Boy, it's been a while since I played that one, but from what I remember, your thoughts are pretty spot on. Mechanically, I thought it was a one-trick pony that could have done something neat with a bit more ambition. As it stands, it's just kind of irrelevant by now.
@arbitrarywater: That's maybe Divekick's greatest problem. It's a teo button game that should appeal tto everyone with such a simple premise, but the whole thing is designed to be intimidating to fighting game outsiders, from the inside baseball jokes to the weird characters.
I didn't get to play Worms Revolution. It was the first of many PC games to come that decided to flip my graphics card the bird. It definitely sounds like a similar situation. At this point, I just want strsight up Worms with some gameplay variants like "war" or the nifty bases idea they had a few games ago. Like you say, the campaign stuff is just dreadful.
Long and short of it was that I thought this was a good list. I'll be curious to read about your thoughts on Halo 4 and Walking Dead Season 2 in particular, as I thought both were generally good games despite some cracks in the foundations. I got started on a few games today, two of which I had to abandon for fear of giving up on this endeavor before it even started. Don't play LA Cops. It's a bad game. Really bad. And Worms Battleground should be kept solely to its multiplayer or "normal" gameplay. The campaign is painful and buggy as hell. Anyway, more on that in my own blog.
Good luck! Have fun! Glad to have you back doing a regular feature.
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