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This week Marcus Bronzy and Louise Blain Kill Time With:
Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order
A HUGE amount of gameplay was shown at this years E3 of a game that is highly anticipated amongst Star Wars fans. Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order! 14mins of pure uninterrupted gameplay was shown, highlighting what the game will look like once it’s released this November. We are very very impressed here at How To Kill An Hour and haven’t seen a game like it for a while!
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Cyberpunk 2077
We got a little bit more information about this highly anticipated action RPG from CD Projekt Red, including a release date! That release date being 16th April 2020. We also found out that Keanu Reeves is now a part of the game, playing a character called Johnny Silverhand. A key character in the Cyberpunk 2077 universe, who has a grudge against the Arasaka Corporation.
More on Cyberpunk 2077 here
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Avengers
More was revealed about the long awaited Avengers game from Square Enix at this years E3. A game based on a comic book has big shoes to fill after Spiderman’s stellar outing last year. Well, the trailer keeps us quietly confident that Square Enix are going to knock it out of the park!
This game has a campaign which is set 5 years after A Day. A Day is a day which celebrates all things Avengers, well things go ary and the Avengers are now outcasts. The team is required to re-assemble and take on a brand new threat. This story is a brand new and original story separate and not related to the MCU that we all know and love.
You get to take on all of your favourite characters from The Avengers, such as Captain America, Thor and Black Widow. You can play as a single player or as Co-Operatively too. Online play is there as you’d expect and can play in teams of four as various different heroes. Whilst new characters and regions will come post launch and for FREE!
Avengers is coming to PC, PS4, Stadia and Xbox one on 15th May 2020. There will be an early beta access and other unique benefits for Playstation players. Benefits which are yet to be revealed!
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Watch Dogs: Legion
Watch Dogs: Legion is set in a post-Brexit dystopian vision of London. Depicting what British society might look like in the near future. A look at the culmination of huge political upheaval and highly advanced pieces of tech like artificial intelligence.
Watch Dogs: Legion has no main character. Instead you have to build an underground resistance of hackers. Recruiting your team from the many different pedestrians that roam London. Either through well known landmarks such as a militarized Leicester Square, Chinatown, Tower Bridge, London Eye or Camden Town. The trailer revealed London to look full of organized crime, grotesque levels of surveillance, via numerous drones in the skyline and overall a gritty representation of a future London.
Watch Dogs Legion is out on March 6th 2020 pre-Order by clicking here!
(Independent / Engadget)
Doom Eternal
Doom Eternal is a sequel to 2016’s highly impressive Doom and it looks great. The game takes place in a demon infested Earth and it sure does look like hell on Earth to us! You can fight demons in an array of places including, surprisingly, in HEAVEN!
Also announced was a brand new multiplayer mode called Battlemode. Described as the “perfect match between demon strategy and player skill.” Demon players have different abilities that you can use to throw off an opposing Slayer. While the Slayer’s will have lots and lots of guns. Battlemode will be 2v1 battles. 2 demons taking on 1 slayer.
Doom Eternal is out November 22nd 2019, pre-order by clicking here!
New Xbox – Project Scarlett
Not much was announced at E3 regarding what Project Scarlett actually is, but by the sounds of it, it is going to be powerful. We mean POWERFUL!
The Xbox One X is the most powerful console available to gamers right now and Project Scarlett will be 4 times as powerful, which will be powered by an AMD chip. The new console will also be able to offer frames up to 120 frames per second, a SSD which will load games a lot quicker than older mechanical hard drives. It will also be able to ouput games at 8K resolution and launch with a brand new Halo title, Halo:Infinite.
Project Scarlett will be released during the Holiday season of 2020.
(Cnet)
Project xCloud
Streaming has already taken over the video and audio space and it seems to be slowly taking over in the gaming space too. With Playstation Now already firmly in the hands of Playstation owners, Google elbowing their way into the gaming world with Stadia, Xbox are looking to get in on the action too with Project xCloud.
Microsoft showed off xCloud a bit at E3 this year and according to reports, streaming games is nearly identical to regular game playing. Project xCloud is launching in October and allows players to stream games from your at-home Xbox one to any device you own.
Engadget were able to have a go on it at E3 this year and the set-ups weren’t true to at home situations but it feels like it was as close as it can be. Each phone and tablet were linked to an ETHERNET connection to keep data running smoothly. What made it as close as real life was that they were connecting to a data center in the Bay Area 400 miles away. Which housed localized Xboxes.
They played Halo 5, at 720p at 60 frames per second and it was great. Though both of these is adaptable and dependant upon device and connection speeds. Apparently if you can stream Netflix you can stream xCloud. While it is a little different to real world testing, Engadget were impressed with this as they were with Google Stadia and all Xbox One games would be playable on it’s streaming service.
Project xCloud launches in October and we’ll know more about real life situations then, but streaming is looking promising!
(Engadget)
Ubisoft Uplay +
Many game developers are getting involved with game streaming, with game developers outputting thier own streaming services. Ubisoft announced uPlay+ a streaming service to play all their latest games for a monthly subscription fee of $15 a month.
Just like with Google Stadia no download is require either, just load up and play. While a number of games have already been confirmed for uPlay+ such as:
- The Division 2
- Assassin’s Creed: Odyssey
- For Honor
- Beyond Good and Evil
- Rayman Legends
- Child of Light
Brand new titles, including Ghost Recon: Breakpoint, and Watch Dogs Legion will also be available alongside some classic Ubisoft games.
uPlay+ will also be available through Google’s Stadia, which makes the Google deal little better. Considering you have to purchase the games alongside a Google Stadia subscription, this makes what everyone was wanting, a Netflix style service, that much more real.
