Series producer Motoi Okamoto opens the segment saying that "Silent Hill was a series that fused the essence of western horror and Japanese horror, as the series progressed I felt that the essence of Japanese horror was lost." After the likes of Homecoming and Downfall (which were developed by American and Czech studios, respectively), Okamoto felt "a desire to create a Silent Hill with 100% essence of Japanese-style🃏 horror."

He explains that NeoBards was selected by Konami to develop the game as the studio had done great work with Japanese publishers in the past (with the studio working on a ton of re-releases for Capcom). With NeoBards game producer Albert Lee saying "we had discussions with Konami on ho🥂w to create a game experience that maintains the spirit of Silent Hill within a Japanese atmosphere."

The game's director Al Yang adds that "with the major thematic shift it was absolutely critical for us to not merely copy, but really understand what the key atmospheric elements that define the classic Silent Hill titles were, in order to evolve them for [Silent Hill] f." And considering the previous games and💫 films used Pyramid Head like a mascot, I'm super hopeful for Silent Hill f, because that statement alone proves NeoBards gets it.

Elsewhere in the Konami Press Start stream, we got a new look at 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater which revealed its 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:online multiplayer mode Fox Hunt. Plus, Konami announced it was teaming up with Bloober Team again to create a 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:remake of the original Silent Hill.

Silent Hill f actor spent so long playing her role that "I almost felt my own sanity slipping," and I'm starting to see a pattern here.

A new Konami Press Start just happened, bringing a wave of news across the publisher’s stable of franchises.💙 Among the announcements was some time dedic🧔ated to classic JRPG property Suikoden, which is undergoing something of a resurgence.

Already this year, we've had HD remasters of the first two games on PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X, and Nintendo Switch, and the announcement of 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:an anime show adapt🍸ing the second game. Now, it's been confirmed Star Leap will be available on Steam, assuaging concer𓂃ns it’d be relegated to Android and iOS devi🅺ces.

As is tradition within Suikoden, Star Leap has you set out on a quest, with the help of up to 108 allies along the way. There'll be a large map to explore, encouraging you to out your potenti🐈al friends and have them join your cause. In terms of the mythology, it's considered canon, set somewhere between the first and fifth games.

Being free-to-play using gacha mechanics, it's unknown w♓hat the balance will be between what’s freely playable versus pay-gated. In a post-Genshin Impact industry, it's likely what's released will be satisfying without giving a single penny to some degree, but there are many ways monetization could be invasive and harmful to the overall experience

However it's done, you can use your PC to see whether the game is for you. No release window is available just yet. As of yet this is the only new game in the Suiko❀den revival thus far, but we'll see if that changes in the near future.

Suikoden lead hopes to expand the cult JRPG series "beyond where it ended" and would happily follow Zelda to the silver screen: "If you have any friends in Hollywood, please let us know"

This news was unveiled during the , just over 30 minutes showing off new Konami games and teasing what's in the works. We got an extended look at 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater෴ – a re𓆏make of 2004's Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater.

We only got the briefest of teasers for Silent Hill, on the other hand, which is bound to disappoint some of you who wanted to actually see the remake in action. But at least we know it's in development🤡.

The teaser was shown last in Konami's showcase, right after the 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Silent Hill f section, and a tweet from the official Silent Hill account reads (with translations provided by Google): "P✃lease watch ✨the video with audio. Please await further updates for further details."

The news is being received very well over on the . Pꦆeople are sharing GIFs of tears of joy and hyperventilating 𝄹into paper bags. So, various kinds of happiness and excitement are on display.

"This is so sick," writes a fan. "After SH2 [澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Silent Hill 2] Remake I know𓃲 Bloober will make this an amazing remake.ജ Holy shit this is so sick." Another replies, "I really hope Bloober gets the opportunity to remake SH4 [Silent Hill 4] as well. The imagery in that game is so disturbing and I know they'd nail it."

Are you excited?

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Coming late to the party after the wave of 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Summer Game Fest announcements last week, Konami has hosted its own presentation titled , where the publisher dug into new details about its upcoming games like 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Silent Hill f, Suikoden Star Leap, 🃏and Metal Gea🌃r Solid Delta: Snake Eater.

Konami played a rerun of the trailer shown at the State of Play, with some new details like the return of MGS 3's Sec🔯ret Theater (whi🐻ch now has Delta-exclusive cutscenes found as collectibles in the world), and our first look at the Xbox-exclusive Snake Vs Bomberman mode, which replaces the remade Snake Vs Monkey mode in that version. Konami then addressed the multiplayer tease found at the end of the trailer.

Titled Fox Hunt, the ne𝕴w online mode focuses in on the stealt꧋h and survival that is iconic to the series to take "camouflage and hide and seek to the next level" in order to create "an online experience unique to Metal Gear."

Fox Hunt producer Yu Sahara says "we challenged ourselves to make something unique, tha💦t is more than just a shootout" and talks about the back and forth tension between searching and staying hidden to make the mode stand out.

Sahara acknowledges that "when we say Metal Gear multiplayer many fans will probably think of Metal Gear Online," but claims "Fox Hunt will be its own, new type of mode." While he appreciates the fans wishing for Metal Gear Online to come back, he says "the landscape of multiplayer games has changed a lot 🍨since MGO" and that "it took a lot of careful consideration to think about what a new online mode should look like."

On one hand, the original MGO in Metal Gear Solid 3 was a banger that not enough people got to play due to it being early in the console online play era, and it would've beeꦕn grand if it was remade and left how it was. But, at the same time, Team Sneak was the best mode, and this seems to be an expanded version of that, so maybe everybody wins, including Konami who can presumably now monetize it compared to MGO.

Silent Hill f actor spent so long playing her role that "I almost felt my own sanity slipping," and I'm starting to see a pattern here.

Levels are presented as a series of islands, which you keep rather clumsily crashing your raft into. The fundamental objective on each is to reach the top of the island, where your ruined raft is consistently waiting for you to gather the required parts and materials to repair it. Along the way yoꦫu'll have climbing nets to build, bridges to construct, food to cook, tools to make and use, and ꦆshenanigans to engage in.

Isle be there

The survival aspect very much leans on construction rather than death. The Kids, like the Highlander, are immortal. Unlike the Highlander, there can be more than one, with two player split-screen, three player Game Share, or four players online (private code-based lobbies only). Two or more playe♏rs working together can carry heavy objects more quickly, harvest materials faster, and there are occasional opportunities to engage in two tasks at once on different parts of the island. A solo player can easily play the entire game from start to finish, but some tasks will t🧸ake a little longer.

The recipe for anything you need to b🐷uild hovers over the place it'll appear, showing how many planks, vines, etc are still required. This makes it easy to identify and bring the materials over, but it doesn't mean that things are patronizingly simple. It's only a few islands in that you'll start to find transporting those materials isn't always straightforward; you can't climb while carrying anything for example, and a few construction spots you can't reach at all. You're encouraged to get creative. Sometimes you can hurl the ingredients in from a slight distance, other times you'll find that fishing rod you made is useful for hooking more than just fish…

There's no hunger me♐ter, but you'll still need to cook and eat food to build up your stamina, the maximum for which is slowly reduced over time. This determines how long you can keep your grip on a climbing net, how long you can carry something before slowing down (though stamina recharges with pleasing speed), and whether or not you can unearth something buried in the ground. I'm fine with this. It's an infinitely preferable system to a traditional one that sees you dying of starvation because you went five minutes without a sandwich.

Star power

As you progress, action platformer eඣlements are gently introduced. There are simple puzzles, "ancient turrets" that spit mysterious purple goo to be avoided, and it's not too long before an umbrella that allows you to glide short distances and ride updrafts makes a🌄n appearance. It all melts together well, and prevents things from becoming repetitive. The turrets produce a few sections that make me grit my teeth and/or say very naughty words, but these parts are very much the exception rather than the rule.

I played the penultimate island solo, and found some of the backtracking and dragging of objects to be a bit of a slog. I also wasn't parti♓cularly happy to find that the final island requires a minimum number of stars to unlock, and I was a little short. You need 25 of the 48 (up unꦅtil that point) available.

That meant I only needed to revisit a few islands, but I kind of resented not being given any warning beforehand. Each island can award up to sixജ stars. There are a maximum of three based on completion ti༒me, and another three for each of the hidden 'treasure stones' you find and drag back to camp. Getting all six in one run is incredibly unlikely, both in solo and co-op. I give this gift to you: be aware those stars aren't just there to encourage replays.

Still, that final island? It was worth it. Without spoiling too mucꦅh, I was pleasantly surprised at the ambition on display, ambition that – to be honest – the rest of the game could do with a taste of. It also serves as a r🌜eminder of the pros and cons of solo and co-op play.

One of my favorite things about playing alone is that I can pretend the unnervingly positive narrator with a sharp edge of optimism in his voice is an invention of my chara🔯cter's overly stressed mind, an indication that they're close to breaking point after finding themselves marooned on an island with sentient turrets. Another positive is that I can hoard all the food I cook for myself, making keeping stamina high pretty easy. Conversely, when playing with one or more other people, resource harvesting can be super fast, but splitting the food to keep everybody's stamina up can be a new challenge.

You're not patronized with instant solutions🥂 and unrelenting hand-holding, but there's plenty of guidance, such as an on-screen arrow pointing to objectives (and the occasional hint delivered via a bad pun). The experience is usually pretty smooth as a result, but that also means challenge is kept to a minimum. It's an experience with very few highs, but also almost no lows, and as such is perfect for playing with a young relative – or, if you prefer, to play as a relaxing low-stakes adventure by yourself.

Survival Kids was reviewed on Nintendo Switch 2, with a code provided ওby the publisher.

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If it wasn't already clear from the Silent Hill name alone that the next mainline title would be gruesome and terribly bleak, 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:the game's ESRB rating was revealed in March and teased such atrocities as "Faces ripped apart," "a character burned alive inside a cage," and "entrails and sinew displayed on serving platter𒆙s." Needlꦬess to say, Silent Hill f, as with any Silent Hill game, is probably not for the faint of heart.

Take it from Kato Konatsu, who portrays Silent Hill f lead protagonist Shimizu Hinako. Konatsu shared a message𓃲 via the official Japanese , translated by , and while my sympathies go out to the actoꩵr, I have to admit I'm even more excited for this nightmare of a game now.

"I've been living as Hinako in the world of Silent Hill for a long time now," said Konatsu. "On some days, I almost felt my ow꧂n sanity slipping, but it was worth it to be able to contribute to this game."

A key staple of the Silent Hill series is its main characters losing their minds in the wake of unfathomable tragedies, but it's a little concerning to see that trend continue in 💮real-life actors portraying those characters.

Konami shared the 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:fiꦆrst Silent Hill f gameplay trailer at this week's 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:PlayStation State of Play, and while the September release date was und𓄧oubtedly the biggest news out of the showcase, it was the absolutely deranged creature designs that have really stuck with me in the days since.

It's worth noღting that developer NeoBards, which made Resident Evil Resistance and ReVerse, has yet to really prove itself with a mainline single-player game of this caliber, so I'm staying cautiously optimistic about Silent Hill f for now. But with this latest trailer keeping me up at night, and now with Konatsu's comments on acting for the game, I'm finding myself less and less cautious by the day.

Konami says Silent Hill f is "independent" from the rest of the series: "People who have never played the series before can enjoy it"

OK, I'm officially sold on Silent Hill f. Not that there was ever a universe where I wouldn't be playing it day one, but I refuse to get too excited about anything until I see some gameplay, and with Konami dropping the first Silent Hill f gameplay trailer during today's 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:PlayStation State of Play, not to mention nailing down a September 25 release date, 𓄧we might as well just kick off the Halloween season three months ahead of🎉 schedule.

The trailer starts with a familiar scene as we see protagonist Shimiz🌳u Hinako wander through a fog-covered town from 1960s Japan encountering utterly hideous creatures. But this time around, we actually get to see combat for the first time, with Hinako dodging, blocking, and clubbing monsters to death with a furor that seems to lend itself to a more intense combat system.

And indeed, in the PlayStation Blog accompanying the release date announcement, producer Motoi Okamoto said "the combat will have a heavier focus on melee and be more action-oriented compared to 🐬last year's Silent H🍬ill 2."

Silent Hill f also continues to impress/disturb me with its creature design. The series is known for producing some of the most nightmare inducing baddies ever, but still it seems they've stepped it up a notch here. I mean, whatever Hinako's friend turned into ๊at the end of the trailer... that thing just about made my stomach turn. And I'm here for it.

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For a while, the latest Met🍒al Gear Solid 3 trailer was pretty normal - at least by Metal Gear standards. There were stealthy shenanigans, some interesting cutscenes, and a healthy dose of action. After that, there was a whole section dedicated to the iconic Ape Escape crossover, which continues to look as peculiar as ever.

