Jeff Gerstmann
The campaign has aged pretty poorly and the graphical updates to the campaign side of Gears of War feel half-baked, so unless you're really excited for the competitive part of Gears of War, there's nothing for you here.
Super Mario Maker lets you create as many Kuribo's Shoe-focused levels as your heart can take and then some. The pipes work and you can make giant goombas and stack them up as high as the screen. You can press play and get served up an endless array of user-created levels of varying degrees of quality. If any of that sounds even slightly appealing, you'll probably love this thing to death.
Don't play this game.
Rock Band 4 feels more like a maintenance release than a proper relaunch of this once-popular franchise.
You'll spot some rough edges and notice some omissions, but Halo 5 looks great, plays well, and has enough options to keep you coming back.
The quality feel of the driving and nice-looking environment are buried under heaps of technical issues and bland objectives.
You'd think a game with this many modes and features would be more exciting than it is.
Far Cry: Primal feels like one long, optional side mission.
Superhot is an intense and thrilling blend of action and puzzle with a solid bit of narrative to tie its murderous mysteries together into something worth seeing.
The side content is too repetitive, but The Division's main content and exciting multiplayer component stand out and make this thing worth seeing, provided you've got some like-minded friends around.
Quantum Break is an ambitious experience, but neither the video game nor the live-action sides of this time travel story come together in a satisfactory way.
Adam Jensen's return is largely successful, even if the conspiracy surrounding him could've been a little more engaging.
Horizon 3 doesn't make dramatic changes to the formula, meaning it's a beautiful and pleasant experience that's best experienced at a somewhat leisurely pace.
Gears of War 4 is a good reminder of why Gears of War was so cool in the first place.
Titanfall 2 goes for feel above all else, and it feels fantastic.
This Legacy Edition package contains the most Call of Duty Activision's ever compiled, but the quality of each individual piece is so all over the map that it's still hard to recommend.
All in all, it's a great game, it's Guerrilla's strongest release to date, and I suspect I'll go back in after the fact to clean up whatever side quests and errands I have remaining, if only to spend a little more time in that world.
If you're the sort of person who just wants to mindlessly shoot through co-op games with a chatty group of friends, Wildlands is fine for that. Anyone else should probably look elsewhere.
The long list of options available in Injustice 2 means that players of all skill levels should be able to find something exciting to do.
Call of Duty's return to World War II looks great, but feels flat and uninspired from start to finish.