While not deep in story, Battleborn leverages the development team's strength to create a fun roster worth experimenting with in the wide open online arenas. This isn't a new Borderlands, but it doesn't have to be to feel like a success.
Koi is at its best in the brief interludes between fish and flower, when you're simply inside this environment doing what fish do best. That's where the gameplay and small environments rip you from the edge of tranquility to be ushered into the next area, and also where this experience falters heavily.
In an all-time series, Dark Souls 3's quality is only questionable when placed next to its own kin. Otherwise, you will find no better action RPG in your game library.
Yeah, Hitman is back with a more stealth-balanced system, but this being an episodic experience seems to have IO Interactive stuck now without a real story or reason for players to come back. Still, there is fun to be had in the various killing approaches and Agent 47's slightly different approach to acquiring said opportunities.
Going exactly as far as the gameplay takes you, The Division hands you a New York you've seen before with enough extras to keep your eyes entertained, for better or worse, along the lengthy journey. Cover-to-cover gunplay forces you to get the drop on a small roster of enemies that, nevertheless, you should enjoy mowing down for hours on end on the strong back of the Dark Zone's originality and the many ways to build up your toxic avenger.
Coflicks has most of its eggs in a row, delivering a methodical real-time strategy experience that immerses you into space and chicken politics.
Despite the lack-luster story of the Fryes' rise, Assassin's Creed Unity bolsters the ideas of last year with some new, worthwhile additions keeping the franchise fight-ready.
Vault of the Traveler brings a proper close to the first Tales From the Borderlands season, and should signal the end of Telltale's failing game engine.
Life is Strange went out with its emotional core beating strongly despite some of the same old gripes of the series lingering.
Even though Adventures of Pip has far too few new ideas, the skeletal system we've played in other games still holds up under a new coat of pixels.
Assault Android Cactus has all the personality and variety of a twin-stick classic, but lets the focus fall too heavily on a single, ever-draining battery bar to match that promise.
Simply put, there is no better stealth-action gameplay system than the one within The Phantom Pain, and no better game as of yet in 2015.
Without much time, Escape Plan Bravo brings plenty of smiles and sets up grudges to be settled in the series finale.
Dark Room brings out the darkness in Arcadia Bay, but fails to continue one of the best parts of Life is Strange.
New Sony adopters can hail as an indie champion has come to PlayStation 4 while returning Nomads can appreciate the upgraded visual splendor.
While this episode is certainly worth the effort, chugging through buggy sections with long loading screens puts the grinding brake pads to a lot of series enthusiasm.