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Sunset Overdrive
What if the apocalypse was actually... awesome?
The year is 2027. The place is Sunset City. Things kick off when resident mega-corporation, Fizzco, launches its latest energy drink, Overcharge Delirium XT. Unfortunately, if you think energy drinks are a little bit toxic now, just wait until you see what they're like in the future!
Most of the population is transformed into an array of mutants, aka "the OD'd". This, for many, is awful news. For you, someone who hated their job and spent far too much time playing games, watching movies and reading comics, this isn't so much awful as it is awesome. It's time for you to step up into Sunset Overdrive's epic campaign and become the hero your city so badly needs.
With amazing agility you'll leap into action in a vibrant, chaotic open world with a host of parkour moves and a huge arsenal of insane weapons. If you've played any of the Ratchet & Clank games you know that creative weaponry is one of developer Insomniac's hallmarks. If, for example, you're surrounded by hordes of mutants, draw their attention by firing cans of Overcharge Delirium XT from the Captain Ahab, then turn them into airborne meat by detonating an explosive teddy bear.
Players can team up with up to six other gamers online in co-op challenges with a risk/reward mechanic. If you dial up the craziness in Sunset City, the rewards are potentially huge! But, you know, you might end up as paste.
If you like your shooters with a large does of anarchy, you're in for a treat.£49.99 Buy Now -
Minecraft: Xbox One Edition
After setting a phenomenal trend on PC and selling tremendously well on Xbox Live Arcade, MojangÆs incredibly addictive world-creation game Minecraft has made the jump to physical media!
The charm of Minecraft is in its crude, blocky graphics. As you wander about a seemingly empty map, you soon learn to use your trusty pickaxe to chisel away the environment around you. Doing so not only allows you to rebuild the entire map as you see fit, but can also throw up a number of interesting surprises.
Create buildings, caverns, landmarks... youÆre only limited by your imagination. If you like, you can invite a bunch of friends along to help you build a masterpiece worthy of showing the entire world. But be quick about it, because at night monsters come out to play, so you need to make sure that you have made preparations for you (and your friends) to stay safe until dawn.
This Xbox One version builds from the massive success of the Xbox 360 version. With Mojang now falling under the Microsoft umbrella, the Minecraft experience looks set to get bigger and bigger. Right off the disc, players get bigger maps for bigger adventures. It also comes with expanded multiplayer features. You can get into the mix with up to four players on a split screen or up to eight players online.
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Metro Redux
Metro Redux takes two bleak, twisted first-person action games and brings them to the next generation of games consoles. In Metro 2033, based on the novel of the same name, players battle in a devastated wasteland to survive. Dmitry Glukhovsky's urban tale takes place in a post-apocalyptic Moscow, where the capital's Metro train line becomes the only safe haven for humanity. With the world destroyed by an apocalyptic event, the surface of the Earth becomes uninhabitable, and those who dare to go outside must face deadly sunlight, a lack of oxygen and mutated creatures that lurk in the darkness. Presented as a first person shooter, with a hint of underground town exploration, Metro 2033 adds some interesting elements to the genre, including a reduction of the HUD and a reliance on visual cues to survive topside. Bullets double as both your ammo and as currency for purchasing better weapons. Metro: Last Light picks up the story of its predecessor and takes it in a surprising new direction. It's a first-person shooter with thought. Weapons feel weighty but never overpowering, especially when faced with some of the mutant enemies that litter the landscape - wolf-like Watchmen, creepy spider-ants, oversized piranha fish... and not forgetting the patrolmen for every human faction in Moscow, with the city currently in civil war. The two games encouraged slightly different play styles, but this repackaging cross-pollinates them. Players can take the slower, survival-horror style of 2033 and play both campaigns that way. Like-wise, the 'spartan' play style can be applied to both games for a faster, more action-heavy experience. Redux also includes the super-tough 'ranger' mode, and all the previously released DLC. All in all, it stacks up to an impressive 50 hours of FPS gameplay!
