Ben Thomas
Batman: Arkham Knight expands brilliantly on its predecessors with a massive city and a Batmobile that serves many roles.
While the campaign is lacklustre and Zombies is over-designed, Call of Duty: Black Ops 3 succeeds thanks to the multiplayer's perfect mix of structured maps, diverse specialists and liberating movement.
Authenticity comes at a price—Star Wars: Battlefront is beautiful but makes too many mistakes when it comes to maps, balancing and spawning. These issues cause anger, and anger leads to hate.
DiRT Rally carefully simulates the endurance of rally and offers a brutal driving experience that builds satisfaction through vehicle and track mastery.
The Witness is a challenging and eye-opening puzzle experience that has been designed with such precision that it can alter your thought process for a long time.
With a delightful main character and tight-knit platforming mechanics, Unravel is a simple adventure that is worth playing.
Layers of Fear is a competent demonstration of jump scares compressed tightly into an ever-changing and dark mansion.
Far Cry Primal takes the franchise cleverly into the Stone Age era with a minor and important survival influence.
ADR1FT uses simple mechanics to create a subdued and freeform space journey that is worth experiencing.
Grim Dawn is a satisfying, complex and clever hack-and-slash adventure that provides great value.
Nostalgia is prominent throughout Doom's intense and repeating action encounters against glorious and tormenting foes.
If you can withstand its tiresome first half, Dreamfall Chapters offers intriguing concepts and a satisfying continuation of the adventure series.
Deus Ex: Mankind Divided is another outstanding entry in the series containing many viable gameplay options, framed around a fascinating—if not thoroughly conclusive—narrative.
The Turing Test’s smart new energy orb device meshes carefully with standard elements of the genre to create a puzzler that is worth experiencing.
Players seeking an adventure through fantastical worlds, with a slew of mechanical and spatial puzzles, will discover that Obduction is a gold mine.
With open maps and confronting action, Battlefield 1 is a stable, balanced and exhilarating multiplayer shooter.
With an amazing space campaign and a frenetic Zombies mode, Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare is worth the fuel needed to reach orbit.
Lara Croft GO is a brief, intelligent, relic-hunting, snake-shooting, boulder-bypassing, turn-based puzzler.
Shadow Tactics: Blades of the Shogun is a great stealth experience featuring a diverse squad of deadly assassins ready to implement the perfect plan.
Phoning Home is a mediocre survival adventure through excessively large game spaces with a slow robot and his inept companion.