Your Daily McMaster: the McMaster summer review revue insurgency
Contrary to what Tom Chick thinks, you really don’t need all those words to review a game. And you don’t need a five-star rating system either. You don’t even have to play the darn things. Allow me to demonstrate with the games of this past summer.
After the jump, someone get Metacritic on the horn
Payday 2
Review: I don’t think these guys are native English speakers.
Score: Two loose Kools and a Faygo.
Saint’s Row IV
Review: No zombie voice option.
Score: Some purple drank.
Company of Heroes 2
Review: Realistic snow.
Score: Four snow mobiles and some of those weird snow shoes.
Magic: Duels of the Planeswalkers 2014
Review: Still no Black Lotus or Time Walk.
Score: One Richard Garfield and half a Gary Gygax.
State of Decay
Review: I’m afraid to log back in.
Score: Fifteen question marks and a pill bottle.
The Last of Us
Review: Can I just skip to the next cut scene?
Score: One Tom Chick wearing a beret.
Marvel Heroes
Review: I think I’ll buy Iron Man! Wow, that’s expensive. I guess Hawkeye is good enough…
Score: Hawkeye.
Injustice: Gods Among Us
Review: Who the hell decided that Aquaman should have such cool powers?
Score: Shirtless Channing Tatum.