Whether you’re a veteran or a casual gamer, the great thing about video games is that they have a huge range of offers. The result is a huge choice, which makes some purchases difficult if you don’t know the profile of the player you want to please.
1. Back 4 Blood
Platforms: PC, PS4, PS5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X|S
Since the release of the second episode in 2009, Valve has fallen asleep on the Left 4 Dead license. Since then, the zombie-style cooperative shooter has been lost in the limbo of licensing with OVERKILL’s The Walking Dead and World War Z, with varying degrees of success – in terms of play, criticism, and audience. Worn out by the Evolve whirlwind, whose concept failed to hide the weakness of its content (and the opportunism of its business model), Turtle Rock Studios returns to its first love with Back 4 Blood.
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2. Vampire The Masquerade: Bloodlines 2
Platforms: PC, PS4, PS5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X|S, 2021
This is not a new license, but the rather distant release of its first part (2004) allows us to place it in this category. The first feedback from the press and its visibly chaotic development make us cautious. However, the sequel of the cult vampire RPG keeps our favor thanks to its unstoppable concept: multiple relevant choices in a deep scenario, a well-dosed infiltration/action mix addition to a dark and deleterious Victorian atmosphere cleverly distilled into modern environments.
3. Deathloop
Platforms: PC, PS5
Bethesda’s first game under the Microsoft umbrella will be finally… a PlayStation 5 exclusive!
Deathloop, from Lyon-based Arkane Studios, will nonetheless honor its year of exclusivity with Sony, alongside its PC release, before joining Microsoft’s Game Pass. The iconoclastic FPS promises colorful confrontations, a tortuous level design, an incredible atmosphere, and a well-developed artistic direction like Arkane (Dishonored, Prey 2017) masters so well, in addition to a curious concept, which intends to blur the lines between single and multiplayer video games.
4. GhostWire: Tokyo
Platforms: PC, PS5
The Japanese studio Tango Gameworks is also concerned with the acquisition of Zenimax by Microsoft, which took place last September. In the same case as its big brother Deathloop, GhostWire: Tokyo will keep its promise of exclusivity on PlayStation 5 before returning to the fold, on Xbox Series in 2022.
The legend Shinji Mikami (Resident Evil 1 and 4, God Hand, Vanquish, The Evil Within) is the Executive Producer of this punchy, hand-to-hand oriented horror FPS. If the first-person view has never been the best playground for close combat, the game is mostly expected for its mystical atmosphere and its breathtaking spectral creatures.
5. Hood: Outlaws & Legends
Platforms: PC, PS4, PS5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X|S
On behalf of Focus Interactive, Sumo Digital transposes the multiplayer heist concept of Payday 2 to the Middle Ages, and it’s pretty sexy. We swap the emblematic masks dear to Overkill Software for animal skins, bows, and halberds, but the idea remains the same: to thwart the enemy’s defenses to steal an asset as discreetly as possible, and to turn all these people into dragon pies once the alarm is given.
If the tracking is as exemplary as Payday, the heists as varied and clever, and the action as furious, we could be holding the perfect appetizer while we wait for Back 4 Blood and the sea serpent Payday 3, whose development has been in limbo since its announcement in 2016.
