Better suited to playing on your phone waiting for a bus than buying an Xbox for. [Jan 2016, p.85]

Excellently calibrated. [Jan 2016, p.85]

Well worth smashing and grabbing. [Jan 2016, p.85]

Behind its veil of twee anime and flippant dialogue lurks fighting of considerable depth, and yet surprising accessibility. And acquired taste, but one to savour all the same. [Jan 2016, p.84]

Well-suited to a series so heavily reliant on talking yourself out of trouble. [Jan 2016, p.79]

Dull combat and a slow pace hold it back, but smart puzzle design, great characters and a charming realisation of the show's world make this a great pick for fans. [Jan 2016, p.78]

Challenging and often frustrating, Elite rewards perseverance with a sense of place and progress that few Xbox One games can rival. [Jan 2016, p.76]

As close as you'll get to getting your childhood back. Dig through the incredible production values and you'll find a serviceable shooter, but one with a potentially terminal lack of content. [Jan 2016, p.73]

More Fallout 3.9 than 4, but still absolutely essential. Skyrim 2 has a hard act to follow. [Jan 2016, p.67]

Arguably, Geralt's greatest quest yet. An excellent tale, confidently told and at a bargain price. Essential. [Christmas 2015, p.86]

Dying is more annoying than frightening. [Christmas 2015, p.83]

It's also very short. Laserlife tries tackling existentialism, but doesn't have the space to do it. [Christmas 2015, p.83]

Scratch beneath the surface and there's a deep game that gives out as much as you're willing to put in. [Christmas 2015, p.79]

Low-budget, yes, but there's a beating heart here behind the technical misery. [Christmas 2015, p.78]

A Bowie-esque reinvention. [Christmas 2015, p.75]

Iffy submission system aside, this is the smoothest and most authentic WWE game to date. [Christmas 2015, p.74]

A surprise gem, particularly in co-op. Be prepared to put in a bit of learning time, but it's well worth it so you can appreciate the unusual freedom at your fingertips. Also: you can talk to dogs. [Christmas 2015, p.69]

Disappointing. [Christmas 2015, p.66]

Treyarch may not always hit its targets, but this remains a genuinely fresh take on an old sub-series in an even older franchise. A game as well-oiled as its cyborgian characters. [Christmas 2015, p.60]

At times it feels like the mad power trip it ought to be – but repetitive action soon sucks the joy out of its amazing explosions, and unnecessary restrictions get in the way of the fun.

Wicked and mean-spirited it may be, but you'd have to dig deep to find a more generous DLC offering than this. [Dec 2015, p.91]

Trespasser has a little more sentiment than substance, but it's still a good last outing for your Inquisitor. [Dec 2015, p.91]

This slight offering started life as a mobile game, and it shows. [Dec 2015, p.87]

The training wheels rarely come off. [Dec 2015, p.87]

It contains great ideas, like the obstacle courses, that we would have liked to seen fleshed out. [Dec 2015, p.87]

With cheap presentation, bland art and pratfalls so lacking in impact that it's not even fun to fail, Pumped BMX+ is a bare-bones port that struggles to earn its place on the big screen. [Dec 2015, p.86]

Only ever as hard as you are daft. [Dec 2015, p.86]

Telltale's reinvention of Minecraft captures the game's cosy vibe, but fails to get the blood pumping with its action and puzzling mechanics. [Dec 2015, p.85]