IGN

• PC
• PS4
• XONE
• MAC
• 5 / 10
• États-Unis

The art style and premise are great: as a detective, you’re meant to introduce light into White Night’s world of darkness. And early on, it definitely feels like this is going to be a neat, smart idea that’ll be central to everything. But once you get into the house, it mainly involves scrambling about in the dark and bumping into furniture you can’t see as you run away from ghosts you can’t see either. The bones of a decent procedural horror game are buried under roughly six feet of frustrating fixed camera angles, insta-death, and bad checkpointing. Ultimately, it’s just not that much fun being a detective in the dark.

• PC
• X360
• XONE
• PS3
• PS4
• 6.7 / 10
• États-Unis

On the surface, Dragon Ball XenoVerse seems like a great game for someone like me who enjoys anime, fighting, and role-playing games. Customizing my own character’s equipment and move pool is fantastic...but it’s hard to get excited when combat feels hollow, especially for a franchise all about heroes stronger than Superman. The unique story features a nice change of pace from the anime’s sagas, but unfair missions left me annoyed. Considering how boring the competitive multiplayer is, I found cooperative Parallel Quests to be the best way to take the action online.

• PS4
• VITA
• 9 / 10
• États-Unis

There’s essentially no limit to how good you can get at OlliOlli 2. Just when you’ve mastered beating levels in a single combo and timing every single grind and manual perfectly, there are a host of other mechanics to integrate into your skating to bump that high score even further skyward. Why land in a boring old manual when you could revert into it? Why do a standard trick or grind when you could add a rotation or pull off something more complex with a longer – and riskier - animation? And hey, are you grind switching on every rail you can? It’s an impressively layered game, and does a great job of tapping deep into the skater psyche, where an obsession with tricks and effortless style intersect.

• X360
• XONE
• 8.2 / 10
• États-Unis

Screamride’s three jobs allow you to play and pass its thrillride levels in a variety of ways, but I reached the greatest satisfaction when I discovered the perfect way to traverse a track, build a coaster, or demolish a string of buildings in ScreamRider and Demolition Expert modes. Although career mode suffers from uneven difficulty and some situational camera issues, I happily replayed levels to improve my score sheet and climb the leaderboard, or just endlessly tinker with the Sandbox mode.

• PC
• MAC
• PS3
• PS4
• VITA
• 6.7 / 10
• États-Unis

Aaru’s Awakening is a beautifully stylized game with some interesting ideas that are clearly designed to challenge hardcore platforming fans. However, it’s lack of accessible controls or incentive for laboring through arduous stages, combined with the sloppy presentation of its story suggests that Aaru woke up a little prematurely.

• PC
• XONE
• PS4
• 7 / 10
• États-Unis

Hand of Fate takes familiar elements from collectible card games, action RPGs, and choose-your-own adventure games and jumbles them all together to create an experience that generally feels unique and fun. Isolated technical glitches, an overly generous dealer, and simple combat dampen some of the fun, but the novelty of the design is usually strong enough to pull up the slack.

• PS4
• 6.5 / 10
• États-Unis

• PC
• 8.3 / 10
• États-Unis

Sunless Sea gives you a wonderful world to explore and packs it with memorable written vignettes. Its permadeath flirts with repetitiveness, and combat is disappointing, but it’s far from running out of ways to inspire one more trip back across the Unterzee.

• PC
• XONE
• 7.6 / 10
• États-Unis

• PC
• PS4
• XONE
• 9 / 10
• États-Unis

It’s rare for a big multiplayer game like Evolve to feel so considered and intelligent. Everything – skills, mechanics, and design choices – seem to interlock in a way that’s both natural and purposeful. That it’s so mechanically rich and still conveys the raw energy and fun of duking it out with huge monsters and action-figure-esque hunters is a real design feat. Its progression system stifles it a bit early on, but regardless, Evolve is a deeply rewarding multiplayer experience that packs both brains and brawn.

• IOS
• PC
• 6.2 / 10
• États-Unis

It's a shame that more significant improvements weren't made to Fahrenheit: Indigo Prophecy Remastered, since playing both sides of a murder conspiracy is still such an interesting concept that's not often done right. However, the frantic button prompts, still-stupid stealth, and newly-introduced glitches make this Remaster way too unrefined.

• 3DS
• 9 / 10
• États-Unis

Just when you think the fight is over in Monster Hunter 4 Ultimate, the next challenger steps in and ups the level of competition for another satisfying round of combat and loot. Very few games can hook me in for 100 hours, but this installment adds enough new creatures, weapons, locations, and fighting moves to expand and reinvigorate my lust for the hunt.

• PC
• PS4
• 8.8 / 10
• États-Unis

Hopping through the floaty gravity and feel-good physics of Grow Home is as pleasant a gaming experience as they come. Dangling hundreds of meters above the ground while I stretched to reach a crystal induces some mild anxiety, but when you've collected those crystals and unlocked B.U.D.’s full range of abilities, free falling becomes almost meditative. It’s not particularly long, or dense, or even deep, but what it does it does exceptionally well, and doesn't have to resort to filler. This risky little game is completely comfortable in its own skin, and that makes it a joy to play.

• PC
• PS4
• 6.9 / 10
• États-Unis

I give Apotheon high praise for its homage to old-school side-scrolling adventures and its ability to recreate the captivating style of Ancient Greek art. Unfortunately, a ho-hum story and frustrating controls prevent me from doing the same for its moment-to-moment gameplay. No matter how pretty it is, unless it nails the feeling of movement and smooth combat, an action-platformer can’t be much more than an enjoyable diversion.

• 3DS
• 8.7 / 10
• États-Unis

• XONE
• 7.5 / 10
• États-Unis

• PC
• PS4
• VITA
• 9.3 / 10
• États-Unis

• PC
• PS4
• XONE
• 8.5 / 10
• États-Unis

Beginning as a furtive, desperate survival-horror experience, Dying Light gradually and gratifyingly evolves into a fast, hyper-violent celebration of vertical freedom and zombie destruction. Its main story is unspectacular, but the memorable side quests and sheer fun of exploring its world do a fantastic job of offsetting that, making Dying Light one of the most engrossing open-world games – zombie-infested or otherwise – I've played in a while.