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Official Xbox Magazine|February 2017Seeing starsMatt is so happy about that headline up there that he feels the need to explain it. But he won’t... You do get it, don’t you? *sobs*Gah! Jeez, OXM readers. Don’t sneak up on me like that. After collating the following 100+ pages I’ve developed something of a fragile ticker, what with all the mind-melting psychic ghost horrors and dirty-toothed farm madams knocking about. We’ve been all over the world this month, to Austin, Texas via Osaka, Japan, to get all the latest insight into two very different, very exciting horror prospects. When Dave came back from seeing Prey, he said its sci-fi frights ‘do for BioShock what Dishonored did for Thief’. Now tell me if that doesn’t set your heart aflutter. Meanwhile, Tom returned from Japan with a bag…1 min
Official Xbox Magazine|February 2017A rush of bloodKickstarter has facilitated some right nonsense in its brief time on Earth, including invisible underwear and a giant inflatable sculpture of Lionel Richie’s face. But crowdfunding has also provided some of gaming’s most renowned creators the opportunity to revisit their best-loved works.And one such figure is Koji Igarashi, a legendary designer whose credits include Castlevania: Symphony Of The Night, one of the greatest games to ever grace Xbox Live Arcade. Igarashi’s latest project, Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night, plunders the same gloomy library of Gothic tropes, but imagines an entirely new setting.“The game takes place in 18th century England,” explains Igarashi, “an era when people’s lives dramatically changed through Industrial Revolution. A girl named Miriam, embedded with crystals linked with demon power, is off to fight against Gebel, who also…1 min
Official Xbox Magazine|February 2017The FixerThe first audio log ever recorded was in the office of telephone inventor Alexander Graham Bell, who famously said, “Mr Watson, I overheard those clowns in management talking about Project Omega again. I can’t believe it’s still going ahead after what happened to Jameson in Operations. Last I heard they’re still raking guts off the ceiling. PS: I’ve changed the passcode to the weapon locker to 2844.”Who could have known that this primitive form of leaving ominous messages and passcodes for weapon lockers would have such a profound effect on videogame history? Today the average game contains anywhere up to one thousand hours of inane dialogue, recorded on to dozens of discarded PDAs, vinyl records, hovering orbs, and cassette tapes. From Metal Gear Solid and BioShock to Dishonored and Titanfall,…3 min
Official Xbox Magazine|February 2017Mass Effect: AndromedaCommander Shepard was named after the first American man to travel into space, Alan Shepard, in 1961Alec Ryder may not have featured in BioWare’s sci-fi trilogy so far, but the man is a legend within that world. He was one of the first people to pass through the Charon mass relay as part of the expeditionary force outside our solar system. Later, he became one of just a handful of humans to complete the ICT program, earning the elite N7 designation shared by Mass Effect hero Commander Shepard.Eventually, Alec Ryder became humanity’s ‘Pathfinder’, leading one of four great Arks on a 600-year journey into the titular Andromeda galaxy in search of a new home for humankind. To put it simply, Alec Ryder is a hero. But you don’t actually play…6 min
Official Xbox Magazine|February 2017roundupSOMBREROPUBLISHER ALLIANCE DIGITAL MEDIA DEVELOPER PIXELMETAL DUE 2017Hoping our tiresome appropriation of cowboy slang would stop after last month’s Red Dead issue? Well saddle up pardner, for some rootin’-tootin’ four-player, singlescreen action. This Spaghetti Westernriffing madness lets you and your sombrerowearing pals blast each other with pistols and power-ups for some hectic (local or offline) multiplayer shooting. Yeeeeee haw!LEGO CITY UNDERCOVERPUBLISHER WARNER BROS DEVELOPER TRAVELLER’S TALES DUE SPRING 2017Lego does GTA! But don’t expect swears and an adorable plastic Trevor. Instead you’re Chase McCain, rookie cop trying to make it in a city drowning in crime/collectable studs. This charming open-world game shows Traveller’s Tales willing to step out of its movie adaptation comfort zone. We stepped out of our comfort zone, too, when we trod on one of those darn…2 min
