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Just as a Marvel film isn’t just a film but a chapter of a whole cinematic universe, Marvel’s Avengers isn’t just a game, but a service you’re expected to play long into the next generation.
Ghost of Tsushima arrives at an opportune time just as games are having a bit of a samurai renaissance, as demonstrated by Nioh and Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice.
Fun fact: Halo began life as a real-time strategy before shifting gears into the iconic FPS it is today.
There’s nothing more contagious in video games than sequelitis, but even then, The Last of Us felt like a masterpiece that should have been left alone.
For those who owned a Sega Mega Drive in the 90s, chances are your fondest memories were not of a speedy blue hedgehog but battering thugs with a mate on neon-soaked streets.
The original game, first released in 1997, was responsible for awakening audiences to the emotional power of video game storytelling and effectively putting Japanese role-playing games on the global map.
Following the high bar of last year’s Resident Evil 2 (our 2019 game of the year, no less), this doesn’t just remake the original PS1 game from the ground up, but manages to take inspiration from much of the series’ history.
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.
Compared to Gears 5 or Sea of Thieves, Ori and the Will of the Wisps may seem one of Microsoft’s more modest offerings.
Rather, it’s a platform for creating your own. It’s also a platform for creating animations. And interactive art installations. And music. And if you don’t want to do any of that, you can spend your time diving into the (often alarmingly warped) imaginations of others instead. Creating, consuming and sharing...
The first creature you encounter in Journey to the Savage Planet is the “Pufferbird”. Bouncing about like a bunny rabbit and gazing at you with big puppy dog eyes, the avian alien is positively precious…right up until the point you boot it to death.
For such a hotly-anticipated game set in such a fan-favourite franchise, Star Wars: Jedi Fallen Order is surprisingly stripped of its own identity.
