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One of the reasons to choose an Xbox over competing consoles for some people can be summed up by one four-letter word. So it should come as no surprise that a new Halo game will be headed to Microsoft's new hardware within the next year. Promised for but still lacking a name or any real details to speak of expect both to surface at E3 , the new Halo project will once again come from Halo 4 developer Industries, who have promised "something much more transformative" for the franchise's leap to the next-generation console, enabled by a new game engine.
A Steven Spielberg-produced, live-action Halo television series is also in development for the near future. Well, we'll just come out and say it: if you're reading this, there's a good chance that the original Wasteland came out before you were born. Much of the original development team has been reunited for the new game, a squad-based, turn-based tactical RPG which retains the original's dark humor, if not its low-res graphics.
Fortunately, you won't need a Commodore 64 or Apple II to play Wasteland 2 , though you will need a bit of patience; a release date has been pushed back to sometime in , though Steam Early Access members can currently sample a beta. A repeat from last year's preview article, Ubisoft's brand-new open-world stealth action-adventure game should finally arrive this spring.
E3 audiences were fans of an early build, thanks to its unique gameplay that combines traditional shooter mechanics with computer hacking—and with it, the ability to manipulate the city's various transportation, lighting, and communication systems to your advantage.
In an interesting multiplayer twist, you can secretly spy on and hack your fellow players too, even though Watch Dogs is mostly a single-player game. The extra development time should translate to a better experience, and means that next-gen consoles even the Wii U will get the game, in addition to the and PS3.
The third installment in the dark fantasy action-RPG series following 's highly rated The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings , Witcher 3 may or may not be the final game in the franchise, though it will bring the trilogy to an end, wrapping up the story of Geralt of Rivia in one of 36 different ways depending on the choices you make.
The new, explorable open-world setting—inspired, perhaps, by Skyrim —is reported to be 30 times larger than previous Witcher games, with some remote locations requiring transport by sailboat unless you prefer a minute horseback ride. This is a big game; expect over 50 hours of gameplay for the main story.
Indie developer Jonathan Blow's long-awaited follow-up to Braid should finally arrive early this year. The Witness , is an ambitious, maze-oriented, 3D puzzle game self-funded by Blow, and influenced by Myst that has players exploring an uninhabited island, solving challenges along the way to unlock additional regions and uncover more information about the island's and the game's mysteries.
Audio logs scattered across the island will provide some clues about the overarching story, but you'll need to piece everything together yourself. Note that the game may be ported to other consoles after a limited period of exclusivity on the PS4. Warlords of Draenor will be the fifth expansion to World of Warcraft , once again increasing the level cap to while adding the world of Draenor, original homeland of the Orcs. Character models will get a facelift, and you'll be able to build your own upgradable garrison.
The following announced but undated titles could conceivably surface before the end of , but could just as easily get pushed back to Set four centuries before events in the first game, the latest Fable installment is a change in format, with four players working in a squad to take out a villain.
Though meant to be played online with others, AI characters can fill out the other four roles if you play by yourself. Though there's no confirmed release date, at the very least, a beta should be playable this year. Stardock's 4X space-based strategy franchise has gone eight years without a major refresh, but a sequel was officially announced last fall and could arrive as soon as this year. GC3 will be exclusive to bit PCs, leveraging the advanced technology to offer "vastly improved visuals.
The eighth Kingdom Hearts -related game and first for the new consoles, Kingdom Hearts III is officially in development, but when a finished product will surface is anybody's guess.
Here's one of our most-anticipated games In development since but increasingly looking like vaporware, this next-gen now last-gen successor to Ico and Shadow of the Colossus is "on hiatus" according to a Sony report late last year.
It is unclear when and for what platform s a finished game might emerge. This Kickstarter-funded survival adventure game is set in the snow-covered Northern wilderness, after a mysterious atmospheric event has rendered all electronic devices useless.
Gameplay emphasizes exploration and thinking over mindless shooting, and early footage reveals an appealing visual style. The developer is targeting October for a release date. Full details have yet to be revealed, but the next-gen game will feature a procedurally-generated universe so no two planets will be alike, and you'll get to explore virgin territory each time and will also incorporate both space-based and planet-based combat, with danger increasing the further you progress toward the center of the universe.
A release might be wishful thinking, however. When do those ever go well? The game will be accompanied by a live-action TV show that is optional to view but will provide players with an edge in the game, allowing them to unlock additional content. What does Mojang do to follow up its unexpected runaway hit Minecraft? The answer is: something completely different.
