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Rare Replay
Release date: 4th August, 2015
Genre: Compilation
Developer: Rare
Publisher: Microsoft Studios
Rating: CTC
Mode: Single, Multi(Comp)
What is it?: To celebrate its 30th anniversary, Rare brings together the adventures of its iconic characters in a collection that spans the decades. From its earliest 2D classics to Xbox 360 triumphs, Rare Replay delivers a gaming treasure trove for veteran players and newcomers alike.
Features:
- Rare Revealed: Enjoy over 60 minutes of behind-the-scenes interviews and footage
- 10,000 Gamerscore, 700+ hours of gameplay
- Snapshots: Small segments of the games are presented as challenges for the player
- Certain older titles will have an option to add scanlines
- Certain titles will also have an option to rewind the game
Similar to: N/A
Also worth noting:
- Banjo-Kazooie, Banjo-Tooie and Perfect Dark included will be of their Xbox 360 versions.
- Xbox 360 games that originally included online multiplayer will retain these features.
Platforms: Xbox One
Shadowrun: Hong Kong
Release date: August, 2015
Genre: cRPG
Developer: Harebrained Schemes
Publisher: Harebrained Schemes
Rating: CTC
Mode: Single
What is it?: Shadowrun: Hong Kong is the third standalone game in Harebrained Schemes' critically-acclaimed Shadowrun cRPG series. Experience the most impressive Shadowrun RPG yet with an all new crew, expanded magic and cyberware, a completely revamped Matrix, an upgraded release of the Shadowrun Editor, and much more!
Features:
- A Classic, Story-Driven cRPG: Shadowrun: Hong Kong hearkens back to the golden age of computer RPG's with a novel-like branching narrative full of sharp prose and deep character development.
- Command Your Team: The members of your team are designed to play contrasting roles during missions, and each has a distinct set of skills, abilities, strengths, and weaknesses. Each team member also has challenges to face in their own lives, which you can choose to brush aside or play an important part in.
- Gripping, Turn-Based Tactical Combat: When you're running the shadows, every turn matters. Choose your actions wisely - move to better cover, charge into melee, or lob a fireball into a crowd of enemies. With over 200 weapons and spells at your disposal, every turn is filled with meaningful choices.
- Skill-Based Character Progression: Shadowrun: Hong Kong's classless skill system allows you to grow your character in any direction you choose.
Similar to: Shadowrun: Dragonfall - Director's Cut, Transistor, Invisible, Inc.
Also worth noting:
- Supports Steam Workshop: Create Your Own Stories! With the Shadowrun Editor, everyone is empowered to create and share their own stories and campaigns.
Platforms: PC
Until Dawn
Release date: 26th August, 2015
Genre: Survival horror
Developer: Supermassive Games
Publisher: Sony
Rating: CTC
Mode: Single
What is it?: Eight friends trapped together on a remote mountain retreat, and they aren't alone. Gripped by dread, with tensions running high, they must fight through their fear if they all hope to make through the night in one piece.
Play as each of the eight characters and experience fear like you never have before. Every decision you make in your terrifying search for answers could mean the difference between life and death, but for whom? Your actions alone will decide who survives Until Dawn.
Features:
- Choice & Consequence - Make the impossible choices, where every decision in your terrifying search for answers could mean the difference between life and death, but for who?
- Next-Gen Horror - Harnessing the power of an evolved Killzone Shadow Fall engine, Until Dawn will shock you with realistic graphics and terrify you edge-of-your seat gameplay.
- Butterfly Effect - Carve your path to survival with branching story lines that promise no two experiences will be the same. The choices you make may ripple unseen into moments of grave peril, or they may very well save a life.
- Gripping Story - Immerse yourself in a truly spine-tingling story written in collaboration with famed cult writer/directors Larry Fessenden & Graham Reznick.
Similar to: Heavy Rain
Also worth noting:
- Special Edition Includes Bonus DLC Chapter - This special bonus chapter sees Matt and Emily, a new couple, out on the mountain - but it's not long until they start to suspect they aren't alone...
- Originally annouced as a PlayStation 3 Move title.
Platforms: PlayStation 4
Metal Gear Solid V Phantom Pain
Release date: 1st September, 2015
Genre: Action
Developer: Kojima Productions
Publisher: Konami
Rating: CTC
Mode: Single, Multi(Comp)
What is it?: Taking place nine years after the events of MGSV: Ground Zeroes and the fall of Mother Base, Snake a.k.a. Big Boss, awakes from a near decade-long coma. The game resumes the story in 1984, with the Cold War still as the backdrop, which continues to shape a global crisis. Snake's journey takes him into a world where he is driven by a need for revenge and the pursuit of a shadow group, XOF.
One of the most anticipated games of the year with its open-world design, photorealistic visual fidelity and feature-rich game design, MGSV: The Phantom Pain will leave its mark as one of the hallmarks in the gaming industry for its cinematic storytelling, heavy themes, and immersive tactical gameplay.
Features:
- Open-World - game design allowing players ultimate freedom on how to approach missions and overall game progression
- Buddy System - Bring buddies into missions using the Buddy System, providing you with allies in difficult situations.
