One Piece: Burning Blood presents a huge roster and great care for story details, but it's dragged down by important flaws like a too limited story mode and uninteresting game modes. Combat gameplay needs some adjustments too, especially in the balancement department. A good start for a new One Piece beat'em up franchise, but still needs lots of work.

A quite unique puzzle game with entertaining mechanics even if sometimes frustrating. Too bad for the generic and uninspired design.

An incremental sequel over the first game, OlliOlli 2: XL Edition doesn't take too many risks reusing the same old formula but with lots of new contents and a new local-only multiplayer mode. If you liked the first game, this won't disappoint.

Not A Hero: Super Snazzy Edition offers great style and humor, but with a repetitive and not so brilliant gameplay.

One of the most interesting games of the year, bringing a breath of fresh air in the Arena Shooter genre with an inspired design and highly accessible, yet satisfying, gameplay. Its main downside is the limited set of modes, something we hope Blizzard will keep expanding month after month.

Coffin Dodgers tries to innovate the mascot racer genre with some new ideas, but too many problems get in the way to the final objective; what we have is just a frustrating and unentertaining experience.

While not being a revolutionary shoot'em up, thanks to a precise and compelling gameplay, high variety and an infinite replayability Raiden V is a great bullet hell shooter that lovers of the genre shouldn't miss.

A good superhero MMO experience with tons of character customizability and good action combat system, but feeling very old on the technical front ad too many paygates for the players.

Despite its good gameplay and the charming art style, Battleborn fails in giving players enough motivation to stay in its arenas once every hero and level has been tried.

Some debatable design choices, like the lack of any difficulty setting and multiplayer mode, together with its dumb enemies, make it a very frustrating experience that even the most expert strategists will struggle with.

Doom is back and it's wonderfully brutal. Its surprisingly long and polished campaign couples old school gameplay with modern design, resulting in an adrenalinic and highly entertaining experience supported by a solid multiplayer mode. And the SnapMap editor is just icing on the cake, revealing to be incredibly deep and enabling us to create very different and inventive levels and mechanics. The game to have for any shooters lover.

A good remaster job of an already good and content-filled game, but not without its flaws especially in the graphical department. If you've never played the original game it could be worth a ride, otherwise it won't add anything more to the plate.

SUPERHOT doesn't fail our expectations, managing instead to do even better thanks to the text-based OS interface going along with the innovative time-controlling FPS mechanics. An incredibly tactical game, with a great artistic design and a surprising plot. A real must buy.

A disturbing two-hour trip into the mind of a mother looking for her lost son, with great atmosphere thanks to the top-notch sound design.

A decent match 3 game with a good amount of contents, but feeling uninspired and with a clunky control system.

Its papercraft look will instantly capture you, but it will quickly end up being very repetitive.

A very entertaining and humorous metroidvania platform game, capable of delivering a captivating even if not too innovative experience.

A great rally racer, true to the roots of Codemasters' series with a no frills approach to the core of the rally experience and brilliant visuals. Challenging and satisfying, it a definite must buy for any rally lover.

An excellent final chapter for From Software's series, keeping all the best elements from previous games and forging them in a fresh and new experience. Sporting the best bosses in the series, Dark Souls III confirms itself as one of the most challenging and rewarding games around.

A very limited shooter that will quickly become old in a dozen of minutes, and despite it's a priced game it's got the structure of a mobile F2P game, pushing players to frequent microtransactions.

MXGP2 manages to recreate a very authentic motocross experience thanks to a great driving system and lots of contents. It's not the graphically prettiest racer around, but if you love motocross you won't be disappointed.

A real blast from a past, but it still manages to satisfy even today thanks to an entertaining gameplay and an high modes variety. Too bad for the complete lack of online multiplayer: it would have been a perfect fit.

A not too inspired Hotline Miami stealt-based clone, but this doesn't keep it from being entertaining both alone and with a friend.

McDROID mixes tower defense, managerial and third person action elements resulting in an original and game but some design flaws and too many bugs keep it from properly shining.

An interesting FPS/roguelike hybrid, with a frantic and addictive gameplay and lots of contents. It's got some balancing issues and sometimes you feel luck counts more than skills, but for old school FPS lovers it's surely an advised buy.

Moon Studios' charming platformer already was a little gem when it first came out, and this new edition completes it with new contents and mechanics, making it even more accessible to any player. Definitely a must buy if you never played the original one.

A highly fun racer, with lots of content and modes. Its deep track editor and sharer manages to continuously provide new challenges, while its extremely precise gameplay makes it a very competitive game, both for local and online play.

A fascinating puzzle-platformer with a very nice russian-steampunk style.

