Many new PC games arrive in 2017. These are the ones that interest us the most.
It is becoming increasingly difficult to delineate between busy autumn and busy autumn. The extension of the game's release which lasted from May to September is now more like "end of June to the beginning of August" and even July saw its fair share of the new versions of games. There are so many PC games to come these days. You will never catch up with this order book!
It is the, therefore, full to be selective. We have reviewed the next few months and have eliminated 15 new games, sorted by release date, that we hope that 2017 will enter its final stretch. This is far from an exhaustive list, and there are notable absences since independent titles usually do not cancel a launch date months in advance. But still, we covered the main versions of tentpoles and some smaller titles that are close and dear to us.
If you tend to organize the calendar according to the versions of the game rather than the astrological signs, it turns out that the fall is closer than you think.
Lawbreakers - August 8
Yes, if we are going to draw the line in 2017 to indicate when "the good autumn game will start", it would fall on August 8, the day that Cliff Bleszinski and the Boss Key team launched the Science Fiction LawBreakers The Amazon).
Equipped with a high-speed movement in the vein of the classic shooters of the 90s, Lawbreakers focuses on verticality. The maps are dotted with low-gravity areas where you fly in the air, picking people up, on maps inspired by Santa Monica, CA and other real regional regions. I can not say I'm a fan of the "nervous" voice that works, but the recent beta has worked well and a well-coordinated team can enjoy great stunts.
We will see if this can attract the attention of people highlighted. The two games are not similar, but ... well, tell it to Battleborn.
StarCraft Remastered - August 14
It is often not very keen to be a remaster, but it's hard not to excite about StarCraft: Remastered ($ 14.99 on Battle.net). Blizzard has revised all units, maps, audio, and more just in time for the 20th anniversary of StarCraft. Oh, it works in 4K native synonymous. What is not to love?
And it goes beyond aesthetics too. The new "Story Interludes" will apparently illustrate some parts of the story that were limited to text, and Blizzard added quality-of-life features such as cloud backups, matches and ranking tables. From what I can say, it seems that the remaster is properly executed.
Absolver - August 29
Absolver ($ 15 on Steam) is one of those "close and expensive" projects that I mentioned in the introduction. An indie game launched by Devolver is a fighting game like no other fighting game I've ever played, which means it's a lot more complicated. Almost every aspect of your character is under your control, from your position to the specific movements you put into each combo. Movements are governed by a deck system, and you combine cards to create combos to match your favorite fighting style. It's incredibly intimidating.
It's incredibly powerful too. Once you take it, you realize that there is a world of potential, while you are experiencing what combos are working for you and what they do not. It is a process that evolves, the one that you will undertake when you discover the world and the history of the game, sometimes meeting other players in its style of multiplayer travel without flaw. Will they fight you? Help you? It's half fun.
XCOM 2: War of the Chosen - August 29
Things were so silent after the launch of XCOM 2 that I had begun to think that Firaxis had moved on to other projects. Not really! Like XCOM: Enemy Within, XCOM 2 ($ 60 on Amazon) gets a hinged expansion that fundamentally revises the entire game, with new factions, new unit types, new boss enemies, more persistent and the possibility To ultimately use extraterrestrial soldiers in your army. It's an ambitious undertaking for one of the top 10 PC games of 2016.
Personally, I expect this to be an excuse to return to XCOM 2 since the game's launch problems meant that I never really hammered my teeth as I did with his predecessor. So far, War of the Chosen ($ 40 on Amazon) looks like a very exciting excuse - and it's better because at $ 40 it costs less than an expansion and more as an entirely new game.
Divinity: Original Sin II - September 1
I hate designating one of the versions of this fall as "the most anticipated", but Divinity: Original Sin II ($ 45 on Steam) would be there. The original was incredible, not a return like so many other modern isometric CRPGs (see: Pillars of Eternity), but rather a glimpse of where the CRPGs could go in the future. Driving systems, open, cooperative and full of emerging chaos.
The second turns the dial on all these factors. With a more flexible system for making spells, character basics that are taken into account in dialogue, multiplayer shared screen and Dungeons & Dragons style table mode, Divinity: Original Sin II is an ambitious and extensive project Which could configure the bar for CRPGs to arrive. It is currently available in advance before launch.
It's hard for me to be too excited about a disinherited spin-off 2 given the disaster of PC port Dishonored 2 was launched. I am ready to give Arkane the benefit of the doubt, especially as the autonomous expansion The story of Death of the Outsider seems rather interesting than Dishonored 2 proper. Playing like Billie Lurk, you'll team up with the dishonored antagonist Daud for ... Well, it's pretty explicit: kill the stranger.
Difficult to feel bad for the guy, given that the Outsider is the most annoying character of the whole series. I will not miss his dazzling voice, provided I really have the chance to put a knife on him. The dishonored crossed fingers: the death of the outsider ($ 30 on Amazon) actually works halfway.
Total War: Warhammer II - September 28
I was surprised by Total War: Warhammer. I've been a fan of the historical Total Wars for a long time, but Warhammer seemed a strange tangent, and not necessarily the one that would appeal to me.
Spoiler: This is one of the best games of Total War for years, certainly since Shogun 2. The freedom to divorce history has given a creative assembly room to experiment all kinds of crazy units, new Compositions of the army, unique faction restrictions, a cowardly campaign The structure and conditions of imaginative victories that do not exactly match the historical model of Total War.
The next Warhammer II ($ 60 on Amazon) is more a self-sustaining expansion, adding four new races (Lizardmen, High Elves, Dark Elves and a fourth to announce) and a new card. And if you own the original and the suite, you can combine them into a huge cross-game campaign. Pretty wild, and there is yet another game to come in this planned trilogy.
