Predator: Hunting Grounds (PS5)

It's difficult to come to terms with Predator: Hunting Grounds being nothing more than a single game mode with shallow gameplay and abundant technical issues. It works when you're navigating the tree line as the Predator and hunting down a team of players, but these moments are fleeting.

Playing as the Predator is a wonderful idea, it just deserves a better game around it. Bugs, mediocre first-person gameplay, repetitive missions, an ugly setting, and a reliance on playing with friends mean Predator Hunting Grounds is boring a lot more often than it is enjoyable.

The performance is pretty poor on PlayStation 4, the balance can swing wildly in one direction or the other depending on what gear and perks people equip (and whether or not they know how to parry the Predator with their knives), and the maps and mundane objectives all blur together. There's an unshakable sense that almost everything is less finely-tuned than it should be.

Drop in, enjoy the hunt, and get out while you can.

Predator: Hunting Grounds offers brief moments of blockbuster action, but ultimately underwhelms more than it excites.

Predator: Hunting Grounds is a decent multiplayer romp with just enough content and ideas to make it worthwhile. It’s a huge improvement over Ifflonic’s last game, Dead Alliance, and one that’s definitely pumped up thanks to having a popular license to lean on.