Blackwater – one major SNAFU

505 Games’ Blackwater is a little too old for us to review (plus we’ve already mentioned that it was one of Metacritic’s worst games of 2011) but after playing through this shoddy on-rails shooter there’s no way we couldn’t write a little something about it. It’s one of those rare games that’s so bad it’s …

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Metacritic’s worst of 2011

This’ll be the third year running that we’ve rounded up Metacritic’s worst games of the year, so we assume it’s a tradition for us now. This year though we’ve left out downloadable games because otherwise this article would be based mostly on incredibly bad DSiWare and WiiWare games, of which there have been many. For …

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See Sonic run. Run, Sonic, run.

So here it is, Sony’s big Christmas game – Uncharted 3: Drake’s Deception. Reviews have so far included 9 from EDGE, a 10 from Destructoid and 5/5 from The Guardian. Eurogamer caused a little bit of a fuss on the internet by giving it an 8 – they found it a little bit “narrow”. The …

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