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Google Stadia
More information about Google’s Stadia Service was announced such as pricing and availability!
Base subscription (Pro Subscription) is $10 per month, whilst a free version is alos planned. While a Founders Edition Bundle which includes a controller will be available for $130 this November alongside the launch of Stadia. The controller by itself will be $70. The Founders Edition Bundble includes a Chromecast Ultra, a Stadia controller, a copy of Destiny 2 + Shadowkeep expansion, and a three-month subscription along with a three-month buddy pass. A buddy pass is a pass which you can give to a buddy which allows them to play alongside you for free. Which helps to get more people in to the Stadia ecosystem.
Stadia will be a slow and staggered launch and won’t be available for everyone at launch. However, as if you want to play in 2019, you’ll need the Founder’s Edition. There’s also a pro subscription which isn’t available until 2020 either.
Games available will be Ghost Recon Breakpoint, Assassins Creed Odyssey, Doom Eternal, Metro Exodus and many more!
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(Kotaku)
Maneater Shark Game
This game, as you’d expect, doesn’t take itself seriously and follows players as they level up a shark. Yes a shark.
You play as a large Bull Shark who has to fight off other sharks in the waters of the Gulf Coast. Simply eat everything in sight. You also have to look for the evil human who slayed your mother. Much like in the movie JAWS, you have to terrorise coastal waterways and eat many different humans. Until you find the right on of course. The game is also open world, explore sunken wrecks, lurk in swamps and even cruise the open ocean. The game has deep stats to drive your path through the game, customise your shark and evolve different parts of your body.
We don’t know about you but this looks like tons of fun!
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Zombie Army 4: Dead War
Our friends at Rebellion are back and are bringing Zombies to the Sniper Elite world. With Zombie Army 4: Dead War. It is a sequel to the Zombie Army Trilogy spin off of Sniper Elite 3.
It seems to be like a Left For Dead/Strange Brigade style game where fighters have to take on a horde of Zombies. In a class based character driven team based game.
The plot revolves around Sniper Elite’s Karl Fairburne, a Russian and 2 German defectors who killed undead Hitler and cast him into the depths of Hell. Now, he’s back for revenge and is bringing with him an army of undead zombie Nazi’s.
Zombie Army 4: Dead War doesn’t have a date at time of writing but you can Pre-Order by clicking here! (Not available on Amazon as of 11/06, link directs to the search page for Zombie Army 4: Dead War, so will be there soon) Due for release on Playstation 4, Xbox One and PC via the Epic Games Store.
(Polygon)
Evil Genius 2
Rebellion also announced Evil Genius 2 at E3 2019! (Evil Genius 1 was releaed in 2004!)
This cult classic villain sim will cast players as a super genius who is intent on taking over the world! You have an army of henchmen and a base under a volcano. What self respecting villain doesn’t? As yoi play through you get to manage and upgrade you lair and arsenal all in prep to achieve your overall goal of world domination!
Evil Genius 2 is different to 2013’s free to play mobile game Evil Genius Online. With them tweeting:
“We’d like to make this super-duper clear — this isn’t a remaster. Evil Genius 2 will be a fully-fledged sequel and it won’t be free-to-play.”
There’s no release date yet but you can register interest/pre-order by clicking here!
(Polygon)
Vampire The Masquerade Bloodlines 2
In Bloodlines 2, the Vampire community is fragmented, which several different factions all vying for power. Your character is in the middle of a mass embrace at the start of Blodlines 2. A group of vampires kidnapping and forcibly turning humans into vampires. Which is strictly against vampire protocol. To turn a human into a vampire you need permission from a city’s clan leader, called a Primogen or Prince, the ruler of a city. Whilst if you get caught, it means the final death for the sire and their children.
The Camarilla, were like the police, the faction to keep things in check. Punishing vampires who broke the Masquerade. Things are chaotic in Bloodlines 2 and the Camarilla don’t have the power they once had. This game is very deep and has tons of layers, while PC Gamer have a strong write up about Vampire, The Masquerade Bloodlines 2 here!
(PCGamer)
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Borderlands 3
The crazy action role playing first person cell shaded shooter Borderlands made an appearance at E3 and we got to take a look at Borderlands 3!
E3 2019 and a character called Moze was shown off. Who isn’t exactly quiet. Moze is Borderlands 3’s Vault Hunter. She drops into her Mecha, called Iron Bear and blows a lot of stuff up. We view here taking on bandits in swampy locations and destroys everything in her path to achieve this goal. Moze’s main goal is to hunt down a Vault Key clue. Which hints towards how Borderlands 3 will play. It seems like players will be focued around using deduction methods to figure out where Vault Keys are hidden across the galaxy. If players decide to play as Moze to do it. Well you get a giant mech to make it all that much more fun.
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Dying Light 2
Dying Light 2 was also shown off at E3, with Square Enix revealing a brand new trailer. Which highlighted first person action running across rooftops set to some pretty moody music. A release date was announced as Spring 2020 too!
Dying Light 2 takes place 15years past the events of the first game in a “modern dark age” when the zombie apocalypse is well and truly established.
(Gamespot)
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