Original link: https://markonreview.com/2022/10/31/2022-oct-upcoming-games/
Overwatch “Return” / Overwatch 2
2022.10.05 / PS5, Xbox (Smart Distribution), NS, PC
The second generation of “Overwatch”, which Blizzard has been hyping up and players around the world have been waiting for for many years, has finally been officially opened to players after passing through Blizzard’s “bull and bear cycle” in recent years, and the payment method has been changed to a more modern “Overwatch”. According to Blizzard’s current statement , PvE will be gradually added as the content of the pass in 2023.
NetEase’s “Return of Overwatch” updated the game’s version number to 2.0 or higher, and did not officially use the “2” number in the title like other servers, but it fits the current version of the game experience ─ ─ For “Overwatch” A huge upgrade from the first generation.
This game is still in the early access period, and the blockbuster new content such as PvE that was promoted before the release is not included (let them do it for a while), but the core part of the multiplayer experience has been fully presented. After many rounds of global public betas and months of testing by the Overwatch League (OWL), personally, the current second-generation battle mechanism has become mature, with old heroes being reworked and new heroes being added, and deleting A/ The B-point diagram mode is basically in line with people’s hearts, and the newly added “mobile propulsion” mode (many people also like to call it “push big white”) is quite exciting. The biggest change in the second-generation multiplayer battle is the change from 6v6 to 5v5. The author feels a lot more energetic than the first generation after playing, but from time to time, I encounter teammates who do not understand skills, modes, maps, etc. It may be especially sad that this happens to the only T-position in the country, reflecting that it will take time for players to adapt to the new environment.
My main dissatisfaction at present is mainly focused on the completion of the interactive experience. The UI/UX design is not significantly improved compared to the test version. Except for the HUD from the first-person perspective in the battle situation, there are many interface details that are blunt and typographically flawed; Observation Feedback from the community shows that after the game was launched, many vicious store shopping errors broke out. The official later apologized and provided compensation. It is hoped that the efficiency of correcting errors will be higher and the game will be brought back to a normal level.
LEGO Bricktales / LEGO Bricktales
2022.10.12 / PS4, PS5, Xbox (Smart Distribution), PC, NS
Swedish publisher Thunderful Games and Austrian veteran developer Clockstone jointly provide players with the LEGO IP puzzle game. Although it is dazzling and similar to the earlier LEGO Builder’s Journey The top-down angle and the box garden-style scene design, but compared to “The Builder’s Journey”, the level of sophistication of the screen in this work is not so extreme, but it greatly strengthens the hands-on puzzle solving.
The strong puzzle-solving interest of this work comes from the developer Clockstone. As the creator of the “Bridge Constructor” series, Clockstone has been focusing on building puzzles based on physical properties for many years. This time they got Lego bricks to fiddle with: Levels , when the player is blocked, they need to trigger the puzzle on the ground, enter a separate puzzle-solving interface, and use the given parts to spell out the obstacle-surmounting props, which may be stairs, bridges, aircraft, etc. ; In this process, the game allows players to freely splicing blocks and exert their creativity, which can be said to fully restore and utilize the fun of the Lego blocks themselves.
Golden Quill / Sunday Gold
2022.10.14 / PC
A multi-integrated work from the Canadian team BKOM Studios, which combines a large number of elements such as escape room theme, point-and-click puzzle solving, turn-based combat, etc., which looks very eye-catching.
This game is set in the dystopian society of the 2070s. Players will control a small group of low-level gangsters Frank, Gavin, and Sally to fight against the corrupt oligarch Kenny Hogan in the city of London, and take turns to play the three protagonists’ respective expertise – gun shooting , hacking technology, boxing skills, exploring scenes, collecting key props, breaking roadblocks, and defeating guards and other enemies in a timely manner. A major selling point that cannot be ignored is that all aspects of the game are properly integrated by the highly stylized audio-visual design, and the interaction design organically incorporates an atmosphere similar to American comics, making this game quite similar to Persona 5. There are similarities in the same way.