Based on an interesting idea - a shooter with just one shot/bullet available - Wondershot proves to be funny for local play with friends but lacks variety and depth to keep people going back at it over time.

A definitely unusual game for Xbox One: an old-school first person dungeon crawling JRPG, with a dozens hour story and an highly charming art style. It could have done without some questionable design choices like its unstable difficulty and way too long walls of text but everyone looking for a good JRPG on Xbox One won't be disappointed.

A good survival/manageriale post-apocalyptic simulation, but with a very high difficulty level that could please some players but will turn away the less patient ones.

It might lack FIFA an PES features and simulation, but Active Soccer 2 DX balances it out with an highly entertaining arcade soccer experience, something Sensible Soccer and Kick Off nostalgics will love.

Challenging, deep, rewarding. A very good MMA simulation with realistic graphics and a complex but very satisfying control system.

A fascinating mix of several genres, from RPG to tower defense to managerial, with a charming 8-bit visual style and good gameplay. More variety and a less random difficulty could have helped it, but it's however a deep and original roguelike experience.

Remedy manages to deliver its masterwork: a perfectly balanced mesh of storytelling ad shooter action, with adrenaline-fueled and highly spectacular gameplay and great acting, all supported by stunning visuals and a very strong sci-fi plot. A must-have for any action and story-driven experiences lover.

Gunscape sports a good editor to create and share any level we want, but it's held back by a too few available shapes and restrictive rules set. If you've got a creative mind and love classical FPS games, though, this could guarantee hours upon hours of enjoyment.

A good match-3 game, made unique and absorbing thanks to some original and interesting features.

A nice arcade game with some original gameplay elements, capable of offering a good challenge level but with a quite low longevity due to the not many contents.

A totally new and creative way to live a competitive FPS, Screencheat can create hilarious and exciting play sessions with friends.

A nice game for puzzle-platform games lovers, with a nice time rewind mechanic but a barebones gameplay.

This first taste of Hitman's new path offers us one of the best locations in the series, with lots of freedom and many environments to explore. A promising new start, even if the overall story is just barely hinted at; we'll have to wait for the next chapters to see if it's got a great plot too.

A successful TPS, RPG and online open word mix, with a balanced, spot-on gameplay and lots of details in a visually stunning - and packed full of dramatic stories - Manhattan. The Division offers something for any kind of player, be it a lone wolf, a co-op lover or a competitive gamer, with lots of things to do and great satisfactions due to the deep loot and character evolution system.

Layers of Fear manages to deliver lots of tension and some good scares thanks to an original and carefully crafted storytelling, a fascinating and paradoxes-filled atmosphere and a nice end of 19th century stylistic look. Bloober Team definitely strikes the right note in offering a memorable, deep, exciting and scary horror game.

Visually and artistically, The Flame in the Flood is one of the most fascinating experiences in recent months, but it sports a rather predictable and unoriginal gameplay. It's basically a classical survival game with crafting and resource management, but everything turns out to be quite boring on the long term, due to an excessive grinding too. Absolutely not a bad game and survival games lovers could appreciate it, but gameplay-wise it could have been more refined.

PvZ Garden Warfare 2 is a game any multiplayer TPS lover should get without hesitation. Varied, simple and longer, it can deliver lots of fun to gamers of all ages.

Despite its good ideas, Pixel Piracy ends up being quite disappointing both on the technical level - with huge slowdowns when using too many pirates and building a too big ship - and the gameplay one, with lack of variety and contents.

A very satisfying and tactical combat system is counterbalanced by an overly simple and contentless game structure, making it look more like a demo or prototype rather than a proper game.

An easy to learn but challenging twin-stick shooter, with a cute toyish modern war look and many levels to play. Its excessive simplicity could end up in being boring after a bunch of hours though, and lack of co-op looks like a missed opportunity.

A frantic, entertaining and competitive platform game, with lots of contents but lacking some desirable features like the levels editor and a Trials-like online multiplayer. Definitely suggested, though, to lovers of platform games like Sonic The Hedgehog and Jazz Jackrabbit.

Naruto Shippuden: Ultimate Ninja Storm 4 is the worthy conclusion to Masashi Kishimoto's saga and the best game in the series yet, successfully managing to transpose the anime's spectacular and hectic fights. A game any Naruto lover should buy without hesitations.

A solid investigative adventure with one of the most famous and charismatic literary characters.

Some interesting ideas like its good tournaments management are hindered by a generic lack of originality and an often too chaotic and repetitive gameplay.

