Daylight's inherent creepiness is undone by randomly generated elements that dispel the all-important illusion of survival horror.
Wolfenstein: The New Order is no rote shooter; it's a meaty game that delights with its oddball story and well-designed play.
If you're this far in already, you know the score: play Episode Four then try to contain your anticipation for Episode Five. As Telltale has repeatedly proven again and again with The Wolf Among Us, the wait will be worth it.
Watch Dogs makes up for a snooze-worthy story with heaping amounts of smartly designed diversions scattered around its gorgeous open world.
Valiant Hearts: The Great War doesn't do enough with its puzzle-solving gameplay or its story to make the trip worthwhile.
Transformers: Rise of the Dark Spark is an insultingly overt cross-marketing bid that isn't worth your time.
Cry Wolf, Telltale's fifth and final episode of The Wolf Among Us: Season One, hits all the right notes.
Telltale Games scores another major win with The Wolf Among Us: Season One.
Grid Autosport ditches the feature-bloat of other racing games in favor of a lean, race-first experience.
The Last of Us Remastered is the same great game it was in 2013, but Naughty Dog's upgrade could have used more time to bake.
Road Not Taken is an insidiously clever randomly generated puzzle game that stumbles sometimes around awkward design.
Surgeon Simulator Anniversary Edition finds fun in frustration by laying out vague goals that can only be completed by mastering awkward controls.
CounterSpy goes heavy on style, by Dynamighty's bid for replayability fizzles around shallow shooting galleries.
Infamous: First Light is all gameplay no heart. The action that made Second Son feel so tight is back, but it lacks the earlier game's excellent story and design.
EA Tiburon delivers a Madden game to be proud of in Madden NFL 15, thanks in large part to a clear emphasis on bringing new fans into the fold.
The Walking Dead: Season 2 is a triumph of interactive storytelling, from beginning to end.
Destiny is a good game, but not a great one. You'll want to spend tens of hours with it, but you'll wish certain things could be better all the while.
NHL 15 offers stepped up physics and superb visuals, but it's a regression for the series due to a significant number of missing features.
Lichdom: Battlemage is a fun magic-driven shooter with a deep crafting system, but repetition creeps in across its 20-plus-hour playing time.
The Sims 4 killed my girlfriend with fire. It's the same quirky, oddball good time it's always been.