The trailer appears to draw to🐟 and end, but then we get a tease of something else. we get to watch a character merge out of the background, having hidden from our view by use of an impressive ghillie suit. As they drop to the ground, however, their entire appearance changes - instead of leaves and bra🃏nches, they now appear to be nothing more than a cluster of rocks upon the ground.

That's bad news for the unfortunate goon who comes through right at the close of the trailer, entirely bamboozled by the camouflage. It's a little confusing - honestly, it's not clear whether this꧙ is an excellent active camo setup, or if it's a hint at some kind of online multiplayer mode.

Long-time Metal Gear Online player (and my colleague) Iain suggests that the small frog figure that gets colle🅷cted in that clip is a Kerotan - the figurine you were tasked with collecting back then. And active camo also made an appearance in Metal Gear Online, suggesting 𝓀that really could be the tease.

Either way, Metal Gear Solid 3 remake is set to launch towards the end of August, so I imagin🍃e we'll learn a little more relatively soon.

The 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Summer Game Fest schedule 2025 has kicked off - albeit a little earlier than we thought it might.

Speaking to , Burch – who previously said she got into voice acting – spoke about 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Metal Gear Solid and Hideo Kojima's influence on her career.

"Any time a character is introduced in Metal Gear Solid, there's a little text on the screen that comes up, and it says their character name, but then it also it said another name. And at the time, I was like, what is this, who is this?" Burch recalled, adding, "I was able to look up David Hayter, and I was like, oh my god. That's th🍌e actor."

Burch added, "It'd never occurred to me. You 𝐆know, I loved cartoons and, I guess s🌌ome part of me knew there's a person voicing Chucky from Rugrats or whatever, but it didn't click with me until that moment that it was a job you could have."

Burch was asked if Metal Gear Soli🥃d influenced the way she approached acting, and she responded, "I think༒ Metal Gear was the first game I played that was grittier, that was fully voiced."

"So I think it did open up to me, like, what the possibiliti⛦es of performance in games could be," Burch continued.

Burch was also very complimentary of K♈ojima's approach to game development and his "gameplay sensibility," saying, "If Metal Gear was just cutscene after cutscene without satisfying gameplay in between, I don't think they would be as popular as they are."

Burch added, "[Kojima] always does something interesting with the ga๊meplay that I think keeps people engaged."

When asked what type of character she would like to play if she was ever cast in a Hideo Kojima game, Burch moved away from her norm of playing heroes, saying, "I don't know if I would get cast for this, but, I think, let's manifest it. I think a Psycho Mantis-adjacent. I think being a villain would be fun. Like, one of his really unhinged villains would be fun."

Hideo Kojima rejected several celebrity appearances, but apparently made darn sure his favorite vtuber is in Death Stranding 2.

Outside of the setting making it stick out, it's also one of the only games in the series to not take place in Silent Hill itself (from what we know anyway, I'm sur📖e there's a swerve in there). And now the game's publisher, Konami, is using this fact as a way to draw in potential new fans. On the official account, Konami posted (via machine translation), "This is a completely new work independent of the series. Even those who have never played theౠ 'Silent Hill' series can enjoy this game."

Granted – even though I know why Konami is doing this – that's pretty much the case for the majority of Silent Hill games (outside of the first game and third). While there are details to be found in each game that hint at the events of others, the majority of stories in the series are self-contained. You're really not missing too much in Silent Hill 2 if you haven't played the original Silent Hill.

But it's nice to know that Konami is positioning the new game as a starting point to get people into one of its best series, even if they're going to have to deal with "faces ripped apart," "a character burneღd alive inside a cage," "entrails and sinew displayed🍰 on serving platters," and all of that heartwarming stuff.

Nintendo files new trademarks for 2 Metroid classics and a beloved 2007 DS game, sparking hopes of remakes: "Never say never."

Per , Return to Silent Hill i🅷s set for a theatrical release on the big screen. There's still no release date attached, but we now know Cineverse has acquired the rights for the movie in the US. The company promised it'll be "a faithful adaptation of the video game Silent Hill 2," which is pretty much exactly what the 2006 Silent Hill wasn't.

This🦋 might be a hot take, but 2006 Silent Hill is a vibe, man. The plot's a little all over the place and it's not afraid to take creative liberties that diverge from the games, but divorced from the Silent Hill name it's a half-decent supernatural horror movie with solid acting, great practical effects, and a consistently oppressive atmosphere.

That said, it is not a faithful adapt🐓ation of the games. With just how good Silent Hill 2's story isꦜ, I'm glad to hear Gans and co. are focusing on a more direct interpretation.

For what it's worth, the officiaꦬl press release includes the film's premise, and yeah, it seems 🔜pretty faithful:

"Jam🎀es, a man broken after his relationship with the love of his life, Mary, ends. When a mysterious letter from her calls him back to Silent Hill, he finds a once-recognizable town transformed by an unknown evil.

While James desperately searches for Mary he encounters terrifying creatures and begins to unravel the mystery of what happened to the town. But as he descends deeper into the darkness the secrets he uncovers lead to a horrifying truth, and James finds himself struggling to hold on long enough to save ♓his one true love."

Return to Silent Hill stars Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again lead Jeremy Irvine as main protagonist James Sunderland and Jigsa🐎w star Hannah Emily Anderson as Mary Shepherd-Sunderland.

"I am delighted to partner with Cineverse, which has shown a genuine understanding of fanship," said Gans. "Return to Silent Hill is an adaptation created out of deep respect for a true🐟 masterpiece of a game, Konami's iconic Silent Hill 2. I hope fans will enjoy and be fulfilled with the experience this newꦰ film has to offer."

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Spruced up by Unreal Engine 5, Bethesda's surprise re-launch of its 2006 RPG currently has swathes of the gaming community in a vice. It's the remaster so many have been aching off the back of 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:countless rumors; Oblivion is considered one of the 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:best RPGs of the Xbox 360 generation, famously beloved for its (often accidental) jank, and it's now playable on modern hardware and capable of going toe-to-toe with the likes of Avowed in terms of visuals. What's not to love?

But as someone unfamiliar with the Elder Scrolls franchise, the thing that interests me is how clever a moment Bethesda has chosen to launch Oblivion Remastered. The game is the latest in a long list of well-timed remakes and remasters we've seen from industry titans in r𒅌ecent years – and I reckon they serve a grea🐟ter purpose than simply to stoke the flames of nostalgia.

Smoke and mirrors

To be blunt, Oblivion Remastered feels like a clever distraction. 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:The Elder Scrolls 6 is currently in production and set to be the next 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:upcoming Bethesda game ahead of 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Fallout 5. By giving support studio Virtuos the go ahead to handle this surprise offering, it's effectively bought the in-house developer both time and goodwill in 🀅spades.

It's a clever trick, one I've seen emerge countless times in recent years. As a staunch horror nerd, it reminds me of 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Resident Evil 4 Remake's launch in between 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Resident Evil Village and the as-yet unannounced follow-up. Much as I loved suplexing ganados in 4k and being able to actually run while aiming, it served as a temporary sleight of hand, pulling focus from the large question mark Capcom left over the series' future. Two years later, there's still no sign of Resident Evil 9, and I won't lie, 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:I'm getting impatient over here.

Though I largely consider the 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:remake renaissance trend most common in the horror genre – 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Silent Hill 2 and Dead Space, I'm looking at you – it looks like it's catching on elsewh♚ere. I'm here to warn you that Bethesda tiding Elder Scrolls fans over with Oblivion Remastered is both a blessing and a c﷽urse. A blessing, because it is a game everyone wanted. A curse, because it could indicate that The Elder Scrolls 6 will be a very, very long way away.

Out with the new

Nostalgia sells in 2025, that much is clear. New, original games take longer to make now than they did 20 years ago, so it makes sense for large studios to leverage their🌌 lega𝓰cies (and boost profit margins) through remakes and remasters.

With 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater coming in August, questions arise as to whether Konami is testing the waters for 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Metal Gear Solid 6 in a post-Kojima era. We're still waiting for more Fallout 5 news, but the Fallout 3 remake rumors are circling again now that the Oblivion whisperings 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:turned out to be true. It's hard enough to get reboots out the door, even for incredibly in-demand games – take the new Fable game for example, recently 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:delayed to 2026.

For the most part, though, remakes and remasters like Oblivion can feel more like consolation prizes. I can'♌t fault them as strategic business moves, helping studios meet financial targets and keep the lights on long enough to make those future franchise instalments possible in an industry so often fraught with layoffs.

Even 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Cyberpunk 2077's most recent Patch 2.2 (also made by Oblivion Remastered co-developer Virtuos) will no doubt have padded out CD Projekt Red's coffers and freed up the team to work on 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Project Orion and 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:The Witcher 4 instead. At the same time, it serves a humble peace offering for those lengthy, pricey dev cycles, galvanizing the bond players have with such a popular game and keeping them seated for more. Sound familiar, Elder Scrolls fans🧸?

Distraction and placation have become necessary evils if studios are to grow. But despite understanding why, every time I think about Resident Evil 9, the truth still smarts. Hear ye, medieval RPG fans: I sincerely hope Elder Scrolls 6 doesn't receive the Capcom treatment and get kicked too far down theꩲ line. Though, again: between Oblivion Remastered and a Fa♎llout 3 remake, fans will likely have plenty to do before watching the proverbial paint dry.

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As translated and shared online by Genki, Kojima spoke about the movie on Koji10, his radio show. Genki's translations state that Sarnoski is "smart, has good taste, and is a very nice person, so is happy he can direct the film." Also, the director "doesn't seem like a typical Hollywood person" and has played Death Stranding and 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Metal Gear Solid 1, but Kojima stopped him from playing 2 and 3.

It is unclear why Kojima would stop the director from playing🐻 those games. It could be that he wants the director to have his own take on the work rather than simply trying to emulate Kojima himself. If so, that's quite a big leap of faith and a huge compliment. Or, it could just be that the movie-loving Koj🐼ima wants to see someone else's interpretation because he could learn from it or appreciate it differently.

Obviously, playing Death Stranding feels like a no-brainer, and Metal Gear Solid is a good way to get into the mind of Kojima and understand how he sees the world. Maybe the Metal Gear games are just too different from Death Stranding, and Kojima didn't want the director to be influenced into a more action-hea💮vy style?

In the meantime, check out everything we know about Death Stranding 2.

Despite being in the Silent Hill canon, this will be a new story that takes us away from the mainstay of the series' iconic small-town setting of Maine, USA, for the first time. In fact, we're heading to 1960s Japan, no doubt bringing the story more in line with the densely atmospheric cinematic horrors that the region is known for. We'll be taking on the role of Hinako, and with its appearance during Summer Game Fest, we also know it promises to be more action-oriented than last year's 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Silent Hill 2 remake.

From everything we've seen so far, it's quickly shaping up to be one of the most exciting 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:upcoming horror games, and with a September release, it's also one of the biggest 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:new games for 2025 headed our way. For a full recap of everything we know so far about♚ Silent Hill f, read on below.

Silent Hill f release date confirmed

Silent Hill f is set to release on September 25, 2025.

The release date was revealed during our very first look at♎ Silent Hill f in action during aꦚ gameplay trailer in the State of Play June showcase. Konami also confirmed following the showcase that its a standalone spinoff that can be enjoyed by those new to the series, but there will be plenty of Easter eggs for longtime fans, too.

Silent Hill f platforms

It's been confirmed that Silent Hill f will launch on PC, Xbox Series X, and PS5!

Having an Xbox confirmation is big news, especially considering how the 2024 Silent H𝄹ill 2 Remake was a PC an🌱d PlayStation exclusive. It also seems like every gamer will have access to the title on day one, as no exclusivity deals have been mentioned either. Currently, you can already wishlist the title on your platform of choice!

What platform we are still waiting on, however, is the Switch and Switch 2. We are holding out hope that Silent Hill f gets added to our list of 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:upcoming Switch 2 games in the future. But as it currently stands, Nintendo is avoiding all the nightmares and mayhem for now. We'll keep you posted if any news heads our way. In the meantime, if you need something to hold you over while you wait for a release, you can also check out our list of the 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:best Silent Hill games to play today.

Silent Hill f trailer

PlayStation revealed🍎 a new Silent Hill f trailer in March 2025 and its a dozy. Running for almost four minutes long we are treated to cinematic shots of the game's setting, the fictional town of Ebisugaoka, Japan, and we get to meet our protagonist, the high school student Hinako Shimizu.

