Dungeon Hunter 4 is a good action RPG, with satisfying exploration and a huge map. It could definitely be one of the best free to play games in the mobile market, but the freemium model is shameless and too intrusive, drastically downsizing all the interesting parts of Gameloft’s IP .

Little more than a DLC of the 2011 edition, Cities XL 2012 is a good SimCity game, even if perhaps it's too simple to be a real contest.

Battlefield fans will surely appreciate the "operation nostalgia" set up by DICE, but the admission ticket is too hefty.

The Caligula Effect 2 is an interesting game but it has too many imperfections that make it uninvolving.

Mario Party: Island Tour is a pretty decent new addition to the series... if you have friends to play with. Despite the engaging Bowser’s Tower mode, the single-player campaign will soon run out of ideas.

The atmosphere is good, but there’s no real thrill since everything is just served to the player on a silver platter and most of the time is spent on a coach traveling between locations.

Five Nights at Freddy’s presents an interesting concept to the player, and tries a different approach to the genre other than the usual asylum, graveyard and ghost town. Even the gameplay has something to say, but after the first minutes, once understood the mechanism, is hard to find a real interest in continuing playing.

Quotation forthcoming.

One hour of gameplay, two new weapons and a military outfit for 400 Microsoft Points? This is not the best offer of the year, but true Fable fans won't miss it.

Eyes of Heaven offers lots of contents, but it isn't particularly convincing in terms of gameplay.

Wavey The Rocket is a new 3D side-scrolling arcade game based on a little fast rocket riding on a side curve. Despite its original gameplay, this game is not suitable for all players.

A family game that you can personalize in some aspects, with a good use of the physics engine and the possibility to participate in a real community including your creations. Funny and unusual, but only for a handful of hours.

Quotation forthcoming.

Achtung! Cthulhu Tactics is a barely sufficient tactical experience that brings few novelties to the table while severely limiting both the depth and the longevity of its own gameplay.

If you don't like childhood-oriented rhythm games, maybe you can pass-by this one.

The Saints Row reboot attempts to reimagine the Saints' origins by transplanting them to a new, beautiful city. The problem is that the characters are uninteresting, the gameplay lacks originality or polish and technically the game sometimes shows debilitating bugs.

A family game that you can personalize in some aspects, with a good use of the physics engine and the possibility to participate in a real community including your creations. Funny and unusual, but only for a handful of hours.

Sword Art Online: Alicization Lycoris is a pleasant return to the classic fantasy typical of the saga, but it is limping on the technical side and on the variety of experience, creating a questionable compromise between quantity and quality.

F1 2014 can be considered a missed opportunity for Codemasters to create a convincing simulation of the current F1 season. We hope because most of the staff is focused on next-gen version of the game already.

This compilation uses the nostalgia effect to gain money from the hardcore Mortal Kombat players. After so many years every single game of this Kollection is less appealing than before. The horrible lag, moreover, prevent players from having fun with the online multiplayer.

Table Top Tanks is a pretty good AR-based minigames collection for PlayStation Vita. When it works, it's quite fun, until you understand it doesn't have multiplayer online functionalities and it doesn't really last forever.

This game could've been something special but the clumsy platforming sections and other minor issues keeps it from being remarkable.

Demon Skin is a mix of many genres combined together to achieve the goal of standing out from the crowd.

Quotation forthcoming.

Legend of the Guardians is a quite good licensed game with some enjoyable ideas. Fans of the books will be pleased with this (very short) tie-in. All the others… well, maybe not.

Sorcery could have been a good game to prove that motion controlled gaming still has a chance; unfortunately, Santa Monica Studios has chosen to use PlayStation Move just as an alternative to a button to mash furiously to cast spells. Not exactly what we were expecting.

Back to bed is a decent puzzle game but its mobile soul spoils the experience and the inspired atmosphere is not enough.

Legend of the Guardians is a quite good licensed game with some enjoyable ideas. Fans of the books will be pleased with this (very short) tie-in. All the others… well, maybe not.

Lust from Beyond is an erotic and cosmic horror. Thanks to its sound design and visual details it starts with a thrilling mystery. Sadly the pacing changes fast and the game asks the player to do some repetitive tasks, over and over again, becoming too predictable and tedious. The plot is overall good but the dialogues and writing needs to be more subtle and mature to fit well in the psychological horror genre.

