Jeff Gerstmann
Don't play this game.
Metal Gear Survive is both a bad survival game and a bad Metal Gear game.
The quality feel of the driving and nice-looking environment are buried under heaps of technical issues and bland objectives.
Just go play Crackdown 1 again.
Quantum Break is an ambitious experience, but neither the video game nor the live-action sides of this time travel story come together in a satisfactory way.
The campaign has aged pretty poorly and the graphical updates to the campaign side of Gears of War feel half-baked, so unless you're really excited for the competitive part of Gears of War, there's nothing for you here.
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.
There's a word for games like The Order: 1886. Rental.
Call of Duty's return to World War II looks great, but feels flat and uninspired from start to finish.
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.
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.
Far Cry: Primal feels like one long, optional side mission.
Rock Band 4 feels more like a maintenance release than a proper relaunch of this once-popular franchise.
You'd think a game with this many modes and features would be more exciting than it is.
The great driving and great looks of Forza 5 get buried by bad menus, frustrating AI, and a disappointing number of "opportunities" to spend additional money.
There's a fantastic game hiding inside of Need for Speed Rivals, but there aren't enough systems in place to draw that greatness out where it belongs.
The campaign is a real drag, but Shadow Fall's multiplayer props up the package with its fun, configurable action.
This retelling of the original Strider arcade game has a lot of cool moments, but a lack of meaningful challenges holds it back.