I'm going to wonder for a long time how this could have happened. Remedy stumbles like a bunch of toddlers out of the starting blocks of their shooter ambition and delivers the least fun shooter I've played in years. Yes, even that one other game was more fun than this. That's saying something.

Now is the time for aspiring developers to come up with a competitor for Farming Simulator. It seems as if Giants Software has done a straight copy-paste of the previous edition for FS 25, with minimal additions. You wonder how this part justifies the existence of the series. Giants can only hope that the modding community can still put some love into this, because they really have their hands full with this base game.

After the excellent pirate game Assassin's Creed: Black Flag, you would think that Ubisoft did not have much work to do to deliver a good standalone title, but the developer is hopelessly drowning. Outside of the nice ship combat and customization, Skull and Bones is rudderless: uninspired, superficial and, above all, extremely boring. A one-way gangway, please.

Not the players, but developer Starbreeze and publisher Deep Silver pulled off one of the biggest video game heists ever with Payday 3. Forty bucks for a lightweight, buggy and downright boring product: this is theft in broad daylight.

I really can't recommend The Lord of the Rings: Gollum to anyone. From the ghastly gameplay to a story that adds nothing to, and actually only detracts from, Middle-earth's brilliant overarching history... Not even the biggest LOTR fan can get anything out of this. The only bright spot is that J.R.R. Tolkien is spared.

Gearbox has no idea what made the first Tales From The Borderlands so good. Even more bizarre: they also seem to have no idea what humor is. New Tales is painfully unfunny and also way too expensive for its length.

CrossfireX is already the biggest disappointment of the year. It tries to be so many things at once that it's really nothing at all. The multiplayer is an unbalanced, dull, nauseating experience and the campaign misses too many opportunities to be really worth it. The large amount of microtransactions is the rotten icing on the collapsed cake.

What should have been a glorious celebration of three leading open world games has turned out to be a major disappointment that is definitely not the 'definitive' way you should experience the games. Don't get me wrong, the games themselves remain great, but the updated (camera) controls and some graphical updates are far from being able to compete with all the missing content and the numerous graphical misses that this collection makes. This makes Grand Theft Auto: The Trilogy – The (So Called) Definitive Edition feel like a lazy cash grab that Rockstar Games should be ashamed of.

Empire of Sin contains a lot of good ideas and intentions that are squandered by a mediocre, unbalanced execution and an inadequate finish. Nothing to Sin here.

In addition to its beautiful appearance, this game is repetitive in all areas.

I expected little more than a Deep Blue Sea, but it turned into The Meg pretty quickly, ultimately resulting in a Jaws: The Revenge that ate my savegame. Don't be temped by the prospect of being a sea predator; deep in your heart you know it's not going to be as much fun as you hope it will be.

This port of a fifteen year old game adds little, or more like nothing, to the original game, even while there was still enough room to really improve the original.

Tony Hawk is simply unplayable, looks awful and is infested with bugs. An outright tragic ending to a legendary franchise. [Sept. 2015, p. 066]

It’s an alright Pokemon clone but why would you go for a clone if you can just play the original? [Jul 2015, p.072]

The only truly shocking thing about this Carmageddon reincarnation is the fact that they charge 25 bucks for it. This monstrosity is about as fun as getting run over by a car. [Jul 2015, p.066]