A complex dungeon crawler wrapped in an utterly gorgeous package.

If you are looking for a game that you can pick up and play a few rounds on your lunch break, or spend a few hours playing with friends while laughing, strategizing, and blasting your way to victory, I’d say quelling the menacing alien forces is well worth the enlistment price.

Overall, if you missed DmC when it arrived in 2013 and fancy a hack’n’slash game along the lines of Bayonetta or Ninja Gaiden, then this PS4 edition is certainly the best way to experience the game.

I want to finish the story, but not play the game to do it.

Aside from difficulty finding a quick match, and the fact that it’s a year old game that looks a lot older as it’s being sold at full price, Don Bradman Cricket offers plenty for those that don’t have the 2014 version.

Unresponsive and unintuitive controls hold back what is otherwise an excellent, atmospheric platformer.

When four small mallowpuffs are jumbled together in the corner of one small screen, you get a Kirby fluster-cluck.

Fun for what it is, but doesn’t stand out in any way.

Even in plain old two dimensions, first-person coastering is edge-of-your-seat stuff. I can only imagine what it would be like with virtual reality.

"Boring combat. Interesting writing. Constant sleaziness.

The Escapists is a wonderfully deep and complex puzzle game that reels you in further and further as you make progress from one prison to the next.

Overall, Dead or Alive 5: Last Round is the definitive version of a last gen game. Visually, it still looks great; however, it's still based on a last gen game. A new DoA running on current gen consoles with higher resolution textures can't come too soon, but for now, Dead or Alive 5: Last Round is satisfactory.

This could be the basis for a fully fledged, cross-franchise Nintendo rhythm game - now there's something I'd pay good money for.

A game so twitchy, it may just ruin your controller.

The only question you need to ask yourself is: do I need another addiction?

BeautiFun’s unique platformer has never looked or played better.

Beautiful - but not enough else.

Its relative ease makes redoing the challenges very pedestrian, and worse yet, replaying the same dungeon also means reliving all the pre-faffing-about to get there. You have to endure many of the same conversations, cutscenes and menial tasks you already know of and know how to do. Regardless of what decade you played it in, that is not fun.

Repetitive and unashamedly fun (but a lacklustre port to PS4).

The atmosphere in Resident Evil is second to none, and it's something that needs to make a comeback.

Total War: Attila is as painstakingly difficult as it is rewarding.

Evolve is a great, but sadly unreliable, experience.

The humour is corny and sometimes you want to slap Mark Matthews for his lack of conversation choices, but it’s an enjoyable way to pass the time, and if you fail then you can play again to try and nab that hot Army guy or try to unlock the "secret easter egg date".

Arcade fun, short and sweet and cheap like a short sweet cheap thing.

An irritating bug severely holds back this setup episode.

For someone under time constraints and with little patience for having to repeat a long, slow, tough, scenario multiple times, I have to confess that although I wanted to like it, Blackguards 2 hasn't been one of my top gaming experiences.

As was the case with so many games from the Golden Era, the pros in Pirate’s Curse far outweigh the cons. If the Super Nintendo has a special place in your heart, like it does in mine, this is a game you’ll want to waste no time in picking up. Even if you’re of the misguided opinion that other generations are better (hint: you’re wrong), if you like platforming, pirates, genies, or just good games in general, Shantae and the Pirate’s Curse is worth your attention.

A game so good no changes were needed.