By Hedge
Another month another convention; this time Germany’s Gamescom where a slew of new games were announced, new console bundles revealed and new trailers unleashed. We all know what you’re here for, so I’m going to shut up now and show you the best of this years Gamescom extravaganza!
WiLD
Set 10,000BCE, Wild is a game about exploration and adventure. You and your friends play as either prehistoric, stone age humans, or a wide variety of animals, or apparently as a reanimated skeleton, in this game “set in a time where nature and man were one”.
PS4 Exclusive
Until Dawn
Ever wanted to play an 80s slasher flick? Now you can. In Until Dawn you play all eight friends as they spend a weekend in an old cabin, to be picked off one by one Cabin In The Woods style. You decide who lives and who dies and the developers have hinted at differing story outcomes based on your choices.
Multiplatform
Shadow of Mordor
The new trailer for the Lord of the Rings prequel game looks, just, pure excellence.
Multiplatform
Far Cry 4
Take in some of the locations in this short, but incredibly pretty, new trailer.
Multiplatform
Rime
The best way I can describe this game is as the glorious bastard lovechild of Ico and Wind Waker.
PS4 Exclusive
Bloodborne
From Software bring terror and gore and impossibly difficult gaming back with this gothic title.
PS4 Exclusive
Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare
SUCH EXPLOSIONS! SO SCIFI! I lost interest in CoD years ago. This will be the game that brings me back to the franchise. Set in the near future, it’s clearly benefitting from the three year dev cycle. See, this is what you can do when you don’t crap out a sequel annually.
Multiplatform
Rise of the Tomb Raider
The sequel to the fantastic reboot with a truly unexpected twist:
Xbox Exclusive!
Sunset Overdrive
This game looks more and more fun every time I see it. I’ve preordered the White Console bundle for this.
Xbox One Exclusive
Fable Legends
Four player Fable fun.
Xbox One Exclusive
Halo 5: Guardians
This trailer shows off the multiplayer beta.
Xbox One Exclusive
Assassin’s Creed Unity
The next entry in the AC franchise. Looks great. By all accounts Ubisoft have rebuilt the free running / parkour / combat from the ground up.
Multiplatform
Evolve
In addition to this new trailer was the news that the beta will be Xbox One only. We can see in this a lot more of the evolution system the monster will utilise as well as a new map: The Distillery.
Multiplatform
Tearaway Unfolded
Previously a Vita exclusive, the Media Molecule title Tearaway is coming to PS4
PS4 Exclusive
Silent Hills
Billed as a demo of a new IP, this was revealed to actually be a new Silent Hill title helmed by Hideo Kojima, Guillermo del Toro and starring Norman Reedus. Colour me excited.
Multiplatform
Quantum Break
Fight to save time itself.
Xbox One Exclusive
The Order: 1886
Nikola Tesla revealed.
PS4 Exclusive
Day Z
Soon on PS4
Journey
Soon on PS4
Ori and the Blind Forest
This game looks so fucking pretty.
Xbox One Exclusive
Alienation
Top down alien shooter from the makers of Dead Nation.
PS4 Exclusive
Volume
PS4 Exclusive
The Vanishing of Ethan Carter
PS4 Exclusive
Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare XB1 Bundle
Console
Smite
Soon on Xbox One
Scream Ride
Xbox One Exclusive
Space Engineers
First to console on Xbox One
Super Hot
Yeah I got no fucking idea what this is either.
First to console on Xbox One
Ghost of a Tale
You’re a little mouse and you have little clothes and there’s a little mouse castle and fuck this looks like Mouse Guard, which is not at all a bad thing. Awesome!
Xbox One Exclusive
Dead Island 2
Kill zombies. On an island. Much like the first. Hopefully with fewer bugs.
Multiplatform
Sadly, yet again, Nintendo aren’t doing a keynote at Gamescom (probably because the company is haemorrhaging money due to poor WiiU sales) so trailers for their upcoming titles are being released in dribs and drabs through the week.