Successful sequels build on their predecessors in multiple ways – think Mass Effect 2, Assassin's Creed 2, and Uncharted 2. They all improve what came before them by conjuring up exciting new gameplay mechanics, developing characters through engaging stories, and switching up mission design to offer variety. In other words, they take a solid base and combine with new elements to create more advanced bonds, much like an alloy… or in this case, an Aloy. Horizon Forbidden West does this with aplomb, building on the already impressive foundations of 2017’s Horizon Zero Dawn to tell a thrilling story full of familiar explosive combat against elaborate robotic foes and blockbuster action sequences, but also adding Witcher-like settlements to the map and filling it out with great side quests. There’s a genuine sense of exploration and loads of completely involving lore behind it all to uncover. The result is a fantastic open-world action-adventure that, despite falling into a couple of its old habits, emphatically delivers on the promises made five years ago.
Der erste Eintrag ist immer die Quelle des Pins. Die Gesamtsicherheit ist ein gewichteter Durchschnitt, wie fest jeder Beleg die oben verwendeten Start- und Endzeiten stützt; ein Beleg zählt für je 180 Tage, die er älter ist als der neueste, nur halb so viel.
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Wikipedia confirms 'the full game was released on 18 February 2022' - an exact match for the pin's stored date.
PlayStation's own blog post (25 August 2021) announces Horizon Forbidden West 'coming to both PlayStation 4 and PlayStation 5 on February 18, 2022' - matching the pin's stored release date, though the post itself predates the actual launch by nearly six months as an advance announcement.
Fehlt etwas oder stimmt etwas nicht? Sag es in deinen eigenen Worten: ein Link, der diesen Pin belegt, ein anderes Start- oder Enddatum und warum, oder eine Angabe, die fehlt oder falsch ist. Die KI prüft es an den Quellen dieses Pins, sucht nach besseren und ergänzt jede Seite, die dich bestätigt. Die eigenen Quellen des Pins zählen weiterhin am meisten.
You almost have to admire the hedonism of looking at The Last of Us Remastered, which is still visually impressive eight years later, and saying, “Yeah, that looks pretty good, but we can do better.” There’s very little left to be said about the original The Last of Us, a potent, post-apocalyptic cocktail of stealth, survival, and slaughter that’s revered for its haunting storytelling in an amazingly well-crafted world. You almost certainly knew that. It’s widely lauded as one of the best games of all time and one of the few to get a 10 from IGN, but I reckon you knew that, too. In fact, it’s a game so nice they built it thrice, which is where we find ourselves with The Last of Us Part I – now the third version of Naughty Dog’s 2013 masterpiece to arrive inside a decade.
In the 87 hours that it took me to beat Elden Ring, I was put through an absolute wringer of emotion: Anger as I was beaten down by its toughest challenges, exhilaration when I finally overcame them, and a fair amount of sorrow for the mountains of exp I lost along the way to some of the toughest boss encounters FromSoftware has ever conceived. But more than anything else I was in near-constant awe – from the many absolutely jaw-dropping vistas, the sheer scope of an absolutely enormous world, the frequently harrowing enemies, and the way in which Elden Ring nearly always rewarded my curiosity with either an interesting encounter, a valuable reward, or something even greater. FromSoftware takes the ball that The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild got rolling and runs with it, creating a fascinating and dense open world about freedom and exploration above all else, while also somehow managing to seamlessly weave a full-on Dark Souls game into the middle of it. It shouldn’t be a surprise to anyone that Elden Ring ended up as one of the most unforgettable gaming experiences I’ve ever had.
Wie viele frühere Spiele von Entwickler Supermassive ist The Quarry ganz klar von und für Menschen gemacht, die Horrorfilme lieben. Von Anfang an baut es langsam Spannung und Atmosphäre auf und zieht einen hinein, indem es ständig kleine Entscheidungen verlangt, die das jugendliche Ensemble potenzieller Mordopfer lenken. Als das Blut zu fließen begann, fühlte sich jede Wahl wie ein weiterer Schritt in eine sich zuspitzende Katastrophe an – und das machte es fast unmöglich, aufzuhören. Beim erneuten Durchspielen ließ sich allerdings nicht ignorieren, wie wenig interaktiv große Teile von The Quarry tatsächlich sind. Als geistiger Nachfolger von Until Dawn ist es der bessere Film, aber das schlechtere Spiel.
