Games

Following in the wake of Skylanders and Disney Infinity comes the most logical addition to the toy-to-life genre to date: LEGO Dimensions.

With its mix of post-apocalyptic adventure and vehicular combat there can be few film franchises that are so obviously videogame-friendly as Mad Max. Which makes it surprising that it's taken so long for gamers to get the chance to jump into Max's boots.

Being huge fans of the Godzilla films, the idea of taking control of Japan's King of the Monsters and rampaging through cities while doing battle with some of his most iconic enemies sounded like videogame nirvana. However, after sitting down with Namco Bandai's new Godzilla game for a few hours, there was only one thing on our mind: how had the developer got everything so disastrously wrong?

Most manga fans' idea of heaven, this beat 'em-up brings together an extensive roster of 52 characters (39 of whom are playable) from 32 different stories that have been serialised in the best-selling Weekly Shonen Jump anthology magazine in Japan. So, if you're the sort of person who lies awake at night wondering who would win in a fight between Dragon Ball's Son Goku and Fist of the North Star's Ken Shiro, then this is surely the next-gen arena brawler you've been waiting for.

The king is dead, long live the king! It's taken five years, but with the release of this third game based onthe series of fantasy stories by Polish author Andrzej Sapkowski, The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim has lost its crown as the king of open-world action RPGs.

This steampunk actioner is the most overtly cinematic game yet released for the PS4. Set in an alternate Victorian reality, it pitches werewolves against the descendants of the Knights of the Round Table, against a backdrop of incongruous tech and Ripper lore. In many ways, The Order: 1886 is the best film Paul W.S. Anderson never made.

With Ubisoft focusing the bulk of its  attention on the next-gen Assassin's Creed: Unity in the run-up to Christmas, this PS3/Xbox 360 instalment in the best-selling franchise feels like something of an afterthought by comparison.