The town is ominous from the get-go 💟in the trailer, immersed in a thick fog that soon has Hinako wandering around empty streets. However, things really kick off when we spot some Red Spider Lilies blooming (you know that flower that symbolizes death?). Hinako is transported to another plane of existence, walking through a temple that seems to be filled with a myriad of monsters.

While not much is given away in terms of story, the trailer does 💙promise one thing: expect to be creeped out. If you doubt that fact, make sure you rewatch the last few seconds of the teaser above, they end things with a gruesome punch as Hinako's skin starts peeling off her face. Delightful!

Silent Hill f story and setting

Silent Hill f is an original story, meaning that you won't need to have played any of the previous games in the series ahead of its release. It's also the first Silent Hill game to give us a story set i😼n Japan! That's right; we are moving away from the titular New England town seen in Konami's past main-line entries to a new continent.

During this upcoming horror game, you'll be navigating the Japanese town of Ebisugaoka during the 1960s. A fun fact: the town of Ebisugaoka is based⛄ on a real place called Kanayama, Gero, in the Gifu Prefecture. Written by Japanese author and artist Ryukishi07, the story of Silent Hill f will follow the high schooler Hinako Shimizu, who liv🗹es an ordinary life until a mysterꦍious fog engulfs her town and begins to change it in horrific ways.

Along with the foggy town, the teaser for Silent Hill f, shows Hinako being transported to shrines that echo the game's Japanese setting, diving into some mythology and history as well. From the trailer, we know that there will be some psychological elements at play throughout Hinako's journey as well. The teaser has a voice-over asking us if we "want to stay with our friends forever" before discussing how they may betray us and that it's up to us to decide their 🍬worth.

We're ♈excited to see if there will be any more information on the story or Silent Hill f's monsters in the future. But for now, it's thrilling enough to see a Silent Hill entry not set in the United States for once.𒊎 We'll keep you posted as more news heads our way!

Silent Hill f gameplay

Like every other Silent Hill game, Silent Hill f is a surviv𝐆al horror game that will have you solving puzzles and trying not to die as gruesome monsters wand🅠er around the map, poised to kill you if given the chance.

You will have to guide Hinako through the monster-infested town and will likely have to find certain keys or solve riddles to move💙 through areas of the fogged-up map. Combat will also be a part of the upcoming game, as the Silent Hill f description (via ) mentions Hinako "fighting strange enemies and doing everything she can to survive."

We got our first official look at gameplay during the 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:State of Play June 2025 showcase (which you can watch above). After speaking with a friend, we see how꧙ things suddenly take a dark and mysterious turn when monsters start to appear. We get to follow Hinako as she faces some incredibly unsettling, scarecrow-like figures that stalk towards her with unnatural twisting limbs.

In an official following the showcase, Konami producer Motoi Okamoto detailed the team's approach for Silent Hill f's feel and gameplay, revealing that the "puzzles are grounded in psychological anguish and suff🌳ering. These are deeply connected to the story by scriptwriter Ryukishi07, as well as elements of Japanese culture, ౠsuch as scarecrows".

Okamoto also adds that the game "features unique combat", and the "encoun♚ters are as challenging as obstacles Hinako must overcome in life". With a heavier focus on melee, which is definitely shown off in the trailer as Hinako fights off enemies in close-quarters combat with steel pipe-like weapons, Silent Hill f is also said to "be more action-oriented compared to last year's Silent Hill 2.

For more, check out our selection of the 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:best survival games to🌞 play today while you wai🧜t for Silent Hill f to arrive.

Can you pre-order Silent Hill f?

Yes! Currently, pre-orders are live for physical copies of Silent Hill f on PS5 and Xbox Series X.

The game is currently up on Amazon and Best Buy's (for US readers) storefronts. At the time of writing, there is only one𒐪 edition🎐 of the game available, and it costs $69.99/ £69.99.

No digital pre-order is live yet, so if you are a PC player, you'll have to wait a tad bit longer. The good news is, that you can still wishlist the game (via ꦉ) so that you can easily keep track of it when digital pre-orders do eventually go live.

For more future releases, check out our guides on all the 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:upcoming PS5 games and 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:upcoming Xbox Series X games racing towards us.

With early impressions painting the picture of a remake that captures the𓂃 experience of th🌟e original, it already looks like longtime fans are in for a treat, and with f🦹resh modes and more rounding out the adventure, it promises to be a great way for newcomers to experience the iconic stealth game.

With one of the 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:best game stories - even if it is pretty complex - and lots of bells and whistles that will bring it into the modern era, it's quickly shaping up to be one of the biggest 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:new games for 2025. With more trailers giving us a look at gameplay, fr♈esh details dropping about a new mode, and more, read on below for a full recap of everything we know so far a😼bout Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater.

Metal Gear Solid 3 remake release date

The Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater release dat꧟e is August 28, 2025. That means we on🌜ly have a few months left of waiting, folks.

This Metal Gear Solid 3 remake has been a long time coming, as well. The title was initially announced in 2023 with a 2024 launch window. However, the upcoming game was pushed back, leaving fans wondering about the new Metal Gear remake for a few months. With the wait almost over, now is the perfect time to check out our list of the 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:best stealth games of all ꦜtime to get you back into the 🤪sneaking mood.

Metal Gear Solid 3 remake platforms

Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater will be launching on PS5, Xbox Series X, and PC when August 28 comes around this year. Like most big game releaඣses, console fans can also expect to see a physical💛 release of the title on launch day. However, PC players will only have a digital copy of the Metal Gear Solid 3 remake available to them.

The game will also be available for PS5 Pro players as it's officially on the list of 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:PS5 Pro-enhanced games over at Sony. So, yeah, there are plenty of choices for you platform-wise. If you're looking for more details on Sony's latest console before picking up this game, you can check out our 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:PS5 Pro review for more details!

Metal Gear Solid 3 remake pre-orders

The good news is that Metal Gear S🥃olid Delta: Snake Eater pre-orders are now live on Steam and both PlayStation and Microsoft's storefronts. Pre-ordering the standard edition of the game will cost you $69.99/ £69.99, while pre-orderi🍌ng the deluxe edition will run you $79.99/£79.99.

The deluxe edition will give you access ꦏto the game two days ahead of the base release date, meaning you can start playing on August 26. It also comes with the "Sneaking DLC pack" which includes a handful of cosmetic items such as new uniforms and equipment for Snake.

Below is a liꦓst of everything included in the Sneaking DLC pack:

• Battle Dress - Uniform
• Sneaking Suit ​- Uniform
• Crocodile Suit​ - Uniform
• Naked (Woodland) - Uniform
• Naked (Ammunition Belt) - Uniform
• Gold - Uniform
• Face: Glasses - Face
• Face: Sunglasses -Face
• Kerotan Mask - Equipment
• GA-KO Mask - Equipment

Metal Gear Solid 3 remake trailer

There have been several Metal Gear Solid 3 remake trailers, but the latest showing came during the 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:PlayStation State of Play June 2025 showcase during Summer Game Fest. In it, we get to see some gameplay in action, with Snake sneaking in various ways up above and low to the ground - we even see him the water (complete ♍with a crocodile disguise). Of course, the signature box makes an appearance, too.

Metal Gear Solid 3 remake gameplay

Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater is a stealth acti✅on game that will primarily stick to the gameplay of the original PlayStation 2 game. You'll be sneaking through forests and bases, taking down guards, and trying to fight off the🐟 subordinates of the Boss.

In the trailer shown during the 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Fe෴bruary 2025 PlayStation State of🅠 Play showcase, we also saw Snake using some martial arts to overpower a guard. This i🌠ndicates that "close-quarters combat" or 🎉"CQC" - aka the hand-to-hand combat system from the original game- is making a comeback in this remake as well.

In terms of new features in Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater, the big difference is visuals. The remake looks stunning, and cut scenes fee𓃲l dynamic as they allow you to zoom in and out of each 4K scene with ease. The PlayStation 2's original control scheme, which, let's be honest, was far from perfect, has had an overhaul in Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater as well, along with animations getting a fresh coat of paint as well.

As our hands-on Meta﷽l Gear So♔lid Delta: Snake Eater preview (which you can watch in video form above) of the game points out, in terms of remakes, it takes more of a purist approജach. It makes quality-of-life improvements and upgrades the visuals, however, the o𝓡riginal's gameplay and core story are largely untouched.

Another fun gameplay feature that's returning in the remake is that PS5 players will have an Ape Escape mode where Snake has to chase and catc♋h cartoonish monkeys with a habit of mocking you across the map. This mode is, of course, from the Metal Gear cross-over with the Ape Escape games. However, Xbox players won't be ♛getting to experience this since Ape Escape is a Sony Property.

Instead, Xbox players 🙈will be getting a mode with a Bomberman crossover. We're still waiting on news reg✨arding what PC players ꧂will be getting here, so stay tuned as more details head our way.

Metal Gear Solid 3 remake online multiplayer

During the showcase, a Metal Gear Sold Delta Snake Eater online multiplayer mode 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:was revealed. Called Fox Hunt, the new, original m🐬ode is said to broaden "the franchises core stealth element where players must utilize their environments to camouflage and evade opposing players".

Fox Hunt producer Yu Sahara spoke on the online multiplayer mode for Snake Eater, and put emphasis on the fact that will many will think on Metal Gear Online, this is very much it's own an original experience, sayin🎃g that "the landscape of multiplayer games has changed a lot since MGO".

Metal Gear Solid 3 remake development

The big question on 🎃everyone's mind about Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater's development is whether Metal Gear creator Hideo Kojima was involved in the project after he publicly split with Konami. Well, we're here to set the record straight. Kojima Productions is not involved with the new Metal Gear remake.

The title is instead being handled by Konami's internal developer, Konami Digital Entertainment, and Virtuos (who has co-developed titles such as the Final Fantasy X/X-2 HD Remaster and Assassin's Creed Liberation Remastered). Despite the fact that neither Kojima nor original artist Yoji Shinkawa is involved in the new game, Konami has made sure to stick to a fait🍒hful adaptation of the original game. The Metal Gear official Twitter account reaffirmed this point in a post, explaining how it led to the game's name "Metal Gear Solid Delta".

"The Delta symbol (Δ) was chosen because its meaning🍰 fits the concept of the remake project," the official Metal Gear account clarified. "Delta means 'change' or 'di𝓰fference' without changing structure."

Metal Gear Soli𓂃d Delta: Snake Eater is also the first Metal Gear game not to use Fox Engine - which was a proprietary game engine by Konami. Instead, the game uses Unreal Engine 5. It's an end of an era, folks!

For more future titles, check out our guides on all the 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:upcoming Hideo Kojima games and all the澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询: new PS5 games heading our way.

As one of the most estab♐lished developers, Kojima is best known as the creator and director of the Metal Gear series, but he's also has credits working on a plethora of games over the years, from directing classics like Snatcher and the Policenauts, to producing Konami's Zone of the Enders and MercurySteam's Castevania reboot. Not to mention Kojima also got game design credits under his belt for Boktai: The Sun, and who could forget the horror direction he may have gone in P.T. and Silent Hills.

Alongside some PlayStation exclusives, we also have a very curious 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:upcoming Xbox Series X game in developm🌞ent fꦿrom Kojima Productions. With plenty to look forward to, read on below to find a full recap of everything you need to know about all of the upcoming Hideo Kojima games that have been revealed.

Death Stranding 2: On the Beach

Developer: Kojima Productions
Platform(s): PS5
Release date: June 26, 2025

Following the success of 2019's 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Death Stranding, Kojima Productions is embarking on a sequel for its experimental action-adventure experience. Death Stranding 2: On the Beach is set to land on PS5 in 2025, with Hideo Kojima reprising his roles as writer, pro൲ꦇducer, and creative director on the project.

Death Stranding 2 sees Sam Porter Bridges (played by a returninꦚg Norman Reedus)👍 look beyond the UCA and set out on a new journey to save humanity from extinction, questioning the decision to foster greater connections between the remnants of human civilization every step of the way. Expect another adventure filled with high-strangeness, weird otherworldly enemies, and the sort of cinematic production values that Kojima has become so synonymous with delivering.

OD

Developer: Kojima Productions
Platform(s): Xbox Series X
Release date: TBC

While Death Stranding would eventually land on PC and Xbox Series X, Hideo Kojima has been primarily working in collaboration with publisher Sony Interactive Entertainment ever since his splinter with Konami in 2019. That's all set to change with OD, an 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:upcoming horror game that's being made in partnership with 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Xbox Game Studios. We know that Hideo Kojima will serve as writer, director, and producer of this new creative endeavor as he explor𒆙es "what it me﷽ans to overdose on fear."

