Ryse: Son of Rome is a repetitive and tedious homage to the gruesome battles showcased in the film 300.
Driveclub is a solid, basic racing game with lots of tracks, lots of cars, and very little in the way of personality.
Alien: Isolation harbors legitimate frights, but they're nestled between endless stretches of bland lever-pulling and button-pressing.
There's a party in Forza Horizon 2, and everyone's invited.
Shadow of Mordor's political machinations and rambunctious action make it a cut above your everyday Lord of the Rings game.
D4 is all kinds of crazy, and you may not take to its unique brand of humor. But if you do, there's no forgetting it.
Its core combat is sensational, but Lichdom: Battlemage never evolves a proper game around it.
Destiny's essentials are there, and they're great--but the game surrounding them is cold and shallow.
The Sims 4 is beautiful and charming, but its constricted structure makes it disappointingly limited.
Infamous: First Light benefits from Second Son's excellent fundamentals. Its missions and storytelling, however, lack spark.
Metro Redux is a terrific package that combines two bleak games into a single cohesive whole.
The Path to Thalamus is not free of bumps, but the journey should be taken, if only because the sights are so vivid.
Like it's predecessors, Risen 3 provides a rollicking adventure that doesn't quite deliver on the details.
The excellent Divinity: Original Sin isn't a look into the history of role-playing games, but instead a look into their future.
Cry Wolf brings The Wolf Among Us to an uneven conclusion, but still packs the occasional emotional punch.
WildStar is a colorful and traditional online role-playing game that evokes the compulsive need to fight everything you can fight, and click everything you can click.
Comforting colors, excellent sound design, and simple gameplay make Entwined a lovely and fleeting experience.
Watch Dogs' attempts to say something serious are overshadowed by how enormously fun it is to create chaos in its impressive open world.
Bound by Flame is a rickety role-playing game that bites off far more than it can chew.
Don't be afraid of the dark in the shallow and cliched horror adventure Daylight.