The reviews are not always negative, and he has praised some games. For example,
Portal,
[4]Psychonauts,
[5] and
Silent Hill 2[6] all received positive reviews and first/third person shooters are usually compared to the
Half-Life series as model examples of the genre.
Saints Row 2,
Batman: Arkham Asylum,
Just Cause 2,
Portal 2 and
Spec Ops: The Line were named as his Games of the Year of 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011 and 2012 respectively. Additionally,
Limbo,
Amnesia: The Dark Descent,
Red Dead Redemption,
Dead Rising 2,
The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim,
Infamous 2,
Bastion,
Driver: San Francisco,
Dishonored,
The Walking Dead,
Far Cry 3, and
XCOM: Enemy Unknown have been named in his Games of the Year lists. Croshaw started his review of
BioShock by acknowledging that "Despite all the horrible things I'm about to say, it's still probably one of the best games of the year", but spent the rest of the review criticizing it, because "No-one likes it when I'm being nice to a game" (referring to his positive review of
Psychonauts).
[7] He was also broadly complimentary to its sequel
BioShock Infinite, calling it "good, maybe even great" and stating that he could not fault it gameplay-wise
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