PlayStation 4
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Ubisoft’s multiplayer-focused fighting game is a single-minded simulation of melee battle, with an emphasis on epic physical confrontations
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Its hunter/gatherer gameplay hasn’t moved on from Far Cry and Tomb Raider, but Zero Dawn sets a new visual benchmark
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Team Ninja’s unforgiving role-playing action adventure set in feudal Japan owes a debt to the Dark Souls series, but with a tone and narrative of its own
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Guerrilla Games’ have created a brave, independent, multi-dimensional heroine to lead this highly satisfying mission
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Finally released as a complete package, last year’s episodic stealth shooter is the best in the series and possibly one of the best stealth games ever made
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Ubisoft has taken its tactical shooter into an open world setting, promising a customisable experience. Is it any good?
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Capcom returns to the ‘haunted house’ origins of its survival horror series. But rather than regressive, its move to the deep south couldn’t be more timely
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From Nathan Drake to the Freudian imagery of No Man’s Sky, writers Holly Nielsen and Kate Gray ponder the raunchiest gaming pleasures of the year
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The latest Pokémon games are the best yet, Sony’s new console is powerful, if not essential, and a 2D platformer brings simple unashamed fun
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Sequel takes place in a vibrant open world filled with wacky hactivists, which makes for a lively gaming experience
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Nintendo’s microconsole is a pint-sized blast from the past, Playstation VR explores a distant planet with dinosaurs, and Call of Duty explores space with guns
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Developers make too many assumptions about players. They should learn from the more intuitive structures of modern TV
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