This week we had our first glimpse of the Wild West in Red Dead Redemption 2. What did you make of the trailer? Do you think Rockstar’s highly anticipated sequel will live up to the hype? As much as I can’t wait to play the game, I’m holding out for the inevitable PC release.
In the News This Week
- PlayStation Plus For October Includes Metal Gear Solid V & Amnesia: Collection
“PS+ is on the money with the games lately!” says skibadee - October’s Games With Gold Includes Gone Home And The Turing Test
- PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds Devs Don’t Like Fortnite Battle Royale Copying Them
- This Is What A Set Of €50,000 Assassin’s Creed Origins Headphones Looks Like
ron_mcphatty reminds us that “this makes the £120K GRID 2 with a BAC Mono look much better value.” - Ubisoft Announce Discovery Tour By Assassin’s Creed: Ancient Egypt Free DLC For AC Origins
- Ghost Recon Wildlands PvP Multiplayer Launches On 10th October
- Gravity Rush 2’s Online Features To Be Turned Off January 19th
“Not long bought this”, says Sitorimon. “How annoying – that’s almost exactly a year from release and exactly why I desperately try to avoid online only games. Frustrating.” - Attack On Titan 2 Will Release In 2018 For PS4, Xbox One, PC, And Switch
- Agents Of Mayhem Developer Volition Goes Through Layoffs
- Warner Bros. Make Shadow Of War’s Charity DLC Free After Controversy
Games in Review
Described as “the strongest CRPG in decades”, Dave gave the highest score this week to Divinity Original Sin 2, but there was plenty more on our review slate for your to check out.
- Divinity: Original Sin 2 – PC – 9/10
- Total War: Warhammer II – PC – 8/10
- FIFA 18 – PS3, PS4, 360, XBO, PC, Switch – 8/10
- Tooth And Tail – PS4 – 7/10
- Senran Kagura: Peach Beach Splash – PS4 – 7/10
- WRC 7 – PS3, XBO, PC – 7/10
- Blue Reflection – PS4, PC – 7/10
- Project Cars 2 – PS4, XBO, PC – 6/10
- Dragonball Xenoverse 2 – Switch – No score
- SNES Classic Mini [Hardware Review]
This Week’s Features
Straight out of EGX, Dom wrote about how Monster Hunter World charmed him enough to become what he calls ‘The First Essential RPG Of 2018’, and Tef spends some time in New Orleans for Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus.
We then carried Middle-earth: Shadow Of War is looking great for those who enjoyed the first, and even relative newcomers such as Tef. Reviews are due out next week, so keep an eye out for those!
And The Evil Within’s sequel is shaping up to receive similar praise with it’s mixture of combat and psychological horror.
If you thought that was enough videos, then you’d be wrong! You can also catch Tef’s capture of Rise of the Tomb Raider in 4K on Xbox One X – it looks stunning – And if you’re thinking of picking up FIFA 18 on the Nintendo Switch, we have a video of a match in the game, while we’ll have some more impressions of this version of the game soon.
Lastly, Ade took a historical look at Battlefield 1 and the weapons missing, while What We Played had everything the gang has been up to this week.
Trailer Park
Catch The New Red Dead Redemption 2 Trailer Here – Still Out Spring 2018
New The Evil Within 2 Trailer Introduces The Fiery Priest Theodore
Need For Speed Payback’s New Trailer Is A Quick Guide Of Fortune Valley
Star Wars Battlefront 2’s New Trailer Highlights Locations, Heroes And Modes
The Latest Ace Combat 7 Trailer Shows Some Airborne Acrobatics
Your Achievements
Kicking off with the Trophy Hunters, tactical20, earned platinum for Lara Croft GO (although admits he needed a few hints near the end!)
Meanwhile, congratulations to MrYd who finished Resident Evil 7 “without having to change pants too many times”, while Severn2j has been enjoying Heat Signature.
Elsewhere, Avenger has been getting stuck into Destiny 2, Ron has been playing Titanfall 2, and RFC2007 is “pretty happy with it overall” with regards to the SNES Mini.
Lastly, Andrewww experienced the frustrations of patches for online-only games, as blast71 blasts his way through Alienation.
The Week Ahead
After last week’s bumper line up, we start October in a more relaxed manner. It’s also the one week of the year where the release dates look like terrible review scores!
- Forza 7 – XBO, PC – 03/10
- Dragons Dogma: Dark Arisen – PS4, XBO – 03/10
- The Hunter: Call of the Wild – PS4, XBO – 03/10
- Lego Ninjago Movie Video Game – PS4, XBO, Switch– 06/10
Have a great week, and I’ll see you again soon!
ron_mcphatty
I had a quick look at a friends SNES Mini yesterday, it’s a simple but impressively slick bit of kit. My first console was a Game Gear, then my proper telly one was an N64 which I loved, so I really hope we get a mini one next year. But someone mentioned Goldeneye and licenses, so I think it’d be fair to say that getting a good collection of games together could be more of a legal battle than Nintendo are up for. But then, if they could just get on with it and release a deluge of old games on the Switch then I’d be happy! Pilotwings and Mario 64 please Ninty.