Dead Past 8

ZA/UM's espionage RPG doesn't quite sell its spy story.

One of the first things I learn about myself in Zero Parades is that I'm a fuck-up – an omnishambling bad omen with cropped hair and unfair cheekbones. Before I was put on ice, I was supposedly one hell of a spy. But that was then, and this is now. The veteran spy fallen from grace is not a new story, but in careful hands, it is almost always a great one. There are so many tiny little things that go right and wrong for an agent in the field: an indifferent tsunami of luck and skill and wildcard entropy that keeps going until the last plastic domino lands on the worst outcome. This is how

Evil Dead Burn is easily the most violent and oppressive Evil Dead movie yet, and even with the occasional gruesome highs of the horror on screen, this one manages to feel too similar to its predecessors while also leaving out some of the essential elements of Sam Raimi's beloved horror franchise.

Seven years later, the counterplay of the Triangle System is still just as satisfying.