Rocket League revealed itself to be a captivating, entertaining and addictive experience, instantly showing Xbox One gamers why it was so successful on other platforms. One of the most satisfying and funny multiplayer games you could play on the platform.

Far Cry: Primal adds some interesting and more survival-oriented new mechanics to the usual franchise formula, but the main storyline revealed itself to be quite dull while the environments and gameplay result in a bit too repetitive experience. It remains however an advised buy to open world games lovers, despite its flaws.

A Zuma-like tile-matching video game, with an effective gameplay also due to a couple of new ideas. It could have been greatly benefited by a more inspired artistic design.

Clearly inspired by old point-and-click adventures, Clockwork Tales: Of Glass and Ink provides lovers of the genre with a nostalgic and charismatic steampunk experience.

A very good arcade space shooter, more suited to people not willing to learn how to pilot a real starship like in more simulative games. With a compelling story and a great soundtrack, it will fully satisfy all space opera lovers.

A complex and thought-provoking survival experience, capable of making us feel the real struggle of civilians living in war zones. Its overly punishing mechanics, though, could scare people away after a few hours of play, and the new children component feels a bit under-developed.

A nice mix of TPS action and tower defense strategy with a classical 50s sci-fi setting. Its 4 players online co-op and depth of characters customization make it a worthy buy if you have people to play with.

LEGO Marvel's Avengers keeps all the aspects of the last titles in the franchise, for better or worse; parents and kids will love playing it together, but a renewal of the series is now long overdue. Especially when titles like LEGO City Undercover and LEGO Dimensions showed us TT Games is capable of doing much more.

A real blast from the past, recalling early Metroid and Super Mario times. It offers lots of contents and a good replayability, but the experience isn't always perfect due to a small input lag and an unpleasant knock back when touching enemies. All things considered, Amazing Princess Sarah is however an entertaining retro experience capable of delivering hours of fun to the genre lovers.

An interesting porting of pen-and-paper tactical-RPGs to the video game medium, The Living Dungeon offers a long but not too interesting story, while its gameplay can result in some too frustrating moments also due to lack of proper instructions. Its local multiplayer, though, can result in an entertaining experience mainly for lovers of old school p'n'p RPGs.

Capcom did a good job porting the game from Gamecube to Xbox One, but its gameplay mechanics didn't age too well in the post-RE4 era and it could have used some more work on that front.

Ubisoft's spin-off trilogy ends with a controversial episode. It keeps the great art style and many of the mechanics from the previous games, but its second half is filled with overly difficult, punishing and frustrating sections, something not every player will have the patience to endure. Its many contents and references to Assassin's Creed lore, however, make it a good buy for fans of the series.

Cobalt provides a decent and original single player metroidvania experience, plus a frenzied and content-rich multiplayer. It lacks the spark to make it really memorable mainly due to its too generic design and the price feels a bit too high, but especially if you've got friends to play it with, you won't be disappointed.

Good Portal-like puzzles and a nice sci-fi story make it an entertaining game for lovers of the genre. Too bad it's just single player, as its split screen visual would have been perfect for some local co-op puzzle solving action.

An original and nice 2D puzzle-stealth game, with some funny and pretty ideas and nice environments.

A nice bike tricks game, with clean graphics and an immediate but deep gameplay. Lots of contents and a solid levels editor make it a worthy buy at a very good price.

A poetic and emotional journey, capable of charming even non-gamers thanks to its realistic approach to visuals and puzzles. Definitely an experience worth doing.

A captivating, yet not much original, twin stick shooter capable of delivering a good experience to lovers of the genre, but its lack of real innovations and variety ends up making it quickly repetitive.

Based on a fascinating concept - a mash-up of puzzle game, FPS and point-and-click adventure in a 60s sci-fi setting - Albedo: Eyes From Outer Space fails to convince due to a series of technical, design and gameplay flaws making the game pretty difficult to enjoy.

A challenging 8-bit style plarformer, with though levels but always fair and never frustrating. A good electro soundtrack and over 50 levels complete the offering.

With tons of contents, an high character customization level and an hilarious geeky humor, UnEpic proves to be a solid and entertaining RPG, unluckily dragged down by nasty trial-and-error sections and complete lack of multiplayer, present on PC.

An incredible narrative experience, with a great script and packed full of moving moments. And with a great artistic design and a flawless soundtrack choice, it's the game every story-driven games lover must play.

Even as a tie-in for an already canceled TV series, Gemini: Heroes Reborn is an intriguing and interesting game with some neat ideas; using physics and time-based powers during combats can become a really rewarding and creative experience. Unluckily technical problems and questionable design choices bring down its overall value.

