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.

Action/Adventure, Combat, Shooter, Strategy
Hitman

It makes it worse that 47 is just so OK-cool about all the life-leeching lessons he’s teaching.

Action/Adventure, Combat, Role-Playing, Shooter
The Division

Loot is good here. Loot is power. And, of course, like many MMOs that have come before, loot can equal …

Action/Adventure, Combat
Far Cry Primal

This is still solidly a franchise game, living in its own primal world that’s most likely pretty far away from …

Action/Adventure, Combat, Role-Playing, Strategy
Fire Emblem Fates

Fire Emblem Fates is a game that’s been expanded and broken up into three different parts … with three separate …

Combat
Street Fighter V

Beyond the realities of the fighting itself, then, the real punch to a gamer’s solar plexus comes in the form …

Combat, Strategy
XCOM 2

It’s twenty years after the original XCOM story, and our alien foes have some nasty plans up their space suit …

Action/Adventure, Combat, Shooter
Just Cause 3

The latest entry in the Just Cause franchise is a lot like Grand Theft Auto … only with tanks, grenades …

Combat, Shooter, Strategy
Rainbow Six: Siege

Rainbow Six Siege is one of a new breed of online shooters that’s all about short, intense, close quarters combat …

Action/Adventure, Combat, Puzzle, Shooter
Rise of the Tomb Raider

The newly rebooted Lara returns with bigger adventure and, unfortunately, bigger piles of corpses, too.