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TT Games has been knocking out this type of licensed LEGO game for almost a decade now, so you'd have every right to think that it would have perfected the formula. Indeed, many would argue that it did just that with last year's supremely enjoyable LEGO Marvel Super Heroes. However, the recent speed-up in the arrival of new releases has also seen a decrease in quality – first with the incredibly glitchy The LEGO Movie Videogame and now with the unnecessarily fussy LEGO The Hobbit.

Fans of the long-running and convoluted Metal Gear franchise may be left feeling a little short-changed by this latest addition. Ground Zeroes is described as a prequel/prologue to next year's Metal Gear Solid: Phantom Pain (the two titles, says developer Kojima Productions, form a singular work), and that's certainly apparent in terms of the scope on offer. Completing it shouldn't pose any problems to competent gamers, with the side-missions and main storyline holding your attention for a few hours, maximum.

It's taken six attempts and more than 15 years, but fans of Trey Stone and Matt Parker's controversial cartoon finally have a videogame spin-off to be proud of. Despite a year-long delay and rumours of a troubled production, Obsidian Entertainment's South Park: The Stick of Truth has emerged from production as a very entertaining role-playing game that – thanks to the authentic visual style, outrageous humour and voice acting – is as close as you could ever get to a fully interactive episode of the show.

So here’s what Zoo Tycoon teaches you (and, more likely, your kids). First, it’s apparently acceptable to have a zoo without penguins. Second, zoos can only grow to a surprisingly limited size before you have to get rid of, say, a hippo to make way for a lizard. Finally, Zoo Tycoon makes it clear that there are far more varieties of antelope, bear, lion, giraffe, tiger, elephant, rhino, monkey and bird (except penguins) than you ever imagined. Which rather handily means Zoo Tycoon’s makers essentially only have to do a ‘respray’ job over the same core animal animations and graphics to radically boost the claimed critter count. Hmm…

Xbox One racer Forza 5's headline trick is delivering its huge car collection and decent selection of tracks in beautifully shiny 1080p graphics running at a silky smooth and consistent 60fps – something other titles on the console have conspicuously failed to do.

From TV hit The Walking Dead to Brad Pitt's blockbuster smash World War Z, modern culture has been treating zombies way too seriously lately. So it’s brilliantly refreshing to see Dead Rising 3 gleefully treating them as nothing more than fodder for the most outrageous range of weapons ever found in a game.