Part of the CRPG renaissance, if such a thing is truly happening. Tides of Numenera - The Kickstarter-funded spiritual successor to Planescape: Torment uses an adapted version of Monte Cook's Kickstarter-funded Numenera pen-and-paper roleplaying game and promises tons of dialogue and choices just like the original, all in an updated isometric RPG format. Then again, setting just about anything in the Star Wars universe makes it infinitely better. If the game does release in 2015, it will be nicely timed alongside Episode VII: The Force Awakens. Built in the Frostbite 3 engine, the game is essentially Battlefield set in the Star Wars universe. Star Wars Battlefront - EA returns to the Star Wars universe with the third Battelfront competitive shooter. (Then again, Donkey Kong: Tropical Freeze was every bit as hard as the other entries in that series, so who knows with Nintendo?) The new entry makes use of the Wii U gamepad, and while I suspect it won't be as hard, I'm not sure that's such a bad thing. Some levels were nearly as challenging as the bike level from Battletoads. A brilliant, one-of-a-kind game, it was still among the most brutal video games I've ever played.
Star Fox - I remember the original Star Fox with a mix of nostalgia and horror. I'm very much looking forward to what comes next. The art-style is great, the voice-acting solid, and members of the HBO show's cast pop up here and there tying the events in the game to the bigger picture. The first entry was quite good, very much in keeping withe the brutal world created by George R.R. Game of Thrones - The remaining episodes of Telltale's Game of Thrones story game will release throughout 2015.
This isn't the first time this concept has been deployed in a video game, but it certainly looks like one of the best attempts at this type of asymmetric competitive play. The game also adds a day and night cycle, bringing out the truly dangerous undead only when the sun goes down.Įvolve - This competitive/co-op game pits a handful of human players against a player-controlled monster. Dying Light is an open-world first-person-shooter that gives players more movement options to rush about the city. Dying Light - Zombie parkour could make for a nice change in the increasingly over-saturated zombie genre.