Official Xbox Magazine|February 2017GAME OF THE YEAR 2016 AWARDS10 HITMANDid Gary Busey just sneak onto this list?Halo 3. Resident Evil 4. The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim. These are the peak installments of some of our favorite series, and this year Agent 47 hit his. IO Interactive just needed the technology to catch up, with bigger hard-drive spaces and a console that could deliver consistent updates.This let the team deliver a series of immersive, feature-rich sandboxes, far beyond what we’ve come to expect from episodic releases. Constant updates mean globetrotting levels—already compulsively replayable—are endlessly rewarding to revisit. Every time you start again you’ll find something new. Another opportunity. Another weapon. Another disguise so dumb it could only fool a Hitman NPC. And Elusive Targets, where you only get one chance to hit your mark, have us putting our rich…15 min
Official Xbox Magazine|February 2017Watch Dogs 2In November 1988, one of the first internet viruses, the Morris Worm, disabled around 6,000 computersPUBLISHER UBISOFT / DEVELOPER UBISOFT MONTREAL / FORMAT XBOX ONE / RELEASE DATE OUT NOW / COST $59.99UK parliament just passed the Snooper’s Charter, a law that gives the government powers to use electronic spying techniques, with your entire browsing history now stored and accessible for 12 months. While you—an upstanding member of the internet—might be comfortable with this, it’s data that could be potentially weaponized.Watch Dogs 2’s protagonist, Marcus Holloway, could tell you all about the dangers of government surveillance. San Francisco’s ctOS, an Orwellian surveillance technology that links electronics throughout the city, used similar data gathering techniques to flag him as a criminal threat. Watch Dogs 2 kicks off with Holloway breaking into…5 min
Official Xbox Magazine|February 2017Call Of Duty: Infinite WarfarePUBLISHER ACTIVISION / DEVELOPER INFINITY WARD / FORMAT XBOX ONE / RELEASE DATE OUT NOW / COST $59.99Activision’s shooter series has evolved by scrubbing forward through time, angrily churning through the ages (World At War aside) since its World War II starting point. This sequel continues that trajectory, leaving Earth behind and imagining humanity’s gun-blazing future among the stars. Out there in the inky cosmos, instead of fighting over imaginary Earth borders we quarrel over entire planets.Call Of Duty: Infinite Warfare’s pantomime cast of bad guys are part of the Settlement Defense Front (SDF), a Mars-based insurgent force with a fleet of dreadnoughts and a large infantry made up of disillusioned settlers and explody murderbots. Led by shouty fascist Admiral Salen Kotch, the SDF attacks Earth, and your player character,…5 min
Official Xbox Magazine|February 2017now playingPUBLISHER UBISOFT / DEVELOPER UBISOFT REFLECTIONS, UBISOFT ANNECY / FORMAT XBOX ONE / RELEASE DATE MARCH 20162016 has been an amazing year for shooters, and looking back over the last 12 months feels a bit like being shot in the eyes by a giggling rainbow. Because after years of ruling the genre, the realistic shooter finally lost dominance to the colorful, wacky weapon shenanigans of games like Doom, Overwatch and Titanfall 2. Even Call Of Duty gave up any pretence of realism this year, blasting off into space to throw black holes at the mopey guy out of Game Of Thrones.Yeah! Take that, realism! You’ve held the genre in an iron grip for too long with your dull weapons, gray scenery, and stubborn refusal to let us run and double-jump…7 min
Official Xbox Magazine|February 2017OXM exploresPUBLISHER EIDOS INTERACTIVE, SQUARE ENIX / DEVELOPER VARIOUS / RELEASE DATES 1996–2016Nevada Desert, USATomb Raider IIINorth America, with its mirage of bright lights and buildings, isn’t a frequent pit-stop on Lara’s travels and it’s easy to see why. This is a series called Tomb Raider after all, not Casino Raider. But Tomb Raider III manages to squeeze some mystery out of the New World in the form of Nevada’s ghostly terrain. Pockets of quicksand wait to gobble Lara up while rattlesnakes lurk in menacing coils.Cornwall, EnglandTomb Raider: LegendOne of the strangest locations in the entire series takes Lara back to English shores. Not to London, mind, but Cornwall. What? In a dilapidated museum about King Arthur Lara uncovers a sliver of the old guy’s sword and a weird sea monster…5 min
