FIFA's new story mode grabs the headlines, but its gameplay still makes the difference.
PES is playing its best soccer in years, but it still struggles with features and online matches.
Dying Light's outdoorsy expansion flees the city but delivers the same mix of dogged charm and compulsion.
Set amid the wilderness of Yellowstone National Park, this enigmatic adventure offers a compelling meditation on love, loss and loneliness
Is this good or bad? As a value proposition it's debatable. This seems unlikely to be a game that can be played hard for 12 months. But it's also a far more polished and properly executed tie-in than films are typically given.
The Taken King is a sophisticated return to Destiny that makes it the best its ever been.
FIFA 16 can be stubborn and stifling, but it feels gloriously new, and having to learn fresh strategies and nuances in a game series like this is an almost-forgotten pleasure.
Whatever else might be in included in the Master Chief Collection, that feeling is at the heart of the game: it is a remembrance of things past, and those things are not as they were. The Collection is an instantaneous embrace of past and present that combines gaming's powerful sense of nostalgia with its perpetual arms race of processing and graphical power. It is part of a growing appreciation of the past in a medium which until recently was resolutely forward-looking. Proust would bloody love it.
Despite the obvious technical improvements, FIFA 15 fails to greatly differentiate itself from its previous incarnations.