Rich Stanton

PC Gamer

Rich Stanton·Nov 27, 2025

Critic90/100

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Singularly unforgiving, dizzyingly complex, and like no other FPS out there: the extraction shooter's extraction shooter.

PC Gamer

Rich Stanton·Aug 22, 2025

Critic87/100

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Excellent, Konami: Age hasn't slowed you down one bit.

PC Gamer

Rich Stanton·Mar 26, 2024

Critic69/100

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A charming but slight co-op action game where a basic combat system is elevated by clever bonuses and abilities, and half the pleasure is the world's incidental details.

PC Gamer

Rich Stanton·Mar 17, 2023

Critic80/100

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Resident Evil 4 remake is a great game in its own right, but can't hold a candle to the original.

PC Gamer

Rich Stanton·Feb 21, 2023

Critic78/100

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A beautiful, flawed, and deeply weird Soviet Westworld.

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Rich Stanton·Jun 29, 2022

Critic89/100

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More of a sunset.

PC Gamer

Rich Stanton·Jan 10, 2022

Critic90/100

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Monster Hunter: Rise is arguably the greatest entry in Capcom's flagship series, and a game that simply never stops giving.

Rock Paper Shotgun

Rich Stanton·Jun 27, 2016

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Mighty No. 9 is the best Mega Man game I've played in years, but all of the problems it has come from that too. Whether the gaming scene of 2016 needs a modern Mega Man is a more ambiguous question, perhaps answered by the old adage: be careful what you wish for.

Eurogamer

Rich Stanton·Jun 1, 2016

Critic75/100

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The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles arcade machine is an oddity which, despite not being all that great, enraptured a gene…

Eurogamer

Rich Stanton·Apr 4, 2016

Critic100/100

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Editor's note: Dark Souls 3 releases worldwide today, so to mark the occasion here's our review of From Software's fare…

Eurogamer

Rich Stanton·Feb 2, 2016

Critic75/100

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Though Pravda is well-known as the Russian Communist Party's official newspaper, it's always worth remembering that it …

Eurogamer

Rich Stanton·Nov 23, 2015

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Editor's note: This review goes into some small spoiler territory with the identity of bosses and details on locations …

Eurogamer

Rich Stanton·Sep 1, 2015

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Metal Gear Solid 5: The Phantom Pain is a dream game. It's the kind of game that, in 1987, the young designer of the 8-…

Rock Paper Shotgun

Rich Stanton·Jul 7, 2015

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When playing DMC4: SE you can see how certain parts of the design had grown archaic.

Eurogamer

Rich Stanton·Jun 4, 2015

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There are games you don't have time for, and games you make time for. Then there's the kind of game Blizzard makes, whi…