Scrolls not associated in any way with The Elder Scrolls will be a Magic -style fantasy collectible card game that also borrows some elements from modern strategy board games. Though a final release date hasn't been indicated, the game has been in open beta since last summer. While Broken Age may have been the first Kickstarter game to make a big splash, space sim Star Citizen is the one that's breaking all the records.
Why all the fuss? Space is a massive place, and Star Citizen aims to capture quite a lot of it, in striking detail, taking advantage of the modern PC's technical capabilities. The simulation—incorporating trading and combat, set in a persistent, online universe in the 30th century—comes from Wing Commander creator Chris Roberts.
The extra funding means among other things that there will be a new "Squadron 42" component with single-player and co-op multiplayer campaigns, and developers aim to continue adding content to the game on a weekly basis. The game is very tentatively scheduled for a December release, but that will likely be a beta, with a final official release arriving in early Fusion will be the futuristic sequel to acclaimed motocross racing game Trials Evolution , and is expected to be released on next-gen consoles plus PC.
A companion free-to-play smartphone game, Trials Frontier , should surface at the same time. Can a new Legend of Zelda game save the struggling Wii U console? We may get a chance to find out this year, though seems more likely for the first HD Zelda installment. Either way, Nintendo is expected to unveil the new game during this summer's E3 conference.
Monolith's follow-up to its acclaimed Wii title Xenoblade Chronicles is another open-world JRPG that's expected to arrive in Japan by the end of , though if past releases are a guide, North American gamers won't get to see it until the following year.
That title may change as well. Boom Beach is Supercell's follow-up to freemium mega-hit Clash of Clans , though the earlier game's Vikings have been replaced by conventional soldiers. Through the Ages will bring one of the top modern-era board games and its map-less 4X-style gameplay to iOS for the first time.
Already a hit on Steam, the Magic -style card battler Hearthstone from the creators of World of Warcraft will make the jump to iPad this spring. Warhammer 40K: Armageddon brings hex-based war strategy to Apple devices later this year. The free-to-play Supernauts is the latest rival to Minecraft's open-world construction domination.
What are your most anticipated games of the coming year? Most rumors suggest a holiday release for the Wii 2. If true, where does that put the Microsoft and Sony? Microsoft and Sony are in comfortable positions. Their consoles are performing well and selling games like hotcakes. Both the PS3 and the Xbox have their own niche, but in reality they thrive off the same games. Sure there are some exceptions with exclusive titles, but more and more, the biggest games appear on both consoles.
Most of the battle between the systems boils down to downloadable games, online features, and personal preference. Because of this, Microsoft and Sony are content to prolong this console life-cycle and continue to profit off of well-established systems, especially considering the advent of their own motion control devices superior to the Wii's.
Other anonymous insiders claim that is their target time frame to release a new console, but that the companies would consider an earlier release if pushed. If youve played the latest installments of this series or to a lesser extent if youve read the Polish-language novels that inspired the game , then youll know whats going on because The Witcher 3 is a direct sequal to its predecessors. Its also the final of the trilogy, detailing the conclusion of Geralts storyline, which has been pretty involved up until this point.
Judging from the first two games, and the trailers for this one, The Witcher 3 might be worth checking out. This is good news, because this game is actually the second in a trilogy of games.
Trails in the Sky SC directly follows this well-received storyline. So if you havent been keeping up: congratulations you now have a game to play while you wait! But if you have, then congratulations because the second installment will finally be localized! The combat of the game employs a version of the classic turn-based strategy battle system.
After running into an opponent on the main screen, opponents are transported to a grid battlefield where each character takes a turn running around the map; using arts, crafts, items, and attacks to secure victory. At first glance this seems to be a chip off the old Skyrim medieval-dragon-slaying-weapon-swapping-strange-accents block.
The E3 reveal trailer certainly shows that This is where Deep Down plans to be unique: the game actually takes place in New York City, circa Apparently by touching certain magical objects, players are teleported back in time to seek treasure. Deep Down--which is the games working title--will be implementing the Phanta Rhei game engine. Meaning everything flows, the Phanta Rhei engine is designed to make the entire experience run from cutscene to playable events to quick-times seamlessly and beautifully.
The E3 trailer gives an example of this, with the player swapping in and out of cutscenes with absolutely no lag or sense of transition. It seems to be worth checking out, even if just for that. With being gone for so long, it was no surprise that fans began to give up on the game and its gorgeous cutscenes. But now look! This year the title got a breath of fresh air as it was rebranded and reannounced as the next iteration of the Final Fantasy series, as the officially numbered FFXV.
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