This is it! The fifth and final part of our look at every notable game release from now until the end of the year. Today, we’re looking at the biggest holiday titles that are coming out for multiple platforms.
You can take a look at the list, or you can check out our other gaming guides for specific platforms below:
Part 1: PlayStation 4, PS3, and Vita
Part 2: Xbox One and 360
Part 3: Wii U and Nintendo 3DS
Part 4: PC
Part 5: Multiplatform
Disney Infinity 2.0: Marvel Super Heroes
Platforms: Xbox 360, Xbox One, PS3, PS4, Wii U, PC, iOS
Release date: Sept. 23
Last year’s Disney Infinity let players buy toys of various Disney characters and insert them into a sandbox game world. 2.0 adds Marvel Super Heroes like Captain America, Spider-Man, and the Guardians of the Galaxy to the mix.
Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor
Platforms: Xbox 360, Xbox One, PS3, PS3, PC
Release date: Sept. 30
Shadow of Mordor is an action-game set in the famous fantasy world that we all know from The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit. Players battle and mind-control an army of orcs, destroying them and pitting them against each other.
Persona 4 Arena Ultimax
Platforms: Xbox 360, PS3
Release date: Sept. 30
Ultimax is a sequel to the first Persona 4 Arena, a 2D fighting game that featured characters from the popular Japanese role-playing game series. Ultimax continues the first game’s story and adds new characters like Junpei and Yukari from Persona 3.
Skylanders: Trap Team
Platforms: Xbox 360, Xbox One, PS3, PS4, Wii, Wii U, 3DS
Release date: Oct. 5
Trap Team is the newest installment in the Skylanders series, which lets players transfer action figures into a video game as playable characters. The new game supports a new kind of Skylanders, the trappers, which can capture certain enemies.
Alien: Isolation
Platforms: Xbox 360, Xbox One, PS3, PS4, PC
Release date: Oct. 7
Alien: Isolation is a survival-horror game set between the films “Alien” and “Aliens.” You play as Amanda Ripley, the daughter of the female hero from the movies, and try to not get horribly murdered by the scary, two-mouthed monster.
NBA 2K15
Platforms: Xbox 360, Xbox One, PS3, PS4, PC
Release date: Oct. 7
This is the newest installment in 2K’s NBA franchise, which most consider superior to EA’s NBA Live. Being a basketball game, it allows you to shoot bouncy, orange balls into stringy nets while a bunch of sweaty, tall men shove their hands into your face.
Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel
Platforms: Xbox 360, PS3, PC
Release date: Oct. 14
Set between the first and second Borderlands titles, The Pre-Sequel features the same RPG/first-person shooter hybrid gameplay. It also takes place on the moon, and you can play as the funny little robot, Claptrap.