A sensational audiovisual experience that starts to drag around halfway in.
A jog-fest with sluggish combat and inconsistent stealth, but a story that will pull you toward the end anyway.
A superb water park for four friends to splash around in, but progression is sluggish and there are too few surprises beneath the waves.
There are beautiful and tragic scenes, songs, and passages to find in WTWTLW's journey, but they're spread far too thin.
A spectacular, occasionally very fun tour of Star Wars battles that disappoints with a boring story, crappy progression system, and endless grenade spam.
A great customizable fighting system and a cooperative spirit fill the empty spaces in a bleak open world.
A fiery test of awareness, speed and accuracy which upholds the series' devotion to teamwork and authenticity, but doesn't nail the asymmetry of modern era combat.
It needs more maps, but right now Friday the 13th is a gory game of hide-and-go-seek that's fun with funny people.
A hearty improvement on Sniper Elite 3 that embraces freeform play, gets better in co-op, and most importantly lets us shoot things from very far away.
Repetitive but fun, a hellish challenge or a relaxing, spectacular gore bath depending on how you approach it.
A beautiful action movie that punishes improvisation, with under-populated multiplayer that can’t compete with a nine-year-old game.
Ghoulish creature design and fun combat are weakened by long boring stretches, clueless AI, and snickering obscurity.
Dangerous Golf has a good variety of levels and lots of stuff to destroy, but offers weak, unsatisfying control over that destruction.
Homefront: The Revolution feels slapdash, and after the initial fun of learning its systems, drab repetition reveals obvious exploits.
Even after the free-for-all matches start to feel redundant, the punchy, full-body action in Hover Junkers remains hilarious fun.
Gears of War is fun as ever, but the technical flaws and limitations of Ultimate Edition are disappointing.
Stunningly rendered close-ups of nature make Unravel's somber fable and irritating death traps just worth surviving.
Tharsis is well made, but not well designed—an attractive, interesting board game idea, but only the first draft.
The presentation is aced, but Hard West's turn-based combat is too rote to be engrossing.
Tales from the Borderlands is a big, funny adventure with great characters—worth playing even if you don't like Borderlands.