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WWE 2K15
The next generation of WWE games has landed on our screens with WWE 2K15. The biggest change is noticeable right from the first bell. The frantic pace that wrestling fans have seen on the last few WWE games across the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 has been dialled back a bit. This brings a more technical element to the game. Blows feel like they carry more impact thanks to really precise collision detection, while strikes are easier to counter. That means that button mashers are less likely to get their hits through and might want to re-think their strategy. The game has been given a visual overhaul, too, with new motion capture technology brought in from the NBA 2K series and improved animations. The effect, combined with the more technical fighting mechanics means that the game is pitched more as a simulation than other recent entries to the WWE franchise. The audio's been worked on too, with more than five times the amount of commentary being a particularly notable addition. The new-generation versions of the game features the MyCareer mode, in which players create their own superstar and attempt to bring them up through the ranks to glory. The 2K Showcase mode brings emotional intensity to the game by comprehensively spotlighting two major feuds. One is the Triple H/Shawn Michaels rivalry from the early 2000s, and the other brings things closer to the present with the CM Punk/John Cena feud that ushered in the 'Reality Era' in 2011. You'll almost be able to inhale the smell of sweat on canvas...
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FIFA 15
The beautiful game is back, and with the 2014/2015 football season now well underway, Electronic Arts has another FIFA game for fans to dig their studs into. This year, the latest iteration of the game isn't about big, flashy updates attempting to overhaul the game. Rather, it's about focusing on the series' core gameplay and making the tweaks and refinements that might not seem huge to the casual observer, but to the hardcore fan will be hugely evident. EA has really doubled down on maintaining the pedigree that has made FIFA the dominant soccer game over the last few years. The new bells and whistles EA is touting include (as ever) improved graphics, with pitches that show wear and tear over the course of the match and improved player visuals. There's also the inclusion of the Turkish league and 'emotional intelligence' that delivers greater authenticity in how players react to the on-pitch action. On the pitch, though, players will notice other changes that might not be as obvious on the game's surface, but run a lot deeper. Defenders now turn with greater deliberateness and are more likely to catch attackers rather than standing around and looking nonplussed. Similarly, AI is better on the attack. Your players will burst into space on the overlap for a return ball without your prompting. You can also pick up control of the reciever of a goal kick, corner, throw-in or free kick, meaning you don't have to just hoof the ball in and hope your team makes the best of it. It's these new tweaks - tweaks that will keep on surprising you hours after you've fired up the game - that will make all the difference for FIFA fans, building on what's already gaming's premier football series.
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TitanFall
TitanFall is, first and foremost, a multiplayer first-person shooter. It's similar to the countless other FPSs out there in some aspects, but it has a very important stand-out element - it lets the player get into giant mechs and deal some Grade-A destruction. The selling point lies within the idea that both mechs and human players interact with each other on the same map, and do so in a very interesting manner. Given that TitanFall is online multiplayer only, the modes on offer are pretty important. Attrition is your run of the mill kill everything that's not your team mode. You start off on foot and the more you kill, the quicker you can request your Titan to be deployed to you. Hardpoint is the second game mode. You have to have a presence around certain points in the map and make sure that the other team doesn't get to them. This becomes a "Guard the Base" type of an event and you get points as to how successful you guard a point or capture it. The third one is a very interesting LTS or Last Titan Standing mode, where the game begins with you being inside a Titan, doesn't allow respawns if you die while on foot, and win by wiping off Titans on the other team. You might be wondering how human players can stand up against giant mech suits. The game spares no sympathy for puny humans and adheres to realism that lets you get crushed by a Titan's feet. Simply walk over enemy pilots and other AI units while piloting a Titan and that's the end of them. To balance things out, elements of parkour, and cloaking mechanisms are introduced to the pilots on foot, which in turn allow some impressive takedowns of Titans in a non-head on manner. Specialist weapons are also available for human players to combat Titans which deals a bit more damage than the average pistol/rifle/shotgun. These however, when used on other human players, simply vaporise them into a mist of blood. The Titans can be manned or left unmanned to auto engage the enemy or guard a particular spot. This gives a rather interesting freedom to the player, allowing him/her to select the sort of gameplay one wants to engage in. Pilot a Titan and rain down hell on minions, or let the Titan do its own thing while you dash about the map, getting some stealthy and quick kills!
