Reviews

Is 4×4 EVO 2 the sim-cade love-child of a truck brochure and a Boy-Scout treasure map, or a forgotten curiosity that ended up skulking between jewel-cased Serious Sam copies in 2001 bargain bins? Both, obviously. It’s the only racer of its era that hands you a factory-fresh Tacoma, tells you to locate an archaeologist lost in the Yucatán, then […]

Picture this: a Soviet ZIL-based tanker sporting eight balloon tyres, cresting a golden‐hour sand dune like a mechanical whale, its chassis flexing in slow motion while the moon rises behind an adobe ruin. A Union Jack flaps from the tanker’s tailgate. Somewhere below, a jeep half the truck’s mass is screeching uphill, driver leaning on

Is NASCAR Racing 4 the button-down simulator that finally coaxed stock-car diehards off their dusty slot tracks, or just “that suspiciously large install where Papyrus lets you barrel-roll Dale Jarrett at 190 and still limp home for a top-ten”? (Spoiler: it’s both, sometimes within the same lap.) Underrated? Only if you’ve never watched league racers treat camber

Is Rayman 2 a bizarre fever-dream about a limbless hero rescuing sentient sushi, or a stone-cold classic worthy of the same platinum pedestal that holds Super Mario 64 and Banjo-Kazooie? Both, obviously, the game is equal parts Dali doodle and textbook 3-D platformer perfection. Underrated? Only if you’ve never watched a speed-runner fling Rayman backward through the Sanctuary of Stone and

Is The Settlers IV a cozy village simulator masquerading as a real-time strategy contest, or a devious logistics spreadsheet that lures you in with cartoon piggies before sucker-punching you with supply-chain calculus? (Answer: emphatically both.) Underrated? Definitely, outside the German‐speaking world it’s remembered chiefly by people who can still recite lumber-to-sawmill ratios in their sleep. Overrated? Only if