Fun, not-too-hard stealth puzzles that look great, wrapped up in a humdrum story with a boring protagonist.
A peculiar experience that's personal, sincere, and full of questions to unpack, though it asks them far too bluntly.
Tales from the Borderlands is a big, funny adventure with great characters—worth playing even if you don't like Borderlands.
The presentation is aced, but Hard West's turn-based combat is too rote to be engrossing.
Tharsis is well made, but not well designed—an attractive, interesting board game idea, but only the first draft.
Stunningly rendered close-ups of nature make Unravel's somber fable and irritating death traps just worth surviving.
Gears of War is fun as ever, but the technical flaws and limitations of Ultimate Edition are disappointing.
Even after the free-for-all matches start to feel redundant, the punchy, full-body action in Hover Junkers remains hilarious fun.
Homefront: The Revolution feels slapdash, and after the initial fun of learning its systems, drab repetition reveals obvious exploits.
Dangerous Golf has a good variety of levels and lots of stuff to destroy, but offers weak, unsatisfying control over that destruction.
Ghoulish creature design and fun combat are weakened by long boring stretches, clueless AI, and snickering obscurity.
A beautiful action movie that punishes improvisation, with under-populated multiplayer that can’t compete with a nine-year-old game.
Repetitive but fun, a hellish challenge or a relaxing, spectacular gore bath depending on how you approach it.
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.
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 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.
A great customizable fighting system and a cooperative spirit fill the empty spaces in a bleak open world.
A spectacular, occasionally very fun tour of Star Wars battles that disappoints with a boring story, crappy progression system, and endless grenade spam.
There are beautiful and tragic scenes, songs, and passages to find in WTWTLW's journey, but they're spread far too thin.
A superb water park for four friends to splash around in, but progression is sluggish and there are too few surprises beneath the waves.