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The future’s still bright

Editor Poring over Series X’s insane tech specs has made Team OXM all kinds of giddy with mad excitement. Chris is now dreaming of a new GTA game, once again set in ’80s Vice City so he get his ray traced groove on in 4K at 60fps. Horrible times out there in the world, but at least us gamers can social-distance and still enjoy our Xboxes. Communicating via our headsets, and still being able to enjoy games together, has never been so valuable. Here at OXM we’re doing our level best to keep things as normal as possible, and we’re hell-bent on bringing you more great stuff to read about your beloved Xbox over the coming weeks and months. If you don’t want to brave the shops, or can’t get out, you…

The future’s still bright

The future’s still bright

Editor Poring over Series X’s insane tech specs has made Team OXM all kinds of giddy with mad excitement. Chris is now dreaming of a new GTA game, once again set in ’80s Vice City so he get his ray traced groove on in 4K at 60fps. Horrible times out there in the world, but at least us gamers can social-distance and still enjoy our Xboxes. Communicating via our headsets, and still being able to enjoy games together, has never been so valuable. Here at OXM we’re doing our level best to keep things as normal as possible, and we’re hell-bent on bringing you more great stuff to read about your beloved Xbox over the coming weeks and months. If you don’t want to brave the shops, or can’t get…

The future’s still bright

Adam Bryant Staff writer Adam is hoping to harness Series X’s sheer power to rip open a hole in space-time so he can finally visit the far future and live out his Mass Effect fantasies. Warren Brown Group art director After staring at the Series X for hours when putting our cover feature together, Woz started worshipping it like those monkeys from 2001: A Space Odyssey. Drew Sleep Production editor Drew learned what a ‘teraflop’ is this month and kept slipping it into conversations… which explains why everyone is now social-distancing away from him. Dave Meikleham Games editor The thought of Series X potentially handling 8K has brought our games editor to tears… mainly because it means his beloved 4K TV is soon to be obsolete.…

Adam Bryant Staff writer Adam is hoping to harness Series X’s sheer power to rip open a hole in space-time so he can finally visit the far future and live out his Mass Effect fantasies. Warren Brown Group art director After staring at the Series X for hours when putting our cover feature together, Woz started worshipping it like those monkeys from 2001: A Space Odyssey. Drew Sleep Production editor Drew learned what a ‘teraflop’ is this month and kept slipping it into conversations… which explains why everyone is now social-distancing away from him. Dave Meikleham Games editor The thought of Series X potentially handling 8K has brought our games editor to tears… mainly because it means his beloved 4K TV is soon to be obsolete.…

You can’t move for Xbox Series X this month! Microsoft’s Redmond boffins finally gave us some proper hard-and-fast facts about just what their next-gen wonder console is capable of. We put together our super-meaty Series X cover feature (see p42), and then we got a load more info that we couldn’t squeeze in. So this month’s Insider kicks off with more stop-press tidbits on Xbox Series X graphics, load-times and more (p8). Just when you thought we’d seen all the battle royales, there’s a new champion out there, taking the world of online multiplayer by storm. We report on just what’s got everyone so excited about Call Of Duty Warzone on page 10. While we all wait super-impatiently for Cyberpunk 2077, we received some good news from developers CD Projekt…

You can’t move for Xbox Series X this month! Microsoft’s Redmond boffins finally gave us some proper hard-and-fast facts about just what their next-gen wonder console is capable of. We put together our super-meaty Series X cover feature (see p42), and then we got a load more info that we couldn’t squeeze in. So this month’s Insider kicks off with more stop-press tidbits on Xbox Series X graphics, load-times and more (p8). Just when you thought we’d seen all the battle royales, there’s a new champion out there, taking the world of online multiplayer by storm. We report on just what’s got everyone so excited about Call Of Duty Warzone on page 10. While we all wait super-impatiently for Cyberpunk 2077, we received some good news from developers CD Projekt…

Delving deeper inside Series X

INSIDE XBOX Just as you wait for an update on Xbox Series X, along comes all the info at once. Such are the demands of planning for print deadlines, we’d already written a bumper feature on everything you need to know about Microsoft’s astonishing new console – head over to page 42 – mere days before the firm unveiled even more tantalising next-gen details. So we’re serving them up here to ensure you have every last morsel of Series X info. The biggest news? Microsoft is making no bones about Series X’s cutting-edge dedication to delivering incredible performance. Writing on the official Xbox Wire, editor in chief Will Tuttle confirms Microsoft’s teams knew they had to build a console that could “run games in 4K at 60fps with no compromises for developers”.…

Delving deeper inside Series X

Delving deeper inside Series X

INSIDE XBOX Just as you wait for an update on Xbox Series X, along comes all the info at once. Such are the demands of planning for print deadlines, we’d already written a bumper feature on everything you need to know about Microsoft’s astonishing new console – head over to page 42 – mere days before the firm unveiled even more tantalising next-gen details. So we’re serving them up here to ensure you have every last morsel of Series X info. The biggest news? Microsoft is making no bones about Series X’s cutting-edge dedication to delivering incredible performance. Writing on the official Xbox Wire, editor in chief Will Tuttle confirms Microsoft’s teams knew they had to build a console that could “run games in 4K at 60fps with no compromises for developers”.…

Delving deeper inside Series X

Make love not Warzone

ROYALE WITH CHEESE Trust the biggest shooter series on the planet to knock its first standalone attempt at a battle royale out of the park. While Black Ops 4 technically took aim at last-player-standing matches with the okay(ish) Blackout, COD’s latest foray into a genre dominated by Fortnite and Apex Legends is both its own entity and a far fresher spin on the ‘survive at all costs’ game type. “Warzone! What is it good for? Absolutely nothi…” actually, quite a lot, as it turns out. If you’ve yet to dive into Call Of Duty: Warzone, let OXM bring you up to speed on the shooty headlines. A free-to-play companion piece to Modern Warfare, this ambitious battle royale pits 150 players against one another across a single war-torn map. Yup, one-hundred-and-flippin’-fifty. Free for all The…

Make love not Warzone

Make love not Warzone

ROYALE WITH CHEESE Trust the biggest shooter series on the planet to knock its first standalone attempt at a battle royale out of the park. While Black Ops 4 technically took aim at last-player-standing matches with the okay(ish) Blackout, COD’s latest foray into a genre dominated by Fortnite and Apex Legends is both its own entity and a far fresher spin on the ‘survive at all costs’ game type. “Warzone! What is it good for? Absolutely nothi…” actually, quite a lot, as it turns out. If you’ve yet to dive into Call Of Duty: Warzone, let OXM bring you up to speed on the shooty headlines. A free-to-play companion piece to Modern Warfare, this ambitious battle royale pits 150 players against one another across a single war-torn map. Yup, one-hundred-and-flippin’-fifty. Free for all The impressive numbers don’t stop…

Make love not Warzone

Series X appeal Microsoft recently released a raft of new info on Xbox Series X, and we couldn’t be more excited. Find out why this is the must-have console starting on p42. Size surprise After all that work on No Man’s Sky, it’s great to see Hello Games back with The Last Campfire. Its new narrative-driven title is out this June. Perks of the job Xbox has announced extra ‘Perks’ for Game Pass Ultimate members. These include new games, DLCs and more. Not so E3 peasy Just like this year’s GDC, E3 has been cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The future for the LA expo looks bleak. Hit and Nemesis Last issue we suggested Resi 3’s saferooms aren’t safe. They are. Turns out we were not in a safe…

Series X appeal Microsoft recently released a raft of new info on Xbox Series X, and we couldn’t be more excited. Find out why this is the must-have console starting on p42. Size surprise After all that work on No Man’s Sky, it’s great to see Hello Games back with The Last Campfire. Its new narrative-driven title is out this June. Perks of the job Xbox has announced extra ‘Perks’ for Game Pass Ultimate members. These include new games, DLCs and more. Not so E3 peasy Just like this year’s GDC, E3 has been cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The future for the LA expo looks bleak. Hit and Nemesis Last issue we suggested Resi 3’s saferooms aren’t safe. They are. Turns out we were not in a safe room when Nemesis broke in. Also, the Grave Digger…

Witcher way now for CDPR?

