87 Metascore 100Critic Score
Fallout 4
If traveling through Bethesda's version of Boston for 60 hours has taught me anything, it's that the little things are what matter.
Slant MagazinePosted Nov 10, 2015Read full review
97 Metascore 100Critic Score
Grand Theft Auto V
GTA V is Rockstar's midlife crisis: hostile, extravagant, but ultimately revealing a fascinating depth of self-loathing.
Slant MagazinePosted Nov 19, 2014Read full review
97 Metascore 100Critic Score
Grand Theft Auto V
Without question, the most involving, top-to-bottom, start-to-finish, out-of-body experience ever presented in a video game.
Slant MagazinePosted Sep 20, 2013Read full review
81 Metascore 100Critic Score
Tearaway Unfolded
If Tearaway were a diamond in the rough world of Vita gaming before, it's an exceedingly polished masterpiece on the PS4.
Slant MagazinePosted Sep 2, 2015Read full review
80 Metascore 100Critic Score
Guitar Hero Live
Guitar Hero Live isn't just a remolding of how we think about plastic guitars, but how audiences listen to music.
Slant MagazinePosted Oct 20, 2015Read full review
86 Metascore 100Critic Score
Tales from the Borderlands: A Telltale Game Series
The story crafted here isn't just a fine Borderlands sequel, but one of the most enjoyable sci-fi adventure stories in recent memory.
Slant MagazinePosted Nov 25, 2015Read full review
83 Metascore 100Critic Score
Persona Q: Shadow of the Labyrinth
The game finds by far the best use of the first-person mechanic, and, thanks to its lively and familiar cast of characters, ensures that there's never a dull moment in these dungeons.
Slant MagazinePosted Nov 22, 2014Read full review
83 Metascore 100Critic Score
DmC: Devil May Cry Definitive Edition
The game's sense of cool distilled from gallows humor, fantastical horror, wildly imaginative nightmare landscapes, and a bloody mean streak a mile wide.
Slant MagazinePosted Mar 10, 2015Read full review
91 Metascore 90Critic Score
Bayonetta 2
The campy hypersexuality feels joyful, rather than oppressive, because the character's overdetermined gender presentation is an expression of her power rather than a contrast to it.
Slant MagazinePosted Oct 24, 2014Read full review
87 Metascore 90Critic Score
Year Walk
Year Walk's port to Steam is flawless, with the inventive iOS touch controls and beautifully artistic graphic and sound design immaculately recreated on the PC. The game takes full advantage of the extra hardware, cleverly utilizing a full surround soundscape to drench the player in the foreboding atmosphere of the haunted forest, while retaining the same striking animation, which suggests a nightmarish Edward Gorey picture book come to life.
Slant MagazinePosted Mar 18, 2014Read full review
81 Metascore 90Critic Score
QAffordable Space Adventures
It all culminates in an end-game cutscene that I wouldn't dream of spoiling, except to say that it's a seamless riff on the combination of virtual social intimacy and bland corporate indifference that is the Miiverse.
Slant MagazinePosted Apr 10, 2015Read full review
89 Metascore 90Critic Score
Battlefield 1
The player has full control of each character, but not their fate, and so the senselessness of war always sticks out.
Slant MagazinePosted Oct 19, 2016Read full review
86 Metascore 90Critic Score
Gone Home
By the end of this two-to-three-hour journey, it isn't just the house that'll seem lived-in, as the characters are equally realized and relatable.
Slant MagazinePosted Aug 17, 2013Read full review
87 Metascore 90Critic Score
INSIDE
Like Limbo, developer Playdead's previous title, Inside is one of the few video games that reaches the level of allegory.
Slant MagazinePosted Jul 14, 2016Read full review
81 Metascore 90Critic Score
Splatoon
The virtue of shooters has always been how a simple set of parameters create an array of interesting decisions, and the game's greatness is how it expands that matrix.
Slant MagazinePosted Jun 12, 2015Read full review
83 Metascore 90Critic Score
Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare
Jonathan Irons may scoff at the idea of dying for what you believe in, as it doesn't make that belief true, but at least so far as this game goes, it's entertaining, and that's more than enough.
Slant MagazinePosted Nov 7, 2014Read full review
92 Metascore 90Critic Score
Bloodborne
This act of death and rebirth is the only thing Bloodborne directly teaches users, as it's the game's main hook.
Slant MagazinePosted Mar 26, 2015Read full review
88 Metascore 90Critic Score
Super Mario Maker
It's an experiment that acts as both deconstruction and overjoyed celebration of everything that is Super Mario Bros.
Slant MagazinePosted Sep 29, 2015Read full review
87 Metascore 90Critic Score
Diablo III: Reaper of Souls
If this release doesn't consume your very essence for days on end, then perhaps random-dungeon loot-hunting isn't your thing.
Slant MagazinePosted Apr 10, 2014Read full review
tbd Metascore 90Critic Score
Shutshimi
Developer Neon Deity Games' spirited rejection of video-game balance almost qualifies as avant garde.
Slant MagazinePosted Aug 27, 2015Read full review
85 Metascore 90Critic Score
The Talos Principle
As the game suggests, "Peril and paradise are inextricable," and without the tricky puzzles, there wouldn't be nearly as much satisfaction.
Slant MagazinePosted Dec 17, 2014Read full review
84 Metascore 90Critic Score
Rare Replay
Think of Rare Replay like an entire Criterion Collection for video games in one package.
Slant MagazinePosted Aug 12, 2015Read full review
68 Metascore 90Critic Score
Scribblenauts Unmasked: A DC Comics Adventure
What might have been an assembly-line, recherché plot serves as a love letter to fans, covering the vast history of the DC Universe with both respect and a sense of humor.
Slant MagazinePosted Oct 13, 2013Read full review
74 Metascore 90Critic Score
Stealth Inc 2: A Game of Clones
The game walks a fine line between delight and despair, but there's only so much laughter to be found in slaughter.
Slant MagazinePosted Apr 16, 2015Read full review
80 Metascore 90Critic Score
Puppeteer
From its alliterative script to its dreamy visuals, the game is a wacky, whimsical homage both to classic storybook adventures and pure imagination.
Slant MagazinePosted Sep 8, 2013Read full review
70 Metascore 90Critic Score
Dead Rising 3: Apocalypse Edition
The graphics are just as impressive here as they were on the Xbox One: Witnessing literally thousands upon thousands of zombies on screen at once is breathtaking, as is charging through them with muscle cars.
Slant MagazinePosted Sep 11, 2014Read full review
84 Metascore 90Critic Score
Persona 4 Arena Ultimax
Whether you're playing with friends at home, emulating the arcade experience online, getting intimate with the single player story, taking fighting lessons from the computer, or grinding experience, this is the entire package. It's enough to make even the game's cheesiest, oft-repeated line golden: "Bring on the ring" indeed.
Slant MagazinePosted Sep 26, 2014Read full review
80 Metascore 90Critic Score
Tom Clancy's The Division
They say that New York City never sleeps, and those who play Tom Clancy's The Division may understand the feeling.
Slant MagazinePosted Mar 15, 2016Read full review
88 Metascore 90Critic Score
Ori and the Blind Forest: Definitive Edition
The original was already a classic, so where the Definitive Edition makes improvements is largely in making the challenging game more accessible to newcomers.
Slant MagazinePosted May 4, 2016Read full review
82 Metascore 90Critic Score
Watch Dogs 2
The sincere belief in a pack mentality is just one reason why Watch Dogs 2 is such an improvement over its predecessor.