Contempt / Scorn
2022.10.14 / XS X|S, PC
A work launched by Ebb Software, a small Serbian developer. After the studio was established in 2013, it released an early demo and launched Kickstarter crowdfunding the following year. Although the crowdfunding round did not reach the target amount, the studio still received private investment later. After a long period of painstaking production, the second crowdfunding was successfully completed in the middle. By 2020, the game finally had a grand promotion at the Microsoft conference, announcing that it would be exclusively available on the console platform for Xbox.
“Contempt” adopts the first-person action shooting gameplay, emphasizing the elements of scene solving puzzles, and the most attractive art design is the ingenious art design. “Contempt” pays tribute to the artistic masterpieces of HR Giger and Zdzisław Beksiński as a whole. It combines the former’s biological machinery and the latter’s hyper-realistic apocalyptic landscape to form the texture of biological organs throughout the game, unique sensory stimulation scenes, Weapons, animations, etc.; according to the relevant interview information of the development team, influenced by the concept of “Being thrown into the world” by the German philosopher Heidegger, this work strictly controls the exposure of language and text information, allowing players to start fighting and solving problems from a daze Enigma, at the expense of a somewhat unpleasant weak lead, heightens the impact of groping in an indescribable atmosphere.
A Plague Tale: Requiem / A Plague Tale: Requiem
2022.10.18 / PS5, XS X|S, NS, PC
A third-person action-adventure work released by Focus Entertainment and developed by Asobo Studio, focusing on core elements such as thriller, survival, and stealth. This is also the second work in the series. E3 2017 debuted a promotional video and officially released in 2019.
“Requiem” generally inherits the gameplay framework created by “Innocent”: players will mainly follow the perspectives of Amicia and Hugo, and travel through 14th century France under the terrible background of the Hundred Years War and the Black Death. In the Aquitaine region in the southwest, while evading the pursuit of soldiers, it is on guard for the death-spreading rat swarm. The major changes in “Requiem” are mainly focused on the combat part. The Amicia of “Innocent” is very brittle, and it will be game over as soon as it is caught, and the way of outputting damage is very limited. The main thing is to create and seize good opportunities for stealth. Soul Song gives the protagonist stronger active combat capabilities, increased blood volume, and greatly enriched combat mechanisms, especially the ability to command the rats to erode the enemy.
However, starting from personal preference, this work does improve the fun of operation by improving combat, but the taste of survival fear created by the first generation around the “Black Death” may not be what it used to be.
MARVEL SNAP
2022.10.18 / PC, Mobile
Game designer Ben Brode, best known for his work on Hearthstone, is back, leaving Blizzard in 2018 to create his own studio, Second Dinner, which was licensed to make a Marvel-themed card game in 2019 , and gained equity investment from NetEase. This month, BB finally unveiled the mystery of this new work. The ultra-high-speed card battle game “MARVEL SNAP”, published by Nuverse, a subsidiary of ByteDance, is mainly on mobile platforms. , but PC can also play.
The pace of this game is very fast. The maximum number of rounds in a game is only 6, and the upper limit of the deck is only 12. The whole game takes about two or three minutes. On each column, there is a randomly generated terrain with special effects. By default, it can accommodate up to 4 cards from each side. The sum of the combat power values of the two cards in each column is larger than the size. After 6 rounds, the side that wins more than 2 columns is the winner. Another essence of this work is gambling chips. There is a “cosmic cube” with an initial value of 1 at the top of the battle interface, which is the number of points that the winner will take away. Both parties can double this value during the game. The side that rises can also surrender directly to control the loss.
Finally, don’t forget that on top of such a set of exciting game mechanics, this work also has eye-catching Marvel-themed elements, not only a unified card art that is close to the performance of the comics, but also for the characters in the Marvel world, The extensive coverage of locations, events, etc. is believed to make many fans fall in love.
Mario + Crazy Rabbit Star Wish / MARIO + RABBIDS SPARKS OF HOPE
2022.10.20 / NS
The second work in the IP series of Ubisoft and Nintendo’s cooperation is highly similar to the previous work. It is still composed of well-known characters from the “Mario” and “Crazy Rabbit” series to form a team to carry out a fantasy adventure across the universe and expel evil. , recall the starlight.
