Need for Speed Heat is a mosaic of existing ideas but it is easily the most impressive Need for Speed game in years.
Grid is way too lean on tracks but delivers its hyperbolic brand of Hollywood-style racing with style and confidence.
F1 2019 is a very, very good game – the best F1 game to date – but it definitely doesn't always seem like a new game.
Forza Horizon 4: LEGO Speed Champions is the freshest twist on LEGO games in ages, but it's not as wild as Hot Wheels.
Ape Out is an intoxicating fusion of percussion and destruction that oozes style from every angle.
Dirt Rally 2.0 is as tricky to tame as its predecessor but doing so is as satisfying as ever.
Forza Horizon 4: Fortune Island is a great expansion with some of the best stretches of road in the series to date.
Forza Horizon 4: Fortune Island is a great expansion with some of the best stretches of road in the series to date.
Red Dead Redemption 2 is a game of rare quality; a meticulously polished open world ode to the outlaw era.
I'll always have a massive soft spot for the down under delights of Forza Horizon 3, but open-world racing has never looked as good as it does in Forza Horizon 4. It combines a beautiful world that's really four hugely distinct maps in one with a constantly rewarding and self-renewing racing experience and I really can't tear myself away from it. Playground Games hasn't just upped the ante once again; it's blown the bloody doors off.