20 Best Video Games Of 2016

5. DOOM

Id Software wrote the book on first-person game deign, and with their grand return to DOOM - some 12 years in the making - they've knocked it clean out the park and straight up to Mars.

Running steady at 60 frames per second, you've not experienced a console shooter like this. And whilst that base foundation immediately challenges you to play as fast as your brain can process information, there are a number of truly innovative game mechanics that keep it all fresh.

Out of ammo? Just whip out your chainsaw and carve through enemies to trigger some pick-ups. Likewise with health, executing enemies restores it, encouraging you to mix up your weapons and tactics on the fly.

A technical powerhouse from top to bottom, take gore-soaked levels, varied enemy design, phenomenally powerful weapons and pack it all in with extra dynamite - DOOM is the resulting explosion, and everything you'd expect from a true veteran of the industry.