Something For The Weekend – 06/05/17

Stefan L 06/05/17 Comments Closed

It feels like every weekend’s a bank holiday at the moment, so it’s going to be a rather odd feeling when Monday’s a regular week day. Don’t worry, though, there’s another bank holiday just a few weeks away.

Even with a shorter week, there’s still been plenty of gaming news, previews and reviews over the last few days.

In the News This Week

Darksiders 3 was leaked and then officially revealed
Play as Fury, a mage who’s using her whip and magic to try and restore the balance between good and evil on Earth. There’s also some gameplay to check out here.
The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild’s first DLC gets detailed
The Trial of the Sword, Hard Mode, Hero’s Path Mode and plenty more make this intriguing, if touch and go in terms of value.
COD: Modern Warfare Remastered standalone release rumoured for the middle of the year
“Funny thing is you can get the CoD bundle for £30 now,” Starman said, “and knowing Activision they’ll try to sell this on it’s own for £45.”
Kojima is picking out some metaphorical “nice tables” for Death Stranding
Horizon Zero Dawn’s photo mode is now even lovelier
Double-o-dave said, “I may have to venture back into Horizon and check the photo poses and make myself a new desktop pic for my Mac at work.”
MotoGP 17 is getting a Managerial Career mode
Steep celebrates ‘Winterfest’ in its new DLC
Eight maps are being resurrected in COD: Black Ops III’s Zombie Chronicles DLC
A turnout for the books, with a fifth DLC pack for the game.
Sony harnessed magnets to make Wipeout Omega Collection’s Tigron K-VSR real
Injustice 2 isn’t even out yet, but the first DLC characters have already been revealed
The Division is having a free weekend right now

Games in Review

We’ve been spoiled over the last few weeks and months, to the point that this week verges on the disappointing in the reviews department.

Wonder Boy: The Dragon’s Trap – PS4, XBO, Switch, PC – 8/10
GNOG – PS4, PSVR, PC, iOS – 8/10
Dragon Quest Heroes II – PS4, PS3, Vita, Switch, PC – 7/10
Scanner Sombre – PC, Mac – 6/10
Symphony of the Machine – PSVR, Vive – 6/10
Syberia 3 – PS4, XBO, PC – 5/10

This Week’s Features

With the Nintendo Switch seemingly going from strength to strength right now, we took a moment on Wednesday, 3rd May, to reflect back on its first two months on the market. Judging by the comments, there’s a fair few of you absolutely loving the console you’ve invested in.

But what if you’re after a true portable? Nintendo surprised everyone when they announced the New Nintendo 2DS XL last week, and having gone hands on with the console, we think it could be the best 3DS so far, despite only gaming in two dimensions.

Beyond that, we had a smattering of previews, starting with my look at Tekken 7. I’m not normally a fighting game fan, but got into the swing of things with the Story mode, Treasure Battle and plenty more besides.

Miguel then ventured into the revived comic book world of Battle Chasers: Nightware, and I pondered if Formula Fusion might just be the spiritual successor to Wipeout we’ve all been waiting for.

Lastly, What We Played featured the delights of Mario Kart 8 Deluxe, Wonder Boy and Overwatch.

Trailer Park

Get a first look at Darksiders 3 gameplay in action

Code Vein’s first trailer is looking good

The Town of Light gets a live action trailer

Sony made a real life floating Wipeout ship

Your Achievements

DividSmythe snapped up the platinum trophy for Severed last weekend, a lovely PS Vita game, and rewarded himself with a Nintendo Switch that has been a home to Breath of the Wild, Mario Kart 8 and co-op with his little one in the simply delightful Snipperclips.

It was Lego City Undercover for JR. who managed to snag the platinum, as well as a second run through Yooka-Laylee, managing to grab a trophy that bugged out on him the first time through, which had kept him away from the platinum trophy at that time.

Meanwhile, Ron_mcphatty has busied himself with clearing up some easy trophies in Critter Crunch, and tactical20‘s new approach to Ghost Recon Wildlands is clear each area of critters… I mean, drug cartel goons before moving on to the next one.