GER-ALTERNATE UNIVERSE You might have thought the Polish game studio would have enough going on, with Cyberpunk 2077 due for release in September and a promised multiplayer version in the works, but CD Projekt has revealed it is already planning on another single-player game to follow it. CD Projekt CEO Adam Kiciński broke the news to a Polish conference that the company will hit the ground running once Cyberpunk 2077 releases, immediately beginning work on another game. And in case you’re wondering, it’s almost certainly going to be a game set in Andrzej Sapkowski’s The Witcher universe. “We have two worlds and we want to create games in those two worlds,” said Kiciński. “That’s why all planned games are either Witcher or Cyberpunk.” The CEO did, however, confirm that a return to the…

Witcher way now for CDPR?

Witcher way now for CDPR?

GER-ALTERNATE UNIVERSE You might have thought the Polish game studio would have enough going on, with Cyberpunk 2077 due for release in September and a promised multiplayer version in the works, but CD Projekt has revealed it is already planning on another single-player game to follow it. CD Projekt CEO Adam Kiciński broke the news to a Polish conference that the company will hit the ground running once Cyberpunk 2077 releases, immediately beginning work on another game. And in case you’re wondering, it’s almost certainly going to be a game set in Andrzej Sapkowski’s The Witcher universe. “We have two worlds and we want to create games in those two worlds,” said Kiciński. “That’s why all planned games are either Witcher or Cyberpunk.” The CEO did, however, confirm that a return to…

Witcher way now for CDPR?

Call Of Duty: Warzone Feast your eyes! These blue drums have lovely beading, in a style that suggests olden-days wooden casks, yet they’re cast in a sleek, shiny metal! Doom Eternal Many tragic red barrels gave their lives in the fight against Hell’s armies. Easy for the Doom Slayer, he gets all the glory, but it’s the barrels on the front line that are the real heroes. Hunt: Showdown I’ve heard that the spider in this game is horrifying. He’d better not be hiding in that barrel. My cooper’s heart couldn’t take it. Leave the barrels alone, Incy-Wincy. Vanquish There is a corner of every military base that is forever full of barrels. Far be it for me to say you’d be better off storing them inside, where they’re not…

Call Of Duty: Warzone Feast your eyes! These blue drums have lovely beading, in a style that suggests olden-days wooden casks, yet they’re cast in a sleek, shiny metal! Doom Eternal Many tragic red barrels gave their lives in the fight against Hell’s armies. Easy for the Doom Slayer, he gets all the glory, but it’s the barrels on the front line that are the real heroes. Hunt: Showdown I’ve heard that the spider in this game is horrifying. He’d better not be hiding in that barrel. My cooper’s heart couldn’t take it. Leave the barrels alone, Incy-Wincy. Vanquish There is a corner of every military base that is forever full of barrels. Far be it for me to say you’d be better off storing them inside, where they’re not going to get shot. Desperadoes 3 Okay, yeah, I…

Daughters of darkness

BREAK ON THROUGH There’s very little that can come between a sisterly bond, but the forces of evil are certainly going to try. This year, developer Lightbulb Crew will be treating us to a stylish horrorthemed turn-based tactical RPG. Othercide has you leading an army of ‘Daughters’, remnants of the greatest warrior that ever lived, against an enemy from another dimension. These ‘Others’ are hell‑bent on destroying the reality of a ‘dying timeline’. Like XCOM, combat takes place on a grid map, but instead of each character simply taking turns to attack, actions are queued up using the Dynamic Timeline System. This indicates when combatants can attack, but certain abilities will enable you to jump ahead in the queue or even delay enemy attacks. Three classes make up your team of fighters: Blademaster, Soulslinger,…

Daughters of darkness

Where would we like to see Resident Evil go after Resi 3?

OXM DISCUSS With Resident Evil 3 fresh out to buy even as you’re reading this, it got Team OXM thinking about the future of the survival horror series. Where does the franchise go after Nemesis? Do we want more RE Engine remakes? Or would we rather see Capcom make a direct follow-up to Resident Evil 7? Drew: While each and every Resi remake has been a stone-cold classic, every mainline game that needed a reimagining has got one now. I don’t think we’d get anything new from remaking Resident Evil 4, it still plays and looks fine today. I’d rather Capcom explore this new breed of Res it’s established with RE7. Meiks: I agree on Resi 4. That’s as close to a perfect videogame as you could ever find. Aside from some slightly…

Where would we like to see Resident Evil go after Resi 3?

Daughters of darkness

BREAK ON THROUGH There’s very little that can come between a sisterly bond, but the forces of evil are certainly going to try. This year, developer Lightbulb Crew will be treating us to a stylish horrorthemed turn-based tactical RPG. Othercide has you leading an army of ‘Daughters’, remnants of the greatest warrior that ever lived, against an enemy from another dimension. These ‘Others’ are hell‑bent on destroying the reality of a ‘dying timeline’. Like XCOM, combat takes place on a grid map, but instead of each character simply taking turns to attack, actions are queued up using the Dynamic Timeline System. This indicates when combatants can attack, but certain abilities will enable you to jump ahead in the queue or even delay enemy attacks. Three classes make up your team…

Daughters of darkness

Chris Burke Editor Chris wants more RE Engine reboots, must be in third-person. And if it’s not Code Veronica, he’s taking his toys in. Dave Meikleham Games editor Meiks just wants more Resident Evil, at any price, and he’s not fussy what it entails. He’s got Resi fever bad. Adam Bryant Staff writer Adam wants Dino Crisis remade, but he’ll settle for more dogs jumping through windows unexpectedly. Drew Sleep Production Editor Drew wants to see more games like Resi 7, in firstperson, and truly terrifying. He’ll be the first to cry, though.…

Where would we like to see Resident Evil go after Resi 3?

OXM DISCUSS With Resident Evil 3 fresh out to buy even as you’re reading this, it got Team OXM thinking about the future of the survival horror series. Where does the franchise go after Nemesis? Do we want more RE Engine remakes? Or would we rather see Capcom make a direct follow-up to Resident Evil 7? Drew: While each and every Resi remake has been a stone-cold classic, every mainline game that needed a reimagining has got one now. I don’t think we’d get anything new from remaking Resident Evil 4, it still plays and looks fine today. I’d rather Capcom explore this new breed of Res it’s established with RE7. Meiks: I agree on Resi 4. That’s as close to a perfect videogame as you could ever find. Aside from some slightly dodgy…

Where would we like to see Resident Evil go after Resi 3?

Chris Burke Editor Chris wants more RE Engine reboots, must be in third-person. And if it’s not Code Veronica, he’s taking his toys in. Dave Meikleham Games editor Meiks just wants more Resident Evil, at any price, and he’s not fussy what it entails. He’s got Resi fever bad. Adam Bryant Staff writer Adam wants Dino Crisis remade, but he’ll settle for more dogs jumping through windows unexpectedly. Drew Sleep Production Editor Drew wants to see more games like Resi 7, in firstperson, and truly terrifying. He’ll be the first to cry, though.…

“No new characters! I know the creators have more content that does belong in-between the Resi games.”Kris Krystalin“After a remake of RE4, create a new one using characters from the series. Or maybe a RE go-kart racing game!”Lee Stevenson“Resident Evil 7 was great and I would buy Resi 8, but I would like the series to go back to third-person.”Danny Gamfried“Resi 7 was my favourite game of the decade. I loved the RE2 remake, but I don’t see 3 being as good. Bring on RE8!”David Lanier“Code Veronica remake and Dino Crisis! Capcom please focus on these epic classic masterpieces!”Andrew Yong“I like the remakes and would love to see RE4 in the current engine, but I’m ready to see where the series is going…”Ryan Kühn Agree with the above? Have your own…