Man verfolgt die Geschichte von neun Ferienlagerbetreuern, die am Ende des Sommers für eine weitere Nacht im Wald festsitzen und nichts zu tun haben, außer noch eine letzte Party zu feiern, bevor es zurück in den Alltag geht. Etwas lauert am Waldrand (natürlich tut es das) und eure Entscheidungen bestimmen, welche der Betreuer die Nacht überleben – falls überhaupt. Diese Ausgangslage schichtet im Verlauf drei ziemlich lehrbuchhafte Horror-Plots übereinander, doch man merkt, dass Supermassive Games viel Spaß daran hatte, sie miteinander zu verknüpfen. Beim Spielen glaubt man vielleicht, in der einen Art von Horrorfilm zu stecken, befindet sich aber oft in einer anderen.
The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild reinvented a 30-year-old series in a way we rarely see. After Skyward Sword offered a slightly more linear, story-driven campaign than most fans were used to, Breath of the Wild readjusted dramatically in the opposite direction. Suddenly you could go anywhere and climb anything in any order you wanted, and goodness gracious was there a whole lot to choose from.
There are plenty of fair criticisms to throw at Breath of the Wild, with common ones being its lack of traditional Zelda dungeons and items. But what’s truly impressive is how much it maintained the heart of a Zelda game even as it altered nearly every system around it. To a certain extent, Zelda has always been about exploration and choice, and Breath of the Wild simply leaned into and enabled those aspects of itself above all else, now making the world a place that would react to those choices as well. There’s just so much to see, so many people to meet and secrets to find hidden throughout this long-since devastated version of Hyrule.
Angesichts der hochwertigen Remakes von Resident Evil 2 und 3 aus den Jahren 2019 und 2020 schien es eine sichere Wette, dass Capcom auch bei der Neuauflage von Resident Evil 4 ganze Arbeit leisten würde. Trotzdem war ich, als ich bei diesem 2023er Remake des legendären Action-Horrorspiels von 2005 den Startknopf drückte, nicht darauf vorbereitet, wie wuchtig es mir die Knie wegreißen und mich kopfüber in 16 Stunden anhaltender Anspannung und Euphorie schleudern würde. Diese vollständig neu belebte Kampagne übertrifft das Original in fast jeder erdenklichen Hinsicht deutlich. Der ländliche spanische Schauplatz ist wesentlich unheimlicher, das Tempo wurde so gestrafft, dass kaum eine Minute verschwendet wird, und die Steuerung wurde modernisiert, damit die markanten dynamischen Schussmechaniken wirklich zur Geltung kommen. Ich habe 18 Jahre auf ein Spiel gewartet, das mich so begeistert wie Resident Evil 4; wie sich herausstellt, habe ich die ganze Zeit einfach auf ein weiteres Resident Evil 4 gewartet.
2022 was a stacked year that featured indie darlings (Immortality), blockbusters (God of War Ragnarok), and smaller, surprise hits (Marvel Snap), so it shouldn't be a shock that a game or two slipped under your radar. But the biggest blink-and-you-miss-it release might be late November's Need for Speed Unbound, the latest entry in EA’s long-running street racing series. With Criterion Games (of Burnout fame) at the helm, Unbound had the potential to be one of the best racing games of the year—or a return to series form after a few missteps. But while aesthetically pleasing and featuring cross-platform play with PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X/S, the $69.99 PC game lacks satisfactory car handling and a thriving, in-game world.
Ein entzückendes Jump-'n'-Run-Abenteuer mit Katze in einer Cyberpunk-Welt, die es zu erkunden lohnt.
Stumme Hauptfiguren sind in Videospielen nichts Neues, doch Stray treibt dieses Konzept an einen wirklich interessanten Punkt. Halb Plattformer, halb klassisches Adventure: Diese neongetränkte, von Robotern bevölkerte Cyberpunk-Welt verwandelt sich aus deiner Perspektive – nur wenige Zentimeter über dem Boden – in ein gigantisches Klettergerüst. Die Idee, dich in die Pfoten einer ganz normalen Katze zu stecken, klingt oberflächlich betrachtet albern, doch Stray nutzt dieses flauschige Vehikel, um eine wirklich fesselnde Geschichte mit einigen unterhaltsamen Actionmomenten zu erzählen. Nicht alle Ideen landen auf den Pfoten, aber das warme Gefühl, das mich schon in den herzallerliebsten ersten Minuten überkam, ließ mich nicht mehr los.