An ambitious and fascinating game, The Banner Saga sports memorable characters and great visuals but turned out to be too unbalanced towards the dialogues and management components, to the detriment of the turn-based battles.

A simple and minimalist - yet highly challenging - puzzle game at a great price, Cubot is the perfect pastime for logic challenge lovers.

A fascinating and mysterious adventure with a great teen thriller plot, charming characters and outstanding visuals and sound design. The whole story captivates the player flowing quickly, to the point that its ending arrives even too soon; a couple more gameplay hours wouldn't have hurt.

Hyper Void isn't a a particularly revolutionary shoot'em up, but thanks to a highly variable level structure and its solid gameplay it's capable of successfully entertaining the genre's lovers for several hours.

Made for the speedrun FPS lovers, Lovely Planet challenges us with colorful and incredibly fast levels where we need to move quickly and with high precision. Its lack of variety in levels structure and mode, though, could end up in quickly tiring the player.

Characterized by an 80's look, Hyperdrive Massacre is a hectic and bizarre space car battle party game; with friends - and multiple controllers - at home it becomes very absorbing and thrilling, but otherwise it won't have much use due to lack of online multiplayer support.

A funny adventure for kids and grow-ups, with a great accuracy level to the original cartoon.

A good reboot for the series, with some very nice ideas but with a bit too many technical issues. It looks more like an unfinished job, something that could have used some more development time.

Star Wars: Battlefront reveals to be a very immediate and accessible multiplayer game, capable of excite both casual and hardcore gamers thanks also to a great visual fidelity to the Star Wars environments.

This isn't the Rainbow Six we wanted, dropping the usual story campaign in favor of a complete focus on the multiplayer experience even if bots support is a welcome addition. But thanks to the many tactical options and the full destruction simulation, It offers an incredibly high variety level with tense gaming sessions, as long as you've got a good group of players to play with.

A funny and mobile-like game, capable of delivering several hours of casual - and a bit repetitive - enjoyment.

A very ambitious space simulator, with lots of contents to discover and unlock. Too bad for its messy menus and poor design choices, hurting its managerial aspects and leaving the very straightforward combat sections as the best part of the game.

Just Cause 3 is a no-frills game mainlyborn to let us play with destruction and over-the-top physics. Unfortunately there isn't much meat around this core skeleton, leaving it lacking in story and content variety.

Fallout 4 captures you in its world without ever letting you go: it still shows the series' well known soul of a collapsed world frozen in time by a nuclear blast, but this time everything is more fluid and streamlined, from objects management to dialogues to the combat system, with an added management layer and an incredibly dense and detailed world. This is the game to have for RPG lovers this autumn.

Rise of the Tomb Raider successfully builds upon the already good previous episode, delivering a rock-solid experience with a compelling story, gorgeous visuals and an open world packed full of things to do. Our only complaint is about the still too simplistic puzzles, but it's definitely a game every lover of this genre should look forward to playing.

This is Treyarch's masterwork and probably the best title in the series so far: with two campaigns comprising a deep and surprising story, 4 players co-op including local split-screen, the biggest Zombie map so far, extra modes and a rich and solid multiplayer, Black Ops III offers tons of content and hardly anything to complain about.

Wasteland 2: Director's Cut isn't an easy game, but if you're willing to deal with its complexity, difficulty and slow learning curve you'll discover a deep and satisfying old school RPG with great characters evolution and a huge longevity.

Too many defects and bad design decisions hinder what could otherwise have been a funny game.

A real revolution in its genre, thanks to the new guitar and the video streaming GH TV service capable of keeping us glued to the controller song after song after song. We've got a very different experience from the past here, but it's fresh, highly satisfying and varied.

An encouraging new beginning for the series with an interesting and realistic take on the rally experience, but it's unfortunately hindered by some serious technical problems.

Halo 5: Guardians shines thanks to its great environments and level design; the story is satisfying and even surprising, but we would have liked a deeper characterization for the new Spartans, and while online co-op is great, we miss local split-screen. Where the game really flexes its muscles, though, is in the multiplayer modes: Warzone is a brilliant and addicting new addition, while Arena gets rid of many complexities of the past offering us a very straightforward, solid and rewarding competitive experience.

One of the best co-op action-RPGs around, but the single player mode feels overly unbalanced and punishing, making it impossible to complete for the lone adventurers.

Assassin's Creed: Syndicate brings some freshness to the series thanks to the protagonists duality and the sped-up movement given by chariots and the new grappling hook, while Victorian era London is a really charming location. We didn't like the shoddy present time story line, though: if Ubisoft can't bring it back to the Desmond days greatness, maybe it's time to definitively let it go.