Steve Hogarty is… The Fixer

Hello there reader, and welcome to The Fixer, the monthly column in which I – the rotting bag of salad leaves that fell down the back of Official Xbox Magazine’s kitchen cupboards and came to life one day – set out to fix gaming’s most tired clichés and indelible tropes. In my long career as the games industry’s court-appointed fixer-upper, I’ve solved problems of every imaginable shape and size. Did you know? Before I came up with the idea of adding guns to games, it was convention to have every enemy soldier simply faint out of fright when you walked into a room. And until I published my Pulitzer-Prize-winning essay ‘Not Everything Has To Be Set On A Blimp, You Know’ every single game took place either inside or on top…

Steve Hogarty is… The Fixer

“No new characters! I know the creators have more content that does belong in-between the Resi games.”Kris Krystalin “After a remake of RE4, create a new one using characters from the series. Or maybe a RE go-kart racing game!”Lee Stevenson “Resident Evil 7 was great and I would buy Resi 8, but I would like the series to go back to third-person.”Danny Gamfried “Resi 7 was my favourite game of the decade. I loved the RE2 remake, but I don’t see 3 being as good. Bring on RE8!”David Lanier “Code Veronica remake and Dino Crisis! Capcom please focus on these epic classic masterpieces!”Andrew Yong “I like the remakes and would love to see RE4 in the current engine, but I’m ready to see where the series is going…”Ryan Kühn Agree…

Steve Hogarty is… The Fixer

Hello there reader, and welcome to The Fixer, the monthly column in which I – the rotting bag of salad leaves that fell down the back of Official Xbox Magazine’s kitchen cupboards and came to life one day – set out to fix gaming’s most tired clichés and indelible tropes. In my long career as the games industry’s court-appointed fixer-upper, I’ve solved problems of every imaginable shape and size. Did you know? Before I came up with the idea of adding guns to games, it was convention to have every enemy soldier simply faint out of fright when you walked into a room. And until I published my Pulitzer-Prize-winning essay ‘Not Everything Has To Be Set On A Blimp, You Know’ every single game took place either inside or on…

Steve Hogarty is… The Fixer

Chris Burke is… The Editor

So in an ideal world this column would be about your humbly serving Editor of your beloved Xbox mag going to some sort of games‑industry event, ideally in a luxury mansion in an exotic locale, where they feed me canapes that are tiny little fish-and-chips portions while I sip faketinis through a gold straw, all of which is themed loosely around a game involving a goose or other, perhaps more heavily armed waterfowl. But since the world is on lockdown and we won’t even be getting to sun ourselves at E3 in LA this year, I’ll spare you the details of my actual month this time. You won’t want to read about how I just spent three hours staring out of the windows of OXM Towers wishing I was allowed out…

Chris Burke is… The Editor

“Oh-ohh, here it comes, look out boy it’ll chew you up! Maneater!” Back in the Ed’s record collection, Hall and Oates! It’s just a shark game! Another tantalising month in Xbox gaming kicks off with a sweet multiplayer brawler. Even as you read this, you can already play Bleeding Edge on Game Pass, but you might not know why you should play it. Read our hands-on beta preview of Ninja Theory’s Xbox-exclusive MOBA contender on page 24. If you’ve ever talked to a houseplant you’ll instantly get on with our next game, Drake Hollow (p26). In this colourful indie title you have to take care of, and protect with combat, adorable plant-babies called Drakes. Stylised cartoon adventure Minute Of Islands (p27) and moonbase-based romp Deliver Us The Moon (p28) are up…

Chris Burke is… The Editor

So in an ideal world this column would be about your humbly serving Editor of your beloved Xbox mag going to some sort of games‑industry event, ideally in a luxury mansion in an exotic locale, where they feed me canapes that are tiny little fish-and-chips portions while I sip faketinis through a gold straw, all of which is themed loosely around a game involving a goose or other, perhaps more heavily armed waterfowl. But since the world is on lockdown and we won’t even be getting to sun ourselves at E3 in LA this year, I’ll spare you the details of my actual month this time. You won’t want to read about how I just spent three hours staring out of the windows of OXM Towers wishing I was allowed…

Chris Burke is… The Editor

PUBLISHER NINJA THEORY DEVELOPER XBOX GAME STUDIOS ETA OUT NOW Bleeding Edge is headed up by Rahni Tucker, who was responsible for the combat design in DmC Ninja Theory couldn’t be in a better place right now. As you’re reading these words, the studio has just launched its first multiplayer title, a four-on-four melee brawler, on Xbox One and through Xbox Game Pass. It means that this wild little experiment from the studio most famous for Hellblade: Senua’s Sacrifice and DmC: Devil May Cry has suddenly launched to an audience of hundreds of thousands – if not millions – of prospective players with little barrier to entry. Boot up your console, download the game through the subscription service and give it a try. Come on, what have you got to lose? The real question…

PUBLISHER THE MOLASSES FLOOD DEVELOPER THE MOLASSES FLOOD ETA SPRING 2020 Studies have shown that plants ‘talk’ to each other using their roots so as to adapt to their surroundings Survival games are tough: juggling‑with-greasy-hands tough. There’s the arduous task of gathering resources, the constant building and improvement of your base, and the need to fight off countless enemies intent on ruining your day. And that’s just when you’re looking after yourself. Studio The Molasses Flood, however, is making things even tougher for the follow-up to its roguelike survival, The Flame In The Flood. This time you’ve got a bunch of cutesy vegetable goblins to look after. Drake Hollow is an action-packed village-builder in which you find yourself in Hollow, a mysterious world populated by sentient veg called – yes, you guessed it – Drakes.…

“Oh-ohh, here it comes, look out boy it’ll chew you up! Maneater!” Back in the Ed’s record collection, Hall and Oates! It’s just a shark game! Another tantalising month in Xbox gaming kicks off with a sweet multiplayer brawler. Even as you read this, you can already play Bleeding Edge on Game Pass, but you might not know why you should play it. Read our hands-on beta preview of Ninja Theory’s Xbox-exclusive MOBA contender on page 24. If you’ve ever talked to a houseplant you’ll instantly get on with our next game, Drake Hollow (p26). In this colourful indie title you have to take care of, and protect with combat, adorable plant-babies called Drakes. Stylised cartoon adventure Minute Of Islands (p27) and moonbase-based romp Deliver Us The Moon (p28) are…

Minute Of Islands

PUBLISHER MIXTVISION DEVELOPER STUDIO FIZBIN ETA SPRING 2020 An archipelago of more than 700 individual islands surround Scotland’s mainland Adventure games are always about the hero and how they might go about overcoming their ordeals, or how they become the saviour that everyone needs. Rarely do they explore what it’s like to actually live with that kind of responsibility, or what toll that might take on a person. Studio Fizbin is aiming to do just that, while promising to deliver an emotionally poetic tale. Minute Of Islands, however, looks like the exact opposite of a game that would try to navigate such complex themes. This is no doubt due to its art style, which makes it a dead ringer for the cartoon Adventure Time. “The art style is an amalgam of European comic styles,” says…

Minute Of Islands

PUBLISHER NINJA THEORY DEVELOPER XBOX GAME STUDIOS ETA OUT NOW Bleeding Edge is headed up by Rahni Tucker, who was responsible for the combat design in DmC Ninja Theory couldn’t be in a better place right now. As you’re reading these words, the studio has just launched its first multiplayer title, a four-on-four melee brawler, on Xbox One and through Xbox Game Pass. It means that this wild little experiment from the studio most famous for Hellblade: Senua’s Sacrifice and DmC: Devil May Cry has suddenly launched to an audience of hundreds of thousands – if not millions – of prospective players with little barrier to entry. Boot up your console, download the game through the subscription service and give it a try. Come on, what have you got to lose? The real question…

Deliver Us The Moon

PUBLISHER WIRED PRODUCTIONS DEVELOPER KEOKEN INTERACTIVE ETA 24 APRIL The distance between the Earth and the Moon is a mere 384,399km The Earth is on the brink of destruction. Humanity has squandered the planet’s resources and caused a global energy crisis. No, we’re not talking about the impact of climate change. The subject does, however, make KeokeN’s upcoming apocalyptic science fiction thriller a rather timely adventure, don’t you think? In Deliver Us The Moon, the world’s leaders have banded together to form the World Space Agency. Its goal? To figure out how to fix the mess humanity has caused. Looking to the stars, it decided to set up a colony on the Moon to harvest Helium-3 as a replacement energy source and beam it back to Earth. A short-sighted solution, perhaps, but it seemed to…