A proper remake might be rising from the grave next year, but the festering corpse of Dead Space has come lurching back to life early in the form of The Callisto Protocol. This spiritual successor to the sci-fi survival horror series recreates the haunting blood-streaked hallways and space zombie-slaying hallmarks first established on the USG Ishimura back in 2008, and injects the gore with more awe than ever before thanks to some strikingly detailed splashes of blood and guts. Unfortunately, while the mutant dismemberment has never been more vivid, The Callisto Protocol’s shortcomings appear just as clearly. Occasional control annoyances, imbalanced combat, and a general absence of innovation result in a roughly eight-hour massacre that’s gratifyingly gruesome, but never quite as great as the series that inspired it.
Whether you play on PlayStation, Xbox, Nintendo Switch, PC or even mobile, we've picked out the 25 best games of 2022 that you should check out right now.
As the video game industry continues to adjust to post-pandemic life, more and more excellent games continue to grace every platform.
Sony dropped some of the biggest first-party blockbusters of the year, including the superb God of War Ragnarok, the expansive Horizon Forbidden West and the revamped The Last of Us Part 1. Meanwhile, Microsoft and Nintendo got a few major exclusives under their own belts with standouts like As Dusk Falls and Bayonetta 3. Between all of those were phenomenal third-party releases, including Elden Ring, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 and Need for Speed Unbound.
I hold the Bayonetta series’ combat in such high esteem that I’d consider it in the top five or so combat systems of all time, right next to the Devil May Cry, God of War, Ninja Gaiden, and Batman Arkham games. It’s just incredible to look at, feels equally amazing to play, and is jam packed with opportunities for style and creativity thanks to the wide assortment of wild weapons at your disposal. Bayonetta 3 just further cements its legacy, strutting out with a surprising sequel in that it actually takes a lot of risks with changing up its established formula in an effort to revitalize a combat system that only slightly evolved between the first two games. Fortunately those risks pay off. Bayonetta 3 is an invigorated sequel with fresh new ideas that embolden its 13-year-old combat system, an impressive amount of variety throughout its 10 to 12-hour campaign, and more of that trademark sexy Bayonetta style that makes the series one of a kind.
Modern Warfare 2's greatest strength is that it doesn't have a gimmick, because it doesn't need one.All Modern Warfare 2 needs to be is a great shooter, and it delivers. This is the Cal
Modern Warfare 2's greatest strength is that it doesn't have a gimmick, because it doesn't need one.
All Modern Warfare 2 needs to be is a great shooter, and it delivers. This is the Call of Duty experience, deconstructed, reconsidered, and obsessively optimized over 15 uninterrupted years of iteration. I know when I'm playing a Black Ops game because it has offbeat arcade modes and the latest iteration of Nuketown. I know I'm playing a Modern Warfare game because the shooting is so finely tuned that I want to take my Gunsmith build out to dinner. Infinity Ward has officially mastered the instant gratification of aiming down sights and deleting targets.
That goes a long way, though some of Modern Warfare 2's biggest swings, such as revamped progression and a genre-bending campaign, are less elegant. It also suffers from an obtuse UI, fits of crashes, weird bugs, and the unexplained absence of basic features like stat tracking. But altogether, it's a good year for Call of Duty.
At first glance, Two Rock, Arizona is merely a backwater town occupied by little more than tumbleweed and a few rows of houses. But very little is as it first appears, and all it takes to reveal As Dusk Falls’ many layers of storytelling depth is one small, decades-spanning tragedy. And it’s all about the story, since this is a choose-your-own-adventure-style graphic novel that cleverly pulls ideas from games like Telltale’s The Walking Dead series and 13 Sentinels: Aegis Rim. Each member of this voice-acting cast of unique and interesting characters has their own, often conflicting emotional stakes that accelerate the story in seemingly hundreds of logical and intelligently connected directions. Through the powerful and often far-reaching consequences of your own actions, this small town is gradually unveiled as a powder keg full of secrets, vices, and familial bonds that run far deeper than any outsider is initially led to expect.