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Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare
Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare takes the stellar blockbuster franchise and shifts it in a new direction. The biggest change for fans of the Call of Duty series will be the fact that for the first time, development isn't led by series veterans Infinity Ward or Treyarch, but by relative newcomer Sledgehammer Games. With a new team comes a somewhat new direction. While Call of Duty: Black Ops II pushed things into the near future of 2025, Advanced Warfare takes things further. The game puts players in the futuristic gear of Jack Mitchell. It's a future where the world has been devastated by a global attack and Atlas, a Private Military Corporation, is effectively a superpower for hire. Activision has gone to pains to state that this is a carefully researched future, so don't expect black hole guns or laser blasters. The most immediate impact of this premise, then, is the exoskeleton players wear. This piece of kit enhances the player's movement with bigger leaps, dashes and dodges. The exoskeleton, along with the futuristic weaponry on offer, changes the way gamers will play Call of Duty, and of course that extends to the game's multiplayer. All of this is polished off with a revamped Create-a-Class feature, offering the deepest customisation options in a Call of Duty game yet.
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Murdered: Soul Suspect
When Salem police officer Ronan O'Connor is brutally murdered, his story doesn't end where it ought to. Instead, it falls on him to step back into the land of the living as a ghost and solve his own murder. To get the job done, he teams with a teenage psychic and the two get to work solving crimes by pulling together clues, interviewing witnesses (both live and dead) and getting glimpses into the past. This might sound like the premise to a slightly cheesey US TV show, but it's actually the back story to Murdered: Soul Suspect from Square Enix and developer Airtight Games. The developer has decided to play it straight, with a lot of emphasis put on the characters of hard-nosed detective O'Connor and Joy, his wise-cracking sidekick. Their partnership forms the heart of the game as you do your ghostly bit solving crimes. As O'Connor is both a ghost and a detective, he has a few handy skills at his disposal for when you reach a crime scene. As well as familiar mechanics such as finding pieces of evidence and attempting to piece them together, players can also use their ghostly abilities to glean clues from psychic residue, inhabit the minds of suspects and sense ghostly energies. Aside from the detective work, players will have other jobs to do. That might mean doing a little stealth work to deal with other ghouls or escorting in-game characters using your spooky powers. Throughout the whole game, O'Connor's intangibility means he can go just about anywhere. What are you waiting for? There are crimes to be solved!
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FIFA 14
While FIFA 14, as the first football game of the Xbox One and PS4 era, straddles generations, there are certainly some improvements right out of the box for the next-gen versions. EA has built the brand new Ignite engine for next-gen. This includes a graphical upgrade and, more importantly, gameplay changes such as improved AI and 'True Player Motion' to make players act more realistically. On-screen players adhere more accurately than previous FIFAs to real world considerations such as weight and momentum to give a greater sense of physicality. From a gameplay perspective, expect players to have more apparent individuality than before as agility and athleticism plays more of a role in every on-field confrontation. In the heat of a match these are considerations that may not be immediately apparent, but which embellish the overall look and feel of the game for the better. For example, for the first time in the series you can properly - and gleefully - 'do' a defender, leaving him off balance and several yards in your player's wake. Fortunately for the wronged fullback, it is also now possible to burst into a sprint from standing to make up lost yards and earn the chance to heroically dispossess his humiliator. Things have improved on the offence, too. For all of the excellence of FIFAs 9 and up, it's true to say that not every goal felt right, or earned. 'Pure Shot', as it has been dubbed, seeks to address this shortcoming. Strikers now seek to adjust their angle and stride pattern, where possible, to hit the ball as cleanly as they can. In additions to enhancements to gameplay mechanics, EA Sports has brought a whole new dimension to Career Mode. New to the game is the Global Scouting Network, which gives players the chance to develop and refine a scouting network to bring them new talent from across the world the whole year round. There have, of course, been tweaks and changes to the online offering, too, including changes to Ultimate Team, a new online mode and new features for Football Club. And don't forget the 500 officially licensed clubs!
