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Shooters

Destiny – Bungie (PS3, PS4, X360, XBO)
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September 9, 2014

What is it?
Despite having MMO-like elements, Bungie isn’t calling this one an MMO. So how does the studio that gave the world Halo one up itself? By expanding on the lessons they had learned by building another world. In this case, it’s Destiny which takes place in a post-apocalyptic future where the remnants of humanity’s empire within the Solar System lies infested with dangerous aliens and twisted creatures following the Collapse. The Stranger, a mysterious and massive globe, hovers over the last human settlement, protecting it with its shield, somehow responsible for saving humanity from extinction. Players can pick from different classes and races, improve their abilities in combat, and hit the campaign alone – or as part of the global community. Easily one of the biggest titles for 2014 with a lot of potential.

Dying Light – Techland (PS3, PS4, Windows, Xbox 360, XBO)
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TBA 2014

What is it?
It’s not Dead Island all over again. At least, that’s something that Techland wants everyone to know before they dive into this first-person zombie masher. The biggest difference will be in how day and night will affect the zombies themselves. During the day, scavenging for equipment and supplies becomes paramount. At night, they hope you have found somewhere to hide out until dawn because the zombies get much hungrier – and transform into much deadlier, and faster, horrors. All in a sandbox filled with plenty of danger from both the dead and the living.

Earth Defense Force 2025 – Sandlot (PS3, Xbox 360)
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February 4, 2014

What is it?
Giant robots, UFOs, and titanic ants are heading back to infest North America in Feburary with new monsters to deal with like giant bees and flying dragons. But not to worry. Players also have a huge arsenal to unlock to obliterate everything, from monsters to city blocks, in their way to save the world again in this third-person shooter.

Enemy Front – City Interactive (PS3, Windows, Xbox 360)
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Spring 2014

What is it?
A much delayed first-person shooter sending players into some of the key fronts of WW2 as a war correspondent turned underground resistance fighter waging an action packed war against the Nazis. The gameplay was inspired by old war action films such as The Dirty Dozen and Kelly’s Heroes setting itself up as a no-nonsense lead spitting brawl armed with a huge arsenal, destructible areas, and a “sandbox” approach to areas reminiscent of how Medal of Honor: Airborn did theirs now sans the airborne part.

Galak-Z: The Dimensional – 17-Bit (PS4, Windows)
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TBA 2014

What is it?
A downloadable arcade shooter reminiscent of Atari’s Super Asteroids by the developers of Skulls of the Shogun, a turn-based strategy title. The game boasts advanced AI, a weighty feel to the ship, and bringing in the kind of shooter experience found in first-person shooters like Far Cry 3. It’s set in an open-world and filled with factions, missions, and driven by the kind of 80s anime aesthetic seen in series like Macross and Starblazers.

Hellraid – Techland (PS3, Windows, Xbox 360)
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TBA 2014

What is it?
The makers of Dying Light are also getting this medieval hack ‘n slash ready to go after teasing it as a new mode for Dead Island. Now a full fledged game, it will feature single and multiplayer melee and magic as something of a spiritual successor to old classics such as Raven’s Software’s Hexen and Capstone Software’s Witchaven. So if you missed flinging magic and smashing an axe into someone’s face like you might have done in Arkane Studios’ Dark Messiah of Might and Magic.

Titanfall – Respawn Entertainment (Windows, X360, XBO)
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March 11, 2014

What is it?
The debut title of Respawn Entertainment and a multiplayer-only game boasting a full campaign story that will have traditional, FPS action and battles inside multi-story mechs that can reflect bullets and lay waste to everything in their path. That is, unless some brave soldier parkours their way across a wall and manages to kill the pilot by jumping on top of it. Two of Infinity Ward’s founders, Jason West and Vince Zampella, are also behind the game as this Microsoft exclusive bets big on their ideas for redefining the FPS genre on Windows and both the Xbox 360 and Xbox One.

Tom Clancy’s Rainbow 6: Patriots – Ubisoft (PS4, Windows, XBO)
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TBA 2014

What is it?
Nearly more than three years after it was announced in 2011, Patriots’ troubled history is still betting that players will still be looking forward to taking on domestic terrorists driven to wage a war at the point of a gun against Wall Street. The team behind the game has gone through a lot of changes, losing its Creative Lead, with Ubisoft finally fessing up that the game had to be “remade” in an announcement at the end of 2013.

Wolfenstein: The New Order – MachineGames (PS3/4, Windows, Xbox 360, XBO)
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TBA 2014

What is it?
MachineGames, a new Bethesda studio founded by and crewed by a number of former Starbreeze devs, are behind a new Wolfenstein title taking players into the 1960s where the Nazis have won the war and rule the world. But they should have made sure that BJ Blaskowicz was really dead before goose stepping their way into history, because he’s back, and he’s determined to wreck their world order the only way he knows how. Taking clues from the devs’ experience with Riddick and the first Darkness game, Wolfenstein seems set to bring the same kind of atmospheric, story-based action that their previous games were known for.