Jon Denton
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You just have to marvel at it. Playground Games’ fifth venture into the Horizon is the pinnacle of open-world racing.
After five mainline entries and two full-sized spin-offs, you might be thinking the Far Cry train has run out of steam. But here, on its full next-gen debut, a South American world of carnage, chaos and crisp linen suits awaits.
Fast, gory, deafeningly loud and unapologetically old-school, id’s soft reboot of its famous series was the shot in the arm we didn’t know the FPS genre needed. And if follow-up Doom Eternal was just more of that, another hundred-mile-an-hour playable metal album, we’d probably be alright with it.
After an 8 year hiatus, including jaunts to space, World War 2 and Kevin Spacey’s house, Modern Warfare makes a triumphant return.
Ubisoft has long enjoyed a reputation for amalgamating all its favourite game systems and shoving them into everything it puts out. For years, every Ubi open world had giant towers to climb, thousands of icons to clear and endless tat to collect. Laborious, but ultimately inoffensive.
Gears Of War has always been about making statements. Changing the way movement works in third-person shooters. Changing the human anatomy to make room for extra muscles. Changing the way guns reload.
After years in meditative hibernation, this once-lost Shogun warrior has reemerged to do battle with old nemeses Street Fighter and Mortal Kombat, and to take a few arms home with it in the process.
To the casual observer, Street Fighter V might seem like the biggest fighting game in the world, with its main-stage tournament finals at EVO and globally-renowned roster of characters.
Hot on the slightly broke, misjudged heels of Anthem comes another triple-A loot shooter looking to hoover up your every waking moment.
In a stat that will make you whiter than Dante’s stringy hair, it’s been a massive six years since Ninja Theory’s DMC reboot rocked the angrier corners of the internet with its edgy take on Capcom’s action classic. And despite DMC now being considered a series high point for many, Capcom has granted the wishes of the hardcore fans and taken Dante back in-house for this long-awaited sequel to 2008’s Devil May Cry 4.