Cuphead - September 29
I hope this is the last "Soon" list on which I put Cuphead. The designer inspired by Max Fleischer has made appearances on these lists of mines for at least two years now, perpetually six months after the release. But this time-this time-we hope to be real.
I can not really admit the developers. It seems that Cuphead has gone through an enormous mid-term evaluation of development, moving from a boss-rush type game to a full-fledged platform game. I hope he has survived the intact swing and plays as well as he looks.
Middle-earth: the shadow of war - October 10
I continue to use this legendary Middle-earth: Shadow of More-dor to describe the next Shadow of War ($ 60 on Amazon), but it's not without merit, it's certainly a case of "Do not Spoil With a winning formula ". Monolith took the Nemesis system and the Mordor world opened the first game and expanded it in a million directions, but moment-in-time it is still ... pretty much the same game as before. That is, Lord of the Rings went through Assassin's Creed.
The nemesis system is always great, giving you an army after the army of unique orcs to fight, as well as personalized bastions that reflect their personalities. And for lovers to know? It seems that Monolith has taken much more liberties with the Lord of the Rings universe this time, Shelob can get rid of her spider skin and turn into a white-skinned woman. Whether these changes are good or not? Well, we'll have to wait until October to find out.
South Park: The Fractured But Whole ($ 60 on Amazon) joins the same ignominious club as Cuphead, the victim of delay after a delay. Get this: we had to see The Fractured But Whole last December. Now, almost a year later, we are finishing the last release date.
Hopefully, the delay is worth the wait. It's been a while now (almost a year), because I featured The Fractured But Whole, but what I was playing was excellent: a more varied and more complex version of its already solid predecessor, Stick Of Truth, but With superheroes Swords and witchcraft.
Best Scenario: Ubisoft has delayed nearly a year to pump Nosulus Rifts for all. We can only hope.
After playing a little Destiny 2 ($ 60 on Amazon) during the E3, I called it "one of the most beautiful PC games ever". I know, I was also surprised. After all, it's Bungie, a studio that has not released a PC game since Halo 2.
It's great but especially 4K. And it plays surprisingly well. I did not know what to expect, considering how the initial Destinin was focused on the console, but the weapons feel powerful, killing them feel good and there is a boost to action which I ' I really enjoyed it. This is how you mix a shooter and an RPG - not The Division.
Unfortunately, the PC version of Destiny 2 is about a month after the consoles so you will have to be a little more patient if you want to consider the most beautiful version. You will first test it, but there is a beta release scheduled for August 29th. Stay alerted.
Assassin's Creed Origins - October 27
Okay, I'd say: I expected Assassin's Creed Origins ($ 60 on Amazon) to be a lot more imaginative for 2017. After a year off Assassin's Creed for a long time, I was waiting. Well, something. Instead, what I played at E3 looks very much like the old Assassin's Creed, but at a different time and with a larger map.
That may be enough. Ptolemaic Egypt is at least an interesting setting, and a retirement fighting system at least promises to be interesting for people who prefer to make their way through Assassin's Creed games instead of stealthily. And hey, maybe there are more surprises than we have yet to hear. I hope.
Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus - October 27
If Divinity II is not my predictable paradise (or forbidden, it turns out to be terrible) then Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus ($ 60 on Amazon) takes the prize. Its predecessor of 2014, Wolfenstein: The New Order ($ 20 on Amazon), is one of my favorite shooters of the last decade and quite high on the list of my favorite games, period, an almost perfect mix of silly shots of the 90s Escaped from the stealth sequence of Butcher Bay. And this mix makes sense once you discover that many Butcher Bay walks were working on this new era Wolfenstein.
Wolfenstein II seems to be able to repeat the same magic, bringing the Nazi threat to a conquered America, continuing its history in the 1970s and with a level of openness that characterizes the longtime protagonist BJ Blazkowicz defeating the Nazis in a wheelchair. Get this: whenever you shoot your gun, the recoil changes your wheelchair.
These little details and creative scenarios are what I love about Wolfenstein, and while I usually try to avoid media movements, I find it hard to be blasé about The New Colossus.
Back to the Second World War. After going through modern warfare in the ground, while producing a few years of decent science fiction stories, Call of Duty finally returns to the frame that started all this in Call of Duty: World War II $ 60 Amazon.
And you know what? I can not wait. I am impatiently excited. Yes, it's still Call of Duty. Yes, we are probably in a version of the World War II thematic park, hitting the same historic sites of Normandy that we saw in the games of the Second World War since the days of the medal of honor.
But it took nearly a decade that we had an excellent budget for the Second World War. Have you ever played all 2007 games? The technology changed a lot in the years that followed, and I'm looking forward to seeing the D-Day landings with all the bells and whistles of a modern engine and equipment. Call of Duty is a pure mix of popcorn at this point, but it's fine with me.
Star Wars Battlefront II ($ 60 on Amazon) Will it be good? Difficult to say, but what I saw at E3 indicates at least one truth: this is the game that DICE should have done two years ago. Forget the last semi-finals of Star Wars Battlefront. It is the true successor of Battlefront II.
Fighting in space? Check. A single player campaign? Check. Class system? Check. Maps covering the whole Star Wars weapon? Check, check, check. With a script written by Spec Ops: The Line, writer Walt Williams, and a widely expanded scope, Battlefront II seems to finally win the fans of the 2005 Battlefront II (still confused) and give EA a much-needed victory for the year.
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