Official Xbox Magazine|February 2017the disc slotBio Jade Adam GrangerGame designer of For Honor.Granger’s taken a stab at picking her favorite Xbox games this month. And by stab we mean behead with a berserker ax +1 for double damage.Dragon Age! [1] I fell in love with some characters, dreamt about them, did fan art – so embarrassing! And then there’s Mass Effect [2]. The world is incredible and lady Shepard is one of the strongest characters. Plus, it’s just gorgeous – especially Mass Effect 2 – my favorite of the gang. Exploring the different planets was just great. Titanfall [3], I just love, love, love mechs. I love shooters, I love mechs, and I love the flow between being inside and outside of your mech. I’m a big fan of DmC [4], too. I mean, it…2 min
Official Xbox Magazine|February 2017insiderThis month, we’ve been chopping down pine trees, donning our merry apparel, and downing eggnog with reckless abandon. Then we realised it was still winter, so we grabbed some tinsel and sat down for a chat with Mojang on the future of Minecraft (p10) and its big festive update. But our holiday spirit remained undiminished so, brimming with goodwill and cheer, we collated everything you need to know about Overwatch’s purple-haired, tech-loving hero Sombra (p16). But even that didn’t exorcise our end-of-year party vibe, since Blizzard has assembled a celebratory shower of Diablo III (p17) updates for 2017, including a spooky new character class. Naturally, we have all the details just for you. Then, at last, we felt the holiday merriment abandon us, and we turned to Koji Igarashi for…1 min
Official Xbox Magazine|February 2017Need to know1 SOMBRA’S A TECHNOLOGICAL GENIUSSombra has been a gifted hacker since childhood, and now she brings those l33t skills to bear on the battlefield. Hold the left trigger to hack an enemy player and they won’t be able to use any of their abilities, making Sombra a superb counter to Reinhardt or Zarya. But while hacking enemies is flashy fun, hacking health packs can be vital to victory. Any med-kit controlled by Sombra’s techy powers will be unavailable to the enemy team and respawn considerably quicker for you and your allies. In a tightly contested corner of the map, this can be just the edge your team needs.2 YOU’LL NEVER SEE HER COMINGSombra can cross a map quickly and discreetly thanks to her Thermoptic Camo, an ability that renders her…3 min
Official Xbox Magazine|February 2017The PraiserYou know how it is. You’re running away from a suicidal super mutant down the remains of a pre-war road, and you have to weave your way around continual obstacles: a ruined car, a pile of rubble, a fallen tree. You enter the old factory or hospital in which this gang of mutants has settled, and there’s broken furniture and bags of body parts all over the place. Fallout 4’s Commonwealth is many things, but primarily it’s a mess.Of course, the same is true for the Capital Wasteland in Fallout 3, and it makes sense. There are so many dangers lurking around every corner people don’t have time to make their surroundings more attractive, and in the two centuries since the bombs fell a lot of junk has accumulated. You…3 min
Official Xbox Magazine|February 2017Sea Of ThievesAvast ye! Want early access? Sign up to Rare’s Insider Program for the chance to be a testerForza Horizon 3’s firmaments may be spectacular, but Rare isn’t about to let Playground Games lap up all of the available skybox glory. Forza has HDR lighting and real weather fronts, sure, but does it have clouds shaped like skulls? No, it does not. And Sea Of Thieves’ clouds, forebodingly shaped or otherwise, are also remarkably fluffy. Rare conjures up its airborne masses of water particles as 3D objects that roll across the sky and seem more delicate than cotton candy, even when they’re sporting crooked teeth. Combine this with the beautiful lighting tech which drives the day/night cycle, and you have a game whose heavens will certainly be capable of giving Horizon…3 min
Official Xbox Magazine|February 2017DA RE YOU ENTER?GET OUT. JUST GET OUT. DON’T THINK ABOUT THE KNIFE THAT ALMOST TOOK ONE OF YOUR EYES. IGNORE THE OLD WOMAN, WATCHING SILENTLY AS YOU BREAK FREE FROM YOUR BONDS. LOOK AWAY FROM THE DINNER TABLE, STACKED HIGH WITH THE ROTTING OFFAL THEY TRIED TO FORCE DOWN YOU. ETHAN. GET. OUT. YOU LEAVE THE ROOM AND RUN TO THE FRONT DOOR. LOCKED. YOU TURN AND HEAD FOR THE STAIRCASE. BROKEN AND BLOCKED. YOU TAKE A RIGHT AND RUN DOWN THE CORRIDOR, THEN ABRUPTLY STOP, SWALLOWING A SCREAM. HE’S RIGHT THERE. STANDING AT THE END OF THE CORRIDOR. HE’S NOT LOOKING IN YOUR DIRECTION NOW, BUT YOU’VE GOT SECONDS BEFORE HE NOTICES YOU. SLOWLY, YOU TAKE A STEP BACK. NOT SLOWLY ENOUGH. JACK BAKER TURNS AND SEES YOU. HE GRINS. “HELLO…18 min
