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Thief offers up moments of stealthy satisfaction, but not nearly enough of them to make up for its many rough edges, bland level designs, and god-awful plot.
Whatever steps forward NHL 15 has taken in visual presentation hardly make up for the alarming gutting of many of the series' best features.
Driveclub looks nice and has a couple of good ideas about handling leaderboard challenges, but the core of it--actually driving a car--drags the entire thing down.
Shinji Mikami returns to the genre that defined him, but the result is a jumbled mess of ideas that never quite come together.
NBA Live 15 makes some key improvements, but this franchise still doesn't feel quite ready for prime time.
Assassin's Creed: Unity is at once an object of exquisite beauty and exhausting boredom.
The move to more powerful consoles has resulted in a prettier looking wrestling game, but also a far less enjoyable one.
There's a word for games like The Order: 1886. Rental.
Jedi: Fallen Order is both one of the best Star Wars games to date and distressingly unrefined.
Odyssey takes Origins' formula and expands it to the point of nearly breaking.
Call of Duty's return to World War II looks great, but feels flat and uninspired from start to finish.
Marvel vs. Capcom: Infinite's gameplay lives up to its predecessors, but in most other ways, it takes you for a ride.
This rollercoaster ride of a turn-based strategy game starts out almost impossibly strong, but by the end I mostly wished it'd been over three hours earlier.
Far Cry 5's story is a real let-down, but the action still makes for a solid co-op experience.
Nintendo's newest IP delivers on tone and fleeting fun, but struggles to sink its hooks in.
This sequel expands on the vaunted Nemesis system in wildly entertaining ways, even as it falls short around the edges.
Drifting over the polygonal landscape looking for crystals is still a peaceful good time, if you can overlook a few flaws.
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.
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.
It's light years from being a great game, but there's still something at the heart of No Man's Sky that speaks to the would-be explorer in all of us.