Jon Denton
In a banner year for first-person shooters, Respawn delivers what might well be the best.
LawBreakers is an inventive, electric and expertly engineered classic competitive shooter that deserves your time.
Sledgehammer takes Call of Duty back to its roots, refining rather than redefining the series for the best entry in years.
This is a shooter with ambition, designed with skill and craft, and rich with tactical possibility. If it had the punch and physical feedback of some of its less-intelligent genre mates, Evolve could have been a classic. As it is, we'll have to do with a monster with plenty of bark, but not quite enough bite.
Gearbox's blend of shooter and MOBA is generous and inventive, but the marriage of genres doesn't fully convince.
A characterful and generous shooter, though its lack of balance is a thorn in its side.
With noble intentions but scrappy delivery, Verdun is a bit of a mess.
David Jaffe returns with an obnoxious, sketchy shooter that packs a surprising - if not entirely pleasant - punch.
A bizarrely hollow yet mechanically competent open world action RPG that struggles to justify its own existence.