It’s that time of year again. It’s that time of year where familiar sports simulators file out onto the field, FIFA clips peppering your Facebook feed and we up the counter on titles like Madden NFL 16 to the next year.
Then come the shooters. All of the shooters, tumbling through the door like a pissed up SAS squadron, bullets flying everywhere, interchangeable multiplayer modes scattered across the floor like loose change. (This year, by the way, was the worst offender with Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare, Battlefield 1 and Titanfall 2 all releasing within three week’s time of one another.)
And hey, who’s that sneaking up behind you? Why, it’s all the annualised sequels, grinding their licenses into overfamiliar dust as increasingly innocuous subtitles and tat-filled ‘deluxe’ editions are trotted out like straight-to-DVD Disney films. It truly is the most wonderful time of the year.
Winter of (dis)content
Okay, I’m being a little facetious here. The winter games season really is a wonderful thing – there are literally dozens of great games that launch in the time it takes for the leaves to fall off their branches and when snow hits the ground.
But despite the influx of …read more
Source:: techradar.com – Gaming
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