Official Xbox Magazine|February 2017reviewsDisagree with our verdicts? Let your voice be heard on our Facebook and Twitter feedsHOW 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 masterpiece9 An essential slice of brilliance8 Give it a whirl and you won’t regret it7 Some minor flaws but still good6 Solid, but not setting any loins aflame5 Average. Not good, but not terrible either4 Stinks a little3 Look away, lest ye be tainted2 Angry-makingly bad1 Just... no...EDITOR’S CHOICEIrrespective of score, the Editor’s Choice award is given to games with the quality, ambition, or uniqueness to stand out from the crowd.They say that honesty is the best policy, but when it comes to videogames that maxim is obviously nonsense. Take Dishonored 2 (p64), for instance, a game…2 min
Official Xbox Magazine|February 2017The Little AcrePUBLISHER PEWTER GAMES / DEVELOPER CURVE DIGITAL / FORMAT XBOX ONE / RELEASE DATE OUT NOW / COST $12.99Child protagonists are a special thing in videogames. Just think of the kids that define so many iconic titles: the nameless, voiceless boy in Inside, the spunky but sweet Clementine in The Walking Dead, and Six, the young girl in upcoming horror game Little Nightmares. But the most magical progeny yet could be The Little Acre’s Lily, with her wooden sword, tiara, and freckles the size of dimes.Lily is the heroine of The Little Acre: a game that sounds cutesy but reverberates with hidden depths. The passion project of Irish developer Pewter Games, this is a point-andclick adventure that melds traditional fantasy tropes (foreign landscapes, strange creatures, and magical crystals) with sci-fi…3 min
Official Xbox Magazine|February 2017HitmanPUBLISHER SQUARE ENIX / DEVELOPER IO INTERACTIVE / FORMAT XBOX ONE / RELEASE DATE OUT NOW / COST $59.99After six episodes and numerous substantial patches, IO’s experimental yet traditional reboot has finally reached a conclusion. Season One hit a crescendo during the fantastic Hokkaido level, with a closing cutscene that dropped a hint of conspiracy. The big question now is if the whole thing will be enough to merit a second season (this just in: it is, IO has confirmed it’s in the works).By now most players must be dab hands at throwing coins and drowning people in toilets, so Hokkaido mixes things up by not allowing any items to be carried into the level. It takes place in a high-tech hospital where ID chips in your clothing determine which…5 min
Official Xbox Magazine|February 2017Skyrim Special EditionPUBLISHER BETHESDA SOFTWORKS / DEVELOPER BETHESDA SOFTWORKS / FORMAT XBOX ONE / RELEASE DATE 28 OCT 2016Alongside the Xbox One version of Bethesda’s celebrated role player comes a feast of mods, which seismically alter the way you play the game, from beautifying the place up to introducing entire new side quests and stories to uncover. For this foray into Nord territory, however, I want to do something I’ve never done before: I want to became a bard.Before long I’ve booted up a game with a few different extras bolted on, including a mod which introduces temperature effects into the game. Now I’ll have to worry about keeping warm, preferably in a pub, as well as bashing skeletons. The most important addition for this playthrough, though, is the Become A Bard…3 min
Official Xbox Magazine|February 2017Merry Craftmas!How much bloodshed did you endure on Black Friday? We watched many a good shopper fall in the fight to get an Xbox One S boxed with Halo 5 for under $250. We saw people kick each other’s spines out to save 50 per cent on Just Dance. In crazy times like these, it’s nice to be reminded that sometimes, the best things in life are totally free. Case in point, another huge Christmas update to Minecraft, on Xbox, one that includes a whole new way to move around the game.“Any time we give players a new way to transport themselves around the world it makes a massive difference,” explains Roger Carpenter, executive producer of the console versions of the game. “Forever we were being asked, ‘Can we have horses!…7 min
