Dead or Alive 5 Ultimate is the same frantic and funny game that appears last year, but has some interesting improvements like new modes, better Tag mode and a solid new netcode.

Using the same control scheme, the same mechanics, the same concept, and even the same engine as Killzone 3, Guerrilla gives the PS Vita one of its best titles to date. A powerful experience from the single player - maybe too short, buy replayability is on its side-, to the fun and robust multiplayer to the amazing graphics, Killzone: Mercenary is a must have for Helghast's fans, and for everybody who still believes in what the powerful Sony's handheld is capable of, which is a lot.

Creative Assembly keeps showing their mastery over their own formula in a visually arresting strategy game. It lacks the depth of other games in the genre, and the AI deficiencies are still there, but it's a big, varied and spectacular game.

An instant-classic that manages to keep its fun untouched. Classic style with a new look that still feels just like the original.

An improvement over the original, with a refined combat and some welcome changes, but the formula need bigger changes to make better use of the One Piece universe.

A Toy Box, one that is plenty full of possibilities. That's Disney Infinity. At last, Disney made a game that is really worthy of carrying the title Disney on the cover. It's a shame that the model requires to buy extra figures to play coop, or the way we have to discover all the items for the Toy Box mode, but the three universes of this starter pack and the creation mode, alongside with the quality of the figures, captures the Disney magic and will throwback us, the older ones, to our childhood, because that is what Disney can do best. Right now, one of the best experiences for kids, but one that could be expensive with the expansion/coop packs.

Game Dev Tycoon is a simple, but extremely funny and entertaining game. It would be far superior just adding certain technical improvements and gameplay components. Those responsible should continue to develop this original idea. They could achieve a great title just by implementing a few changes and adding some content. A really nice offer.

Rayman Legends is one of the best plattforms in last years. Awesome level designs, striking visuals and great soundtrack for a must have game. Better on Wii U.

With a few eyes on Alien, The Thing or EA's Dead Space, Capcom make use one more time of an external western developer to carry a project. Spark Unlimited brings us back to where we shouldn't have left, to the frozen landscapes of that lost planet in a prequel where mechas are not carrying guns. Simple, straightforward entertainment, drive a gunless mecha and explore lost space ships in this TPS with touches of survival horror is fun, but there's nothing in this game we have seen a few times before on bigger titles of the genre.

One of the greatest Castlevania 3D games ever made comes to PC in the best shape. Castlevania: Lords of Shadow - Ultimate Edition is the best way to discover Gabriel Belmont's crusade against darkness. An enhanced experience for Mercury Steam's stunning adventure.

Pure Suda, Killer is Dead is a really good action game with lots of flavor and many of the elements that have made special this director.

Divekick has a simple combat system, but turns into a boring game in a few matches. The offline modes are poor, too. However, the game has a good online system based on GGPO.

Gone Home is a great and necessary experiment in interactive narrative. But while the presentation of its story is fantastic, the story itself has its flaws and its emotional punches won't connect with everyone. A recommended experience, but only when its price gets cheaper.

Kamiya's first Wii U video game is a fast paced action game with its own style. Platinum Games tries to innovate in terms of gameplay and offers a colorfull and enjoyable experience with minor problems.

This is exactly the wrong way of making an homage to a classic. The original was stylish, mysterious and tense, this version just can be described as bland in every possible way.

Europa Universalis IV is a fantastic reissue of the popular series and it is very necessary in order to adapt it to the present day. The depth of the changes and the new features included result in an entertaining game that is more accessible to new players. This is one of the best grand strategy titles currently available, and can not be missing in your shelf if you're a fan of this genre.

With Ironside gone, it's much more obvious that Splinter Cell is not Splinter Cell anymore. The illusion of "going back to the roots" is just that, an illusion disguised as an option that is never as appealing as the stealth and elimination, "Panther" style the team is so fond of. Still, a good action game with plenty of content.

2K Marin has done their best with the almost impossible task to create a narrative rich, tactic driven TPS that justifies the name of "XCOM". The result is a decent and professional effort from a team that could have done better without being tied to that name.

Plants vs. Zombies 2: It's About Time keeps the fresh gameplay and the sense of humor from the first game and offers new funny situations to its tower defense formula; and all that just for free.