Deliver Us The Moon

PUBLISHER THE MOLASSES FLOOD DEVELOPER THE MOLASSES FLOOD ETA SPRING 2020 Studies have shown that plants ‘talk’ to each other using their roots so as to adapt to their surroundings Survival games are tough: juggling‑with-greasy-hands tough. There’s the arduous task of gathering resources, the constant building and improvement of your base, and the need to fight off countless enemies intent on ruining your day. And that’s just when you’re looking after yourself. Studio The Molasses Flood, however, is making things even tougher for the follow-up to its roguelike survival, The Flame In The Flood. This time you’ve got a bunch of cutesy vegetable goblins to look after. Drake Hollow is an action-packed village-builder in which you find yourself in Hollow, a mysterious world populated by sentient veg called – yes, you…

Minute Of Islands

PUBLISHER MIXTVISION DEVELOPER STUDIO FIZBIN ETA SPRING 2020 An archipelago of more than 700 individual islands surround Scotland’s mainland Adventure games are always about the hero and how they might go about overcoming their ordeals, or how they become the saviour that everyone needs. Rarely do they explore what it’s like to actually live with that kind of responsibility, or what toll that might take on a person. Studio Fizbin is aiming to do just that, while promising to deliver an emotionally poetic tale. Minute Of Islands, however, looks like the exact opposite of a game that would try to navigate such complex themes. This is no doubt due to its art style, which makes it a dead ringer for the cartoon Adventure Time. “The art style is an amalgam…

Minute Of Islands

The Survivalists

PUBLISHER TEAM17 DEVELOPER TEAM17 ETA 2020 The average person can survive three weeks without food, but only three days with no water Team17 knows a thing or two when it comes to clever sandbox games. We adored its prison-break game The Escapists, and now it’s replacing cell block shenanigans with being trapped on a desert island. The Survivalists is, well, a survival game set in the same universe as The Escapists. Finding yourself stranded on an island, you and up to three friends (in either online or couch co-op) must do everything you can to stay alive. Each island is procedurally generated with a variety of biomes, so no two games will ever be the same. Just like any survival game, your first job is to set up a place to call home. Gathering up…

The Survivalists

Warhammer 40,000: Mechanicus

PUBLISHER KASEDO GAMES DEVELOPER BULWARK STUDIOS ETA 2020 The first edition of the Warhammer 40,000 rulebook was published by Games Workshop in 1987 The latest spin-off from Games Workshop’s tabletop phenomenon takes us far into the future for an adventure from its 40K universe. Mechanicus is an XCOM-style turn-based strategy game in which you take control of a future-dude called Magos Dominus Faustinius, with a mission to explore a newly rediscovered planet and seek out ancient tech that could be of use to the armies of the Imperium. With a compelling narrative by Black Library author Ben Counter, who was behind the Horus Heresy series of Warhammer books, Mechanicus promises to be a deeply engaging game for fans of the wargame, while the gameplay brings some interesting ideas to the virtual tabletop of turn‑based…

Warhammer 40,000: Mechanicus

Deliver Us The Moon

PUBLISHER WIRED PRODUCTIONS DEVELOPER KEOKEN INTERACTIVE ETA 24 APRIL The distance between the Earth and the Moon is a mere 384,399km The Earth is on the brink of destruction. Humanity has squandered the planet’s resources and caused a global energy crisis. No, we’re not talking about the impact of climate change. The subject does, however, make KeokeN’s upcoming apocalyptic science fiction thriller a rather timely adventure, don’t you think? In Deliver Us The Moon, the world’s leaders have banded together to form the World Space Agency. Its goal? To figure out how to fix the mess humanity has caused. Looking to the stars, it decided to set up a colony on the Moon to harvest Helium-3 as a replacement energy source and beam it back to Earth. A short-sighted solution,…

Deliver Us The Moon

PUBLISHER TRIPWIRE INTERACTIVE DEVELOPER DEEP SILVER ETA 22 MAY Hippos, cows and deer are, surprisingly, much more efficient human-killers than sharks When it comes to deep-sea superstars, you can’t get much better than the shark. This underwater king of carnivores single-handedly made people terrified to venture into open waters when Steven Spielberg’s Jaws hit cinemas waaay back in 1975. Since then, these ferocious fanged fish have been a terrifying mainstay of cinema but videogames have been relatively safe from their toothy maws. That is… until now, because we’ve just spotted a fin in the water, and yup it’s Maneater coming right for us. This open-world RPG places you in the gills of the ocean’s apex predator as you eat, explore and evolve your way to seaside supremacy. Developer Tripwire Interactive is describing its game…

The Survivalists

PUBLISHER TEAM17 DEVELOPER TEAM17 ETA 2020 The average person can survive three weeks without food, but only three days with no water Team17 knows a thing or two when it comes to clever sandbox games. We adored its prison-break game The Escapists, and now it’s replacing cell block shenanigans with being trapped on a desert island. The Survivalists is, well, a survival game set in the same universe as The Escapists. Finding yourself stranded on an island, you and up to three friends (in either online or couch co-op) must do everything you can to stay alive. Each island is procedurally generated with a variety of biomes, so no two games will ever be the same. Just like any survival game, your first job is to set up a place to…

The Survivalists

Streets Of Rage 4

PUBLISHER DOTEMU DEVELOPER LIZARDCUBE, GUARD CRUSH GAMES, DOTEMU ETA SPRING 2020 Floyd’s arms were created by one of Streets Of Rage 3’s playable characters, Dr Zan Brutal fights with punks in grungy, neon-lit streets, a thumping ’90s synth-laced soundtrack and thrilling co-op gameplay: these streets aren’t just mean, they’re Streets Of Rage. Lizardcube has been taking its own walk on the wild side while making its long-anticipated sequel in everyone’s favourite beat-’em-up series, and now it has revealed we’ll have Floyd Iraia pounding the pavement with us. With his cyber-arms, this hulking fighter joins Axel Stone, Blaze Fielding and Adam Hunter from the original game to deal some devastating damage. Cherry Hunter, Adam’s daughter who’s also a newcomer, rounds off the brawling quintet. Each character has a new set of explosive combos and special moves, and…

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Warhammer 40,000: Mechanicus

PUBLISHER KASEDO GAMES DEVELOPER BULWARK STUDIOS ETA 2020 The first edition of the Warhammer 40,000 rulebook was published by Games Workshop in 1987 The latest spin-off from Games Workshop’s tabletop phenomenon takes us far into the future for an adventure from its 40K universe. Mechanicus is an XCOM-style turn-based strategy game in which you take control of a future-dude called Magos Dominus Faustinius, with a mission to explore a newly rediscovered planet and seek out ancient tech that could be of use to the armies of the Imperium. With a compelling narrative by Black Library author Ben Counter, who was behind the Horus Heresy series of Warhammer books, Mechanicus promises to be a deeply engaging game for fans of the wargame, while the gameplay brings some interesting ideas to the virtual tabletop of turn‑based strategy…

Warhammer 40,000: Mechanicus

BACKBONE PUBLISHER RAW FURY DEVELOPER EGGNUT DUE 2021 If the idea of a pixel art detective story isn’t exciting enough for you, how about playing as a moody chain-smoking raccoon? Set in an alternate reality version of Vancouver, you play as PI Howard Lotor, in a dystopian point-and-click adventure. Sniff out clues, interrogate witnesses and tail suspects as you uncover a story about power, corruption, social decay and discrimination. SESSION PUBLISHER CREA-TURE STUDIOS, ILLOGIKA DEVELOPER CREA-TURE STUDIOS DUE 2020 Following a delay, this much-anticipated skate sim now has a firmer launch window. Using ‘True Stance Stick’ controls – where each foot is controlled by the left and right thumbsticks – you’ll hit the concrete in recreations of iconic skating locales. Those intimidated by the ‘realistic’ controls will be happy to know the same setup used in EA’s…

