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In the future, nobody can hear you compare weaponry stats.

Having largely been left off of the (very small) Armored Core bandwagon, I was surprised that with a little effort I got sucked completely in to the series’ complicated underpinnings when I reviewed Armored Core V over a year ago. From Software has expanded on its last entry and brought us Armored Core: Verdict Day, which corrects a few issues while adding an entirely new complicated system you can dig into. The problem is, this new system has definitely pushed past the series’ tenuous status as accessible by humans using a controller and there’s not enough other new stuff to differentiate it from its predecessor.

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Three's a crowd.

Dead or Alive 5 represents a classic fighting game paradox. While every release increases the game's quality, it also increases the burden of delivering added value to fans who are skeptical of re-buying a game they’ve already purchased one or two (or three or four) times.

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