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Call of Duty: Ghosts
Infinity Ward, the creator of the Call of Duty series and the blockbuster Modern Warfare sequence of games is treating a new generation of consoles as a new opportunity. It doesn't matter what machine you're playing on, though, you're getting a brand new Call of Duty experience with Ghosts. Set in a new game universe, the events of Ghosts take place in a near future in which the US has been ravaged by a catastrophic attack and the West is on its knees. A new superpower has emerged south of the equator and is laying seige to the States. The once-mighty America now relies on an elite squad of soldiers, modeled on SEAL Team 6, to defend it. This new storyline effectively turns many of the Call of Duty series' tropes on their head. You're no longer top dog with an endless supply of state of the art weaponry behind you. You're the underdog, up against enemies with superior firepower, technology and numbers. You, however, do have a dog on your side... Multiplayer, of course, has been overhauled. The biggest addition set to shake up the more tradional multiplayer modes is the inclusion of dynamic events such as collapsing buildings. Some of these can be triggered by players, some will occur naturally. All of them will shake up the field and keep things interesting. Another notable inclusion is female soldiers, who will be playable for the first time in a Call of Duty game. Perhaps the most interesting addition to Ghosts' multiplayer offering is Squads. In it, players can design and customise their own squad and take them into combat against either other players or AI. The idea is to give you the thrills and gameplay style of multiplayer combat, but with the oversight and tactical vantagepoint of a squad commander. You don't even have to be online for your guys to get in on the action - players' squads can be challenged while they're not available. Even better, all the XP you earn can be brought back into the regular multiplayer experience with you. Infinty Ward is set to deliver yet another first-person blockbuster.
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Rabbids Invasion: The Interactive TV Show
Rabbids Invasion, the kids' TV show, has invited its audience to get stuck right into the action. Rabbids Invasion: The Interactive TV Show invites players to actively participate in a number of episodes from the series. Using motion controls, players can get stuck into no less than 20 Rabbids Invasion episodes as both an actor and a spectator. There are over 400 activities. Play through full motion games including the likes of Rabbids Dance. Get a bit more combative with Eggs battle, or even toss the rabbids through the air if you like. Other activities include playing against the timer in Speed Drawing or even screaming out the trademark rabbids "bwaah" using voice recognition. It's not just about you getting into the game, though. The rabbids will come out of it, too. Using augmented reality technology, they'll actually come out into your living room for you to mix it up - or even dance - with. There's a bit of point chasing to do, too, if you're so inclined. Grabbing points by performing well (or finding hidden objects and new characters) will mean you can unlock new episodes and augmented reality capsules. You can even take selfies with the rabbids! All that, and you can play with friends in multiplayer, too!
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Battlefield 4
Only in Battlefield can you change the landscape in real-time with interactive environments that react to your every move.
•Only in Battlefield will you find the awe-inspiring power of the next generation Frostbite 3 engine, whose unrivaled audio and visual fidelity make your game more dramatic, more believable, and more human.
•Only in Battlefield can you experience an unmatched level of all-out war that grants you the freedom to play to your strengths and carve your own path to victory.