PUBLISHER TRIPWIRE INTERACTIVE DEVELOPER DEEP SILVER ETA 22 MAY Hippos, cows and deer are, surprisingly, much more efficient human-killers than sharks When it comes to deep-sea superstars, you can’t get much better than the shark. This underwater king of carnivores single-handedly made people terrified to venture into open waters when Steven Spielberg’s Jaws hit cinemas waaay back in 1975. Since then, these ferocious fanged fish have been a terrifying mainstay of cinema but videogames have been relatively safe from their toothy maws. That is… until now, because we’ve just spotted a fin in the water, and yup it’s Maneater coming right for us. This open-world RPG places you in the gills of the ocean’s apex predator as you eat, explore and evolve your way to seaside supremacy. Developer Tripwire Interactive is describing its game…

Streets Of Rage 4

PUBLISHER DOTEMU DEVELOPER LIZARDCUBE, GUARD CRUSH GAMES, DOTEMU ETA SPRING 2020 Floyd’s arms were created by one of Streets Of Rage 3’s playable characters, Dr Zan Brutal fights with punks in grungy, neon-lit streets, a thumping ’90s synth-laced soundtrack and thrilling co-op gameplay: these streets aren’t just mean, they’re Streets Of Rage. Lizardcube has been taking its own walk on the wild side while making its long-anticipated sequel in everyone’s favourite beat-’em-up series, and now it has revealed we’ll have Floyd Iraia pounding the pavement with us. With his cyber-arms, this hulking fighter joins Axel Stone, Blaze Fielding and Adam Hunter from the original game to deal some devastating damage. Cherry Hunter, Adam’s daughter who’s also a newcomer, rounds off the brawling quintet. Each character has a new set of explosive…

Streets Of Rage 4

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BACKBONE PUBLISHER RAW FURY DEVELOPER EGGNUT DUE 2021 If the idea of a pixel art detective story isn’t exciting enough for you, how about playing as a moody chain-smoking raccoon? Set in an alternate reality version of Vancouver, you play as PI Howard Lotor, in a dystopian point-and-click adventure. Sniff out clues, interrogate witnesses and tail suspects as you uncover a story about power, corruption, social decay and discrimination. SESSION PUBLISHER CREA-TURE STUDIOS, ILLOGIKA DEVELOPER CREA-TURE STUDIOS DUE 2020 Following a delay, this much-anticipated skate sim now has a firmer launch window. Using ‘True Stance Stick’ controls – where each foot is controlled by the left and right thumbsticks – you’ll hit the concrete in recreations of iconic skating locales. Those intimidated by the ‘realistic’ controls will be happy to…

Everything you need to know about XBOX SERIES X

Xbox Series X isn’t the future; it’s the incredibly tantalising, slightly-out‑of-reach present. With Microsoft’s next-gen baby out in a matter of months, Team OXM lifts the lid on the most powerful console of all time. From ray tracing to 8K; from variable rate shading to 120fps gaming – this ultra-powerful system is providing cutting-edge features that, historically, only super-expensive PCs could deliver. With new tech, an updated pad and a firm commitment to put gamers front and centre, whether they’re upgrading to Series X or sticking with Xbox One, the future has never been more exciting for Team Green fans. Strap yourselves in as we take you for the ultimate next-gen ride… KEY STATS Custom CPU AMD Zen 2-based (8x @3.6GHz) Custom GPU AMD Navi-based (12TF RDNA 2.0) 16GB GDDR6 RAM POWER REDEFINED EXAMINING XBOX…

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HALO INFINITE The biggie. Halo: Combat Evolved is unquestionably the greatest launch game in Xbox history, and if Infinite can enjoy even half the lasting impact of the genre-defining 2001 shooter, you’re in for one hell of an adventure. While 343 hasstruggled to fill Bungie’s boots, each one of its Halo titles has been both gorgeous and supremely solid from a tech standpoint. What few glimpses we’ve had of Infinite point to the largest worlds in the franchise’s history, with Xbox Series Xprimed to deliver alien worlds that should both awe and arouse our eyes. If 343 can deliver a 4K/60fps shooter out of the gate, and if it can right the wrongs of Halo 5: Guardians’ shonky campaign, this could be a launch title for the ages. CYBERPUNK 2077 The Witcher 3:…

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RAINBOW SIX SIEGE Ubisoft has confirmed its tactical shooter will be available to play on Xbox Series X from day one. Quite how this upgrade path will work for players who already own the tense FPS is unclear, but the next-gen system is certainly capable of breathing fresh life into Siege. A full-fat 4K resolution should be a doddle for Series X. GTA V Despite being the most successful videogame of all time, GTA V has never been treated to an Xbox One X Enhanced patch. If you want to enjoy the Los Santos sandbox on a Team Green machine, you’re stuck with 1080p. Not only should Xbox Series X be able to output the open-world masterpiece at 4K, its AMD architecture could most likely run the criminal smash at 60fps too. DESTINY 2 The…

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Patrice Désilets Need for Creed

The first game Désilets ever worked on was 1999’s Hype: Time Quest, an adventure game brandishing the Playmobil licence. You heard us Work on Prince Of Persia: The Sands Of Time ran arallel with the original Splinter Cell. Talk about a golden era for Ubisoft Over the past 20 years, Patrice Désilets has amassed ten official game credits. Compared to most high-profile industry figures, that’s a fairly small CV. Yet when said resume rocks three bona fide masterpieces, our collective caps should be well and truly doffed to this hugely influential, Montreal-based designer. Not only did Désilets make Prince Of Persia relevant for the first time in 15 years with 2003’s wonderful The Sands Of Time, in the process of making a new POP game he also created arguably the iconic…

Patrice Désilets Need for Creed

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The best Xbox games from 2010

01 RED DEAD REDEMPTION Rockstar proved West really is best with its peerless open-world opus. Richly capturing a sense of time and place like few other games, this is as close as any of us will ever get to experiencing frontier life… well, unless Michael J Fox’s ‘Clint Eastwood’ decides to swing by and give us a lift back in time in his time-hopping DeLorean. In John Marston, Redemption is graced with one of the most compelling videogame characters of all time; a decent man unable to escape his outlaw past in spite of his desire for atonement. With superbly paced story missions, vast swathes of solemn prairies to lose yourself in, and a wonderfully composed soundtrack – if you don’t get all the goosebumps listening to José González’s ‘Far Away’,…

The best Xbox games from 2010

SEA OF THIEVES’ EVOLUTION

Cinema and telly are stuffed with stories of corporate skulduggery. They tell us that in the halls of power at major companies, executives get ahead by underhanded means. But no amount of Succession could prepare you for the sight of Kinect visionary Kudo Tsunoda literally stabbing his boss, Phil Spencer, in the back. With a cutlass. The underlying issue was a dispute over pay – more specifically, a treasure chest overflowing with golden doubloons. “Kudo’s a bad dude,” said Spencer as he limped back onto his ship – a galleon with black sails. “Leave him.” He ordered his crew of vice presidents and strategists to lift anchor and prepare to abandon the remote island for good. “You might want to wait for the person with the treasure,” Tsunoda bargained from the shore. “There’s…

SEA OF THIEVES’ EVOLUTION

Everything you need to know about XBOX SERIES X

Xbox Series X isn’t the future; it’s the incredibly tantalising, slightly-out‑of-reach present. With Microsoft’s next-gen baby out in a matter of months, Team OXM lifts the lid on the most powerful console of all time. From ray tracing to 8K; from variable rate shading to 120fps gaming – this ultra-powerful system is providing cutting-edge features that, historically, only super-expensive PCs could deliver. With new tech, an updated pad and a firm commitment to put gamers front and centre, whether they’re upgrading to Series X or sticking with Xbox One, the future has never been more exciting for Team Green fans. Strap yourselves in as we take you for the ultimate next-gen ride… KEY STATS Custom CPU AMD Zen 2-based (8x @3.6GHz) Custom GPU AMD Navi-based (12TF RDNA 2.0) 16GB GDDR6 RAM…