Official Xbox Magazine|February 2017Season’s greetingsBlizzard is marking the 20-year anniversary of its devishly good dungeoneering series with a shower of updates to Diablo III, including nostalgic events, a brand new character class, and the long-awaited introduction of Seasons to Xbox One.First up is The Darkening of Tristram, which offers a full recreation of Blizzard’s original dungeon crawler within Diablo III, complete with a pixelated visual filter that’s been carefully engineered to evoke rosetinted recollections. The event will run throughout January, during which time you’ll be able fire up Adventure Mode, stroll on over to Old Tristram, and pop through a portal to discover 16 levels of old-school adventure. The four main bosses from Diablo are all present and correct of course, including the titular archfiend himself.Raising the deadAnd this isn’t the only treat in…3 min
Official Xbox Magazine|February 2017previewOXM’S MOST WANTEDMatt’s pickMass Effect: AndromedaBioWare easily cuts through my hard outer shell with its characters. Can PeeBee and, er, Liam fill the Garrus void?Tom’s pickSea Of ThievesTreasure hunting! Plank walking! The Accordion! Sea Of Thieves is going to blow every other 2017 game out of the water.Kimberley’s pickShattered: Tale Of The Forgotton KingI’ve been craving a dark and Gothic RPG, and this looks beautiful, challenging, and very immersive. Perfection.James’ PickPreyAfter several gleeful weeks with Dishonored 2, I can’t wait to see what Arkane can do with this sinister sci-fi setting.Fun fact to make you feel truly old: the first Mass Effect was released nearly ten years agoJoin us, beloved reader, as we embark on an epic exploration charting the farthest reaches of your Xbox One. Pack a bag—you sweet,…2 min
Official Xbox Magazine|February 2017Sniper: Ghost Warrior 3With 173 kills, an unnamed British Royal Marine is currently the world’s deadliest sniperSniping is a lonely profession in videogames. You never have a spotter to accompany you like characters in the movies, nor the camaraderie of charging in shoulder-to-shoulder with a group of squaddies. Instead, you crouch in foliage and observe from afar. It’s a role extreme in both power and vulnerability, as you have unrivalled visual control over the battlefield, but are utterly helpless should someone sneak up on you.The hostile, open-world hinterlands of the Caucasus Mountains in Sniper: Ghost Warrior 3 capture the special solitude of being a sniper perfectly. The protagonist is retired Marine Jonathan North, who’s been sent to the country of Georgia to take out the man responsible for triggering a civil war. While…3 min
Official Xbox Magazine|February 2017SHOCKING SYSTEMSArkane actually once worked on a cancelled, horror-themed expansion for Half-Life 2How do you start planning systems for a game like Prey? Is it a case of sketching out hazards, feedback and solutions on paper before you start?It’s a little bit more organic than that. Sometimes I liken game development to sea voyages of old. ‘Oh, we want to discover America’. But they don’t [really] set out to discover America. They want to discover a new trade route to India and they think there’s something west. So they start heading west and discover something completely different. They didn’t know where they were going to end up, and they ended up in an entirely new land.As you’re going, you’re constantly measuring and course-correcting, and I think that’s a really important way…3 min
Official Xbox Magazine|February 2017Dishonored 2PUBLISHER BETHESDA SOFTWORKS / DEVELOPER ARKANE STUDIOS / FORMAT XBOX ONE / RELEASE DATE OUT NOW / COST $59.99It may have been a witch’s sorcery that snatched the throne from you, but it was complacency that cost you the Empire of the Isles. 15 years have passed since the bloody events of the original Dishonored, so while you might be able to forgive empress Emily Kaldwin and her father-cum-bodyguard Corvo Attano their momentary lapse in vigilance, the consequences are dire. The Empire of the Isles now sits in the hands of Delilah Kaldwin, a sinister spellslinger claiming to be the rightful heir. A bloody coup has erupted. And only one half of our father-daughter duo has escaped Dunwall Tower...Which character remains in the conspirators’ clutches is up to you—you choose…8 min
Official Xbox Magazine|February 2017FuriPUBLISHER THE GAME BAKERS / DEVELOPER THE GAME BAKERS / FORMAT XBOX ONE / RELEASE DATE OUT NOW / COST $19.99With its super stylish visuals, inscrutable sci-fi story, fabulously inventive character design and thumping soundtrack, here’s a hardcore fighting game that ticks most of the boxes on the list titled ‘Potential Cult Classic’. It has swords, it has speed, it has screen-filling bullet attacks… you can even switch all the dialogue and voice acting to Japanese. It’s a particular gamer’s idea of heaven, for sure.But it most definitely isn’t for everyone. Furi is all boss, all the time, and it will make you hurt. Apart from the lengthy inter-level scenes where you walk slowly forward while listening to a rabbit-man lecture about the nature of prisons, the game consists of…3 min
