With a wealth of new content to enjoy, on top of the already excellent and expansive base game, Rise of the Tomb Raider: 20 Year Celebration just about makes up for its late debut onto PS4.
A novel and brilliantly executed concept, regrettably dimmed by self-defeating structural choices.
"Requiem's delicious vistas and atmospheric environments stand toe-to-toe with the visual might of many of its contemporaries"
The question you have to ask yourself before picking up Part 1, then, is not only whether a feast for the eyes is a meal worth paying for, but whether that meal is going to completely satisfy your appetite, particularly if you've already had your fill of the original recipe.
Firaxis lets its hair down for a fun, ragtag twist on XCOM's proven recipe of tactics and tension.
By channelling community feedback into an all-encompassing package, Forsaken finally makes Destiny 2 feel essential again
Performance problems aside, Subnautica will rekindle your faith in the overcrowded survival genre, and scare you senseless.
The game does a great job of constantly ensuring communication and co-operation between players, not just by entrusting both of them with a shared responsibility in protecting the Chariot, but also in the great level design. There are always a huge number of diverging paths in every stage and each route promises a number of collectibles to discover.
A few minor shortcomings aside, Battlefield 1 is just the type of reinvigoration that the franchise needed.
A sequel with smarts and style, Crash Bandicoot 4 proves there's still life in the old Bandicoot yet. It's about time indeed.
A touching finale for Kazuma Kiryu, Yakuza 6 manages to surprise and delight in equal measure.
A communal imaginarium, a cultural phenomenon, and an epic social experiment; Minecraft is all of these things and more, but it's also a superb example of gaming's ability to ignite and inspire our fascination with creation.
Naughty Dog's PS4 swansong is an astonishing, absurdly ambitious epic that goes far and beyond what we could have imagined for a sequel to an all-time classic.