When your goal is to make a good multiplayer online game, a balanced gameplay and an optimized netcode are the most important things to keep in mind. Blacklight: Tango Down tries to create a "CoD like" experience at a reasonable price, but seems to forget merely about both of them. And after a 3 months delay, this is really a blow below the belt.

Dynasty Warriors 9 Empire mixes and matches most of the features from the previous games, improves the officers editor but fails to bring something really new to old and next-gen platforms.

Quotation forthcoming.

Mario & Sonic at the Sochi 2014 Olympic Winter Games is less interesting than the previous games of this franchise released for Nintendo Wii. The lack of gameplay features designed around the Wii U GamePad is a big mistake from SEGA's developers. If you're looking for a good party game for Nintendo Wii U just buy the more interesting Wii Party U and have fun.

At the present time, Cities XL is an ambitious but incomplete product that will surely need further work from Focus Home Interactive to reach proper quality standards. The game experience is in fact fun and challenging but also limited in many ways, proving unable to create real commitment from the players.

How to destroy a great trilogy with a poor-quality conversion. We hope for a better result next time.

Quotation forthcoming.

The Way of Life is a courageous project, but the choices system is categorical and restrictive. Other faults make some good insights tedious. It's a pity, but as a debut it is to be considered positively for Cybercoconut.

Produced by SEGA and developed by Sumo Digital, Team Sonic Racing is the third installment in the kart racing series with Sonic and his friends as stars of the show. This time it is all about Sonic: characters and location are restricted to the series and there is a new vehicle customization system. Even if the graphics are improved, game contents and experience see a step forward and even if the game can be enjoyable at times, it will not match the greatness of Mario Kart 8 Deluxe.

Fun to play but two hours of gameplay are not enough.

"Katamari Forever is a genuinely funny experience that could basically please everybody (and most of all the newcomers to this amazing series!), yet it's hard to hide a little disappointment: at the fifth chapter the formula still works and rolling around is surely a blast, but the saga desperately needs significant innovations to find its uniqueness once again.

Strike Suit Zero is a well crafted and frenetic space shooter, but is spoiled by a certain repetitiveness of the missions and a predictable storyline.

The Brave and the Bold is a classic 2D beat 'em up that doesn't take itself too seriously. A graphical candy that will come to an end too soon and in the easiest way possible.

A Limbo-like game with good visuals and inspired puzzle design, ruined by frustrating controls, poor animations and some minor bugs.

Despite the interesting arcade twist, four hours of gameplay and the inevitable Horde Mode are not enough for 1200 Microsoft Points.

Cards of Destiny is a good point & click game, but it fails on its fundamentals: dialogues, puzzles and graphic are a step behind the last chapter, and only its good plot saves this game.

Hindsight tries to tell a very deep story full of thoughts on the past and the future. Unfortunately the gameplay is too minimalist and the short duration fails to enhance its merits.

A missed opportunity. Apex Construct is a first person adventure with an inspired design and some pretty good ideas, shadowed by some technical and design problems.

Considering the duration of its development, Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: Crystal Bearers turns out to be quite disappointing. Beyond its great visuals and well told storyline, the game shows in fact various flaws, mostly gameplay-wise, proving unable to live up to its expectations.

In 2009 it is not possible to publish a game such this, especially with the hype built around the new Activision production. We could give you 100 reasons to not buy it.

Bub and Bob embark in a new adventure, this time in 3D... and VR! Puzzle Bobble 3D: Vacation Odyssey is a decent puzzle game despite some annoying technical problems, surprisingly better in virtual reality than standard mode.

The first morsel of Curse of Naxxramas is an all-important addition to a stellar game that cannot be missed. Unfortunately it's also very short in actual content.

Sonic Forces tries to offer the best elements of previous 2D and 3D Sonic games, but the end result is a confusing gameplay experience. Though the sense of speed is back and it’s great, the player gets interrupted after every stage by long and uninteresting cut-scenes. And the same old problems of 3D Sonic games are still present. Technically speaking, the game is at least solid and runs smooth at 60fps.

Forgive Me Father feels like a missed opportunity to bring an inspired lovecraftian horror style in a great retro FPS. The game offers a good art direction and some good moments, but its repetitive gameplay, linear design and light story elements prevent it from being a very good one.

