Just Cause 2

Just Cause 2 is ridiculous in the best possible way. In the space of a few moments, you can grapple to a hovering helicopter; beat up the pilot and hijack the chopper; blow up a cluster of fuel tanks; put the chopper on a collision course with an enormous antenna; jump out at the last…

Just Cause 3

The explosions in Just Cause 3 are really, really good. They’re elaborate, extravagant eruptions of fire, debris, and smoke. And when you blow something up, the ensuing fireball spreads to other objects around it, triggering a massive, destructive chain reaction. It’s a brand of fiery devastation that Michael Bay would describe as ‘too much’. But…

Need For Speed: Most Wanted

You're cruising the downtown streets in a shiny new Lamorghini when – gasp – you spot an equally gorgeous Maserati tucked away down a side-street. What do you have to do to possess that delicious new motor? What challenges do you have to beat, races do you have to win, pockets do you have to…

Doom

There are no safe spaces in Doom. The demons on Mars—and that's all you need know, that there are demons on Mars—will chase you everywhere. Down slag-lit corridors full of strobing klaxons and dread. Up cliffs and through gore-shellacked crucibles of pain. To anywhere you've deemed a bulwark, because in id Software's gonzo shooter (out May…

Sniper Elite III

Whenever I wasn't setting up a shot, emptying my lungs, and pumping a sharp metal bullet through the thick skull of an unsuspecting enemy soldier, I was frustrated with Sniper Elite III. Not because the surrounding mechanics are broken or the levels are poorly structured, as the subsidiary elements of this third-person shooter are, for…

Minecraft

Minecraft, as if you've never heard of it, as if we haven't been telling you to play it for years, as if we didn't already give it Game of the Year in 2010, is a game about building things out of blocks with your friends. The game world is rendered in cubes, every one of…

MAFIA 3

STORY and PLOT: Mafia 3 puts you in the revenge fuelled boots of Lincoln Clay. A Vietnam veteran recently returned to New Bordeaux, which is a fictional re-creation of New Orleans. In its simplest form, this is a revenge story that pits the protagonist against his enemies in a one-man-army murder spree. But Mafia 3’s story…

Dirt 4

Whether you are a newcomer or veteran in the Dirt Rally Series Dirt 4 is the apex in RallyCross racing. When you look back to Dirt Rally there were a few flaws that you would think would be ironed out and additional features added, well Dirt 4 does that spectacularly well while also making it…

Dragon Ball Xenoverse

Most players could probably guess exactly what events of the Dragon Ball timeline that Xenoverse visits. Events surrounding Raditz, Frieza, Cell, and Buu are all present, with a few more thrown in for good measure. The twist here is that some jerk is going through the timeline and messing everything up by making the "bad…

Naruto Shippuden Ninja Storm 4

Much like the previous Ninja Storm games, this is a combination of 3D multiplayer fighting with a truncated re-telling of the story of Shippuden. Starting in the midst of The Great Ninja War, Ultimate Ninja Storm 4's story mode tells the same tale as the manga and anime, cutting out any side action and pruning…