Get Out and Us director Jordan Peel has also contꦬributed aꦍs a writer on the project, and more 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:big names are said to be attached to the game that haven't been revealed just yet. OD remains something of a mys🍷tery, but we know that Kojima is leveraging Xbox's Cloud Gaming technology to "take on the challenge of creating a very unique, immersive, and totally new style of game" that he has tapped actors Sophia Lillis🐓 Hunter Schafer, and Udo Kier to star in.

Physint 

Developer: Kojima Productions
Platform(s): PS5
Release date: TBC

Once Hideo Kojima is clear of his commitments with Death Stranding 2 and OD, the famed creator will be making his "return to the action-espionage genre" with Physint. Announced in January 2024, there is very little known about this new action-espionage game – you know, the genre that Kojima helped pioneer through his Metal Gear series – although it will be a 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:PS5 exclusive.

The collaboration was announced by Hermen Hulst, the head of PlayStation Studios, with Kojima going on to note that this will be a brand new IP and that it will be the "culmination" of his work in the industry thus far, blending "cutting-edge technology and talent from around the world to create it." In fact, Kojima said it will "transcend the barrier between films and🌊 video games", and later teased you co𝓰uld be m🐈istaken for watching a movie while playing it. It's intriguing stuff, but we'll likely be in for quite a wait for it to arrive, with the director stating 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:it's still another five or sixꦕ years away.

Death Stranding: Director's Cut is considered to be one of the 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:best PS5 games to play right now. Go check it out, or go back to our original 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Death Stranding review to learn more about the game while we wait for the sequel.

Granted, some of these landed better than others. But following a year where major remakes were king, I've seen a lot more going on in the realm of new horror IPs, daring sequels, and retro indies that have me most excited for the 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:upcoming horror games of 2025. It all comes down to the fact that risk is the secret sauce that keeps the genre in a constant state of growth. The need to "play it safe" can throttle horror, keeping it rooted in time instead of evolving with the people who play it. My top three horror games of the year – 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Slitterhead, 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Silent Hill 2, and Senu꧋a's Saga: Hellblade 2 – prove this point in very different ways.

Roads untaken

One sequel, one new property, and one remake of a survival horror classic. That's an easy summary of how each of the above games feed into 2024'💫s diverse horror portfolio. It's not the novelty factor that stands out to me, though, but how the developers of each one sought to push the genre beyond its existing boundar༒ies by taking necessary risks.

As said in my 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Hellblade 2 review, Ninja Theory's haunting cinematic sequel pushes the technological limits of what the Xbox Series X is capable of. It's both a video game and a narrative experience, putting greater emp🐎hasis on the latter at times to create what many might (incorrectly) dismiss as a horror walking simulator with combat encounters. This is not necessarily a huge risk, seeing as Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice follows a similar puzzle-centric structure, but the fact that so many hold that design factor against it is a point of interest to me.

Hellblade never pretended to be 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:God of War or 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Assassin's Creed Valhalla. It is neither a Viking action game nor a Norse god power fantasy, but a deeply harrowing character study of a mentally ill woman facing horrors inside and out. I was glad to see Ninja Theory doubles down on those themes further in Hellblade 2, proving something poignant: horror is not meant to be approachable and easy to digest. It doesn't always have to be a high-octane combat thriller like the 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:best survival horror games. Horror can have powerful, human stories as a central driving force, and there are too few of such games out there right now. By refusing to conform to genre conventions, Hellblade 2 stands out as one of the most importan🍸t horror games in recent years – and there's nothing "safe🃏" about it.

Underdogs

That said, Hellblade 2 was💖 a known quantity from a Microsoft-owned developer, and thereby affords itself a degree of preconceived quality. The same cannot be said of November release Slitterhead, a fresh horror IP from a b꧒rand new studio.

Composed of ex-Team Silent creatives Keiichiro Toyama and Akira Yamaoka, Bokeh Game Studios' maiden voyage already had me chomping at the bit when Slitterhead was first announced in 2021. I had no idea what to expect of this grisly body horror game then, and nothing could prepare me for just 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:how unique an experience it turned out to be.

Slitterhead's abject refusal to follow horror norms of any kind is largely what sold me oಌn it, its dynamic combat system bolstered by a '90s neo-noir sci-fi narrative that always zigged when I thought it would zag. Much like Hellblade 2, Slitterhead wasn't the sleeper hit I considered it to be. But all of Bokeh's risks paid off to deliver a truly singular horror game, one that I can see finally getting recognition years from now when a slew of YouTube videos entitled "BIGGEST MISSED HORROR GEM OF 2024?" inevitably pop up.

Present from the past

On the other side of the risk-taking coin, we have Silent Hill 2. As a remake of a beloved classic horror game, the pre-release concerns were absolutely rife; from asinine griping over 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:character remodelling to just how faithful Bloober Team would be to its source material, there was plenty more bad sentiment than good floating around it ear♓lier this year. But Silent Hill 2 wowed critics and the public alike. Its biggest risk? Modernizing the gameplay in line with the third-person perspective popularized by the ꧟Resident Evil remakes.

In hindsight, making adjustments to conform with an industry standard is perhaps the least risky thing Bloober Team could do – what else is the purpose of a remake, after all? – but in reality, the decision carried a lot of weight. The fixed camera angles fed into the constant terror of the original, with something always lurking just beyond the player's field of vision. All other changes were💃 made to accommodate this perspective shift, from more complex combat to reworked puzzles, expanded world exploration, and monster functionality itself. In a way, Konami took a risk not by ꧙innovating on the horror genre, but by rebuilding its most iconic game for an extremely critical audience and daring to stand by its decisions꧒.

As 2025 looms in the shadows, promising a host of brand new nightmares like Directive 8020, I'm more optimistic than ever for this risk-taking trend to persist. Even games that fall flat of the mark feed into the evolution of the genre as a whole, stoking the decades-long cyc🌟le of invention and reinvention that keeps horror games – much like Frankenstein'💛s monster – very much alive indeed.

From shooters to zombies, here are the 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:best horror games to play next.

Right now, Silent Hill 2 is , as a 17% discount has slashed $69.99 MSRP. In the grand scheme of things, $10 off might not seem like a great 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Black Friday PS5 deals out there. However, it's worth remembering this hor⛦ror remake has only been on shelves for little over a month, so any discount at all is a big deal. While Woot is an Amazon-owned site, the game is currently just , making this deal even more lucra꧂tive for horror game fans.

Physical PS5 games slowly drop in price all the time, so you could wait a 🔥little longer before picking up Silent Hill 2. However, that could take some time. Tekken 8, which landed on the console at the start of the year, didn't see its first major price drop until four months later. Insteℱad of waiting, you can always pick up Silent Hill 2 at Woot while stocks last, so you don't experience the horrors of missing out on this early Black Friday deal.

Should you buy Silent Hill 2 (2024)?

The Halloween season may be over, but it's always a great time to have some spooky fun on the PS5. Especially if that fun is a remake one of the greatest horror experiences you can experience in video game form. The original game was released 23 years ago, much to the dismay of my pensioner-gamer mindset. As of typing, my original PS2 copy is still amongst my PlayStation game library, sitting snugly between Rule of Rose and my other horror games that are likely worth more than every piece of Sony hardware I own.

While the original game still holds up well two decades later, not all of us have the means to drag out a PS2. (Or want to experience the comic sans delights of the PS3 remaster) - which is where Blooper Team's 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Silent Hill 2 comes in. The PS5 game takes the unnerving psychological horrors of James Sunderland's foggy adventures searching for his wife Mary and transforms it for a new generation of fans. Everything from the creepy nurse monsters, the red pyramid thing, the decaying and maze-like Wood Side Apartments, and the dog ending have returned.

With the holidays coming up, you may be in the mood for something a lot more festive and a lot less terrifying. However, if any of your loved ones grew up with the Silent Hill franchise, this w💎ould make for one ideal gift for the holidays especially if you can save $10 off. Sadly, I cannot sing the praises of the remake myself as🎃 even I asked for it as a gift this year. I just hope Santa's also been told about its current discount on Woot.

For even more discounts check out our 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Black Friday PS5 deals hub where there's already a plethora of console, game, and accessory deals to be grabbed. If the PS5 isn't your jam, our 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Black Friday Xbox deals and 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Black Friday Nintendo deals are sure to have something that'🦹ll take your fܫancy.

But rather than give the fans what they were desperate for, Kojima Productions once again flipped the script. Not only were you not playing as Solid Snake again, but you wouldn't even get a follow-up to Metal Gear Solid 2's wild e🌳nding. And thank god it did. 

Instead of dealing with the proxy wars, cyborg ninjas, and memes of the mid-2000's Metal Gear Solid 3 takes things 40 years into the past – all the way back to the '60s, following🌺 the legendary Big Boss on one of his earliest missions during the height of the Cold War. And yet, despite ditching everything that had happened in the series until that point, Snake Eater infiltrated the series to become the perfect Metal Gear Solid game.

 Remember the Alamo 

Think back to infiltrating that moody Alaskan military base at the start of Metal Gear Solid. Colonel Campbell informs Snake that he is all alone; there's no backup coming, and any weapons or equipment he can use for the mission he has to procure in that base. Metal Gear Solid 3 ope🌟ns in a similar way, besides trading out a stocked military stronghold for the jungle. Aside from a few basics, Snake has to find his own food, be his own medic, and once again find any equipment necessary to complete the mission – which isn't quite as plentiful in the swamps of the Soviet Union. Worst of all, if an American 🦂agent is spotted on Russian soil, the Cold War will erupt into World War 3. 

While Metal Gear Solid and its sequel both took place indoors for the most part, Snake Eater's jungle adds a whole extra layer to stealth and infiltration, which expands on the ideas found in the prior games. No longer can you just stand behind some convenient boxes or a wall; all you have is nature to protect you. This felt like a true evolution of the stealth genre and would ultimately be the blueprint that later game𝄹s followed. No longer was it a game about blocks and corridors; you had to become hyper aware of your surroundings to have a chance at survival.

Metal Gear Solid 3 introduced so many mechanics that would be 👍meaningfully expanded on in later games, like CQC, Camo, and having to adapt your approach to specific areas – whether that's silently taking down one enemy after another, creating distractions to allow you to sneak by, or (worst case scenario) start blasting. These may have been perfected in The Phantom Pain, but they were here a decade prior. 

But at the same time, Metal Gear Solid 3 – despite the massive shakeup in your surroundings – still felt in line with the PS1 classic. It was one long infiltration compared to the globe-trotting adventure of Metal Gear Solid 4. As much as I adore playing Metal Gear Solid 5, the mission-based structure took a lot of the impact out of the stealth. No longer were you stranded in enemy territory, you could call in ammo, allies, or a chopper to bomb the area while blasting Gloria by Laura Brannigan. The upcoming remake Metal Gear Solid Delta doesn't seem to stray too far from the original, but I do fear that making Snake the superhuman he was in The Phantom Pain could negatively impact the fine balance the origin▨al Snake Eater struck. 

Too pure for us Cobras 

There's a cutscene very early on in Metal Gear Solid 3; you're walking through the jungle when you reach a canyon with a bridge. Snake pulls out his binoculars to scope out the area when he notices a lone guard with a beehive above him. The camera pulls out to reveal that Snake has a massive shit-eating grin on his face. On the surface this just feels like a bit of comedy to alert the player to make use of their surroundings. And it is. But it's also a look into what this game could give us that Metal Gear Solid 1 and 2 didn't – emotion. Naked Snake isn't a genetically enhanced super-soldier designed specifically for warfare like Solid Snake was, nor was he the grizzled veteran he becomes by Metal Gear Solid 5. Naked Sna🦋ke is just a man, and the writing team took full advantage of this. 

Metal Gear Solid 1 and 2 did have emotional moments, but🔯 they were mainly at the expense of Solid Snake's companion Otacon and those around him. Solid Snake was almost robotic at times. Naked Snake, on the other hand, is incredibly affected by the events going on around him. Take Eva. She's presented as Snake's love interest throughout the game. While Solid Snake was always presented as cool, collected, and often flirty, Naked Snake is just an awkward dude. Eva will obviously make moves on Snake while he's rambling on about how cool he thinks her gadgets are (relatable). But she has her own mission, and is able to emotionally manipulate him throughout the story in service of it. 

Meanwhile, Naked Snake's mentor: The Boss – who taught him everything he knows – defects to the Soviet Union, betraying the US, the mission, and Snake himself. A mere week later he's sent back into the jungle where he failed, on a mission to assassinate his mentor as a show of good faith from the US to Russia. Over the course of thisꦿ game we see Snake broken down from a keen soldier to the disillusioned man who would later abandon the US to create his own PMC. This culminates in an emotional final confrontation between Snake and The Boss. It was the first time I ever cried playing a game, and it still hits me hard every time I replay it. 