An old-school action platformer that sends us back to the Neo Geo era but fails to give the same amount of shivers down the spine due to some balance and design issues.

Saitama's fans are the primary target for this good-looking tie-in that lacks a decent mission design and feels like a monotonous and dull action game.

Accel World VS Sword Art Online is a good title for fans of the virtual worlds created by Reki Kawahara. However, the game does not improve on the previous SAO games and the narrative fusion of the two universes feels sometimes forced.

Thanks to MotionPlus, Virtua Tennis 2009 is a good game, with its limits. Lack of innovation starts to be a problem as happened with the other versions but the good number of choices and a good multiplayer could be interesting for someone still loving this sport.

My Hero One's Justice is an ideal fighting game for fans of the series. Unfortunately, the not particularly refined gameplay makes it a repetitive game in the long run.

An interesting input and gorgeous musics aren’t enough to make Finding Paradise a pleasant and emotional experience like To The Moon was. Believable characters are shadowed by a linear and repetitive structure and by a story unable to stand up on its own.

With its remake of the original Bladestorm: The Hundred Years War, Omega Force delivers a lot of content, but saves on quality. The result is a technically crippled Musou, with mediocre gameplay and even worse AI, although with a passable brand new fantasy-themed campaign.

One Piece: Pirate Warriors 3 rather than a "deluxe edition" appears as a porting created only to take advantage of Switch’s portability, without taking much care of the docked version. It remains a good title for lovers of the genre and the Oda’s manga, but if you don’t fall into these two categories we don’t recommend it.

Baja: Edge of Control, 2XL's 2008 sim-racing game, returns after nine years in a revamped HD version addressing the frame rate issues of the original game. A title recommended to fans of legendary Mexican competition Baja 1000 and dirt-track races.

An engaging and atmospheric tactical FPS with some critical technical issues.

Despite the fact the it's the classic more of the same, The Missing Link would have been a DLC to recommend to all Human Revolution. The choice of Eidos to price it 15 Euros proves to be a risky move, particularly in this period of the year.

Although the game has its merits, like an impressive environmental destruction, Volition's choice to turn the title into a pure third person shooter doesn't seem to have paid off the way it should have. A poor narrative and an excessive linearity are in fact two flaws that can hardly be ignored.

Ash of Gods: Redemption is a project full with passion and enthusiasm, but lacking the courage and experience to really dare and create something new. Built on a gameplay too much inspired by far more renowned titles and a narration between a uber-classic fantasy and an avoidable crypticity, the game of the small Russian studio surely deserves a pat on the shoulder of encouragement, but remains a product far from being able to leave you speechless.

The high tendency of the AI to crash makes it difficult to organize races and championships in singleplayer: the multiplayer could save the day, but the community seems to be too small to guarantee populated servers for Americans and Europeans at every hour of day and night.

N.E.R.O. could have been an interesting interactive novel, but weak puzzles, limited length and various other shortcomings, prevent this title from fully showing his potential.

Lost Ember is a thoughtful and relaxing game, dedicated to players more interested in exploring beautiful landscapes and enjoying a nice story.

OPUS: The Day We Found Earth is a simple game clearly designed for mobile devices. It has some interesting ideas plot-wise and a very good character design but the gameplay is too simplistic and repetitive to prove itself really enjoyable.

KeyWe is a frenzy couch co-op game. Its levels could be very tricky and can be really appreciated by completionists. This game has a lot of potential but is restrained by bugs and too little focus to more casual, party game and social mechanics.

Thinking about ODST as the must buy for the player who plays alone is totally wrong. And even if the scenario changes playing with your friends, thinking about GTA: Lost and Damned as a full game released at 1800 MP should let everyone think about buying it at full price.

Naruto Shippuden: Ultimate Ninja Impact is a new way to play a Dynasty Warriors game. The boring gameplay, a trademark in the Tecmo Koei's franchise, is the main issue o this tie-in, but if you really do like Naruto you could have a decent amount of enjoyment with this PSP game.

An action-GDR with some interesting ideas hidden well behind a coding far under the average.

Bloober Team tries to make Layers of Fear less "walking simulator", but fails daringly.

Sword Art Online RE: Hollow Fragment is a simple porting with no big efforts from Bandai Namco. Its only extra value is the brand new English translation, which works much better than the previous one (probably powered by Google Translate). The frame rate issues during the city sessions are quite a bad news, but the game is still entertaining.

