The game wears its influences so brazenly that the entire experience ends up feeling listless, predictable, and trite.

Monster Hunter World will leave players too dizzy to really stop and think about its somewhat disquieting pitch.

Shadow of the Colossus tells what is still a wholly engrossing, unique, and beautiful folk tale about a place where giants truly rule the Earth.

Iconoclasts is an ironic, humanistic critique of religion as much as it is a masterful take on a traditional video-game genre.

Unless you’re an extremely quick study, the game’s weirdly unintuitive control scheme will very likely get in your way.

This highly anticipated sequel to one of the Wii’s biggest sleeper hits is one of the most overindulgent games of the year.

Even with a new coat of graphical paint, L.A. Noire remains a game that adds up to less than the sum of its parts.

The game sacrifices specificity of environment, story, and characterization so as to ensure that the car is king.

Everything that made Horizon Zero Dawn the outstanding work that it is undeniably carries over to The Frozen Wilds.

Origins is determined to kill what Assassin’s Creed once was in the hopes of the series becoming something greater.