Action/Adventure, Combat, Horror/Suspense, Shooter
Call of Duty: WWII

The latest Call of Duty installment marches bloodily back to the battles where the franchise began.

Action/Adventure, Combat, Role-Playing
Middle-earth: Shadow of War

This ferocious, M-rated sequel may be set in the milieu of Lord of the Rings. But it’s a lot more …

Combat, Puzzle, Shooter, Strategy
Mario + Rabbids: Kingdom Battle

Mario is back. But this time it’s in a strategic, turn-based—gulp—shooter. How worried should we be?

Action/Adventure, Combat
Hellblade: Senua’s Sarifice

What would it take for a video game to depict psychotic madness? Hellblade: Senua’s Sacrifice answers that dark question.

Arcade/Platform, Combat
Tekken 7

A T-rated beat-’em-up with more demonic story weirdness than you may want to fight through.

Combat, Strategy
Halo Wars 2

The second Halo Wars contest delivers real-time strategy thrills without all the famous franchise’s goopy, gory, first-person shooter spills.

Combat
For Honor

For Honor delivers bloody, hack-and-slash action paired with an extremely deep fighting system and bellowing combatants.

Action/Adventure, Combat, Shooter
Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare

If you think battling robots in space will be less messy for human combatants, think again.

Combat, Shooter
Battlefield 1

This intense, graphic depiction of World War I features equal measures of visceral combat and anti-war sentiment.

Action/Adventure, Combat, Shooter
Gears of War 4

Is this next-gen Gears of War title a kinder, gentler version of its graphically gory predecessors? Gears action without Gears …

Action/Adventure, Combat, Shooter
Homefront: The Revolution

It’s a toss-up which is worse in this blood-drenched first-person shooter: its content or its quality.

Combat, Shooter
Overwatch

Since this is a shooter, it’s only smart to wonder just how messy all of Overwatch’s first-person pull-a-trigger play gets.

Combat, Shooter
Battleborn

Battleborn is one of a new breed of “hero shooters.” But just how heroic is it?

Action/Adventure, Combat, Horror/Suspense, Role-Playing
Dark Souls III

The Dark Souls games are excruciating in their difficulty, and their content is dank and demonic. That’s exactly what the …

Action/Adventure, Combat, Shooter
Quantum Break

Even with all the time travel, there’s simply no skipping past the bad stuff to get to the good.