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074 OCTOBER 2015
There we were, living out our rock star fantasies in our
lounge rooms when suddenly – fame, fickle fame – it just
stopped. No more Guitar Hero. Prepare to get in touch
with your inner KISS though, for it’s comeback time!
Guitar Hero Live boasts bags of songs by acts big and
small, all taken to with an axe – of the musical variety –
that’s been totally redesigned with a more realistic button
layout. The view’s changed too – we’re talking first-person
now, baby, as you gaze out at your adoring moshpit (or
potential lynch mob should you suck). Then there’s GHTV,
24 hour channels that you can drop in and out of, playing
’til your fingers bleed. Let’s ******* ROCK!
GUITAR HERO LIVE
GENRE: MUSIC PLATFORM: PS4 | PS3 | XB1 | 360 | WIIU RELEASE: 20/10/15 MULTIPLAYER: YES
Be it in the street, in the dark, or even on the ceiling,
people just can’t get enough of dancing. Luckily for them,
Ubisoft’s annual foray into all things rhythmic offers up
even more ways for people to shake their respective
groove thangs. Got a smartphone? Download an app and
it becomes a controller now – even more reason for your
Kinect to sulk behind your entertainment centre. But as
any DJ knows, it’s all about dropping tunes that punters
want. To this end, the one-name-is-enough likes of Calvin,
Britney, Demi, Iggy, Pitbull, Ellie, Shakira and Jason all
feature, along with the inescapable and insanely catchy
‘Uptown Funk’ from Mark and Bruno.
JUST DANCE 2016
GENRE: DANCE PLATFORM: PS4 | PS3 | XB1 | 360 | WII | WIIU RELEASE: 22/10/15 MULTIPLAYER: YES
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If you’ve a taste for historical travel but not the
budget (or the time machine), from the Crusades
to the Renaissance, the Colonial Era to the French
Revolution and beyond, the Assassin’s Creed
series has certainly been your friend over the
years. Now it’s time to visit merry old England –
not that it was necessarily that merry in Victorian
times. It is, however, the time of the Industrial
Revolution, opening up all manner of exciting
opportunities for this episode’s protagonists. Yes,
plural – you’ll variously control twins Jacob and
Evie Frye. This, of course, introduces another
new facet to the main Assassin’s Creed timeline
in that there’s a female lead – and Ubisoft’s
designers said last year that girls were too hard to
animate! The pair have different strengths, with
Evie nailing the stealthy stuff while Jacob’s more
of an in-your-face brawler type, even boasting
brass knuckles in his arsenal. The siblings’ bags of
tricks will be needed, for the fate of the Assassin
Brotherhood rests heavily on their shoulders,
as the Templars have pretty much wrested
complete control of London. You’ll find that you
still have various allies though, including Charles
Dickens and Charles Darwin, as you zip around six
boroughs. You can even go all GTA and carjack...
erm, carriagejack!
If you liked this, you may also like...The Order 1886,
Dishonored: Definitive Edition
ASSASSIN’S CREED: SYNDICATE
GENRE: ACT/ADV/
STEALTH
PLATFORM: PS4 | XB1
| PC
RELEASE: 23/10/15
MULTIPLAYER: NO