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Amazing sound design: System Shock 2 Bioshock Quake Amazing musical score: Castlevania: Symphony of the Night Silent Hill

I got a pretty substantial amount of hate mail for giving that game a 3/5.

I'm amazed that people continue to talk about this; of all the complaints with Bioshock, this one seems the most irrational (ha-ha). It would be impossible to display the same image on a 16:9 and 4:3 screen. So the choices are, stretch/distort/black-bar one image, or, don't. They...

Sometimes it's useful for me to see why someone liked a game so much they could overlook its shortcomings. Or, conversely, disliked it so much they couldn't appreciate its strengths. There are only ever a handful of games that nail everything perfectly, and usually (not always) their...