Alex’s Best of 2018
by Alex Quevedo2018 was an interesting year for myself and gaming. To start the year, my apparently cheap self finally sprang for an external hard drive, ready to take on ALL THE GAMES… on just one console, because I didn’t buy two….
Read more
Author: alexq
“Marvel’s Spider-Man: Turf Wars” DLC Review
After starting off the DLC series with Black Cat, Marvel’s Spider-Man is back with part two of The City that Never Sleeps with Turf Wars, featuring Hammerhead. While The Heist had its highlights, it was too intimate of a setting…
Read more
“Marvel’s Spider-Man: The Heist” DLC Review
The amazing Marvel’s Spider-Man game released its first batch of DLC with The Heist, part of a three-part series called The City that Never Sleeps. The DLC series will take Web Head deeper into the mob organizations within the city. Getting…
Read more
“The Walking Dead: The Final Season, Episode 1: Done Running” Review
While sometimes taking a back seat to others, the underlying focus to Telltale’s The Walking Dead series has been Clementine. Her story started six years ago when Lee came across a scared little girl. Now, her story perhaps reaches its…
Read more
“God of War” Review
I have to admit: I’m a complete novice when it comes to God of War. General life circumstances never really gave me access to the franchise (which is easily correctable at this point). Despite that, I was excited to dive…
Read more
“Batman – The Enemy Within, Episode 5: Same Stitch” Review
As great of a job as Telltale has done with a Batman series, can they just give us a Joker series? Asking for a guy I know. What’s It About? Episode 5, Same Stitch, pays off John Doe as the…
Read more
“Batman – The Enemy Within, Episode 4: What Ails You” Review
When I left off my last review of Telltale’s ongoing Batman season, I was wanting more. Well, turns out I got a lot more of what I wanted in the latest release: What Ails You. The title is incredibly apt…
Read more
Alex’s Top Games of 2017
Throughout the year I felt like I played a lot of games between conventions and releases, but then I realized: I played a lot of partial games. Lots of episodes and plenty of demos. Such is the life focused on…
Read more
“Horizon Zero Dawn: The Frozen Wilds” Review
Horizon: Zero Dawn was easily one of the best games 2017 had to offer, so getting the chance to dive back into the world is inherently exciting and daunting. Could an expansion live up to the quality of the rest…
Read more
“Batman – The Enemy Within, Episode 3: Fractured Mask” Review
Over the last couple of weeks, there were two notable releases featuring Batman. One is a dumbed down mess that shows Batman getting beat to hell, getting almost all of his toys broken, and making him be a foolish jerk….
Read more
“Star Wars Battlefront II” Review
Darkness rises… and microtransactions rise to meet it. I think that’s how the new Star Wars saying goes.
Read more
“Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy, Episode 5: Don’t Stop Believin'” Review
Just a short few weeks after the release of the last episode, Telltale is back to close out its Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy season with Don’t Stop Believin’. After leaving themselves in a tough spot at the end of…
Read more© 2025 Smashpad © 2023