In addition to the unique combination of popular characters, another major feature of the “Mario + Crazy Rabbit” series is the main turn-based battle chess gameplay. The first generation of “XCOM” is very flavorful (but more refreshing) , this work has been further improved, reducing the linearity of the process, weakening the grid division of the battlefield, and adding a lot of battlefield actions that require real-time operations, bringing the degree of freedom related to combat to a small level.
Gotham Knights
2022.10.22 / PS5, XS X|S, PC
The open-world ARPG work produced by the game studio of Warner Bros. was first announced at the DC FanDome event in 2020. It claims to be inspired by the comic series “Batman: Gotham Knights” ─ ─ in the early days, it mainly told about bats Anecdotes about members of Xia Xia’s “big family”, but this game does not use the word “Batman” in the title, and there is no good fruit for Batman to eat in the game. is dead.”
This work allows Batman to make a glorious exit in the fight against crime, and at the same time summons the four protagonists of Nightwing, Robin, Batgirl and Red hood to continue to support justice , fight against major hostile forces such as the Court of Owls and the League of Shadows, fighting in the streets of Gotham City. The single-player plot of this work can be completed online by single or double, and there is also a separate four-player cooperative mode. The former has widely received bad reviews such as high repetition and lack of plot, while the latter has been well received.
Another major flaw of this work that has been rushed is performance. The developers first canceled the original PS4 and X1 versions, and it was difficult to maintain 30FPS on PS5 and XSX, highlighting the embarrassment of development capabilities.
Victoria 3 / Victoria 3
2022.10.25 / PC
The latest in Paradox Interactive’s world-famous historical simulation series, 12 years after its predecessor, continues the Victorian series’ tradition of focusing on Queen Victoria’s accession to the end of World War I (1836-1936).
In this game, players can choose or create new countries from more than 100 countries as their own forces, and play the “invisible hand” that controls the will of the country. The game is mainly played from the perspective of formulating the country’s internal affairs. The Victoria series focuses on making fuss about the characteristics of social groups or strata, and depicts the complex national economy and people’s livelihood by aggregating the demands of different factions in the country, and from it breeds achievements and interests.
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II 2022 / Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II
2022.10.28 / PS4, PS5, Xbox (Smart Distribution), PC
The “New Year-level” FPS work released by Activision and developed by Infinity Ward is also the sequel to the 2019 reboot of “Call of Duty: Modern Warfare”, which uses the “Soap” and “Ghost” of the classic “Modern Warfare” trilogy. and other popular characters.
As early as the publicity period of the previous work, the development team has revealed that the restarted “Modern Warfare” series will try a more “mature” play style. In addition to using the new engine that has been developed for many years to improve the realism of the battlefield, the single-player campaign also focuses on integration. Events in the real world, such as the London terrorist attack in the previous work, the assassination of Soleimani in this work, etc.
In terms of multiplayer mode, the most important thing for players to pay attention to is that the official announcement that this game will have a 2-year follow-up operation period means that the next generation of “Call of Duty” will have to wait until 2024. I hope this will be a meaningful hibernation. , because just looking at the situation just released, the dullness of the single-player campaign (the voice of too much spit sneaking can be heard everywhere), and the bugs flying all over the sky with single-player and multi-player have all attracted complaints.
Bayonetta 3 / Bayonetta 3
2022.10.28/NS
This prehistoric giant cake painted by the head of Platinum Studio at TGA 2017 is finally freshly baked. As the latest work of this ACT series after 8 years, “Bei Yunita 3” unsurprisingly presented fans with the most noisy combat experience in the history of the series. Judging from the feedback from the first wave of players in the community, There should be a wave of fierce battles that is even more fierce than the last wave, and the operable giant transformation shown in the promotional video is even more brilliant.
IGN described the insane expressiveness of the action scenes of this work as surpassing the shackles of NS functions, and many players “horrified” speculated that Platinum Studio would hollow out their homes in order to avoid the hopeless sequel of “Bei Yunita”. Reason, after all, the founder of the series Kamiya Hideki talked about the difficulty of the birth of this work in an interview with Famitsu, and it was only produced because of Nintendo’s approval and investment.
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