Later Metal Gear Solid games tried to go for 'the feels' – Metal Gear Solid 4 in particular felt like emotional torture at points from what it put its characters through – but none were quite as impactful as seeing this fresh-faced Snake go through the biggest trial of his life. Metal Gear Solid has always been a bombastic series full of silly, over-the-top characters; Snake Eater is no different with bosses ranging from the guy who shoots be💎es at you to a guy who can inexplicably harness electricity. Kojima Productions even threw in the grandpa of that guy with chronic IBS for good measure. It balanced the moments of levity so well in what is𓆏 at its core a heartbreaking story.

Metal Gear Solid has never been quite as personal as it was with Snake Eater. 🐼Its mechanics make you feel more alone than ever, while the story digs deep into a very human character that's stuck in a mission w🏅ith world-ending consequences. It takes minutes for Naked Snake to descend from the skies and land in Tselinoyarsk – but the aftermath of that iconic HALO jump made an impact that's lasted decades.

Check out our Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater Remake preview for more.

That's why Capcom took a gamble when it decided to remake its most famous game ever. Thankfully, when Resident Evil 2 Remake landed in 2019, it pretty much wrote the book on how to remake one of the 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:best survival horror games of all time. It's✃ all about a fine balance of innovation, homage, and evolution – and with Silent Hill 2 Remake now launching to similar acclaim, it demonstrates how both Konami and Capcom went about the act in two different ways. You don't even need to play the games in full to see what I&ap𒊎os;m talking about. The evidence can be found in the first half hour of each.

Worlds apart

Resident Evil 2 is flat-out iconic. Leon Kennedy and Claire Redfield's first foray onto our consoles was atmospheric and creepy enough back in 1998, building the air of suspense and horror that went on to edify its place among the survival horror greats. But in its 2019 remake, Capcom went the extra mile to pad the ex𒀰perience out further still by adding something very important: context. Both games begin, more or less, with a man in a truck. The original sees the trucker driving alone while grumbling to no one in particular, staunching a wound and complaining about the nasty bite he just received. But in the remake, we get to see how this man got bitten in t🉐he first place.

A conversation on a radio talk show about a man getting attacked himself is interspersed with the trucker chowing down 🦩a grey-tinged hamburger, foreshadowing the zombie-infested streets of Raccoon City before we even see them. When he accidentally runs over one of said zombies and gets out of the car to help her, his fate is sealed. Even tiny moments like these feel important to Resident Evil 2 Remake. Brave, even, considering that Capcom was reworking the most famous Resi game ever, showing no qualms about expanding 🌌on its work at the same time. Capcom wanted to take time setting the scene, giving us some more exposition before introducing Leon, and it absolutely pays off.

The effect is that Resident Evil 2 Remake doesn't come across like a beat-for-beat copy of the original game, but an honest move to evolve it. We see this commitment to subtle yet meaningful changes again in Leon's introduction. Both games see him pulling up to an abandoned gas statiಌon – in his civvies in the remake, rather than already kitted out in his RCPD uniform. Upon hearing a strange noise, though, the 2019 version has Leon venture inside to investigate. Not only does this open up more of the world surrounding Raccoon City for the player to examine, giving us a greater understanding of its inhabitants as well as a richer sense of place, but it teaches us more about our playable character. Leon is a courageous rookie cop, sure, but his frequent expletive cries also prove him absolutely terrified – though Capcom makes sure to signpost that he's still the same flashy bastard we know and love from the original, as he orders Claire to "get down" b🎉efore shooting the lunging zombie behind her square between the eyes. All of this happens in the first ten minutes of Leon's path A variant, and already, it's doing everything a remake should: innovating with something new, evolving what's already there, and paying homage to the brilliance that came before.

Deja-view from the bridge

Silent Hill 2, on the other hand, feels a little more hesitant. Where Resident Evil 2 Remake allows for moments of complete newness, reframing and expanding upon its narrative to add as well as recreate, developer Bloober Team goes easy on the newness in the name of accuracy. Aside from some clever Easter eggs, Silent Hill 2 is such a faithful remake that it shies away from adding almost any new context clues or narrative threads to its mysterious world, preferring instead to flesh out existing details lifted from ꦡthe 2001 original and translating them to Capcom's third-person actio💛n perspective as popularized by the RE2 Remake. 

Again, we see as much in Silent Hill 2's opening salvo. From the grimy public bathroom to the letter from Mary, Bloober's commitment to source text loyalty has been acknowledged and appreciated by ardent fans. Everything about the first half hour plays out almost identically to the original, with the exception of some new puzzles and areas of exploration. While these moments do help situate the game,  giving the town distinct a personality as we uncover more of its nooks and crannies, they feel more decorative than active. I don't feel I understand James any better than I did before. I don't feel the world of Silent Hill 2 has changed or evolved since 2001. Nothing is ostensibly new to me in💟 Silent Hill 2 Remake, and if that level of content preservation was kind of the whole point, then Bloober smashed it out the park

I understand the hesitation on Bloober and Konami's side when it comes to rejigging anything from the original. The hair-trigger sensitivities of Silent Hill 2's passionate fanbase makes touching anything at all a bit of a risk. You only need to look at the discourse surrounding Mary's wardrobe change and 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Angela's character model to see how much this game means to its fans, and there's something refreshing about how both Konamꩵi and Bloober Team resp෴ect them so much. 

Silent Hill 2 is a remake in its purest form, down to a 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:shot-for-shot story trailer. It's the ultimate homage to its source material, so much so that it purposely sidesteps the need to evolve or innovate. On the other hand, Resident Evil 2 Remake ambitiously pushes all three factors for a very different mix. Neither 💝is the right or wrong way to concoct a survival ho♚rror remake, necessarily, but it never ceases to fascinate me how malleable the horror genre can be – especially when it comes to reworking the greats. 

There's plenty more where Silent Hill 2 came from on our list of 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:upcoming horror games to watch for this year and beyond.

I'm happy to report that James Sunderland's revamped nightmare is no exception to the rule. It might be operating on a more simplistic level to the action-forward likes of 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Resident Evil 4 Remake, but after getting familiar with two key weapons during my 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Silent Hill 2 Remake preview session, I'm officially sold. It just goes to show that even with the remake renaissance hailing the return of the 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:best survival horror games, to varying degrees of like-for-like accuracy, some things are better left in the past. Even if, according to Silent Hill 2's key productio♚n team, the game's refined combat system is not meant to be central to it.

Never (bul)let me go

I'm pacing through the decayed dereliction of the Wood Side and Blue Creek Apartments respectively, nothing but four handgun bullets and a trusty plank of wood at my side. Tell-tale radio static buzzes in my ear, louder and louder as I round a corner and prepare to meet…well, something. The experience is made all the more immersive for Silent Hill 2 Remake's over-the-shoulder viewpoint. Hallways fe🌸el narrower from this angle, the walls ever threatening to close in on James as he systematically throws himself against locked door after locked door in search of – OH GOD. 

Suddenly, a spider mannequin leaps out from the shadows and right up into my face. An involuntary scream erupts from my chest as I quickly go about battering the thing with my plank – the only appropriate way to thank it for the jumpscare. Once I've furiously coughed up my own swallowed tongue, though, I find myself breaking out into a proud smile. This is exactly what I'm talking about, Bloober Team.

The third person perspective lends itself so well to shooter and melee combat encounters that it really can't be overstated how much of an impact it has on the gameplay experience. At a base level, it proves to me that Bloober Team and Konami are serious about adapting the 23-year-old horror game to suit modern genre expectations, even if it means changing up something that once felt so enmꩲeshed with Silent Hill 2 from a stylistic perspective.

But from camera perspective to creature design, Polish developer Bloober Team knew it had to handle Silent Hill 2 Remake with care. "At the very beginning, we didn't💙 want to change anything completely, because we were too afraid of touching the game," lead producer Maciej Głomb said at the media premier Q&A forum. "Especially at the beginning, we had a lot of conversations about characters, about monsters. We got into deep conversations about how we should approach them." 

Before you panic about that approach to changes, you should know that they aren't really that dramatic. In fact, Masahiro Ito clarified at the pr𒁏emiere event that 🌼not only are there "absolutely no brand-new monsters in the game," any and all changes to them were necessary on a mechanical rather than design level. 

"While we have not made any massive changes to all the enemie🌠s that have 🐷been present in the original, we have reworked the combat mechanics, because the combat mechanics were, frankly, not very smooth in the original game," he'd said earlier in the Tokyo event. "While working on the combat, we also decided to add some minor variance – some very visual, slight changes – to all the enemy designs." 

In short: a third-person camera angle necessitates refining the combat style, and a refined comba🌳t style means James and the monsters will ♒fight each other in different ways to accommodate all the changes. As a result, some might look or move differently to how they did in the original. Personally, I'm very much on board with all of the above reworks – granted, I was six when Silent Hill 2 came out in 2001 and felt wholly exasperated by the clunky controls when I eventually played it in my mid-teens. 

But despite all these necessary tweaks, Ito-san has made one thing clear: "this game is not supposed to be oriented heavily toward combat." That is where things start to🐠 make a little less sense to me in terms of what is being said about the Silent Hill 2 Remake versus what it actually feels like.

All bite, no bark

Third-person shooter sensibilities have become a mainstay in modern survival horror's design brief, and with that, I've come to expect a heightened action experience. The gunplay in Silent Hill 2 Remake feels smooth and sharp, the DualSense controller making snappy work of my enemies whether I'm aiming down my sights or walloping a Lying Figure with reckless abandon. I know I can simply creep around these enemies, which is perhaps what Ito-san is getting at, but why on earth would I not wꦚant to make use of this simple yet ext♚remely fun combat system? And why say that this game is not geared towards combat when, for the most part, I feel James is in a state of perma-combat?

Hear me out: I like all the combat, and I like the sense of danger on every corner. It's the same approach I take to Resident Eౠvil, The Evil Within, and indeed any survival horror game I get my hands on. I don't like to leave witnesses, so if the bullet fits the bad guy, you can bet your bottom dollar I'll kill my digital enemies first and ask myself if it was a good use of ammo later. Killing everything is made all the more attractive by the fact that there does not seem to be any weapon degradation system in Silent Hill 2 Remake. That means my faithful wooden plank, bloodied and bent out of shape though it might be, proves reliable whenever I get a bit too trigger-happy. The result? A great many beatings.

I didn't expect it, but the simple pleasures of whaling monsters to death with a wooden plank𒆙 or shooting them in their misshapen ankles are standout factors to me in Silent Hill 2 Remake.  I'm not asking for a Resident Evil 6-style total genre twist further down the line if Silent Hill 3 gets remade, don&a൲pos;t get me wrong. But as Konami and Bloober Team work to bring this dormant series into the 2020s, I think it's okay to enjoy killing monsters in video games again – and it's okay to admit that combat is important to the genre, too.

There's a host of excellent 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:upcoming horror games to watch for this year and beyond, and we've collected them all right here for you.

Their apparent anxiety (and pride) reminds me of something Okamoto-san has just told us, specifically of Konami's initial move to enlist the Polish studio in its remake of the 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:best Silent Hill game ever. "What we wanted to seek in our partner was the strong passion towards the game," he said. "So we had a list of candidates that we were willing to work with, and we reached out [to Bloober Team]. I have first-hand selected them as my own decision." The unfinished game isn't without its hiccups even at this late stage, but that passion Okamoto speaks of is ins🌟tantly palpable.

You promised you'd take me there again someday 

It's clear that the Silent Hill 2 Remake proudly holds tight to what the production teams identified as its core tenets, from its tension and atmosphere, to ܫthe belter of a reworked soundtrack. But the five hours I spent with the game would also go on to unveil a curious sense of hesitancy, constantly pulling it back from being either a totally faithful remake or a brave reimagining entirely.

I'm impressed by plenty of bright spots throughout my hands-on experience, including the game's dynamic third-person movement, refined combat, and expanded exploration zones. So🧸 much so that, even with my concerns at this poi🥃nt in its development, I'm hopeful that Silent Hill 2 Remake may yet make a lasting impression upon modern day survival horror audiences – even if the creative teams sound apologetic for its very existence at times.

Before we get started, Okamoto walks us through the game's nine key new features. We know to expect a thick and realistic blanket of fog enveloping Silent Hill thanks to the game's 4k graphics, including faithful recreations of key locations "down to miniscule items," and facial mo-cap to make cutscenes "as emotional as possible." On the technical side, he also mentions 3D sound design to heighten immersion, an over-the-shoulder third-person camera perspective, reworked combat featuring a dodge mechanic and aiming reticule, remapping of existing enemies, new and expanded areas and puzzles, and the inclusion of all original endings. There will even be some brand new Silent Hill 2 endings that can "only be accessed in New Game+," Bloober Team tells GamesRadar+, though the studio shies away from 🌟revealing more.

