Even with its faults, from the weird two-halves of the story to the often poorly designed and uninteresting side-quests, Final Fantasy XV feels like a triumph. Characters, heartbreak, and joy over any one mechanic or impressive set piece.
A Way Out understands that co-op can be fun and spontaneous in addition to providing another tense moment requiring coordination.
Rough around the edges sure, but the ambition often shines through.
What's here is extremely polished and wonderful to look at. And if the simple joys of sailing through Sea of Thieves gorgeous world clicks with you as it did me, then however long you spend visiting outposts and islands and strange wrecks – will be time well spent.
The Enemy Within lets you shape and navigate your way through not only an entire relationship, that being the one with John Doe, but also in the direction and creation of The Joker. When you factor in that the Joker is perhaps almost as iconic as Batman, that Telltale was able to execute this progression at all, let alone imbue it with emotional weight – makes The Enemy Within essential for fans of the caped crusader.
Fun, charming, but ultimately frustrating.
One of the most intense, beautiful, and emotionally resonant games that features arranging housing and streets ever made.
In the meantime, even in a scrappy state, the MechWarrior meets XCOM promise mostly delivers.
If medieval history is your thing, then this is the Total War for you.
With City of Brass there's a feeling you're playing a home port of an arcade game, where short spurts of action, strategy, and fun doesn't translate to a sit-down to play for an extended length of time videogame. It looks fantastic but there's not a lot below the surface.
Gruesome and fun zombie-apocalypse survival, but also bug-ridden and poorly optimised.
Plus, simply sailing around listening to your crew sing sea shanties whilst you track down rogue pirates is something we've always wanted to do in a grand adventure like this.
This collection shines with the underlying impressive emulation of Mega Drive hardware, the variety of visual options you get to switch between realistic and pixel-heavy versions of each game, and the quality of life stuff like rewinding and picking up where you left off. And thanks to over 50 titles in the collection there are gems to find that you may not have played before - including Phantasy Star and Alien Soldier.
Choose the prices, choose the gear, choose your upgrades, choose the dungeon, and choose the loot to sell.
Pulling on your Zelda nostalgia heartstrings to drive motivation, even though the battles are all pretty much the same.
Brief and wonderful, and something to savour.
An essential release for Street Fighter fans.
When set against other titles offering vehicular combat such as Carmageddon, Interstate '76, or even Twisted Metal, Onrush pales in variety, longevity, and simple car crushing fun.
An experience that lives up to the wonderful visuals.
Where the spectacular scenery and sumptuous fashion of Summerset combines with prolific and narrative heavy quests to create an outstanding adventure, and a worthy inclusion in anyone's Tamriel wardrobe.