It understands the genre and delivers satisfying, bombastic combat in short bursts, but also finds ways to deliver a full-length adventure that meets modern expectations.
Shadow of the Colossus is an all-time classic, and this excellent remaster provides a vital opportunity to play it again or discover it for the first time.
Rather than run headfirst into a firefight, you’ll think multiple steps ahead and carefully consider where your enemies will intersect with your bullet.
Nex Machina infuses the classic Robotron twin stick formula with breakneck speed, adds in the wild voxel-based visual style of Resogun and sharpens it to a razor edge.
The fascinating semi-open world structure has been fleshed out and augmented with the combat know-how of developer Platinum Games: It looks and plays great.
The sprawling, sun-soaked and varied terrain of Grand Theft Auto V’s Los Angeles and Watch Dogs 2’s San Francisco Bay Area truly feel like gigantic playgrounds.
On its release day, Street Fighter V was missing a ton of features, from a promised Story Mode to any meaningful training challenges to even Arcade mode.
Just Cause 3 is an incredible action movie amusement park filled with the tools to create any over-the-top Bond/Bourne/John McClane fantasy in your head.
A Platinum Games joint is like a Quentin Tarantino movie or a Ryan Murphy TV show – if you call yourself a fan of the art form, you have to check it out.
Except for an HD reworking a couple years back, the Tony Hawk series has been missing as of late, after previously appearing with incredible regularity for more than a decade.
Toy Soldiers is solid gold: Actual toy soldiers duking it out on a virtual battlefield, reminiscent of those many on-the-rug action figure battles of kids under the age 10.
Eerie PC hit The Vanishing of Ethan Carter won accolades for its gorgeous visuals and offbeat narrative. Making its debut on consoles, it’s easy to see what the buzz was about.
Rocksteady announced Batman: Arkham Knight would be the conclusion to their Arkham saga, and now that it’s here, it’s easy to declare that they went 3-for-3 with its Batman games.
The Crew, an ambitious new open world racer, aims to take things one step further with an entirely seamless sea-to-shining-sea drive across the 50 states.