Charlie Murder is one of the best beat'em ups we've seen recently on any system. Is not perfect and has some flaws, but his RPG elements and the funny mechanics are pretty good. Also, it has a cool co-op mode. If you like Castle Crashers, you'll love this one.

Take the mayhem of Saints Row The Third. Now add some aliens, dubstep weapons, superpowers and rectal probes. What do you get? Just one of the funniest, craziest an entertaining sandbox games we've ever played. Some graphical issues and secondary missions are just that, some. Maybe it doesn't take things seriously in any moment, but if you want to spend a good and funny time (and feel like the real Neo of Matrix Reloaded), just get back with the Saints.

A good finale for a really good DLC run for Dishonored. Arkane closes with expertise the Daud's arc but let us wanting for more of this fascinating world.

Payday 2 is a very attractive offer for fans of the FPS genre and it's ideal for those who like frantic multiplayer games. We are facing a powerful title with big potential that will keep you glued to your monitor or TV for hours. The only thing to fear is the threat of an excessive repetition of its elements, which should be solved by distributing new types of heists and armament in sufficient frequency. If they do so, it could become one of the most played alternatives over the network.

DuckTales offers the best platformer gameplay that existed in the late 80s. WayForward has done a flawless XXI century update to a great classic from Capcom's golden age. The game is also closer to the original animated series in a surprising way.

A nordic-esque fable narrated with a feeling of peace and sadness, Brothers A Tale of Two Sons is just the kind of game a fan of Starbreeze's last titles should avoid. The story of two brothers and their journey will take us on a ride similar to other jewels like ICO or Journey. A ride that maybe has a very peculiar use of the pad -simultaneously 1 player cooperative-, but where we can interact with two characters to a level never done before, in a journey of search that requires us to accept its rules and let us go into the experience by the hand.

It really took its time to arrive on Western shores, but at last we have Tales of Xillia, a good example of the essence of true Japanese RPG. With two characters, a deep and customizable battle system, many options and strategies, the visual scale of the scenarios is as good as the new character's Tales of style, more realistic. Sure its not perfect -Motoi Sakuraba is not at his best precisely, Pop up in some elements around the towns, rough ending-, but its enough entertainment. Now, its time to ask Namco about Tales of Xillia 2.

Cloudberry Kingdom aims to be an old school game. It's not, but it is well made ​​to be challenging and fun, very hard. You will not like its aesthetics, characters, sound effects or music.

A good example to show there are not too-old formulas, just wrong approaches to reignite them. Taking the base of D&D Arcade and introducing plenty of RPG and Hack'n Slash elements, Vanillaware has made its finest game.

Shadowrun Returns is a fun game. It is solid and with enormous potential. What is being shown now is just a small part of what may be achieved and everyone knows that when the community has the necessary tools, they end up doing great things. Harebrained Schemes has managed where to draw the line between the possible and the ambitious, but seems to have behaved too conservatively and it shows with the lack of content. If those responsible and users know how to profit what has been created, we will have a game that will be worth much more. But all of this is about to happen.

Halo: Spartan Assault is a good Top Down Shooter with simple but clever mechanics and a great recreation of the Halo Universe. However, it has some problems with enemy AI and the "pay for boost" system.

The Sims 3: Island Paradise is one of the most comprehensive and original expansions of the last years. It does not only extend previous content but also adds features never seen before in The Sims 3. We have no doubt that we are facing a number of additions that will surely have its place in future installments of the series, now that its third iteration could be coming to its end. It is a must for fans of the series. For others, an expansion that we should not pass up ... unless you hate everything related to the sun and the beach.

Pikmin 3 is the best Wii U game at the moment for its deep and accessible gameplay, its variety of situations and the brilliant visuals and sounds.

Dynasy Warriors 8 offers a hack and slash experience prepared for fans of the series with hours of contents and an interesting gameplay, but the game fails when is compared with other games in the genre.

DOTA has marked the life of millions of persons. Valve and IceFrog has made sure DOTA 2 will be making the same for next decade. An extraordinary formula and a extraordinary work around it.

Pacific Rim The Videogame is far away to Guillermo Del Toro's movie. Not spectacular, not frantic, This fighting game has limited and simplistic mechanics and it's poor in content, too.

The RPG never been so much fun and accessible for everybody. Mario and Luigi have a fresh and deep proposal, very long and with new worlds, finally. The best 3DS game of this summer.