•Only in Battlefield do you have the power to dominate land, air and sea with all-new, intense water-based vehicle combat.£9.99 Buy Now -
Evolve
To say that Evolve comes with a pedigree is an understatement. Coming from Left4Dead developers and horror co-op luminaries Turtle Rock, Evolve is a shoot-'em-up with a difference. The game pits four players against one monster. While you're teaming up against the monster, you'll be playing the game from a first-person perspective. The real twist, however, is that you can also play as the monster itself, taking things into a third-person mode and massively changing the way you play. As a hunter, teamwork is key. There are four different classes (Trapper, Support, Assault and Medic) and putting together the right group to combine those different skill sets is crucial if you want to succeed. Of course, given that you can step into any number shooters and start... well, shooting things, it will be playing as the monsters that will be the big draw for some. Needless to say, Turtle Rock has an interesting array of nastiness for you to control. Take, for example, the Wraith. This horrible creation has a nasty habit of teleporting along lines of sight. Spinning out of this are a disorienting abduction abilitity and the warp blast. In addition, there's the decoy move, which produces a hologram to further disorientate your enemies. Or perhaps you prefer the beefed-up Goliath, or the Cthulu-esque Kraken... While the core of the game is men versus monsters, don't forget about the environment. The planet Shear is hostile to man and beast alike. While Evolve is certainly a multiplayer game at heart, there is the option to play solo if your friends are busy and you don't fancy playing with strangers. Capable AI can take on the role of the other combatants, and if you're playing as a hunter you can swap into the role of one of your teammates at any time. But, while AI is all well and good, it's the player that's the real monster in Evolve...
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Assassin's Creed: Unity
Paris, 1789. The French Revolution turns a once-magnificent city into a place of terror and chaos. Its cobblestoned streets run red with the blood of commoners who dare to rise up against an oppressive aristocracy. Yet as the nation tears itself apart, a young man named Arno will embark upon an extraordinary journey to expose the true powers behind the Revolution. His pursuit will throw him into the middle of a ruthless struggle for the fate of a nation, and transform him into a true Master Assassin.
Introducing Assassin’s Creed Unity, the blockbuster franchise’s new chapter powered by the all new Anvil engine, rebuilt from the ground up for new gen. From the storming of the Bastille to the execution of King Louis XVI, experience the French Revolution as never before – and help the people of France carve an entirely new destiny.
Key Features:
A RUTHLESS NEW HERO FOR A BRUTAL WORLD – Play as Arno, an entirely new breed of Assassin, more lethal than his ancestors. Take down your prey with a range of new weapons such as the Phantom Blade, a Hidden Blade with crossbow capabilities.
BRAND-NEW PARKOUR, COMBAT, AND STEALTH GAMEPLAY
– Enjoy an unprecedented degree of freedom and control over your Assassin, brought to life by the new Anvil engine.
- Full motion control: new parkour mechanics for seamless free running up, across, and down city walls and buildings.
- A reinvented fighting system provides a richer combat experience based on skill, timing, and flow.
- Enhanced stealth gameplay including new stealth mode, cover system and crowd manipulation techniques. Stay hidden, stalk your prey and strike without warning.DEEP CUSTOMIZATION MECHANICS TO CRAFT YOUR OWN MASTER ASSASSIN
– Craft your own unique play style by choosing your weapons, gear, outfit and specialized skills. Mix and match from hundreds of possible combinations and build your Stealth, Fighting, and Navigation abilities from a new expansive skill tree. Become the ultimate Master Assassin.DISCOVER REVOLUTIONARY PARIS, BROUGHT TO LIFE AS NEVER BEFORE
– Carve your way through a stunning full scale, open world city, a feat only possible through the power of the new Anvil engine.
- Explore detailed building interiors and discover secret underground catacombs and sewers.
- Embark on Ancestral Missions, Treasure Hunts, Murder Mysteries, Contracts and more. The city is packed full of activities that will captivate you for hours.