Keeping all of th🐓is in mind, I set out on my Silent Hill 2 Remake journey. The game picks up at exactly the same place as the 2001 original, with protagonist James Sunderland arriving at the small, deserted town after receiving a mysterious summons from his supposedly deceased wife. It's charged with as much creeping dread as ever. Th🦂e team discussed making the iconic introduction "more action-heavy," says creative director Lenart, but admits it "did not feel like it was very Silent Hill, and this is why we made the choice to keep it as it was and only pick up the pace after some time."

But after taking my first few steps into the mist, I find myself needing to swap over to performance mode in order to achieve smooth 60 frames-per-second gameplaꦰy. It's a little troubling so close to release, especially with quality mode not seeming🎶 to boost fidelity much at all, though it's possible this is an older build of the game. But even these instances of texture drop-out while staring into the recesses of West Vale's many overfilled dumpsters isn't enough to ruin my day. That's because these opening scenes excel at nailing the atmosphere of Silent Hill as a location, turning it into an expansive, malevolent entity in itself.

It might be more modern than fixed camera angles, but the third-person perspective does nothing to detract from how disorienting it feels not to be able to see more than a foot in front of you. Likewise, don't bother to memorize any of the puzzles and key item locations from the original game – you'll find many of them have been remapped entirely in the remake. Feeling so lost in a world I thought I knew pretty damn well is an appropriately jarring sensation, demonstrating Bloober's understanding of how to create uncanny familiarity that keeps you on your toes. It's something that instantly drew me into Capcom's 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Resident Evil 2 Remake back in 2019, and I'm relieved to see flas🐼hes of brave mechanical innovation in Silent Hill 2 Remake ♋as well.

The addition of a single new puzzle while exploring West Vale, involving a broken record, is an example of this, proving formative in altering my pathing through the town as I'm led on a wayward treasure hunt. Repairing the record and listening to the music triggers a memory, and where does it l🔥ead me? The next main area: Wood Side Apartments. I find it a simple yet effective change to how James makes his way there in the original, but purists may fi🅰nd the tweak too extreme.

Trigger happy

Hardwood plank in-hand, I take on the iconic Lying Figures enemies with relentless aggression. I know I don't need to kill them all – and in some Silent Hill games, you'd be wise not to – but the satisfying thwack of wood against meaty carcass is worth every moment of overkill. The precision element is certainly refreshing in Sil🍃ent Hill 2 Remake, trading the unwieldy clunk of the original's fixed camera angles for a more targeted approach that allows me to off far more monsters than I would playing the original.

The more I play, the more the puzzles ꦕand combat stand out to me as the biggest mechanical strengths of Silent Hill 2 Remake – even if Ito-san insists that "the game is not heavily oriented toward combat." The former is something Lenart is especially proud of himself. "I think we have been able to capture this smooth balance between the memory of the original game and new content that can, I think, surprise the long-time fans of the series," he says of the puzzle and level design reworks.

As a fan of third-person shooters and the way survival horror games have implemented their combat in recent years – 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Alan Wake 2, I'm looking at you – I'm not mad about it. It just give🃏s James more ways to approach a situation, as well as givi❀ng me a fighting chance should I be unable to sneak past a foe.

But with a game like Silent Hill 2, even the smallest of changes are bound to surprise its dedicated fans one way or another. "At the very beginning, we didn't want to change anything completely, because we were too afraid of touching the game," lead producer Głomb admits, acknowledging the risks of remaking such a cult classic video game. "But after time, we saw that we needed to expand on the game in a way that woꦺuld be competitive in this generation of consoles." 

These alterations might not be for everyone, but I find them refreshing. By the time I break into the Blue Creek Apartments, just over three hours into the preview session, I note how well the expanded zones help establish the world of Silent Hill for new and returning players alike. But there was one more surprise in store for me in the form of a nasty new enemy variant, though it's important to note that accoridng to 🔜Ito-san, there are "absolutely no brand new monsters" in the game.

As I aim my flashlight-mounted handgun to help na♐vigate the detritus of the nightmare apartment block, relief floods my body. The coast is somewhat clear, for now. It's a brief respite, because I soon come face to face with the Spider Mannequins. Or as I like to call them: the bane of my absolute stinking life.

I mean that with a lot of love. These monsters scurry across the floor, dodging my painstakingly-timed shots with unfair levels of grace that James can only dream of in his drab khaki raincoat. Mannequins give me the biggest jumpscares of the day, as many a lurking developer unfortunately becomes privy to. Every time I enter a room only to have a mannequin suddenly move in the corner♑, I'm thrown into a fear-fueled frenzy and batter it to death with my melee weapon, hissing the vilest profanity known to the English language to the gleeful titters of Team Silent and company.

Even this rage is borne of love. For all of Silent Hill 2 Remake's reworks to the form, flow, and style of the original, it more than succeeds at delivering a compulsive survival horror experience. Modern flourishes seek to bring it in line with today's genre standards, falling just shy of making any truly huge moves to break with its core conventions while showing new sides to a belov༒ed franchise that's finally emerging from dormancy. Having had a closer look at what Bloober Team is aiming for on October 8, I'm more than ready toဣ give Silent Hill 2 Remake the chance it deserves.

Silent Hill 2 launches on October 8 for PS5 and PC. Check out the other 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:upcoming horror games slated to launch in 2024 and beyond if you already have your eye on the horizon.

This particular collection of PS2 demos covers pretty diverse bases. The campy splash of Silent Hill 3 on the box art is what had initially compelled me to click "buy now", but the games listed in smaller print below that main image surprised me further. Burnout 2: Point of Impact, Baldur's Gate: Dark Alliance, and Virtual Fighter 4 feel like an odd bunch of games to see grouped together, but that is the point of CDs like these, right? Accꩵompanied by an extended developer diary for Enter the Matrix and a Jurassic Park: Operation Genesis trailer, thi𒁏s treasure trove of PS2 game demos held the most bizarre array of promises. Here's why it was well worth £10.

Playing catch-up

It's hard to recall a time before Next Fest and the relative ease and ac🃏cessibility of Steam demos, but in reality, those memories aren't too far off. My PS2 demo disk is a reminder of those times; game demos would come in the post, sellotaped neatly to the cover of a magazine or perhaps tucked into a goodie bag if you're one of the lucky ones whose parents would let you spend your allowance on them.

Perhaps it's because I was 8 y꧑ears old in 2003, but I don't recall ever owning my own magazine demo disks. We just traded CDs on the playground at school, a covert mission that rarely escaped the watchful eyes of our classroom teachers. That's what makes this experience so fascinating to me: I'm finally getting to pr😼etend I was cool and old enough to play PS2 demos back in the early '00s.

I can see the appeal. The overzealous hum of the PS2 springing to life still makes me feel like an excited little kid again. Fuzzy and underexpos♏ed pictures appear on my TV screen, court♈esy of the shaky AVI to HDMI converter I'd also purchased on eBay some five years ago. A suitably gaudy title screen reading G.A.M.E flickers into focus, and after sitting though a few short trailers, I'm ready to pick my demo poison.

Unusual suspects

Black Isle's 2001 offering Baldur's Gate: Dark Alliance is first on the chopping block. I learn the hard wayꦐ that this particular CD (do let me know if it was common in all demo disks) likes to boot✨ me back to the title screen after 30 seconds of inactivity, so I know I have to make my time count. 

I spawn into the cellar of the Elfsong Tavern, a location I recognize from 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Baldur's Gate 3 no doubt, and I'm actually quite impressed with how easy it is to navigate. For the purposes of this demo, my level one elven sorcerer must smash a bunch of crates and use magic or melee to fend off any rodent⛄s in her path. It's kitschy and simple enough to be fun for about five minutes

Next up, I turn my attention to what was intended to be my piece de resistance. Scuzzy indie rock indicates an Akira Yamoka special, underscoring a lengthy Silent Hill 3 trailer as the demo starts up. We begin at Lakeside Amusement Park, creepy and abandoned and adorned with many a Robbie 🦩the Rabbit d☂olls. The puzzles here are few and far between, more like a walking simulator to get the player used to the game's fixed camera angles and combat elements. The first thing I do? Change the controls from 3D to 2D mapping, because there is no way I am getting out of this alive otherwise. 

I am also thrilled to find that I can swap out Heather's useless knife for a fully loaded SMG immediately, which I happily introduce to the rabid dogs in my path. Unfortunately, the demo only takes me as far as the cutscene after Heather is ostensibly run over by a rollercoaster – occupational hazard of walking on the tracks, I guess. Still, this brief taster is rife with the moody, ominous atmosphere that makes Konami's survival horror franchise such an iconic one. Water drips from a pipe somewhere – or is it blood? – as the metallic groan of machinery yawns in the distance. I can only hope that 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Silent Hill 2 is able to capture this sense of stark isolation and fear, but truth be told, it felt amazing 🙈to experience the series' third instalment on its original hardware like this.

Feeling a bit dejected by the unexpected brevity of my Silent Hill 3 taster, I decide to op༺t for one more demo. Somehow, Burnout 2: Point of Imp🗹act is exactly the tonic I need. 

Its bright colors and fast-paced rock soundtrack are a far cry from the bleak darkness of Silent Hill 3, and suddenly I remember why I adored playi⛦ng Burnout Paradise so much. The aim of the game isn't to beat your car up here, though. It's a racing game, and every time you crash, you simply restart. There's a sense of mindless, repetitive comfort generated in Burnout 2 that compels me to play the demo for about thirty minutes more than you're probably meant to. The only notes I took? "Super fun. I suck at it."

If this demo CD has taught me anything, it's that those who regularly got their hands on these disks back in the day are a lucky, lucky bunch. There's still something so exciting about physi꧒cal media when it comes to video games, the feeling of cracking open a DVD case and spinning the disk on your fingertip for a moment, carefully checking its reflective underside for scuffs or scratches. I don't get to experience it often, as almost all of my games are digital🐼 copies these days, but I'm already feeling that tell-tale mental tug toward the start of yet another arbitrary collection. If you need me, I'll be scouring eBay for more forgotten PS2 demos.

Some want GTA 6 to go dark and gritty – but after 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:replaying Vice City on PS2, I hope Rockstar doesn't lose its sense of humor

With the 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Summer Game Fest schedule promising a host of reveals and announcements in the coming days, I'm hoping to rediscover the hype. We've already gotten a closer look at Bloober Team's Silent Hill 2 remake during its extended gameplay reveal on May 30, so now, I'm setting my sights on five other games in particular. A handful of them have been pinpointed already in our list of 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:SGF predictions according to publishers, but if any of thes༺e games show face this weekend, it'll be a huge win for the horror community – and my personal wishlis💃t.

5. Silent Hill f

Konami is teaming up with NeoBards Entertainment to bring us the ninth mainline game in its Silent Hill franchise, set in 1960s Japan – and we know precious little else about Silent Hill f. This one might be a long-shot of a Summer Game Fest wishlist entry, but with the publisher having shadow-dropped a bitesize free-to-play PS5 exclusive in the form of 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Silent Hill: The Lost Message earlier this year, I know the cogs are turning. I didn't really care for the 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:heavy-handed "metaphors" of this horror walking sim-meets-bullying PSA, but it shows that Konami is engaging with its legacy IP in interesting new ways. It also made a valiant effort at pitching Sakura Head – a play on the iconic Pyramid Head – as our next new monster, and I'd like to see Konami bring her back for a repeat performance in Silent Hill f. That certainly seems to be the plan, with official teaser images featuring bouquets of telltale flowers adorning a faceless woman; what if Konami was just warming us up for a full Silent Hill f revea🐭l this summer when it launched The Lost Message back in February?

4. Slitterhead

Another horror game I'm sorely in need of seeing at Summer Game Fest 2024 is 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Slitterhead. This gruesome Japanese body horror has been keeping itself hidden for far too long, last seen in July 2023 when developer Bokeh Game Studio revealed 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:pre-alpha gameplay footage – oh, and the existence of a playable dog. This little tease, as well as the fact that the game was announced back in 2021, has me convinced that it's high time Slitterhead slithers out🌄 from the shadows to give us a little more than a teaser trailer. What evidence do I have that it might show up at SGF? Absolutely none, except for the ardent hope in my black little heart. 

3. Resident Evil 9

I'll keep shouting it from the rooftops until Capcom hears me: please oh please let Resident Evil 9 be revealed at Summer Game Fest. The 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:most recent RE9 rumors have done nothing but agitate me even more, though I think we can all agree that Resident Evil 9: Revenant Shadows is a bit of a lame and long-winded title that would totally break from tradition. The ninth mainline instalment in Capcom's survival horror franchise has been the subject of so much speculation that it's no longer fun to think about, and I'd v꧅ery much like the rumor mill to be set straight with an official announcement from the publisher this wee𓄧kend. Sure, Capcom is most likely at SGF to show off its upcoming Monster Hunter game following a gameplay reveal at May's Sony State of Play, but I'd take comfort in any mention of RE9 – even if it's just a measly title card – to reassure me that it hasn't been forgotten amid the litany of remakes.

