IGN's Reviews
Fantasia: Music Evolved pairs conducting with music customization to create a fun, unique music game.
The Legend of Grimrock 2 is an RPG that's as much Myst as D&D, and benefits from the strengths of both.
Superb gameplay, a breakneck pace and terrifying enemies makes The Evil Within a wonderful survival horror experience.
With its unfair gameplay and messy combat, Natural Doctrine is nothing more than a tedious, rage-inducing nightmare.
Styx gets its hardcore stealth right, but its controls and platform elements fall short.
Defense Grid 2 is just as addictive as 2008's Defense Grid: Awakening, but lacks the original's surprising heart.
Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel successfully builds on the series' many strengths while repeating its pacing mistakes.
Bayonetta 2 builds on everything that made the original great, and delivers one of the best action games of the year.
Like a great player toughing it out through an injury, NBA 2K15 is still strong despite crippling server problems.
Free-form Street Sweep missions steal the show from T-Bone in Watch Dogs: Bad Blood.
Sleeping Dogs: Definitive Edition doesn't mess much with what made the original game so great. And that's a good thing.
Fast, beautiful, and accessible, but a more modest, conventional arcade racer than its sprawling, open-world peers.
Project Spark is an imaginative and rewarding game about making games. It's tough, but worth the work.
Alien: Isolation erases the memory of Colonial Marines, but it's still not the great Alien game we were hoping for.
The Vanishing of Ethan Carter's story is powerful, and its world is one of the most beautiful I've ever played through.
Ancient Space's tactical depth and unit variety are tarnished by excessive micromanagement and vexingly slow combat.
Loads of great characters and the return of Skystones make Trap Team one of the best games in the Skylanders series.
Sherlock Holmes: Crimes and Punishments dazzles visually, but disappoints with murky conclusions to its cases.
Gauntlet pays faithful homage to the '85 original, but doesn't bring the replay value expected in the post-coin-op era.
Smash 3DS is impressive and, for the most part, feels right at home on 3DS. The multitude of ways to play and awesome customization gave me many reasons to keep fighting - and I've been at it for more than 45 hours already. It all produces a fun feedback loop of engaging in matches to unlock custom moves and trophies, then jumping into another match to try out the new stuff. Even the online modes feel carefully considered and focused on what the series does best, and what the 3DS can reasonably do. It's a little disappointing that the four-player antics that are the best part of the console games don't really work on a small screen, but there's still more than enough that does work to make Smash a great 3DS game.