- Witness the chaos of the French Revolution first-hand by immersing yourself in realistic, systemic crowds of up to 5,000 AI driven characters.A UNIQUE CO-OP EXPERIENCE YOU MUST PLAY TO BELIEVE
– In addition to an epic Singe Player campaign, join up to three friends and experience the online open world of 18th century Paris. Pull off ambitious Heists and take part in unique narrative driven missions designed exclusively for cooperative play. Sabotage an execution. Protect an emperor. Assassinate a Templar agent. But victory won’t be easy; you and your lethal band must rely on communication,
coordination, and diverse skills to accomplish your missions, then vanish into the shadows.£24.99 Buy Now -
Turtle Beach XBOX 1 XO 7 Pro Headset
•Wireless to the Xbox One™ Console
•Full Chat Functionality on Xbox One™
•Game and Chat Volume Mix Controls
•Swappable Speaker Plates
•Premium 50mm Neodymium Speaker Drivers
•Noise-Isolating Memory Foam Ear Cushions
•Mobile device compatibility*£149.99 Buy Now -
Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag
New Assassin's Creed games have become an annual event over the last few years. Unlike many sequels, that are mild re-workings of the previous title, each new Assassin's Creed game brings an incredible amount of new locations, characters and gameplay tactics to the table. Being set in a computer-created virtual history, the Assassins Creed franchise has the luxury to jump around both the globe and historical timeline with abandon. This time the series alights in the Caribbean during the golden age of piracy - the early 18th century. As you may expect, the adventure relies heavily on the nautical battle aspects of the game that were first introduced in Assassin's Creed III. Otherwise, the game features the same free roaming, adventure combat game style that players of the series have come to love. But as usual Ubisoft has tweaked things to make it a fresh and exciting experience. The game is more open, more quickly, preventing the user having to complete too many linear missions before unlocking extra areas of the game world. This leads to a more free-roaming and exploratory game style from the beginning. As you are more victorious in combat, you will be able to use your spoils to upgrade your ship. And you'll be able to recruit your crew from captured boats, or add the vessel to your fleet. But beware, as your notoriety rises, pirate hunters will begin to try and capture you for a reward. Combat has been changed to allow for "free aiming" rather than being target-lock based. And you can carry multiple weapons and chain attacks. As usual, as well as the historical aspects of the game, there is a "present day" section, which requires the user to explore the Abstergo offices in Montreal, Canada. As you move around the offices, avoiding combat, you can eaves-drop on Abstergo employees and hack into their computer systems, to learn more about the huge conspiracy in which Desmond Miles is enmeshed.
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LEGO Batman 3: Beyond Gotham
LEGO Batman 3: Beyond Gotham is the most ambitious LEGO game starring the Caped Crusader yet. While it does, of course, have Batman and Robin front and centre, it could almost have been called 'LEGO DC Superheroes', such is the size of the cast and the scope of the adventure. The 'Beyond Gotham' part of the title is certainly justified. This time out, the Dark Knight is out in space on a cosmic adventure. Braniac, who's more often known for bothering Superman, has been stealing entire cities, shrinking them down using the power of Lantern rings to add them to his sinister collection. So, right off the bat (pun slightly intended) you can see that the scale of the game has been expanded since previous entries to the series, drawing on the mythos of both Green Lantern and Superman. There's a cast to match this newfound scale, with more than 150 characters ranging from icons like Wonder Woman to the lesser-known (but no less important) figures like... well, Bat-cow. Expect The Flash, Green Lantern, Hawkgirl, Zatanna, Lex Luthor, The Joker and Swamp Thing to name just a tiny handful. Players can unlock different versions of characters, too, like the 1960s TV Batman (voiced by Adam West!) who lifts his cape to sneak past foes, or Arctic Batman, with a freeze gun. Gameplay is, as series fans will expect, along the usual LEGO lines. There's a dash of combat, a spot of platforming, a fair amount of environmental puzzle-solving and drop-in/drop-out cooperative play. As ever, it's all delivered with a light touch and a healthy dose of humour. That's not to say there's nothing new here, however. In one level, for example, our heroes encounter a battleship belonging to the Reach and the encounter plays out as a 2D shooter, much like Resogun. Let's be honest, though, most players will come for the sense of fun and the chance to play with that HUGE cast of characters.