- TOD & Weather - Realistic passage time and day/night cycles and Real-time weather
- Mother Base - it's up to Snake to rebuild it Mother Base into a customisable base of operations for Snake and his allies. From here, players will be able to use accumulated resources to craft and customise weapons and vehicles. Its appearance will alter according to the individual.
- Metal Gear Online - In MGO, players can compete in 6v6 or 8v8 team combat and pursue single, multiple, or alternate objectives.
Similar to: Metal Gear Series
Also worth noting:
- PC verison will be released 2 weeks later.
- Day One Edition - Metal Gear Solid V Phantom Pain Map lus additional digital content.
- Microtransactions will be present in the form of unlock shortcuts.
Platforms: PC, PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, Xbox 360, Xbox One
Mad Max
Release date: 2nd September, 2015
Genre: Action
Developer: Avalanche Studios
Publisher: Warner Bros. IE
Rating: CTC
Mode: Single
What is it?: Mad Max delivers open world gameplay in a post-apocalyptic setting where cars are the key to survival. Gamers become Mad Max, a lone warrior who must fight to stay alive in The Wasteland, using vicious on-ground and vehicular combat against savage gangs of bandits. Following the theft of his iconic Interceptor, Max must align himself with a gifted, but peculiar, mechanic named Chumbucket and others to build the ultimate war vehicle as he works to escape from the dangerous Wasteland.
Features:
- Be Mad Max - Become the iconic post-apocalyptic warrior, crafting and upgrading Max's equipment and weapons to survive by combining melee combat, gunplay and tactical techniques. Gamers must make difficult decisions as they work towards the goal of escaping The Wasteland.
- Immersive Primal Wasteland - Explore the gritty, dynamic world while braving the treacherous landscapes, hostile weather patterns and deadly gangs of marauders.
- Trash is Treasure - Every scrap that's scavenged is important and can be utilised to upgrade and enhance equipment, weapons and vehicles. Gamers raid enemy encampments to gain access to valuable resources.
- Survive the Open-World Landscape - Staying alive isn't easy. Players clash with deadly factions and gangs through scores of dangerous side-missions and quests in the dynamic open-world full of exploration.
- Intense Vehicular Combat - Engage in dynamic inter-vehicular combat, taking down enemy vehicles with a range of powerful weapons. Car combat is entirely physics-based, so no two battles are ever the same.
- Build the Ultimate War Machine - Players design, customise and upgrade their ultimate combat vehicle - the Magnum Opus - choosing from different car bodies and a slew of upgrades including mounted weapons, armor and engines to survive another day.
Similar to: Just Cause, Combat(Batman Arkham series)
Also worth noting:
- Not directly tied storywise to the movies.
Platforms: PC, PlayStation 4, Xbox One
Tearaway: Unfolded
Release date: 9th September, 2015
Genre: Platformer
Developer: Tarsier Studios
Publisher: Sony
Rating: G
Mode: Single
What is it?: A messenger's delivery adventure, through a papercraft world inside your TV.
Tearaway Unfolded for PlayStation4 is an expanded retelling of the BAFTA award-winning Tearaway. The adventure that was once held in your hands has been reimagined as a world inside your TV, with a bigger, more beautiful world to explore, and all new fourth-wall-busting ways to play.
Features:
- Unleash the power of the wind - Swipe the DUALSHOCK 4's touch page to send gestures of wind howling into the world, blowing obstacles out of the way, unfolding rippling bridges, or sending enemies tumbling off cliffs.
- Throw things out of the TV and into your living room - Catch objects your messenger throws to you as they fly out of the TV screen into your controller, before hurling them back into out of reach places to towards enemies with godlike force.
- Light the way for your papery pal - Shine the DUALSHOCK 4's light bar into the world to lighten up the dark and gloomy places, and help guide your companion along their way. You'll find the light also has some quite surprising effects too!
- Bounce your messenger - Press the touch pad button to squash these drum skins, then release to catapult your messenger up into the air.
Similar to: LittleBigPlanet, Puppeteer.
Also worth noting:
- 1080p, 60fps
Platforms: PlayStation 4
Super Mario Maker
Release date: 12th September, 2015
Genre: Platformer/Creater
Developer: Nintendo EAD 4
Publisher: Nintendo
Rating: CTC
Mode: Single
What is it?: The Mario experience of your dreams is about to get made... by you! Create and share your very own Mario levels using the Wii U GamePad controller, then play a near-infinite number of intensely creative levels from other makers around the world*! What was impossible in traditional Mario games is now impossibly fun, so let your imagination run wild!
Features:
- Create Mario levels by using the Wii U GamePad controller touch screen to add enemies, blocks, pipes and more
- Play a near-limitless number of Mario levels created by players around the world
- Upload and share your courses with players around the world
- Instantly playtest and edit your levels on the fly
- Switch between four classic themes, each with different art style and gameplay: Super Mario Bros., Super Mario Bros. 3, Super Mario World, and New Super Mario Bros. U.