Official Xbox Magazine|February 2017extraWe live in uncertain times. The planet’s climate is changing, our rainforests are disappearing, and we didn’t even get an Assassin’s Creed game this year. The end of days is surely upon us. Fortunately, videogames are packed full of theories about the exact causes and nature of our imminent societal collapse, including The Division (p82), which we’ve revisited to investigate Ubisoft’s weighty new patch. Of course, the end of civilisation could well herald a return to medieval feudalism, so spending some time with Skyrim Special Edition (p84) seemed like a fine way to get ahead of the curve. At least, it did until our esteemed editor Matt got distracted by the Xbox One’s amazing mod support and decided to pursue a career as a bard instead. Our musical ambitions thwarted,…1 min
Official Xbox Magazine|February 2017Oxenfree New Game+PUBLISHER NIGHT SCHOOL STUDIO / DEVELOPER NIGHT SCHOOL STUDIO / FORMAT XBOX ONE / RELEASE DATE JUNE 2016Do you remember what it was like to be a young teen? When you snuck out with friends for the first time, or skipped school, or decided not to do your homework? Rebellious youth was something ephemeral, but you were sure these moments would last forever: the nights studded with stars and everything smelling like summer.Oxenfree is the debut release from evocative indie developer Night School Studio. Released back in January, it taps into the mischief and magic and all the messy romanticism associated with being a teenager. It’s fun, it’s silly, it’s colorful, and odd. These qualities imbue every corner of Oxenfree, from the Saturday-morningcartoon art style (à la Scooby-Doo) to the…4 min
Official Xbox Magazine|February 2017RETROSPECTIVE HALF-LIFE 2PUBLISHER VALVE / DEVELOPER VALVE / FORMAT XBOX 360, XBOX ONEGordon Freeman has nothing to say. Well, not verbally anyway. As one of gaming’s best-known silent protagonists, he has no syllables to utter and no quips to dispense. Freeman’s lack of chat is a deliberate black hole of meaning. And yet that’s exactly what Valve needed to craft an FPS renowned for storytelling as much as shooting.Freeman, you see, is the perfectly engineered observer and vessel. Here is a character so flimsy that his silhouette slips away from your mental grasp like soap in the bath, leaving behind only a crowbar, a pair of glasses, and a HEV suit. Even his face is a disturbingly literal interpretation of the everyman, based on a recombination of male Valve employees (he has…9 min
Official Xbox Magazine|February 201715 SCARIEST XBOX MOMENTS15 THE MAN-BAT – BATMAN: ARKHAM KNIGHTThere are a lot of creepy set-pieces in the Arkham games, but it’s in Arkham Knight where you’ll experience the series’ greatest jump scare. In the early stages of exploring the city, while grappling up a building, Batman hauls himself up, only to find himself staring into the screeching face of the grotesque Man-Bat. This triggers the ‘Creature Of The Night’ side mission, in which the Caped Crusader hunts down the mutated scientist. Brilliantly, the location for this encounter is completely random, so it could frighten the superhero shorts off you on replays too.14 THE CRAWLERS – DEAD SPACE 2As Isaac Clarke makes his way through the Necromorph-infested Titan Station, he finds himself in an eerily abandoned elementary school. As he moves deeper into…8 min
Official Xbox Magazine|February 2017DIRECTORIESTHE TEN BEST XBOX ONE GAMESgames01 THE WITCHER 3: WILD HUNTPUBLISHER BANDAI NAMCOHearts Of Stone and Blood And Wine have made an already outstanding RPG unmissable. One of the most authentic, entertaining game worlds ever.DEFINING MOMENT Geralt at a wedding; cue hilarity, menace, and light jigging.02 GRAND THEFT AUTO VPUBLISHER ROCKSTAR GAMESBrutal and beautiful in equal measure, GTA V is so rich in size, scope, and spectacle it’s hard to believe it was originally built for Xbox 360.DEFINING MOMENT Warping into the skin of Trevor—only to find he’s drunk-driving a helicopter.03 DARK SOULS IIIPUBLISHER BANDAI NAMCOGet over the initial difficulty hump and you’re rewarded with a combat system that gives you unparalleled opportunities to express yourself.DEFINING MOMENT Taking down a monstrosity the size of a state school using reflexes and…6 min