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The Evil Within
When The Evil Within was announced, it sent shivers of delight and horror through the gaming community in roughly equal measures. Developed by Tango Gameworks, the game marks the return to survival horror by acclaimed Resident Evil creator Shinjo Mikami. Expect chills, nightmares and gore by the bucketload... The game revolves around detective Sebastian Castellanos, a man investigating a string of grizzly murders. As you'd expect from the creator of Resident Evil, though, things don't stop at gory slayings and things quickly descend into horrible supernatural nastiness. Because, oh yes, there is PLENTY of horribleness. Multi-armed spider lady things? We got 'em. And they are utterly nightmarish. The Evil Within certainly reeks of atmosphere and doesn't fall back on a splatter-fest, but it's not shy about its monsters, either. Like early Resi games, fighting will for the most part be a last resort. You don't want to be fighting these things if you can avoid it. Expect a lot of creeping around and running away, keeping a jealous guard of the scant resources you've scavenged from your environment. The Evil Within, for all its modern polish, is a return to the survival horror genre's roots from one of the genre's true masters.
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Rayman Legends
Rayman, Globox, and the teensies have been wandering through the forest when... you know, things happen. Don't sweat the details. What you need to know is: you have to save the teensies by crusading through various levels roughly themed around fairytales/folklore. You navigate the different worlds/levels by wandering along galleries and hopping into paintings with various different themes attached to them. If you wander about the level navigation for a moment you're bound to find something to do, and linearity is hardly important here. The game plays and flows beautifully, with some really imaginative level design. It does everything you expect from a sidescrolling platformer: you run, you jump, you glide, you punch. Except it does all this with really rich, varied and imaginative level design. Legends sits somewhere between 2D Mario and old school Sonic in terms of the feel of the thing, leaning more toward the latter. It's not as quick as Sonic, but if you're good enough it has something of that smooth flow. There are various sorts of levels on offer. For example, once certain levels are completed, a secondary level re-using some of its features (you might call it a 'remix' at a push) opens up. These are speed runs, but accuracy is critical if you even want to make it through, let alone do so in reasonable time. Using Murfy adds some fun moments, too. Players can get him to perform certain actions like tickling large enemies or eating out sections of cake-based levels, adding a rewarding extra dimension to certain levels. Rayman Legends is, all in all, a really fun little game with some great design behind it.
£24.99 Buy Now -
LEGO Marvel Super Heroes
It had to happen sooner or later, and now it has. The Marvel Universe has been given the LEGO treatment. And developer Traveller's Tales hasn't left anything out, either. Not content to settle on just Spider-Man, the Avengers, the X-Men, the Fantastic Four... or any of the other Marvel characters that could have held their own game, the developer has thrown the whole lot into the mix! Characters available range from the likes of Iron Man and Captain America through Spidey and the Fantastic Four right across to X-Men such as Wolverine, Cyclops and Storm. The Silver Surfer has turned up on Earth, which is often bad news. You see, the Surfer is the herald of Galactus, devourer of worlds, so where he goes Galactus isn't usually far behind. Before he can do much, however, he's knocked out of the sky and his surfboard is destroyed by Doctor Doom. It falls to Earth as cosmic bricks of immense power, and the Marvel universe's assorted villains scramble to get hold of them. Cue the assembled Marvel heroes to fight them off! The game plays out in the familiar LEGO manner. Gameplay is a combination of platforming, brawling and puzzle solving. There's a strong emphasis on teamwork, whether you're playing solo or in co-op, using the right character for the right job is crucial. As with LEGO Batman 2, there's a whole open world for players to explore. With Marvel, that's the iconic city of New York, with famous locations such as Stark Tower and the X-Mansion! LEGO Marvel is a definite win for any family member of the family who's taken a shine to the world's mightiest heroes.
£39.99 Buy Now
