Bro of the Month Club: Urdnot Wrex

So by now, most of us have played the first two acts of the Mass Effect Trilogy. By that standard, I think that a solid 99% of us recruited Wrex into our intergalactic crime fighting team, and for good reason. It's pretty damned hard to not like Wrex, and that's a fact.

If you killed Wrex in Mass Effect 1, you're a sadistic asshole, and I'm just going to get that out of the way first. Seriously, this guy is one of the smoothest, baddest, meanest, and ugliest characters ever imagined. He always gave the wisest, manliest advice, and when things got tough he kept a level head (unless his head was busy ramming mercenaries into walls). If you shot him, or let that god-wad bitch, Ashley shoot him, hang your head in shame.

The one time that Wrex lost his cool was when he realized that the protagonist was about to seal the fate of his entire species to extinction. AND EVEN THEN IT ONLY TAKES A FEW SENTENCES TO LOGICALLY CONVINCE HIM THAT IT'S FOR THE GREATER GOOD. See? Not just brawn, but brains too.

And finally, when you meet him again after two years, you find out that he went from being some old mercenary to THE FUCKING KING OF THE KROGAN. I'll tell you what. You name one person who has gone from zero to king of his god damned species in two years, and I'll revoke Wrex's bro status.

And there you have it: Urdnot Wrex, the official Game Nebula "Bro of the Month" for May

Meta-Review: Alan Wake

Being the busy man that I am, I don't always have time to personally review every game that I play. Thankfully, plenty of other sites do, which means that I can post their scores/quotes to at least give my readers an accurate representation of a game's quality. I recently played Alan Wake, and after becoming stuck in a work-induced coma, I decided to create a meta-review for it...

• The Escapist - "5/5 stars"

"Unless you're allergic to excellent storytelling or have an unnatural fear of pine trees, play this immediately."

• Destructoid- "9.0/10 - Superb"

"It's a must-have Xbox 360 title that provides a freshness and dynamism that horror games have been achingly lacking for the past several years. And it's done all of this without an awkward, unwarranted, ill-fitting sex scene!"

• IGN- "9.0/10"

"It's not the revolutionary product some may have hoped for, but it's still great entertainment. Remedy has built a world that, despite being a fantastical realm of twisting shadows and realities, is solidly anchored in authenticity."

• Gamespot- "8.5/10"

"Fresh storytelling fleshes out the supernatural events in interesting ways"

• Giant Bomb- "4/5 Stars"

"Alan Wake is on the whole a propulsive, thrilling, and downright spooky action game from start to finish, quite unlike anything else on the market in visual style and storytelling format."

• Eurogamer- "7/10"

"Alan Wake is an accessible, undemanding game with a neat combat mechanic and decent visuals. It's just not a very original game, it's certainly not an exceptional one, and it's a shame it wasn't ready a few years ago."

• Metacritic Average- "84/100"
• Gamerankings Average- "85.91%"