Golden Force is a platform for hardcore and tenacious gamers. It has good pixel-art and a powerful soundtrack. It is fun but some choices of game design are far from perfect. Its bad camera and its artificial difficulty can discourage many players.

Pid boasts an excellent design and interesting mechanics, but suffers from an excessive and unforgiving difficulty level that puts players in very repetitive situations most often than not. Nevertheless, it's pleasant to watch and offers quite a difficult, although dull, challenge.

Start The Party is an HD clone of Wii Play, created for PS3 and Move with a 5 years delay. The mini-game compilation is not too bad: some games are better than others, and the gameplay is always easy to understand and execute. Anyway, the entire experience is not so interesting.

Driver: Renegade 3D is a game with two faces. The first one is pretty sad, with a short and boring Story Mode, a bad AI and the lack of any kind of multiplayer mode. The second one grants a very good Career Mode, with funny races and a solid structure.

The Divine Force isn’t one of the worst chapters in this long-running JRPG franchise, but it fails to bring the series to a new generation. Despite the good efforts made to revamp the combat system and give more freedom to the players, the game feels like a JRPG of ten years ago.

The Wii version of Michael Jackson: the Experience is much better than the Xbox 360 one. The lag of the Kinect, the presence of the player's avatar on the screen and the poor implementation of the karaoke feature are enough to transform a great experience in something less entertaining.

Trials Frontier looks and is controlled like a Trials game, but the free-to-play elements are so rooted that you can’t ignore them, and you’ll probably leave the game very soon.

NBA Live 16 can't compete against NBA 2K16 but it's the first step in the right direction for the brand, after two terrible years.

Without the PS Move support Doom 3: VR Edition feels (and plays) like a clumsy, rusty ride in an old horror amusement park.

Kirby's Adventure Wii is an average platform game, miles away from the greatness of games like Donkey Kong Country and the Rayman Origins.

Sherlock Holmes and the Mistery of Osborne House is a good variation of the Professor Layton formula. The graphic is well drawn, but the complete lack of animations is quite sad. The puzzles are good and often complex enough, but every single mini-game is too much classic to create some problem to the genre lovers.

An intriguing and hilarious game with a faulty level design and totally crazy control scheme.

Quotation forthcoming.

Albedo takes the inheritance of the old sci-fi canons and mixes them with a simple but cunning adventure structure. Unfortunately the game suffers from a lot of little and major flaws that don’t help it to stand out.

Mario Party: The Top 100 is a collection of the best mini-games featured on the previous chapters of the series. It should be a sort of definitive Mario Party game, but at the end of the day Is just a more of the same, and it lacks of any kind of depth. At least, it is possible to enjoy most of the game modes in multiplayer up to 4 players with only one copy of the game, adding great value to a game that maybe shouldn’t be sold at full price.

Coming from the Prof. Layton school, Puzzle Agent is a good experiment as for the artistic direction but it lacks in is most important part, the puzzles. More inspired riddles and a bigger attention in its development could given life to a better game. A sufficient start for the series, though.

Tharsis is a well constructed dice-game with an interesting theme. Too bad that luck has too much a say in the player’s destiny; this can inflict frustration and anger which, in my book, are the opposite of entertainment.

This first DLC offers a very short ride and doesn’t really add anything new nor notable to the main game.

This compilation uses the nostalgia effect to draw money from the hardcore fans of Mortal Kombat. Unlike Street Fighter III: Third Strike Online Edition, anyway, after so many years the three games of the Kollection are less appealing than before. The horrible lag, moreover, prevent players from having fun with the online multiplayer.

Coming from the Prof. Layton school, Puzzle Agent is a good experiment as for the artistic direction but it lacks in is most important part, the puzzles. More inspired riddles and a bigger attention in its development could given life to a better game. A sufficient start for the series, though.

Despite a fascinating concept and an undoubted strategic deepness, the console versions of R.U.S.E. fail to deliver a fully satisfying gaming experience for both fans and newcomers to the genre due to some gameplay flaws and some questionable decisions made by the developers.

Symmetry is a survival that does not excel in any way. Art design and narrative premises presage a great adventure, but the repetitive gameplay mortifies any ambition in the game.