Similar to: Super Mario, LittleBigPlanet
Also worth noting:
- Each retail copy of the game will come with a special booklet that offers fun ideas for designing courses.
Platforms: Wii U
Forza Motorsport 6
Release date: 15th September, 2015
Genre: Racing
Developer: Turn 10 Studios
Publisher: Microsoft Studios
Rating: CTC
Mode: Single, Multi(Comp)
What is it?: Collect and customize over 450 Forzavista cars in the most beautiful and comprehensive racing game of this generation. Compete in epic multiplayer races on world-famous tracks.
Features:
- As Real As It Gets - Breathtaking graphics at 1080p resolution and 60 frames per second. Wet weather, 3D puddles, and night racing test your driving skills. Cutting-edge ForzaTech engine powers the unrelenting action and state-of-the-art physics at simulation speed.
- Ultimate Car Fantasy - The most cars of any racing game this generation. More than 450 cars all immaculately recreated and customizable, and complete with working cockpits and full damage. Tour 26 world-famous locales including Daytona, Le Mans, and more.
- Never Race Alone - Home of the greatest racing, tuning and painting community in gaming. 2-player split-screen racing, 24-player races, and realistic Drivatar opponents deliver packed tracks and unrivaled action.
- By learning to drive like your friends, Drivatar technology and the Xbox Live cloud deliver real human behavior, giving you dynamic human-like opponents.
Similar to: Forza series, Gran Turismo
Also worth noting:
- Limited Edition Forza 6 Console available featuring 1TB storage, Matching blue console and controller, Racing-inspired design and sound effects.
Platforms: Xbox One
Might & Magic Heroes VII
Release date: September, 2015
Genre: Turn-based strategy
Developer: Limbic Entertainment
Publisher: Ubisoft
Rating: CTC
Mode: Single, Multi(Comp)
What is it?: Might & Magic Heroes VII makes a triumphant return bringing you the essence of turn based strategy gaming. Set in a fantasy universe with RPG progression with a strong story narrative, you will embark on a journey that you will never forget!
Features:
- Experience the "best-of" Heroes - Enjoy one of the most acclaimed turn based strategy franchises. Rediscover the authenticity of the classic Might & Magic Heroes, enhanced with modern graphics and game mechanics
- Master 6 Emblematic Factions - Take control of 6 unique factions, each with their own iconic creatures, charismatic heroes, and colourful environments. Draw upon their distinct strategic experiences to fight your way up to the throne!
- Explore a spellbinding world - Powered by the Unreal 3.0 engine, the world of Heroes VII has never been so detailed and immersive. Changing weather conditions and dynamic lighting effects with make the magic come alive.
- It ain't over 'til you say it's over! - Over 60 hours of game content in the massive solo campaign with virtually unlimited replayability in the Skirmish and Duel modes. The celebrated Hotseat local multiplayer is there, and the competitive LAN battles have made their comeback.
- Your voices were heard! - For the first time the power was handed over to the players! Players were encouraged to log in to the Shadow Council website to take part in the game development. 2 of the 6 factions were voted for by the fans and their favourite features were promoted through their interaction with the developers on the website. Heroes VII is the game experience the players want and deserve!
Similar to: Kings Bounty, Heroes Might & Magic
Also worth noting:
- Uses Uplay PC Client
Platforms: PC
Other Releases - July
Release date: 2015
- 10th - F1 2015 - PC, PlayStation 4, Xbox One
- 15th - God of War III Remastered - PlayStation 4
- 16th - Godzilla: The Game - PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4
- 16th - Rory McIlroy PGA Tour - PlayStation 4, Xbox One
Other Releases - August
Release date: 2015
- 12th - Everybody's Gone to the Rapture - PlayStation 4
- 21st - Risen 3: Titan Lords Enhanced Edition - PlayStation 4
- 25th - Gears of War: Ultimate Edition - Xbox One
- 27th - Dishonored: Definitive Edition - PlayStation 4, Xbox One
- 27th - Madden NFL 16 - PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, Xbox 360, Xbox One
- 27th - One Piece: Pirate Warriors 3 - PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, PlayStation Vita
Other Releases - September
Release date: 2015
- 15th - Mighty No. 9 - PC, PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, Wii U, Xbox 360, Xbox One
- 17th - Pro Evolution Soccer 2016 - PC, PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, Xbox 360, Xbox One
- 24th - FIFA 16 - PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, Xbox 360, Xbox One
- 28th - Lego Dimensions - PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, Wii U, Xbox 360, Xbox One
- 29th - NBA 2K16 - PC, PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, Xbox 360, Xbox One
- TBA - Adrift - PC, PlayStation 4, Xbox One
- TBA - Soma - PC, PlayStation 4
Editors: spectre51/WalrusKing
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. Some good looking games coming out in Q3, plenty of highlights to pick from, but for me I can't go past MGSV:PP - looks like Kojima is ending his involvement on the series on a high note 
. Heroes of Might and Magic VII also looks interesting - it's been one of those 'never really got around to' strategy titles, but spending more time on strat titles these days, so it might be able to elbow EU4 and Gal Civ III out of the way for a while to get a run.
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