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Insomma, questo è un gioco saltato fuori dritto dritto dall'epoca d'oro degli RTS, la stessa di Age of Empires II e Rise of Nations: epoca d'oro, sì, ma ne è passata di acqua sotto i ponti. O di olio bollente sulle teste dei nemici, se preferite. Se siete giocatori veterani che vogliono rivivere le emozioni di un tempo, insomma, fatevi pure avanti, ma aspettatevi un canto del cigno piuttosto che un nuovo inizio.

Endless Legend plays out on one of the greatest, most beautiful maps in strategy gaming history. It combines style, substance, and setting into a marvelous overall experience for both empire management and tactical combat. It struggles slightly with strategic depth, but this is a science fiction and fantasy strategy game with tremendous soul.

Wasteland 2 might not be the prettiest CRPG to hit digital shelves this year, but it captures the harsh hypothetical realities of the post-apocalyptic American Southwest with excellent writing, decisions with terrifying consequences, and background voice work that reinforce the human suffering that results from them. It's a game about the power of choices, and the few remaining glitches and issues with its combat do little to diminish its power.

Fenix Rage managed to appeal to my inner masochist. No doubt, it threw down some of the toughest gaming challenges I’ve faced in 2014. Sadly, it didn’t deliver that constant drip of challenging satisfaction that games like Dark Souls and Super Meat Boy managed to conjure on a minute-to-minute basis. Ultimately, I never felt like I got “good” at Fenix Rage, only occasionally lucky.

Hack N’Slash is both a perfect pun and an amazingly clever game; one that does have a tendency to get so wrapped up in being clever that the gameplay suffers for it, unless you and its creators are on the exact same wavelength, but which does at least let you feel smart as well. ...Too many glitches do spoil the party though, which is more serious here when you don’t know if they’re intentional.

D4 is an intriguing experience, and brimming with personality. It’s also the most polished game from Access to date, with a genuinely first-rate presentation. ...D4 is even better second time around too, when most of the pieces are already in place and you can interpret every piece of information in context. Now, bring on the next part.

Lethal League ha la stoffa del campione.... L'idea alla base del gioco riesce a fare presa all'istante e brilla di luce propria. Gli scambi sono fulminei, non c'è un attimo di tregua, un momento di respiro. ...La componente online, superba grazie all'ottimo netcode, incornicia un titolo eccellente sotto ogni punto di vista. Team Reptile colpisce nel segno e spedisce la palla da baseball nell'iperuranio, in un fantasmagorico homerun.

The simplistic art style of Minimum isn't a turn off in the slightest. Surprisingly, it's the melee swords that end up being a huge imbalancing factor in combat that deflates the fun of the fast-paced gunplay. Minimum's two standard game types and refreshingly different Titan Mode will be a good time if that ever gets sorted out with a few balance tweaks, but right now the fun depends on the willingness of others to lay down their swords.

Uneven and undercooked, Disney Infinity 2.0 isn’t the major upgrade I expected. It lacks the playful fun and diversity that made Infinity 1.0 so great last year. A few things are better – characters, old and new, feel more distinct and combat has been improved, and The Toy Box has made creation more inviting and less overwhelming. ...I hope it doesn’t forget that what made it fun wasn’t the cool characters it had at its disposal but the way in which it played with them.

I wanted to love Sword Art Online: Hollow Fragment for its enjoyable exploration and addictive combat. Unfortunately, the embarrassing romance system, confusing Hollow Missions and wonky translation overshadowed any fun I was having.