If you like 2D-fighting games, then this is your week. If you like European driving games like F1 or a game about cars playing "soccer," then this is also your week. If you like games that came out in February 2015 finally making it onto Sony platforms, then this is also your week.
If, however, you have an instinctive, almost reflexive affinity for underdogs, there is one title that stands out. Knee Deep is an episodic murder mystery with three playable characters, where your choices affect the story. I can hear you thinking "oh, did Telltale get the Twin Peaks license then?" Well, the joke's on you, Mrs. Loud-thinker, because it's actually an indie game by developer Prologue.
There's a neat twist too! The game stages itself as, well, a stage. As if you're watching a play. I'm apparently a sucker for that aesthetic, even though it's bit my bottom at least once, but since when am I a guy to back away from a bad idea? Anyway, if it's going to bite me anyway, I'd rather it bit me in the backside than at a comparable elevation on my frontside. Just sayin'.
Knee Deep does not, however, get my nod for Game of the week. That instead goes to Monster Truck Destruction. Because it's Independence Day weekend and I can't pick BroForce again. Also, the idea of driving Bigfoot in a game where I can adjust gravity to get crazy hang-time after smashing a bunch of junked cars is right up my alley. Sunday. Sunday! SUNDAY!
What other treasures have our correspondents unearthed from the mud?
Chris "C" Cesarano
I'm gonna be honest with you, I'm filling this out at midnight before I have to go to work following a rather unimpressive July 4th weekend that kept me from my computer for a couple of days. My brain is not really ready to process the releases of all the different PC games of varying qualities and that I've never even heard of. I've been too busy flying over Gotham, hunting for trophies while criminals roam free, or continuing to be a Kid Now, or a Squid Now, and splat people's faces up in Splatoon.
Yet if any game this week were to have a chance of prying my fingers from those games (they don't, but for the sake of argument let's say there's a slim possibility), it would be Worms World Party Remastered. What time I've dabbled in those games with some friends has always been uproariously fun, and it looks like this one will continue that tradition.
Felix Threepaper
You think you’re feeling sated with the recent flush of releases and a Steam sale. E3 revealed a bunch of exciting games coming out later this year. “I can hold off this week,” you think, patting your wallet tenderly.
Then along comes Rocket League. For something that sounds awesome on paper, vehicular football has never quite taken off. Analysts are unsure whether it’s because of the difficulty of securing venues or prohibitive insurance costs.
Rocket League is hoping to put team-based car combat with a ball back on the map. As you’d expect, the aesthetic is very “Cars-meets-FIFA”. It looks shiny, has split-screen co-op and comes with the customisation and upgrade trappings that the modern sports games have these days. I’m voting for it because it will either be crazy enough to work or a hot mess.
This week:
PC
- The Amber Throne
- Battle Fantasia -Revised Edition-
- F1 2015
- Fragile Ball
- Knee Deep Act 1: Wonderland
- Prompt
- Worms Party Remastered
- Yatagarasu: Attack on Cataclysm
- TIMEframe
- Shred! Downhill Mountain Biking
- Gunpowder
- Cosmophony
- Rocket League
- Traverser
- Trove (download - free-to-play)
- How to Take Off Your Mask
- Spectra
- Mactabilis
- Hordelicious
- Monster Truck Destruction
- Mystery Maze Of Balthasar Castle
PS4
- F1 2015
- Pneuma: Breath of Life
- Skullgirls 2nd Encore
- Rocket League
- Toro
- Arcade Archives Exerion
Xbox One
- F1 2015
- Spectra: 8bit Racing
Wii U
- Don’t Crash
PS3
Xbox 360
PS Vita
- Geometry Wars 3: Dimensions
- Nekoburo Catsblock
Nintendo 3DS
Comments
Felix is right. The rest of you are wrong.
How did I live before digital distribution of old, cheap games?
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Someone missed a golden opportunity on Rocket League.
It should have been called F1FA.
Jonman Wrote:
Yes, you can cancel Darksiders, but only by using your Sony Golds. Which, while pretty good, aren't a patch on Zelda.
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I'm excited for Rocket League! I wish they would have just called it Ultra Super Acrobatic Rocket Powered Battle Cars, though.
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No love for Cricket Captain 2015?
You people are monsters.
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Gamestop has F1 2015 releasing on the 21st.
Will it be so broken they have to recall it again? Because I'm so on board for that!
Seriously, I may give that one a go at some point, but dude! Monster Trucks!
Jonman Wrote:
Yes, you can cancel Darksiders, but only by using your Sony Golds. Which, while pretty good, aren't a patch on Zelda.
I'm A Steam Curator!
Speaking of things that sound awesome on paper! I have been burnt before by cricket games, much as I love them.
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Knowing FIFA (well, I've heard of 'em), Rocket League devs probably tried F1FA and were promptly sent a metric crudton of cease-n-desists.
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Truly an outstanding week to show the breadth of gaming available.
Oh man, someone literally said 'hot mess' in relation to soccer, must resist urge..
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Rocket League goes on the PC list too.
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Noted. Thanks.
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Rocket League is a blast, and it works well across continents. BILINGUAL BLOODSHED!
Shout out to Free for the sweet header last night. Header? Roofer? Bumper?
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