Category: Rock, Paper, Shotgun
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Hitman World Of Assassination is out, combining Hitman 1-3 and adding new roguelike mode
Procedural road trip Road 96 is getting a psychadelic rhythm prequel
Dishonored: Death Of The Outsider will be free to keep from Epic next week
This cute hidden object game conceals almost 800 rabbits
Shoulders Of Giants smashes together frogs, mechs and 00s weirdness
Consider the progress of information. It’s a sci-fi roguelike best played, I think, in 4-player online co-op. You play a sword-wielding combat mech. You also control a small frog standing on the mech. You drop onto proc-gen planets overrun by a kind of magical accelerated entropy, that turns everything black and pink and grey. By destroying totemic altars orbited by floating eyeball robots, you start to re-energise the planet, so areas have grass and butterflies. Eventually you will destroy enough totems to get to a planetary boss fight, which might be against, for example, a giant ghost samurai or a floating purple hand with an eyeball in it. It’s mad, but I sure do wish more games were like this.
Dead Space review: an excellent remake of a horror classic
Your opinion on whether that is a good thing or not will depend on how you feel about the endeavour of remaking games from fifteen years ago in the first place. As far as I’m concerned, this remake allowed me to replay one of my all-time favourite games in a lavish new form, and in that sense, Dead Space is extraordinary.
Season: A Letter To The Future review: a melancholy travelogue of a gorgeous post-war world
It’s a fantastic – if sad – start to Season, and gets straight to the heart of the adventure ahead of you. This is a world where prayers, rituals, and prophecies hold great weight, and where you’ll be exploring the fragility and fickleness of memory. Underpinning everything is a deeply profound sense of melancholy – and here I was expecting some relaxing two-wheeling through lovely-looking landscapes. Well, turns out Season is a lot more than a pretty travelogue.