As always, Duel of the Planewalkers is a perfect entry point for people interested in Magic but are intimidated by the real thing or the ultra competitive Magic The Gathering Online. And, as always too, it lets us wanting for more. Duels series won't be able to stay as the "the entry point" forever.

Civilization V: Brave New World integrates perfectly with the mechanics of previous versions and achieves to extend the gameplay of this great 4X. It is becoming clear that Civilization V is one of the largest of its kind with each new expansion pack and an image in which many would like to be reflected. If not for its flaws in the AI and that feeling of being buying a complete game in easy monthly payments... this would be an almost perfect game.

Dark isn't very interesting, isn't very innovative, uninspired. The powers of a vampire had a better game around. Realmforge should stay in the fantasy-RPG.

Le Tour de France 2013 -100th Edition has best mechanics with the full control of any character and its team orders. One of its big problem is the poor graphics and visuals.

The Walking Dead: 400 Days is a good bridge between Season one and two. Five new characters with great conversations and hard decisions too make. However, the DLC is shorter than the first five chapters.

An enjoyable self-homage with excellent 2D graphics and superb soundtrack, making a fun use of the dozens of historic characters from Sega, Capcom and Namco Bandai. However, it´s too long and repetitive, overstaying its welcome at some points.

It´s a decent effort to create a budget TPS, but its falls too short to the kings of the genre to save that gap with price alone. Best in co-op, especially local.

A Kickstarter project must look first at the people who backed it and Reloaded honors this with a faithful and clever remake of the first Larry game, full of details that the veterans will appreciate and love. However, it has problems like a lack of visual consistency between characters, poor animations and some questionable decisions that makes this a hard buy for newcomers.

The motorcycle world and rock and roll do not deserve this aberration, with bugs and very poor graphics. Ride to Hell can go to hell. Sex is not going to be enough.

Spartacus Legends has an interesting combat system and character progression, but fails with its servers problems, poor netcode and some graphics issues.

Deadpool is an interesting comic book character unexploited in this game. Activision and High Moon Studios have made a correct and acceptable production, but only that. The great humor is not enough to talk of a wonder.

Game & Wario isn't frantic like Wario Ware and hasn't the same variety, either. This game remains hilarious in visuals, and has some good minigames with great use of Wii U controller. However, other minigames are boring and multiplayer is poor.

The adrenaline and speed of MotoGP return this year with this Milestone production. Marc Márquez and other drivers get a good helmet, but they have some injuries.

New Super Luigi U is a great DLC for fans of the classic Mario games. More than 80 new levels with frantic, deep and complex design, new Luigi's control and the same great coop like the original game. However, this downloadable content doesn't have new tools or visuals improvements.

We can hardly blame Relic for not wanting to reinvent the wheel having such a fantastic formula. It´s a great sequel that will manage to reunite and reinvigorate the CoH community.

Dungeons & Dragons, a mythical name for fans of the classic pencil and paper RPG. Tower of Doom and Shadow Over Mystara, two cult videogames. Dungeons & Dragons: Chronicles of Mystara, the opportunity that we had waited for twenty years. The download of this game is simply inevitable.

Animal Crossing: New Leaf is not a game, it's an experience. Rule your own village as a major and share your experience with friends online. This is the game that you will be playing for the next years in your 3DS.

Marvel Heroes is a simple Diablo, by its creators. The Marvel characters are very well-defined and differentiated, as are its villains. You can play the full campaign for free, but it isn't exciting.

As a sandbox game, State of Decay is not very impressive. But a survival game with an apocalyptic and zombies setting is pretty awesome. Combat, exploration and good community sense make for the most ambitious game for the XBLA in a long time.

The Last of Us is a really different game, mixing traditional adventure, survival, action, stealth and constant exploration. The resources are most important. The best graphics on PlayStation 3 are back in the hands of Naughty Dog, also the atmosphere, and two unrepeatable and unforgettable characters. Overwhelming.

This time the battle takes us out of the cold Stalingrad to the warm islands of the South Pacific. With few changes, but as addictive as Red Orchestra 2, Raising Storm continues to be one of the best multiplayer games out there.

Remember Me has a smart combat system, such as those from games like Batman Arkham or Sleeping Dogs. It has a great plot and protagonist, which add some original mechanics to the gameplay: memory remixes and combo lab. However, platform zones are linear and the controls aren't polished at all.