Everything you need to know about XBOX SERIES X

GETTING ITS SEA LEGS

At launch, critics were clear: Sea Of Thieves was a beautiful vessel with too little to do on its deck. A year in, it was a different story, though – or rather a larger story, thanks to the interconnected quests of Tall Tales, which brought lore into focus. Since then, Rare has introduced more challenge to push against: megalodons, forts and islands with volcanic self-defence systems. That’s made parts of the game more difficult to play when adventuring on your own, but it’s easier to find a crew now, too, thanks to filtered matchmaking. The pace of adventure has stepped up with monthly updates, but the game’s meditative life simulation has also been deepened since release, with cooking, hunting and fishing. More than anything, however, it’s the greater sense of purpose…

GETTING ITS SEA LEGS

Games we can’t wait to play on SERIES X

HALO INFINITE The biggie. Halo: Combat Evolved is unquestionably the greatest launch game in Xbox history, and if Infinite can enjoy even half the lasting impact of the genre-defining 2001 shooter, you’re in for one hell of an adventure. While 343 hasstruggled to fill Bungie’s boots, each one of its Halo titles has been both gorgeous and supremely solid from a tech standpoint. What few glimpses we’ve had of Infinite point to the largest worlds in the franchise’s history, with Xbox Series Xprimed to deliver alien worlds that should both awe and arouse our eyes. If 343 can deliver a 4K/60fps shooter out of the gate, and if it can right the wrongs of Halo 5: Guardians’ shonky campaign, this could be a launch title for the ages. CYBERPUNK 2077 The Witcher 3: Wild…

Games we can’t wait to play on SERIES X

NOTORIOUS PRO-D1-GY

Once every month, Rare has a meeting about the immortalisation of community accomplishments. “One of the things we said early on, around the time of the prototype, was that it would be great if Sea Of Thieves didn’t have a Blackbeard,” Craig Duncan says. “What if the players became the immortal legends?” In practice, this has sometimes simply meant calling out the achievements of players in Rare’s blogs: the two pirates who were each sick 61 times in-game over the festive period, for instance, or the captain who fired himself from a cannon on 1,368 occasions over the space of just four weeks. This year, though, Rare has stepped up the recognition. January’s Legends Of The Sea update filled the map with Easter eggs that commemorated famous players and their deeds. You…

NOTORIOUS PRO-D1-GY

XBOX ONE TITLES THAT COULD RULE ON SERIES X

RAINBOW SIX SIEGE Ubisoft has confirmed its tactical shooter will be available to play on Xbox Series X from day one. Quite how this upgrade path will work for players who already own the tense FPS is unclear, but the next-gen system is certainly capable of breathing fresh life into Siege. A full-fat 4K resolution should be a doddle for Series X. GTA V Despite being the most successful videogame of all time, GTA V has never been treated to an Xbox One X Enhanced patch. If you want to enjoy the Los Santos sandbox on a Team Green machine, you’re stuck with 1080p. Not only should Xbox Series X be able to output the open-world masterpiece at 4K, its AMD architecture could most likely run the criminal smash at…

XBOX ONE TITLES THAT COULD RULE ON SERIES X

The Ori games are the work of Austrian indie developer Moon Studios, which became a Microsoft first-party developer in 2011 How we score: Can’t make sense of our out-of-ten rating system? Then see below for your at-a-glance guide. 10 A gaming masterpiece 9 An essential slice of brilliance 8 Give it a whirl and you won’t regret it 7 Some minor flaws but still good 6 Solid, but not setting any loins aflame 5 Average. Not good, but not terrible either 4 Honks just a bit 3 Look away, lest ye be tainted 2 Angry-makingly bad 1 Just… no… ß Titles with this symbol are on Game Preview, so while they aren’t finished, you can still find out if they’re worth playing. EDITOR’S CHOICE Irrespective of score, the Editor’s Choice award is given to games with the quality, ambition or uniqueness to stand out from…

Patrice Désilets Need for Creed

The first game Désilets ever worked on was 1999’s Hype: Time Quest, an adventure game brandishing the Playmobil licence. You heard us Work on Prince Of Persia: The Sands Of Time ran arallel with the original Splinter Cell. Talk about a golden era for Ubisoft Over the past 20 years, Patrice Désilets has amassed ten official game credits. Compared to most high-profile industry figures, that’s a fairly small CV. Yet when said resume rocks three bona fide masterpieces, our collective caps should be well and truly doffed to this hugely influential, Montreal-based designer. Not only did Désilets make Prince Of Persia relevant for the first time in 15 years with 2003’s wonderful The Sands Of Time, in the process of making a new POP game he also created arguably the…

Patrice Désilets Need for Creed

Eternal is the first game to be developed with the cutting-edge id Tech 7 engine. No wonder it’s so smooth PUBLISHER BETHESDA /DEVELOPER ID SOFTWARE /RELEASE DATE OUT NOW /COST £54.99/$59.99 If there’s one thing this sci-fi FPS thrives on, it’s aggression. At every turn id Software’s muscular, formerly Mars-set blaster focuses on unfiltered onslaughts; be it from the Doom Slayer or the hordes of demons he delights in pummelling. There’s no cover shooting or seeking shelter here. Instead, you’re constantly encouraged to kick all the ass as Hell’s fugliest, most furious customers try to rip your insanely beefy spine out. Like its 2016 predecessor, Doom Eternal is all about pushing forward at all costs. Running low on health? Chuck a grenade into a Cacodemon’s mouth, yank out its bulging eye during a…

The best Xbox games from 2010

01 RED DEAD REDEMPTION Rockstar proved West really is best with its peerless open-world opus. Richly capturing a sense of time and place like few other games, this is as close as any of us will ever get to experiencing frontier life… well, unless Michael J Fox’s ‘Clint Eastwood’ decides to swing by and give us a lift back in time in his time-hopping DeLorean. In John Marston, Redemption is graced with one of the most compelling videogame characters of all time; a decent man unable to escape his outlaw past in spite of his desire for atonement. With superbly paced story missions, vast swathes of solemn prairies to lose yourself in, and a wonderfully composed soundtrack – if you don’t get all the goosebumps listening to José González’s ‘Far…

The best Xbox games from 2010

Ori And The Will Of The Wisps

PUBLISHER XBOX GAME STUDIOS /DEVELOPER MOON STUDIOS /RELEASE DATE OUT NOW /COST £24.99/$29.99/FREE WITH GAME PASS Something very important happened between the 2014 debut of Ori And The Blind Forest and the release of Ori And The Will Of The Wisps, and that thing is Hollow Knight. Clearly, when Team Cherry’s opus schooled everyone on how to make Metroidvanias in 2017, Ori was in the front row with a heavily weathered notebook. The result is a short but sublime action-platformer that will constantly delight your eyes, ears and fingertips. We say ‘short’, but the game feels way longer than it is, because it’s overflowing with ideas and follows the same basic formula as its predecessor - find the magic McGuffins and unlock a suite of new abilities along the way - but…

Ori And The Will Of The Wisps

SEA OF THIEVES’ EVOLUTION

Cinema and telly are stuffed with stories of corporate skulduggery. They tell us that in the halls of power at major companies, executives get ahead by underhanded means. But no amount of Succession could prepare you for the sight of Kinect visionary Kudo Tsunoda literally stabbing his boss, Phil Spencer, in the back. With a cutlass. The underlying issue was a dispute over pay – more specifically, a treasure chest overflowing with golden doubloons. “Kudo’s a bad dude,” said Spencer as he limped back onto his ship – a galleon with black sails. “Leave him.” He ordered his crew of vice presidents and strategists to lift anchor and prepare to abandon the remote island for good. “You might want to wait for the person with the treasure,” Tsunoda bargained from the shore.…

SEA OF THIEVES’ EVOLUTION

GETTING ITS SEA LEGS

At launch, critics were clear: Sea Of Thieves was a beautiful vessel with too little to do on its deck. A year in, it was a different story, though – or rather a larger story, thanks to the interconnected quests of Tall Tales, which brought lore into focus. Since then, Rare has introduced more challenge to push against: megalodons, forts and islands with volcanic self-defence systems. That’s made parts of the game more difficult to play when adventuring on your own, but it’s easier to find a crew now, too, thanks to filtered matchmaking. The pace of adventure has stepped up with monthly updates, but the game’s meditative life simulation has also been deepened since release, with cooking, hunting and fishing. More than anything, however, it’s the greater sense of…