2. Alan Wake 2: Night Springs DLC

As I mentioned earlier, Alan Wake 2 dominated conversations in the survival horror scene toward the midpoint of 2023 – and with the first of two DLCs launching imminently, how awesome would it be to have a little taste of Night Springs at SGF? Described as a series of self-contained episodes that comprise a TV series set in the AW universe, the Night Springs DLC sounds similar to Alan Wake's American Nightmare. We know that it's slated for a "late spring" launch, but another reason it feels ripe for a Summer Game Fest appearance is the fact that developer Remedy has mysteriously under the guise of Poison Pill Entertainment – and the new♛ header image straplineꩲ reads "1995, Night Springs City." Studio lead Sam Lake has even in kind, so I think it's safe to say that a major announcement is incoming from the Alan Wake 2 crew.

1. OD

It wouldn't be a Geoff Keighley weekender without an appearance from his best buddy and renowned game director, Hideo Kojima. Gaming's resident enigma announced a host of new projects at The Game Awards 2023, including an upcoming horror "experience" titled 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:OD. Kojima's disturbing and predictably confusing teaser trailer gives nothing up, and aside from the fact that its star-studded cast features the likes of Hunter Schafer, we know precious little else about OD right now. Between this, Death Stranding 2, and a brand new project with Jordan Peele in the works, Kojima's schedule is looking just a little hectic these days. But that doesn't mean he won't have a bean or two to spill about his creepy-looking new horror game, and it would be very on brand of him to drop something totally unhinged into our laps♛ at some point this weekend. In fact, it'll be weirder if he ꦜdoesn't.

Many players picked up one of the lightguns launched for PlayStations one to three, and while a handful of the games will l🙈ive on as gems, others missed the mark, usually thanks to confused mechanics. We’re going to look at the games that best define this niche genre – usually for better, sometimes for worse, but always shooting from the hip.

Die Hard Trilogy

Platform: PS1
Year: 1996

For 🍰many players, the ideal way to control the second part of Die Hard Trilogy – three games in one based on the films – was by guiding a crosshair around the screen with a controller. Admittedly that was a cumbersome and clunky approach that meant John McClane was a fair bit more hamfisted than in the movie. 

Players who had access to Konami’s Hype𝐆r Blaster (called The Justifier in Japan) were able to step up their game with more accuracy. However, it was more like using a laser pointer than really aiming and shooting. Eliminati🙈ng terrorists was never easier; actually getting your hands on the Hyper Blaster was something of a challenge.

Lethal Enforcers 1 and 2

Platform: PS1
Year: 1997

The Lethal Enforcers series, which first entered arcades in 1992, stands out in this list for one very good reason: all in-game characters were created from digitised photographs. That realistic (for its time) violence made it controversial. With a strong Miami Vice flavour, it saw the player roaming s🗹treets as a cop, shooting at petty crimiꦅnals while avoiding civilians. However, the game had its positive side; the console release is what spurred Konami to create the Hyper Blaster lightgun.

Starsky and Hutch 

Platform: PS2 
Year: 2003

Nifty drivers would play this co-op shooter as Starsky; trigger-happy buddies played as Hutch and hung out the window brandishing a weapon. On this side of the TV, that was probably Namco’s G-Con2 (called GunCon2 elsewhere). As Starsky sped through the streets it was Hutch’s job to blast away the baddies who were trying to evade justice. It wasn’t only crim🌺inals who needed shooting – players also had to shoot traffic lights to make them shift from red to green. It wasn’t the easiest task. The actors made shooting from a moving ca🔴r look much easier on the TV show.

Cabela’s Dangerous Hunts 2011

Platform: PS3
Year: 2011

Swerving away from Cabela’s usual ‘stealthy big game hunt’ setup, this title featur🅘ed a story about hunting a seemingly unstoppable creature. This was more ‘survival’ than ‘hunting’, then, but there were still plenty of guns to shoot, and players could do this using Activision’s Top Shot Elite controller,ꦏ which could be bought bundled with the game. The Top Shot Elite was the last lightgun for PS3 as the PS Move controllers launched and made them redundant. It was a departure from the handcannon style of the G-Con, modelled on a rifle, with a scope on top and an analogue stick on the handle.

Time Crisis

Platform: PS1
Year: 1997

This is perhaps the most famous ligh𒊎tgun game of all – masses of people have played it owing to the arcade version’s popularity, and its propensity to show up in motorway service stations. In arcades, Time Crisis bucked the lightgun trend by including a pedal which allowed players to take cover before popping back out to lay down fire. Combined with a constant countdown, it was a perfectly balanced mechanic which would push you through each area and boss fight – if a player took cover for too long they’d run out of time and be unable to finish the level, but if they took a careless all-action approach they would probably be gunned down. With so many fans, it was only a matter of time before Time Crisis jumped from arcades to consoles, but there would be a down side: lightguns were already expensive, and bundling in a pedal would have killed sales. 

Play🌺ers who didn’t want to fiddle with the oddly placed cover button on the G-Con45 (the Namco-developed de facto Time Crisis home controller) could plug a controller into the second port and put it on the ground. Enter the ingenuity of gamers – cardboard squares Blu-Tacked to the controller to create a makeshift pedal. Or they could yell🦩 at a younger sibling to “Press the damn button!” Aside from this awkwardness, the home release of Time Crisis was a superb port and it eliminated the need to pump coins into a machine when you succumbed to death or time ran out. Time Crisis became a blockbuster series spawning many sequels, none of which seem to reach home consoles nowadays, which is a shame given the technology we have. Time Crisis VR anyone?

Resident Evil Survivor

Platform: PS1
Year: 2000

Survivor was a stark departure from Resident Evil’s usual style. Not only did the game use the Namco G-Con45 lightgun, it was the first title in the series to have a first-person perspective – the previous three games had a third-person point of view. Some might say it was also the first entry in the series to miss the mark on quality, owing to poor implementation of the technology plus slow and ponderous action. So why have we included it on our list? Because it’s a landmark title. It not only went on to spawn several (much better) sequels, it was the only real rival to Sega’s popular House Of The Dead. The House Of The Dead series didn’t arrive on PlayStation until the third instalment hit PS3 in 2012, and it featured full PS Move support rather than using a lightgun. Before that, if you wanted to emulate the zombie shooting arcade classic, you had to make do with Surv𝐆ivor. This was a time when developers weren’t entirely sure what to do with the lightgun hꦬardware and not everyone wanted to emulate the arcade experience. 

Survivor’s developers definitely struggled to find the right approach, and the game featured a combination of using the controller to guide the protagonist in free-roam with switching to shooting with the lightgun for the action sequences. It was a mixed experience, then, and one only possible in Europe and Japan, where players would find the full experience as described. In America🤡 the lightgun support was stripped out completely owing to the unfortunate t🐟iming of the game’s release, right after the Columbine High School shooting.

Point Blank

Platform: PS1
Year: 1998

Made famous in൩ the arcades of Japan, the Point Blank series’ biggest attractions were its minigame features and cartoon visuals. It used the Namco G-Con45 and players would tackle various challenges – among them, memory, which required players to memorise objects and shoot them in a specific order; speed, in which targets and timers combined; and accuracy, which asked players to land shots on increasingly smaller targets. Point Blank appealed to everyone and largely dodged arguments over violence.

Time Crisis: Razing Storm 

Platform: PS3
Year: 2010

If any game is to feature twice on this list, it must surely be Time Crisis. Although this isn’t ‘just another cover shooter’. Razing Storm was actually a small compilation of games, all of which were pretty stellar. There was the titular Razing Storm, which added destructible environments to the usual Time Crisis fare. Time Crisis 4, undoubtedly the better of the series’ entries, was in there too. Lastly, and probably most importantly, Deadstorm Pirates was a stonking adventure on the high seas and easily the standout game in the collection o🌃wing to its weaponry and departure from the usual cops-and-robbers template of so many other lightgun games. And if you didn’t have a G-Con3, you could use PS Move controllers (which, sadly, didn’t lead to a lightgun game renaissance).

Men in Black: Alien Crisis

Platform: PS3
Year: 2012

Players who’d bought Cabela’s Dangerous Hunts were stuck with the swish but relatively unsupported Top Shot Elite. Though interest in lightguns was waning due to Sony developing the Move controllers, the Top Shot Elite go꧙t another game in the shape of Men In Black: Alien Crisis. Released alongside the third film, this game follows Agent P (voiced by Troy Baker) who must stop, well, an alien crisis. Sadly this was not the swan song envisioned for the fabulous lightgun; the game was universally panned. We’re not sure how you can get aliens, guns, and humour so badly wrong.

Virtua Cop: Elite Edition

Platform: PS2
Year: 2002

At first, players and critics were sceptical of the Virtua Cop series. Witꦫh Konami using digitised photos in its leading shooter, some were wary of Sega’s use of 3D polygons. However, in the arcades, the game was a smash. Virtua Cop bridged the gap between graphic violence and cartoon-style visuals, and there was even a feature allowing you to disarm criminals instead of killing them. Players felt the use of 3D models made for a more enjoyable experience as a higher level of accuracy was needed. Elite Edition bundled the first two games together in an almost-perfect arcade port.

This feature first appeared in PLAY magazine - 

There are certain intricacies there, that while not unique to Silent Hill (Fatal Frame did something similar with triggering specific events and ghost encounters to impact its endings), made Silent🧔 Hill 2 a standout title of its generat♉ion. But the success of Silent Hill 2 has been something of a double-edged sword for the franchise and its community. Later entries in the series, even by Team Silent (the developers of the Silent Hill series up until Silent Hill 4: The Room), were met with mixed responses as it delved back into the more cult-focused folk horror of the first game.

When Konami eventually handed the franchise over to developers outside of Japan, reception to the series and the new direction it was headed in was far from positive. Even Silent Hill: Shattered Memories, which was a new take on the first Silent Hill game but veered more into psychological horror over folk horror, was viewed as divisive among critics and fans. It seemed as though nothing could live up to the expectations Silent Hill 2 had set for the series – and this sentiment s🍸eems to have endured even to this day.

There was some skepticism among the community when it was announced Bloober Team – the studio responsible for The Medium and Layers of Fear – would be developing the 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Silent Hill 2 remake. Users took to social media to voice their concerns, stating that the Polish outfit's previous body of work was too overt in its messaging to capture the more "subdued" horror elements of Silent Hill 2. And even the Japanese-developed Silent Hill: The Short Message has been met with a distinctly negative response due to its lack of subtlety in its themes and general presentation, despite sharing more similarities with Silent Hill 2 than other entries in the series. Additionally, there remains division among the community as more and more footage of the Silent Hill 2 remake trick෴les out to the public, and conversations about The Short Message continue to endure on social media.

There was a classic here

Would-be Silent Hill 2 remake players have pointed out that despite the inclusion of "You Reap What You Sow" written on a wall in the Silent Hill 2 remake combat trailer, the original game had similar graffiti that more or less confirmed James (and the game's other characters) had entered are their own personal hells. Other players have noted that Silent Hill 2 was probably more overt than they remember – and I'm inclined to agree with that sentiment. Don't get me wrong, I'm a little skeptical of whatever the Silent Hill 2 remak🔥e may or may not be, but it's been a good five or so yeaꦇrs since I've properly played the original game.

The first time I played Silent Hill 2 was when I was 17 years old (my first foray with the series was Silent Hill 4: The Room at 13, which remains my favorite to this day), and the impression the game made on me then was wholly different from when I played it years later as a 24 year old. While my understanding of the narrative has remained unchanged, the plot itself is extremely straightforward with littl༺e room for interpretation, and I recognized that as I grew older my perception and understanding of its themes changed. That's more or less the beauty of Silent Hill 2, and other psychological horror games that have followed in its wake. But it's also the very thing that makes it such a hard game to emulate, or even follow up. 

Now, this can be said for any kind of media we encounter as a child, teenager or young adult. What we experience and how we experience changes with our own understanding of the wor๊ld. The experience and examination of Silent Hill 2 would not be the same for me now as it would have been when I was a child. And I think this is something that has been forgotten in the discussion of the franchise – both with the original release of Silent Hill 2, the freshly released Silent Hill: The S❀hort Message, and the upcoming remake from Bloober Team.

