IGN

• WIIU
• 9.1 / 10
• États-Unis

• VITA
• 4 / 10
• États-Unis

• WIIU
• 7.6 / 10
• États-Unis

Ninja Gaiden 3: Razor’s Edge might be the polar opposite of the usual Nintendo fare. The ‘M’ rating on the box is not a joke, what with the hyper-fast ninja action title’s unending display of severed limbs and decapitated heads. It’s fantastic to see this kind of hardcore gamer’s game on a Nintendo console – and at the Wii U’s launch, no less – and you can forget much of what you may have heard about the original release of this game earlier this year on the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3. It’s far from perfect and best viewed with “launch goggles” on, but Razor’s Edge’s unflinching action and unabashed violence is a great sign for the Wii U as a core gamer’s platform.

• PS3
• X360
• PC
• 5.2 / 10
• États-Unis

For a caricature to succeed it must capture the likeness of the original but exaggerate it in a way that raises a smile. But F1 Race Stars rarely achieves this. It’s a failed caricature, its cute and charming appearance totally undermined by its frustrating and frequently bland gameplay. Sometimes nice games finish in last place.

• PC
• PS3
• X360
• 9.3 / 10
• États-Unis

The team at Treyarch could have played it safe and Black Ops II would have sold well, but instead they challenged assumptions and pushed the series forward in awesome new directions. It’ll be hard to return to a campaign where I don’t have the ability to shape it, and I simply can’t imagine going back to the old loadout system now that Pick 10 exists. Combined with the host of subtle and overt improvements to the array of other systems, the additions to make it more appealing to Esports, and the more fleshed out Zombies mode, this is not just a fantastic Call of Duty game, but one of the best shooters of the last decade.

• IOS
• ANDROID
• 7.3 / 10
• États-Unis

• X360
• WIIU
• 5 / 10
• États-Unis

In the end, Marvel’s The Avengers: Battle for Earth is just too limited to recommend. It was originally meant to be a playful Kinect fighter for kids, and the youngest set of gamers may well be able to derive some enjoyment from the simple inputs and seeing their favorite superheroes beat the snot out of each other. But there’s just not enough content or variety here to justify the expense of a full retail purchase. The scope of this design suggests that this Battle should have been fought as something like a $10 iPad app instead.

• PC
• PS4
• XONE
• WIIU
• PS3
• X360
• 3DS
• VITA
• WII
• ANDROID
• IOS
• 8.8 / 10
• États-Unis

Whether or not you’re a Star Wars fan, Angry Birds Star Wars is a ton of fun. With its latest, Rovio has proven that Angry Birds can be more than a casual slingshotting time killer. Although it doesn’t stray too far from its pick-up-and-play roots, at its best the game contains real challenge and surprisingly clever twists. Gamers will come for the Star Wars references, but they’ll stay for the huge variety of perfectly-tuned stages. Bring on more Angry Birds collaborations!

• PC
• PS3
• X360
• 7.1 / 10
• États-Unis

On paper, Farming Simulator 2013 doesn’t seem all that thrilling, but there’s something intangible that keeps me coming back from more. The combination of the excellent community, unwavering focus on running the business, and the simplicity of the controls and your responsibilities creates a unique business simulation that rewards you proportionally to the amount of work you put into it. I’ve genuinely enjoyed playing it, and I’ll continue to do so even after this review is posted. It’s not the prettiest or deepest business simulator, but it would be folly to just dismiss it because of its subject matter. If you are patient and interested in a relaxing game without absolute winning or losing conditions, give it a try.

• PC
• 5 / 10
• États-Unis

Painkiller: Hell & Damnation is a throwback to a game that was already a throwback, and it recaptures what the original was all about with almost slavish devotion. However, shiny new Unreal Engine 3 graphics can't make up for simplistic, glitchy AI, a middling level selection, and busted, extremely underpopulated multiplayer. Go with Painkiller: Black Edition instead.

• 3DS
• WII
• DS
• 8 / 10
• États-Unis

Transformers: Prime - The Game is fun while it lasts, and fun in any form is more than Nintendo fans could have hoped for after years of other, terrible Transformers titles. This game offers the same old story with the same old characters one more time, adding nothing new to the tired old rivalry between Optimus, Megatron, and all the rest of the robots in disguise. But the inventive, dynamic gameplay that captures the appeal of stepping into the shape-shifting body of a giant bot rescues the entire package from what otherwise might have been mediocrity. This is a truly fun game, and fans of the Transformers: Prime cartoon show should absolutely check it out.

• X360
• 9.8 / 10
• États-Unis

Halo is in new hands, but guess what? 343’s debut effort out-Bungies Bungie. Halo 4 is a triumph.

• 3DS
• 8.3 / 10
• États-Unis

• PS3
• 5 / 10
• États-Unis

• PC
• 8 / 10
• États-Unis

This year it seems like everyone is releasing multiplayer only shooters, so it’s great to get a standout like Natural Selection 2. The RTS mechanics work well and make matches feel dynamic, and the two factions play strikingly differently from one another without feeling imbalanced. A better tutorial could go a long, long ways toward making it more approachable, but Natural Selection 2 is worth the frustration and failure to learn. Natural Selection 2 isn’t great only because it’s different, but because it does asymmetrical multiplayer so damn well, offering up a variety of experiences in one small game.

• PC
• 7.6 / 10
• États-Unis

The concept driving Primal Carnage may be simple, but few other games have proven themselves so adept at handling the possibilities of a multiplayer bloodbath pitting dinosaurs against humans. It’s good, stupid fun no matter which side you play on, although a questionable option to switch sides midmatch occasionally leaves too many players stacked on the dino side. Still, the satisfying combat goes a long way toward making up for the absence of any gameplay modes aside from deathmatch, and the almost perfect balance softens the loss of unlockables or any sense of progression. Accept Primal Carnage on its own raw terms, in other words, and you’ll find many hours of fun gameplay in store. And with further updates supposedly on the way from Lukewarm, it’s quite possible that this quirky little release may single-handedly rescue the endangered dinosaurs-versus-humans genre from extinction.

• PC
• 9 / 10
• États-Unis

What we’re all looking for in a game of Football Manager is that almost intangible ‘just one more game’ addiction, that feeling that you need just one more game. It’s the X-factor that separates Football Manager from the rest and the good news is that this version still has it. Sure, it’s a deep and complicated beast and occasionally it’s impossible to not feel powerless when things aren’t going your way, but that happens to managers all over the world in real life too, and that’s the point. Football Manager’s relentless strive for realism is sometimes its biggest fault, but with new modes and now new ways of playing it’s also managed to get that light touch back.

• 3DS
• 8.3 / 10
• États-Unis

I didn't have much hope for Harvest Moon: A New Beginning going in, as I suspected it'd just be another of the franchise's annual revisits to the same old series staples. The same tried-and-true fundamentals. But though those same basics do form the base of this latest sequel, they're not alone. The game earns its subtitle on the strength of some great new customization-focused features that herald a promising future for the franchise, and give newcomers a good jumping-on point. It starts off slow – too slow – but if you give it time and work with it, A New Beginning may become one of your favorite installments in this series so far.