A superb offering, a metaphysical discussion masterfully disguised as an excellently designed puzzle game. A game that you will remember.

Another Third Person Shooter, with more generic situations than original elements. Good in coop mode, but forgettable for solo players. Fuse has frantic gunplay, but on the other hand also has a generic story, characters and design levels.

GRID 2 is not for you if you want extreme realism and simulation. But if you want a fun, nice, well finished and deeper game, here it is. Codemasters has shown that driving is its wonder.

One of the worst videogames in recent years. Bad as a driving game, worse as a shooter. A short game, boring and awful OST.

One of the best 2D platform games in the last years. Varied game, full of possibilities and long. Donkey Kong Country Returns has a polished gameplay and brilliant artistic designs in the return for the most famous virtual monkey, now in a great hand-held version.

In The Oracle, what appears to be a new episode in the cat and mouse game chasing a murderer becomes something different and refreshing. Do not be fooled by the who is the murderer? Promo: There is so much more to reveal through this third episode.

Metro: Last Light is a good sequel that combines stealth mechanics with classic FPS gunplay versus mutants. Great story, characters and narrative with some issues in Enemy AI reactions and too many scripts. Not ambitious enough as a sequel, but a great and immersive experience.

Not a very good game either for kids or hardcore Pokémon fans. The problem is in the core of the mechanic, extremely simple -even more than its predecessors-, that makes the game boring to play. It's not a complete disaster, but we expect much more from a game with "Pokémon" on the title, even if it is -like this one- just a spin-off.

Way of the Dogg is a laziest branded game of the year. It has some nice ideas, but the execution isn't good at all.

Mario & Donkey Kong: Minis on the Move is a cheap game for everything it contains. The time trial puzzle mechanics, like Pipe Mania, are fun and challenging. Over 200 stages and level editor.

Persona 4: Arena is one of the best fighting games in this generation. Great, original and depth combat mechanics, good offline modes and solid netcode for another hit by Atlus and Arc System Works. And gorgeous visuals.

Take a very good old school 2D platform and make an overhaul in the parts where it needs. The result? An even better game, that's Zack Zero in this PC version, whose gameplay and graphics feel and look better with the new improvements. One of the best indie platformers of 2012, this made in Spain Zack Zero is still too short, but a game all 2D platformer lovers should not miss on Steam.

It´s a poor man's Far Cry 3 without the stunning vistas and cut mechanics, but it´s also a fun homage to the 80s and Action Hero movies, all while delivering a nice and straightforward shooter.

Easily targeted as a Monster Hunter clone for the PS Vita, the new creation of Keiji Inafune emerges with a defined personality that shines throughout the whole experience. With a deep combat, customization and even crafting system, and one of the best artistic styles of the entire Vita library, Soul Sacrifice challenges us to a series of close, Arena-style fights against nightmarish creatures, which we can liberate or sacrifice, that advances in terms of its epic nature and visual scale. Maybe it feels repetitive playing solo, but to the fun multiplayer, the narrative piece of the Librom diary and the depth of the weapons ans Skills make it a one of a kind. One that will take us more than hours merely in its offline Campaign mode.

A fantastic game and a memorable story hidden in a technical mess. Sadly, the PS3 version has done little to improve this.

Are you a fan of Star Trek series? Forget Star Trek: The Video Game. Are you a fan of spacial third person shooters? Forget Star Trek: The Video Game. Digital Extremes hasn't done their work in this case, with uncontrollable cooperative mode. It's boring and very ugly. Not for trekkies, not for gamers.

An interesting game by itself, but loses some points when compared with its Wii U version. This version fits in Nintendo 3DS and can offer you some fun hours of LEGO platforming, fighting and collecting extras.

Riptide collects all the hallmarks of the first Dead Island, correcting some bad things but keeping others. The new island is wilder and natural, but it has fewer new ideas than we expected. Long and fun again.

Dragon's Dogma: Dark Arisen offers more challenge, monsters and secrets to the original Dragon's Dogma experience. With the same great combat system, but it has some important graphical issues.

It has not been the best launch, but still Defiance has potential to improve. The core mechanics are good and it can be a really fun game. Long term, it could become something really interesting.

