For newcomers, this is unquestionably the version to play. For returning fans, it’s the replay the original always deserved, complete with meaningful new content rather than the bare minimum expected from a modern re-release
It’s bigger, smarter and more flexible than the original without losing the beautifully stupid charm that made Heave Ho such a co-op classic. If you’ve got pals, offspring or anyone willing to risk your relationship in the name of physics-based nonsense, Heave Ho 2 is an easy rec. Just don’t expect anybody to admit it was their fault when everything inevitably goes spectacularly wrong.
The aged skeleton of Halo hasn’t lost many minerals or calcium after 25 years and I’m going to give Halo Campaign Evolved a big thumbs up.
Nintendo has taken one of its brightest multiplayer franchises and confidently marched it into completely different territory without losing its identity along the way. That’s a remarkably difficult balancing act, yet Splatoon Raiders makes it look effortless for most of its runtime.
No, it isn’t going to replace proper boxing lessons. Nor should it. But as an entertaining way to burn calories at home without paying gym fees, waiting for equipment or being silently judged by Influencer McBiceps, Fitness Boxing 3 lands enough clean hits to keep me coming back
DOOM: The Dark Ages – Revelations is exactly what a great expansion should be. It doesn’t reinvent the foundation established by the base game. Instead, it strengthens it, expands it and quietly fixes one of its biggest shortcomings by restoring the glorious speed that made DOOM Eternal so addictive in the first place.
It doesn’t feel like Ubisoft trying to improve Black Flag. It feels like Ubisoft finally allowing Black Flag to become the series GOAT it always wanted to be.
Comfortably earns its place as one of the Nintendo Switch 2’s best action games
The core minigame design is as sharp as ever, the multiplayer additions are genuinely transformative for group play, and the soundtrack is as sticky as anything the series has produced.
Star Fox serves as a welcome reminder that elegance never goes out of style
It’s an easy recommendation for anyone who enjoys games that demand persistence, precision and just a little bit of stubbornness
007 First Light doesn’t merely earn its licence to kill. It earns its licence to stand alongside Naughty Dog with its kennel full of best action-adventure games of this modern generation.
TT Games didn’t just rebuild Batman here. Along with their last stellar showing, LEGO Skywalker Saga, they’ve slapped down a duplo-sized brick in a larger plan to rebuild my faith in the entire LEGO games formula.
Bubsy 4D isn’t the great mascot claw-back tale it could’ve been.
Japan could have collapsed beneath impossible expectations, but instead it delivers the strongest, most atmospheric and most cohesive Horizon yet.
MachineGames already unearthed one of the greatest Indiana Jones games ever made. Nintendo Switch 2 simply lets you take that treasure with you in your satchel / manpurse.
This is a game more interested in emotional honesty than traditional challenge, and while that approach occasionally leaves certain gameplay ideas feeling undercooked, the overall experience lingered in my thinkin’ machine long after the credits roll.
Invincible Vs lands its best punch by selling you the fantasy of overwhelming power, then quietly teaching you how to shred your opponents to tinsel properly.
When I reviewed Returnal back in 2021, it felt like Housemarque had one foot in the AAA door, politely knocking while clutching a fistful of bullet hell credentials. With Saros, they’ve kicked that thing clean off its hinges
What’s here is a medieval mosh pit of mayhem that’ll leave you grinning under your helmet, even if it doesn’t quite outshine its elders. Some of the flesh of Doom 2016 and Eternal has been peeled back sensibly in service of a new way; some chunks of epidermis shouldn’t have been extracted at all.