When playing Axis Football 17, there was always something sitting in the back of my mind whenever I loaded up. It was a comment from...
FIFA 19 Review: A Soccer Juggernaut
Almost a quarter of a century has passed since the beginning of what would become the bestselling franchise in gaming history. The game simply known...
NASCAR Heat 3 Review: Finding Its Line
Driving in circles is a great metaphor for what the NASCAR video games have felt like for the better part of the last decade. While...
NHL 19 Review: Top of its Class
With NHL 18, the one thing that stood out the most was the fact that it was clearly starting to become a stale experience on...
NBA 2K19 Review
Every year, the NBA 2K series delivers a top-level basketball product to gamers. And despite being at the top for so long, they’ve done a...
NBA Live 19 Review
The NBA Live series has slowly been making strides to once again be seen as a serious competitor for basketball fans. Live 18 made a...
The Golf Club 2019 Review: A Near Ace
The Golf Club is a franchise that comes from humble beginnings of just a group of developers that wanted to create a golf game that...
Pro Evolution Soccer 2019 Review
Reviewed by: Daniel Baesel As summer slowly turns to fall, we get ready to welcome the beautiful game of Football back into our lives as most major leagues have now officially...
F1 2018 Review: The Best Gets Better
Since taking over the Formula 1 license eight years ago, developer Codemasters has seen its share of highs and lows. If 2015 was it’s low...
Maximum Football 2018 Review: A Flawed Experience
For a lack of a better phrase, Canadian Football 2017 just wasn’t a good game. A lack of depth along with countless bugs made it...
Madden NFL 19 Review: Status Quo
With another football season comes a new Madden NFL game to get our hands on. Despite the new additions of the locomotion system and upgrades...
Danger Zone 2 Review: Fun Yet Shallow
Back in the early 2000’s, there was a little series that you might have heard of known as Burnout A racing game by genre, Burnout...
Mario Tennis Aces Review
On paper, Mario Tennis Aces and the Nintendo Switch are a match made in heaven. A hybrid console that offers games on the go, and...
Onrush Review: Chaotic Entertainment
When anyone thinks of racing, they immediately think of a group of competitors battling for position to see who can come in first place. It’s...
Super Mega Baseball 2 Review: A Grand Slam
For years, arcade sports games had seemingly gone the way of the dodo bird. Every company seemed to be more focused on providing as realistic...
Casey Powell Lacrosse 18 Review
It came out of a nowhere like the scariest of RKOs, but a sequel to Casey Powell Lacrosse 16 is here in the form of...
Out of the Park Baseball 19 Review
If gold standard means “a thing of superior quality which serves as a point of reference against which other things of its type may be...
RBI Baseball 18 Review
RBI Baseball 18 has tried to pick up the slack left by the MLB 2K series for Xbox. Since MLB 2K‘s demise, that community has...
MLB The Show 18 Review: Long Live The King?
Building the best sports game isn’t always about making the biggest additions possible year over year. Rather, it’s often about taking aspects from previous installments...
Burnout Paradise Remastered Review – Welcome To Paradise City (Again)
You get two options: enter Paradise City or start a party. Upon entering Paradise City, you’re thrust into the open road where the grass is...
EA Sports UFC 3 Review: An Ultimate Showing
When it comes to sports games, fans may often seem overly critical. However, when it’s all said and done they are really just hoping for...
Mutant Football League Review: Where Horror Meets Gridiron
In the 1990s and early 2000s, game developers weren’t afraid to take risks by creating unique games that parodied the seriousness of simulation sports titles....
Need for Speed Payback Review
Just for a moment, close your eyes and picture yourself speeding along beautiful landscapes in an amazing car, and racing for a chance to make...
Gran Turismo Sport Review
For over four years, racing fans have been anxiously awaiting the latest installment in the Gran Turismo franchise. The wait is over. Gran Turismo Sport...
Football Manager 2018 Review – Taking Managing To The Next Level
Annual franchises tend to come with a certain shadow of doubt. Each November soccer simulation gamers have one with the yearly release of Football Manager,...
Franchise Hockey Manager 4 Review
It’s a unique feeling that’s hard to replicate. Whether you happened to build your team by signing nothing but the best free agents and trading...
WRC 7 Review
Who didn’t dream of driving a rally car in their childhood? The World Rally Championship series aims directly at these kinds of gamers. This year we...
FIFA 18 Review – SGO
Another September, a new FIFA and a fresh round of everyone being concerned that annual release cycles are a cynical money-grabbing enterprise, but still buying...
PES 2018 Review: A Good Game Getting Better
Another year later and Pro Evolution Soccer is back. The competition is fierce in the soccer gaming business, and KONAMI put forth a big-time effort...