Dan Stapleton's Reviews
Defense Grid 2 is just as addictive as 2008's Defense Grid: Awakening, but lacks the original's surprising heart.
Free-form Street Sweep missions steal the show from T-Bone in Watch Dogs: Bad Blood.
Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor's great action and dynamic enemies make both victory and defeat an amazing experience.
With zombies, more is better. Dead Rising 3 delivers the undead and great tools to kill them with by the truckload.
Infamous: First Light gives us more of the great action of Second Son, but doesn't have the same super-powered variety.
An incredibly challenging recreation of the classic X-COM: UFO Defense, Xenonauts a little too loyal for its own good.
Watch Dogs is an excellent open-world action game with some unique hacking-magic that makes it a memorable experience.
Sir, You Are Being Hunted is a dynamic and atmospheric stealth game that'll kill you politely.
Goat Simulator is a clever piece of interactive satire powered by hilarious ragdoll physics and its embracing of bugs.
Thief has good stealth going for it, but everything connecting its few relatively open scenarios is a mess.
With zombies, more is better. Dead Rising 3 delivers the undead and great tools to kill them with by the truckload.
Contrast is a game full of heart, beauty, and at least a few excellent puzzles.
New abilities, tough enemies and more maps make XCOM: Enemy Within a superb expansion, but the ending needs an upgrade.