In a point somewhere between the masterpiece D&D: Tower of Doom and the nightmarish Double Dragon 2: Wander of the Dragons is where we could situate this Sacred Citadel, a spin off that will be preparing the way for its older brother Sacred 3. Visually vibrant and colourful in a comic-esque style, it's a shame that its walkthrough seems like a rollercoaster, with great, funny playable action parts and others boring or insanely harder. Give it a try if King of Dragons means something for you. Definitely get it if you planned to play it in coop with a couple of friends, the greatest element of the whole game and its reason to be.

Dishonored has a good DLC in The Knife of Dunwall. Daud's story begins, with average length, but some adjustments that make it fun to kill and hide. It's more accurate, and very dark and challenging.

Injustice: Gods Among Us is a good fighting game and better tribute to DC Universe. Features a varied cast with unique abilities, frantic gameplay, great artistic design and too many offline modes.

Double Dragon II doesn't deserve this aberration. 1200 Microsoft Points for a short and repetitive sequence of levels where again and again you must press the same buttons. Its gameplay is worse than 25 years ago. In addition, its graphics and sound are very poor.

The Sims 3: University Life is an expansion that fans of the series will enjoy. It does not merely offer additional options, and goes a step further while presenting the possibility of having a completely different experience for a short period of our lives. Undoubtedly, this would have been one of the first expansions for the third installment of the series, instead of coming when everything seems to be so close to the end.

A pure shooter, a game that must be seen as a progressive challenge in order to compete. Its appeal is limited to only certain types of players but those who embrace it will have a really good experience.

Awakening is from far the best Fire Emblem experience to be found on a handheld. It's the most beautiful and yet accessible strategic game we've seen lately, and with a bunch of new additions to its gameplay mechanics it's difficult no to fall to its charms.

An excellent game made in the best tradition of Metroid or Symphony of the Night. Great combat system, striking visuals, superb artistic direction, notable humour and a really good soundtrack. The enemies get a bit repetitive and the evolution of the combat from El Luchador could be longer, but overall, a really recommended buy.

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A symphony of pure horror, Slender: The Arrival make its official entrance in the videogames world with an short experience very limited in the gameplay aspect, but truly scary as hell. Every single apparition of the Slender Man and its Proxy is completely unexpected, and always make us jump run trying to escape from them, but the level design is like a rollercoaster: a few really memorable moments and other very uninspired.

Gaijin Games shows how much they have learned about balancing the learning curve and the difficulty of the game to make a demanding but fair game. Superb use of sound and a nice amount of nicely designed levels compose a great package.

It´s a great classic, it´s good to see it again and being able to buy it with the convenience of Steam, but it´s a bit pricey for what it offers and the first days have been problematic in the multiplayer. Good effort, but it could have been better.

BattleBlock Theater is like an HD version of the best Saturday-morning cartoon you can remember: hilarious, amazing in terms of visuals and also has one of the great co-op modes we've seen on Xbox Live Arcade. In short: Rayman Legends on acid, 'indie style'.

Code of Princess is a good beat 'em up that focuses all his attention towards the Campaign mode. The lack of an intriguing storyline and some multiplayer problems make this buy an interesting one but only for die-hards of the genre.

This version of Ninja Gaiden 3 is the best. It's complete thanks to new modes, Ayane special missions, the free DLC with Kasumi, more violence and, of course, it's more challenging. However, it still has fundamental mistakes.

MLB 13 The Show is the best baseball game nowadays. Great control variety for beginners and depth for experts, good in offline modes and awesome visuals. But has only a few poor new modes.

Intense shooting gets your adrenaline going. Army of Two: The Devil's Cartel just is solid and fun. Don't expect surprises or originality.

Terraria is funny, it's addictive and it's big, but it's best played on PC. Re-Logic has a good idea, different from Minecraft, a game that you might want to know and maybe it will soon be your favorite. 2D pixel style with RPG, platforms and freedom.

A new itinerance in Tiger Woods franchise, this time with Legends of the Majors, better online game and few gameplay improvements. It hasn't a lot of new content but it's the best golf videogame ever.

A masterpiece in audiovisual design, a fantastic action game and another testimony to the craft, the imagination and the ambition of Irrational. However, the campaign is a bit shorter than what was expected and it´s obvious the studio has not reached the full range of their objectives.