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072 MAY 2015 JB Hi-Fi
Once upon a time, thoughts of role-playing
games involved staid affairs with all the
action of a Merchant Ivory film. But then the
likes of Skyrim and From Software’s Souls
series changed things. Action was honed,
while keeping a core that involved the sort of
strategising and decision-making that you’d
never find in a pure arcade romp. The Witcher
III: Wild Hunt, based ever more loosely on the
writings of Polish author Andrzej Sapkowski,
has sets it sights on running away with the
action RPG crown, and it makes a good case.
As the titular Witcher, Geralt of Rivia, you’re a
superhuman monster slayer for hire. In a world
that’s utterly riddled with monsters, this makes
you somebody who’s in high demand. It’s not
any old world, either, for it’s a big, wide, open
one that’s full of choices. You have amazing
freedom to explore, be it on land or sea – or
even undersea. From wastelands to small
towns and onwards to large cities, you ply your
trade, utilising magic, humour and devastating
(or otherwise) people skills, eradicating
monsters while acting upon your ultimate
quest, to track down an apparent living weapon
in the form of the “Child of Prophecy”. And they
all lived happily ever after...?
Load your Lugers – we're going back in! When we last
caught up with BJ Blazkowicz, he was slaughtering
Nazis who’d won WWII in the alternate universe of
Wolfenstein: The New Order. But did you ever wonder
how he got there? Nah, we didn’t either, we just loved
killing Nazi scum! But this follow-up to the surprise best
shooter of 2014 is a prequel, so the story will be told.
From a nutso Castle Wolfenstein prison warden to a
Nazi archaeologist, you melee, shoot and blow Nazis to
scheisse. It’s do or die. Same as always...
WOLFENSTEIN: THE OLD BLOOD
GENRE: FPS PLATFORM: PS4 | XB1 | PC RELEASE: 05/05/15 MULTIPLAYER: NO
It’s time to paint the town pink, purple, orange... Akin
to a collision of Aussie-created Wii classic de Blob and
puzzler-with-guns Plants vs Zombies: Garden Warfare
– or, well, just paintball with more coolness – Splatoon
is a team-based shooter that lets you relive your kindie
days of splatting paint everywhere but on paper. You’re
an ‘Inkling’, a blobby thingy which can change between
human and squid. You can play solo, or join teams of up
to four online to capture territory, aiming to dye rather
than die.
SPLATOON
GENRE: TPS PLATFORM:Wii U | RELEASE: 29/05/15 MULTIPLAYER: YES
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THE WITCHER 3: WILD HUNT
GENRE: ACTION RPG
PLATFORM: PS4 |
XB1| PC
RELEASE: 19/05/15
MULTIPLAYER: NO