Q4 GAMES GUIDE
TOTAL WAR: ROME II
THE LATEST in Sega’s popular strategy series, Rome IIis already the fastest pre-ordered Total Wargame to date, with over six times the number of gamers ordering the title in its first week compared to previous release Shogun 2. Players must take control of the Roman army in Total War’s signature mix of real-time and turn-based gameplay. The game
ASSASSIN’S CREED IV: BLACK FLAG NOVEMBER 1ST, UBISOFT PC, 360, PS3, WII U, PS4, XBOX ONE
SEPTEMBER 3RD SEGA, PC
CASTLEVANIA: LORDS OF SHADOW 2 KONAMI’S LONG-
RUNNING gothic vampire- slaying action game series puts players in control of Dracula for the first time. Lords of Shadow 2 returns in an epic
boasts a full campaign mode, plus two-player modes.
GRAND THEFT AUTO V SEPTEMBER 17TH, ROCKSTAR 360, PS3
adventure set in an open modern-day world. Players must lead Dracula, who is
F1 2013
OCTOBER 4TH, CODEMASTERS PC, 360, PS3
Q4, 2013 PC, 360, PS3
weakened and
yearning for mortality. The original Lords of
Shadowenjoyed better than expected sales and became the best-selling Castlevania game when it
launched in 2010; a 3DS title also followed.
POKÉMON X/Y OCTOBER 12TH, NINTENDO 3DS
UBISOFT’S SUCCESSFUL assassin series ditches medieval streets and knights for the high seas and swashbuckling pirates in Black Flag.
BATMAN ARKHAM ORIGINS
OCTOBER 25TH, WARNER BROS PC, 360, PS3, WII U, 3DS, VITA
THE GARGANTUAN open-world car- stealing action series returns, allowing players to plan their own bank robberies and take control of three different characters. The 125 million GTAgame unit sales speak for themselves.
WATCH DOGS
NOVEMBER 22ND, UBISOFT PC, PS3, WII U, XBOX ONE, 360, PS4
THE LATEST entry in the award- winning series of officially licensed Formula 1 racing games will feature a new gameplay mode called F1 Classics, giving fans the chance to race classic cars on iconic circuits against legendary drivers.
SKYLANDERS: SWAP FORCE
OCTOBER 18TH, ACTIVISION PS3, PS4, XBOX 360, XBOX ONE, WII U
POKÉMON HAS been a huge hit on handheld consoles since the mid ‘90s – now it’s getting the 3D treatment in Xand Y.
The monster battling game features a new Fairy type, enhanced visuals and new Pokémon to collect.
PES 2014 Q4, KONAMI PC, 360, PS3, PSP
ORIGINS IS a prequel that portrays an expanded Gotham City and is set several years before the events of surprise smash hit titles Batman: Arkham Asylumand Batman: Arkham City.
XBOX ONE
THIS NEW property from Ubisoft taps into the world of advanced technology and the latest gadgetry by putting players in the shoes of hacker Aiden Pearce, who can manipulate the environment.
NOVEMBER, £429, MICROSOFT
BILLED AS an all-in-one entertainment device, featuring music, live TV, movies, sports and apps as well as video games, Xbox One retains a lot of features from the successful Xbox 360 and adds a host of new ones, too. It boasts an 8-core x86 processor, allowing users to switch between a game, entertainment app or movie instantly, as well as 8GB of RAM and a 500GB hard drive for storing content.
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It also has a gaming operating system blended with a Windows OS. Xbox One has a built-in Blu-ray player, a bundled Kinect camera accessory, plus a revised controller
with trigger rumble motors. Exclusive games include Halo 5,
Titanfall, Quantum Break, Crimson Dragon, Forza 5, Sunset Overdrive, Ryse, Project Spark, Dead Rising 3 and Killer Instinct.
THE THIRD console Skylanders game uses figures that can interchange with one another, letting users create new characters.
PRO EVOLUTION Soccer is stepping up this year to challenge FIFA with a new game engine powered by Kojima Productions’ Fox Engine. PES 2014 promises better collision detection, player models, total body control and more.
PLAYSTATION 4 NOVEMBER 29TH, £349, SONY
THE PS3’S successor boasts a cheaper price than its rival, and Sony says it is focusing on the gamer with the PlayStation 4.
It boasts second-screen features using a smartphone, tablet or PlayStation Vita console. Hardware- wise, it has a custom chip that contains eight x86-64 cores and a 1.84 TFLOPS graphics processor, with 8GB of GDDR5 unified system memory and a 500GB hard drive. The controller features a sensitive six-axis sensor and a touch pad.
Exclusive games include Knack, Killzone: Shadow Fall, Driveclub, Infamous: Second Son, The Order 1886, Daylight, Deep Down, Super Stardust HD and Planetside 2.
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