Action/Adventure, Shooter
Grand Theft Auto: Episodes From Liberty City

Two new GTA IV expansions have now morphed into their own standalone bundle. And more Liberty City mayhem ensues.

Action/Adventure, Horror/Suspense, Puzzle
Dante’s Inferno

Do you know what shape this year’s most diabolical game comes wrapped in? A circle. Actually, nine circles. Abandon hope, …

Action/Adventure, Shooter
Killzone 2

I was in the middle of screening a movie not long ago and was momentarily surprised by how much action …

Action/Adventure, Shooter
Grand Theft Auto IV

Polyester pants and a double knit shirt aren’t the usual soldier’s attire. Yet they’re Niko Bellic’s wardrobe of choice as …

Action/Adventure, Combat
God of War II

When the original God of War hit video game shelves a couple of years ago, with its arresting visuals and …

Shooter
Just Cause 4

Sure, the protagonist here is heroic. But can we really praise a game that strives to make graphic bloodletting seem …

Action/Adventure, Combat, Puzzle
Darksiders III

Sin is given flesh in this slashing apocalyptic game. But biblical answers ain’t in the script. (Or the same county.)

Action/Adventure
Fallout 76

Fallout 76 takes its bloody post-apocalyptic story online, creating new problems for an already problematic franchise.

Action/Adventure
Red Dead Redemption 2

A hundred hours wandering through this M-rated digital Wild West will leave behind plenty o’ scars.

Combat
Call of Duty: Black Ops 4

No story mode and a Fortnite-like multiplayer options change the CoD landscape … and not for the better.

Action/Adventure, Role-Playing
Assassin’s Creed Odyssey

It may be a new day and a new Odyssey, but it’s, frankly, the same problematic Assassin’s Creed.

Action/Adventure
Life Is Strange 2, “Roads”

This narrative adventure sequel invites gamers into a thoughtful-but-problematic journey along several rocky roads.

Horror/Suspense
Transference

You might want to think twice before locking yourself into this VR escape room.

Action/Adventure
Shadow of the Tomb Raider

Lara Croft’s adventures these days are much better than her tomb-raiding of yore. But in other ways, a whole lot …

Action/Adventure
We Happy Few

We Happy Few quirkily says some compelling things about our world’s problems. But it has problems of its own, too.