GETTING ITS SEA LEGS

Initially dreamt up as a spiritual successor to Darksiders, this bounty hunter was originally called Hunt: Horrors Of The Gilded Age PUBLISHER DEEP SILVER /DEVELOPER CRYTEK /RELEASE DATE OUT NOW /COST £33.49/$39.99 Forget Limbo’s arachnid assassin… this is the worst spider on Xbox. Holy hell, the way it moves. If you have even the teeniest case of arachnophobia, watching Hunt: Showdown’s giant spider scurrying around its suffocatingly claustrophobic farmhouse lair will make you want to crawl under your covers and sob for a month. We’ve killed some hideous beasties over our Xbox careers, but this eight-legged freak is what the term ‘nightmare fuel’ was coined for. Oh, and it just so happens to be hiding a skinned human head under its dripping, three-foot mandibles. Because of course it is. But enough about Hunt’s…

Two Point Hospital

PUBLISHER SEGA /DEVELOPER TWO POINT STUDIOS /RELEASE DATE OUT NOW /COST £34.99 /$39.99 Strange things are afoot over in Two Point County. Mysterious illnesses are popping up everywhere, and it’s your job to build new hospitals to deal with the situation. Two Point Hospital is a spiritual successor to 1997’s smash hit Theme Hospital, and it largely adheres to the template the classic PC business sim pioneered. Moving across the Two Point County map, you’ll be tasked with building and managing hospitals, tackling a series of barmy illnesses and making sure you get the most out of your cash investments. Earn enough ranking stars at one of your hospitals and you’ll be able to move onto building the next, which often features wacky challenges unique to that location. You begin by setting up…

Two Point Hospital

NOTORIOUS PRO-D1-GY

Once every month, Rare has a meeting about the immortalisation of community accomplishments. “One of the things we said early on, around the time of the prototype, was that it would be great if Sea Of Thieves didn’t have a Blackbeard,” Craig Duncan says. “What if the players became the immortal legends?” In practice, this has sometimes simply meant calling out the achievements of players in Rare’s blogs: the two pirates who were each sick 61 times in-game over the festive period, for instance, or the captain who fired himself from a cannon on 1,368 occasions over the space of just four weeks. This year, though, Rare has stepped up the recognition. January’s Legends Of The Sea update filled the map with Easter eggs that commemorated famous players and their…

NOTORIOUS PRO-D1-GY

The Ori games are the work of Austrian indie developer Moon Studios, which became a Microsoft first-party developer in 2011 How we score: Can’t make sense of our out-of-ten rating system? Then see below for your at-a-glance guide. 10 A gaming masterpiece 9 An essential slice of brilliance 8 Give it a whirl and you won’t regret it 7 Some minor flaws but still good 6 Solid, but not setting any loins aflame 5 Average. Not good, but not terrible either 4 Honks just a bit 3 Look away, lest ye be tainted 2 Angry-makingly bad 1 Just… no… ß Titles with this symbol are on Game Preview, so while they aren’t finished, you can still find out if they’re worth playing. EDITOR’S CHOICE Irrespective of score, the Editor’s Choice…

Red Threat Games cites Norwegian folklore as inspiration for Draugen’s story PUBLISHER RED THREAD GAMES /DEVELOPER RED THREAD GAMES /RELEASE DATE OUT NOW /COST £16.74/$19.99 Ever since the likes of Dear Esther and Gone Home exploded onto the scene some ten years ago, indie creators have continued to push the envelope with in-game narratives, telling stories that players likely won’t experience in triple-A titles. By placing emphasis on discovery, offering up an interesting environment to explore and setting you behind the eyes of an established character, these so-called ‘walking simulator’ games tend to be far more literary and personal in nature. The same is true for Draugen, a new first-person adventure from Dreamfall Chapters developer Red Threat Games. And though this mystery tale might appear familiar at first, its subtle genre tweaks…

Eternal is the first game to be developed with the cutting-edge id Tech 7 engine. No wonder it’s so smooth PUBLISHER BETHESDA /DEVELOPER ID SOFTWARE /RELEASE DATE OUT NOW /COST £54.99/$59.99 If there’s one thing this sci-fi FPS thrives on, it’s aggression. At every turn id Software’s muscular, formerly Mars-set blaster focuses on unfiltered onslaughts; be it from the Doom Slayer or the hordes of demons he delights in pummelling. There’s no cover shooting or seeking shelter here. Instead, you’re constantly encouraged to kick all the ass as Hell’s fugliest, most furious customers try to rip your insanely beefy spine out. Like its 2016 predecessor, Doom Eternal is all about pushing forward at all costs. Running low on health? Chuck a grenade into a Cacodemon’s mouth, yank out its bulging eye during…

Vanquish 10th Anniversary Remaster

Director Shinji Mikami has stated the game’s look was partially inspired by Casshern, a relatively obscure Japanese anime from the ’70s PUBLISHER SEGA /DEVELOPER PLATINUMGAMES /RELEASE DATE OUT NOW /COST £19.99/$24.99 Shinji Mikami’s white-knuckle cover shooter might just be the dumbest videogame in the history of Xbox… and that’s totally not a complaint. Joyously stupid, this is a game that lets you boost around a colossal space station on rocket-powered shins as you murder an armada of Russian robots. When shooty excess is this life‑affirming, why the hell would you ever want restraint!? To celebrate Vanquish’s tenth anniversary, Sega has re-released the thrill-seeking shooter to let a whole new generation of Xbox fans enjoy one of the most stylish videogames we can ever remember. If you played this gleefully pumped‑up blaster back in…

Vanquish 10th Anniversary Remaster

Ori And The Will Of The Wisps

PUBLISHER XBOX GAME STUDIOS /DEVELOPER MOON STUDIOS /RELEASE DATE OUT NOW /COST £24.99/$29.99/FREE WITH GAME PASS Something very important happened between the 2014 debut of Ori And The Blind Forest and the release of Ori And The Will Of The Wisps, and that thing is Hollow Knight. Clearly, when Team Cherry’s opus schooled everyone on how to make Metroidvanias in 2017, Ori was in the front row with a heavily weathered notebook. The result is a short but sublime action-platformer that will constantly delight your eyes, ears and fingertips. We say ‘short’, but the game feels way longer than it is, because it’s overflowing with ideas and follows the same basic formula as its predecessor - find the magic McGuffins and unlock a suite of new abilities along the way - but its world is livelier…

Ori And The Will Of The Wisps

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PUBLISHER EA /DEVELOPER BIOWARE /FORMAT XBOX 360 /RELEASE DATE JANUARY 2010 You hear Afterlife well before you see it, like all the best nightclubs. I honestly have no idea what to expect as I walk slowly down the hallway towards its entrance. As the muffled thumping of the up-tempo music grows louder and louder and my anticipation rises, I arrive. The shutters open and a rush of sound and pink neon lights fills my ears and eyes. A towering cylindrical screen that touches the high ceiling projects Asari dancers, while flames blaze in each corner of the gigantic arena. The atmosphere washes over me and I soak up every last drop. This is the moment that stands out for me the most in Mass Effect 2. Not the story, not the development…

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Vanquish 10th Anniversary Remaster

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Vanquish 10th Anniversary Remaster

PUBLISHER KONAMI /DEVELOPER PES PRODUCTIONS /FORMAT XBOX ONE /RELEASE DATE SEPTEMBER 2019 It was around a year ago that my fiancée discovered her love for Pro Evolution Soccer. She’s not a FIFA fan – in fact, she’s barely into football at all – but she’ll play PES on a regular basis. And so, following the release of PES 2020, we decided to embark upon our first co-op Master League (career mode) together, and did what any sensible couple would do: we created a team of players based around our childhood teddy bear collections. Don’t ask. We’re weird. The whole gang is there. There’s Woolly, the sheep mascot of doomed retailer Woolworths from the mid-’00s. And Flat Eric, a yellow puppet best known for its headbanging antics in the 1999 music video for…

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RETROSPECTIVE THE WITCHER 2

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WHY I LOVE… DEAD RISING 2’S ZOMBREX

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10 EPIC SPACESHIPS ON XBOX

10 THE UNRELIABLE – THE OUTER WORLDS If you’ve ever watched the TV series Firefly, then it’s likely you have dreamt of being part of a crew of renegades, exploring the galaxy in a rough‑and‑tumble spaceship and heading out on wild adventures. Well, The Outer Worlds has got your back. The Unreliable, much like the Normandy from the Mass Effect series, will populate with crew members as you progress through the story. As well as the friends you pick up along the way, the ship’s AI, called ADA, is another one of your companions. A mix of HAL 9000 and GLaDOS, there’s no end to ADA’s witty banter. As great as this ship looks, it would be higher on this list if you could actually fly the damned thing. Navigation is…

10 EPIC SPACESHIPS ON XBOX

We make no secret of the fact that we love Mass Effect 2 (p96) here at OXM. It’s borderline obsessive – even ten years on from BioWare’s sci-fi series high, we still have dreams we’re aboard the Normandy. So, in celebration of this classic’s tenth birthday, we revisit some of our favourite locations from the game, to see if we still get that same tingle we did first time around. Another series we’re still rabid fans of is Capcom’s survival horror series. Check out our Resi bonus mag with this issue for more on the entire franchise, but for the second of our Now Playings, we go back to the HD remake of the 1996 original Resident Evil (p98). Next we put a team of muppets (and assorted plush toys)…

PUBLISHER EA /DEVELOPER BIOWARE /FORMAT XBOX 360 /RELEASE DATE JANUARY 2010 You hear Afterlife well before you see it, like all the best nightclubs. I honestly have no idea what to expect as I walk slowly down the hallway towards its entrance. As the muffled thumping of the up-tempo music grows louder and louder and my anticipation rises, I arrive. The shutters open and a rush of sound and pink neon lights fills my ears and eyes. A towering cylindrical screen that touches the high ceiling projects Asari dancers, while flames blaze in each corner of the gigantic arena. The atmosphere washes over me and I soak up every last drop. This is the moment that stands out for me the most in Mass Effect 2. Not the story, not…

TEN XBOX ONE GAMES YOU SHOULD BE PLAYING games 01 RED DEAD REDEMPTION II PUBLISHER ROCKSTAR GAMES A stone-cold 10/10 classic and the best looking console game there’s ever been, with easily the most surprising story in open-world history. Plays best on X, too. DEFINING MOMENT That incredible, unforeseen twist halfway through. 02 FORZA HORIZON 4 PUBLISHER MICROSOFT STUDIOS A must-have experience for every Xbox One owner, not only is the racing excellent and varied, the open-world playground you drive across is one of the most stunning places we’ve seen on the console. DEFINING MOMENT Seeing the seasons change for the first time. 03 RESIDENT EVIL 2 PUBLISHER CAPCOM Fantastic reboot of the ’90s survival horror classic that perfectly captures the essence of the original while offering something completely new. DEFINING MOMENT Shooting all the arms and legs off a zombie and realising…

PUBLISHER CAPCOM /DEVELOPER CAPCOM /FORMAT XBOX ONE /RELEASE DATE JANUARY 2015 It started with a screenshot. When you first picked up this month’s issue of OXM, your delicious braaains probably went gaga for our Ultimate Guide To Resident Evil supplement. Lovely, ain’t it? Well, part of making said bonus mag involved gathering all the undead screenshots, and this has caused a shameful recurrence… I’m seriously considering finishing the Resident Evil remake for the ninth time. Actually, that’s a dirty rotten fib. I’ve ‘only’ completed it seven times. Four playthroughs on Nintendo’s GameCube waaay back in the day; a quick bash on a semi-naughty version on the ‘definitely above board’ Dolphin emulator; and three playthroughs on a certain rival console. Look, I only did it for the Trophies, alright? I’m now very much back in the Team…

OXM TEAM CHOICE

Chris’ choice TWO POINT HOSPITAL Might seem a tad dark, enjoying a game about controlling outbreaks of illness, but the humour in Two Point is keeping me sane. I’ve spent way too many post-midnight hours remodelling my hospitals to better cope with Lightheadedness and Jest Infection. Dave’s choice HUNT: SHOWDOWN When I see a spider in real-life, I jump six feet in the air then seek out a responsible adult to squis… ugh, safely remove the bug from my presence. When I see a spider in Hunt: Showdown, I cripple it with shotgun fire… then do a little cry. Drew’s choice DISHONORED 2 This might sound odd, but I keep drawing/sheathing Emily’s folding sword. Seriously, how does that thing work? She flicks it around like a butterfly knife, but I think I can see a lever on the…

OXM TEAM CHOICE

WHAT TO LOOK FOR IN AN XBOX ONE GAMING HEADSET

WHAT PRICE IS RIGHT? Figure out what you want/need/can afford. Which features are essential? Where do you sit in relation to your console? Do you need to be wireless? Do you talk a lot? If so, you’ll want to look for a good mic with high levels of clarity and fidelity. Consider build quality vs price. SOUNDS GOOD Look for sound features like noise cancelling and positional audio. The latter will help improve your situational awareness. How well does the headset work with music and movies? While good bass might not be vital for gaming it most definitely will be for tunes. ZONE IN ON COMFORT Find something you know will be cosy for extended sessions. You don’t want a set that feels like it’s constricting your skull or crushing your ears. Are you a…

PUBLISHER KONAMI /DEVELOPER PES PRODUCTIONS /FORMAT XBOX ONE /RELEASE DATE SEPTEMBER 2019 It was around a year ago that my fiancée discovered her love for Pro Evolution Soccer. She’s not a FIFA fan – in fact, she’s barely into football at all – but she’ll play PES on a regular basis. And so, following the release of PES 2020, we decided to embark upon our first co-op Master League (career mode) together, and did what any sensible couple would do: we created a team of players based around our childhood teddy bear collections. Don’t ask. We’re weird. The whole gang is there. There’s Woolly, the sheep mascot of doomed retailer Woolworths from the mid-’00s. And Flat Eric, a yellow puppet best known for its headbanging antics in the 1999 music video for Mr Oizo’s ‘Flat Beat’.…

TOP 5 HEADSETS FOR XBOX ONE STEELSERIES ARCTIS 9X £179.99/$199.99 BEST NEW HEADSET One of the best headsets available for Xbox One, this wireless beauty has a clear mic with more than decent noise-cancelling. These cans’ biggest selling point, though? Their booming Sonic Spatial Audio. Your tattered eardrums are gonna love you. Once your hearing has recovered, there are plenty of other points to love about this headset. Sound is rich and convincing, with authoritative bass that makes this a perfect option for shooter fans – the satisfying thud of a plasma grenade lighting up the screen in Halo 5: Guardians is glorious. Its build quality is superb too, with an uncluttered yet sturdy design elegantly storing the retractable mic. RAZER KRAKEN TOURNAMENT EDITION £99.99/$99.99 BEST VALUE TURTLE BEACH ELITE PRO 2 £219.99/$249.95 BEST HIGH-END We’re all looking for…

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PUBLISHER CD PROJEKT /DEVELOPER CD PROJEKT RED /FORMAT XBOX 360 Going back to The Witcher 2 today should feel like a journey into the past. With its sequel and now the TV series turning Geralt into a sultry celebrity superhero it’s too easy to forget what came before. But what’s strange is that The Witcher 2 doesn’t feel archaic. In fact, it’s one of the best-aged games of its generation, straddling several styles of RPG in a way that may just make it timeless. Another fact that may surprise a few Xbox 360 owners who proudly touted The Witcher 2 as a standard bearer for the console was that it actually came out on PC first, in May 2011, before arriving on the 360 nearly a year later. Not only that, but the only…

RETROSPECTIVE THE WITCHER 2

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