Through all of this, Silent Hill 2 probably 🌌isn't the game you remember it being for that very reason. Your understanding of the genre has probably shifted sinꦐce. You might be in a different place in your life where a monologue just hits differently than it might have a few years ago. Or maybe your experience was informed by something external, like a YouTube essay that you may no longer agree with upon a second, third, or fourth watch. 

Which is to say: what Silent Hill 2 brought to video games was revolutionary at the time, but time has passed and we've gotten older. It's no doubt a classic, beloved by so many, but I do wonder if more of us dusted off our PS2 consoles and booted up the game – would we realize that the themes were more overt than we initially thought? And would we then be more open to the other experiences the series has to offer without looking back over 20 years into the past? Time with inevitably answer that question꧑ one way or another.   

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As a Silent Hill fan, I don't consider the whole thing a waste of my time, but the very concept of The Short Message feels wasted on itself. There are multiple missed opportunities for deeper, symbolic storytelling, from questions of physical displacement, hopelessness, and the distinct ways that Eastern versus Western cultures view death by suicide. But all this just makes Konami's approach to its subject matter even more bizarre. The Short Message opts for garish shock value and predictable trivialization of teenage girlhood in its attempt to stay current, bold, and daring, and through 🔯doing so, has blunted my emotional response to it entirely.

Warning: spoilers ahead for Silent Hill: The Short Message, as well as explorations of the game's sensitive themes, including suicide  

Killing joke

I laugh out loud as Anita's closing monologue reveals that s🏅he was meant to be 18 years old this whole time. I'm not sure if anyone at developer HexaDrive has ever met a late-teenage girl, let alone spoken to one, but I wouldn't be surprised if not.

To be fair, The Short Message is not the first horror game to juggle these topics, drop the ball, and then boot it even further afield. Poor handling of women's stories and of mental health in general is so endemic in the horror genre that I'm desensitized to it by now (though I shouldn't have to be). Imagine my total lack of surprise to once again see the complexities of female adolescence being boiled down to their most stereotypical parts: we are bitches, we are melodramatic, we crave attention, and oh boy do we love killing ourse🔯lves to get back 📖at each other.

I'm pretty sick of that narrative. It's 2024 and we have the internet. You'd expect writers to know by now that 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:horror gamಞes c꧙an terrify without tropes, and that there's a lot more to depression and suicidal ideation in young people than the grotesque blame-gamery as seen in 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:13 Reasons Why. Alas, The Short Message risks regurgitating th꧅ose damaging ideas seven years since that awful show first aired.

For all the suicide prevention screens and trigger warnings the game throws up between chapters, The Short Message is perfectly happy to exploit these themes to be provocative. Sitting through grim vignette after grim vignette feels like watching episodes of an extremely tragic soap opera, each one more over-the-top than the last as I'm quickly overloaded by the drama of it all. I lose it when Anita starts sobbing over her 200-odd followers demanding "more sexy pics" from her. She then throws herself off a rooftop because she is jealous that she does not have as many followers as her dead friend Maya. Wait, what?

The Short Message is commenting on the very real negative impact that social media can have on teenage mental health. By beingඣ so literal about it, however, the writers have totally missed the point. There's more to heℱr emotional state than her follower count, of course, but The Short Message stops digging there. At the end of the day, the true horror is in how much has been left untapped and over-spoken. It wants to emulate the claustrophobic cat-and-mouse horror of P.T, but fails to do more than parody young women.

Wasted potential 

I'll be honest: ꦬI loathe this game, but there are many themes I do resonate with in Silent Hill: The Short Message. Interacting with various items as I explore the Villa, I learn about its setting in the economi🦹cally downtrodden town of Kettenstadt. These moments are when I begin to see what makes this a Silent Hill game.

Coming from a Japanese publisher, Konami effectively evokes a sense of physical as well as emotional displacement in The Short Message. Kettenstadt is in Germany, two of our characters appear to be Japanese, and they all talk to each other in English. It definitely makes me 🔴stop to reconsider what I think is happening and where it might all be taking place, including whether or not it even matters. The Villa therefore becomes a liminal space that sits between worlds, between cultures – much like the three central characters we get to know there.

Beneath all the jarring J-drama of it all, the most fascinating element🐭 of The Short Message to me is the concept of a "beautiful death" and how it breaks cultural boundaries. It feels like HexaDrive is breaking the fourth wall to address their assumedly Western audience, explaining the cultural roots of Maya's romantic view of suicide and how ancient Japanese practices like hari-kiri have framed the nation's perception of it. Not that western literature is any less guilty of turning suicide into an aesthetic statement; ever since Shakespeare's lovesick Ophelia drowned herself in a fit of 'madness', stories lauding praise and respect upon dead women who were misunderstood in life can be found everywhere. Maya is the martyr⛄ed Ophelia in this story, her value hinged on an unattainable legacy that she fears can only be achieved in death. The Short Message literally spells out its most fascinating and relevant idea– that in this cross-cultural context of life, death, and legacy, "the life they value is not biological but social" – and refuses to run with it for long enough.

As such, I've come away disappointed by Silent Hill: The Short Message. Earnest an attempt as it might be to bring one of the best-loved horror franchises firmly into 2024, it feels more regressive than ever. I don't understand what happened. Silent Hill 2 engages imaginatively with symbolic yet equally horrifying representations of trauma, and we've seen stronger female characters in the series before in the likes of Silent Hill 3. So why do Anita, Amelie, and Maya feel like such huge steps backwards? It's probably because these are throwaway characters. We're not meant to look much deeper than their backstabbing, bullying, convo💯luted behavior, because the writers didn't seize what else they had besides – and maybe they didn't even see it for themselves.

There's more to Silent Hill than Pyramid Head. Check out the 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:best Silent Hill games from across the legendary series.

On Februꦬary 5, Konami shared several updates on its Yu-Gi-Oh franchise, revealing that it had recently debuted its new Yu-Gi-Oh Master Duel x AI project - which teaches AI how to play the card game and eventually beat the player. However as the post explains, it has "not yet been determined" if the tech will be "added to the game itself."

Attendees of the Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters: The Legend of Duelist Quarter Century event in Tokyo got to see the new technology in action, wh🥃ich "learns🔯 the more that it Duels." The idea is that Master Duel players will be able to go up against AI opponents to make battles even more challenging and engaging.

"Yu-Gi-Oh! Master Duel x AI Project is a project to deliver new ways to enjoy Duels [...]  by building a system that allows AI t♉o be installed in the game, enabling Duels in Yu-Gi-Oh! MASTER DUEL to be played with the AI created by external programs," the announcement reads. "The AI program grows and learns through continuous Dueling." 

Attendees at the event got to "see the thinking processes of the AI visualized," including the selection patterns of the AI's actions, quantifying win♌ rates depending on how Duels developed, and predicting which cards wouᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚld be played. 

Elsewhere in Konami's announcement, it revealed it is currently developing a brand new digital game colle🐼ction to commemorate the series' 25th ann✱iversary. Yu-🔯Gi-Oh Early Days Collection is set to be released on Nintendo Switch and PC and will feature games that were﷽ previously only available in Japan. 

So far, we only know about on🐲e of the games included and it's Yu-Gi-Oh Duel Monsters 4: Battle of Great Duelists - which was originally released only for the Game Boy Color ඣin 2000. We don't have a release date for this collection yet, but Konami has said we can expect more news on the project soon. 

Find out what else we've got to look forward to with our 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:new games 2024 list. 

Konami dropped Silent Hill: The Short Message straight after the PlayStation State of Pl♑ay showcase last week, meaning long-time fans of the horror series immediately had something new to feast on after years in the wilderness. One aspect of the new game that fans seemingly love is the design of the game's new monster, which you can see just below.

The creature itself is adorned with flowers, and looks somewhat otherworldly, but remains just grounded enough to be scary. We won't spoil what the monster is, 🅠or what it means for The Short Message if you haven't played it yet, but the tweet below makes a very valid point that monsterﷺs don't necessarily have to be gruesome to be actually scary.

Shortly after The Short Message launched last week, Silent Hill series art director Masahiro Ito took to to reveal he designed the creature for the new game, which is what the twꦓeet above is referencing. However, Ito wasn't the only one to work on the game's monster - Mitsunobu🎀 Ochi, who previously worked on Final Fantasy 16 and Death Stranding, also helped design the creature.

No matter, The Short Message's monster is still going down an absolute treat with fans. In our very own 澳洲ജ幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Silent Hill: The Short Message reviꦗew, we noted that the monster was one of the more creative and intri🍎guing aspects of the new game, even if the maze sections in which it was present felt a little 🥀relentless at times.

If you're playing the new game for yourself, read up on our 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Silent Hill Short Message locker code guide for a look over how to solve a puzzle in the new game.

Yesterday, during the 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:PlayStation State of Play, we finally got our first look at Silent Hill: The Short Message, which after years of 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:speculation was shadow-dropped during the presentation. The "short-form" Silent Hill game features a new protagonist, explores modern psychological horror themes, and, judging from the trailer, has 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:P.T. energy. 

To promote the game's reveal, The Short Message's producer, Motoi Okamoto, discussed the game's development on the and revealed Konami's plans for the iconic horror series. Speaking about the recently launched game, Okamoto says: "We announced a revival for the Silent Hill series, along with several new ti🐼tles in development, and this marks the first of that new wave of games to be released."

You may remember back in 2022, Konami held a Silent Hill Showcase which revealed games such as the Silent Hill 2 remake from Bloober Team, Silent Hill F, Silent Hill Townfall, and Silent Hill Ascension. Since The Short Message and Ascension are the only ones to be released🗹 so far, we're going to assume the "new wave" Okamoto is talking about features all of the aforementioned titles. 

What's interesting is that the developer doesn't seem to acknowledge Ascension, which launched in October 2023. The "live real-time interactive series" didn't quite hit the mark for Silent Hill fans upon its release, causing its developer to 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:promise to consider player feedback when designing future updates. 

Elsewhere in the blog post, Okamoto discusses The Short Message's story: "We wanted to make a new, modern Silent Hill. As part of that, we explored how we could🌃 incorporate contemporary problems. We ended up looking at how modern youth communicate online and through phones, and the role that could play in a psychological horror story." 

You can see this theme in the trailer, which sees our protagonist being haunted by her phone and other mysterio🉐us threats that lurk in the darkness.🌼 

Want to know what else is on the way? Take a look at our 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:upcoming horror games list.

This is a list of demos that were fun, important, weird, generous, or any combination of the four. Some ar💖e no longer available – or are at least, hard to find – but you might find one that’s easy to nab and tickles your gaming fancy.

1. Sly sneaks into another game

Game: Sly 2: Band of Thieves
Platform(s): PS2
Developer: Insomniac
Released: 2004

Putting a demo for one game inside the finished version of another is a bit odd. Deciding to hide that demo is very odd – but that's exactly what Insomniac did with the Sly 2 demo in Ratchet & Clank 3, which was accessible only via a button code entered at the main menu. Eventually it became an open secret – the emphasis on 'open🅺' rather than 'secret'. Offering several missions and the Paris hub world, the demo also unlocks a laser sword for Ratchet. Er, for use in Ratchet & Clank 3, that is, not in Sly 2.

2. Criminal cover star

Game: Grand Theft Auto
Platform(s): PS1
Developer: Rockstar Games
Released: 1998

Back in the olden days, PLAY was called Official PlayStation Magazine, and gave away demos on discs with each issue. Can you imagine? One such taster was for Grand Theft Auto, allowing players to try out the beginning of a legend before buying the game. It opens by dropping the player next to a car (a Bulldog in a fetching blue), allowing them to j🃏ump in and find the South Park public phones f🎶or their first mission... or just drive around causing chaos. How many purchases did this lead to, we wonder? You’re welcome.

3. A taste of Silent Hills

Game: PT
Platform(s): PS4
Developer: Kojima Productions
Released: 2014

We can't talk about demos without mentioning PT, can we? What a beautiful mess. Whether you consider it a teaser (PT stands for 'playable teaser'), a demo, or even a game in its own right, the fact is that this is all we ever got to see of Silent Hills, the cancelled horror sequel that Hideo Kojima was due to co-direct with movie master Guillermo del Toro. 🌳If you never got to play it, then you missed out on a genuinely unnerving and sometimes terrifying experience, one that squeezed more out of a looping c🍎orridor than you could reasonably expect. Rest in peace, PT.

4. You got a free hit...or two

Game: Hitman
Platform(s): PS4, Xbox One, PC
Developer: IO Interactive
Released: 2016

This demo is essentially the beginning of 2016's Hitman in its entirety,✤ sliced away from the rest of the murderous c💙ake, and as such, it's one of the most replayable demos on the list. It includes not only the first two missions, but also all of the associated challenges and Mastery levels. As is par for the Hitman course, there's an apparently endless combination of entry paths, escape paths, ways to use disguises, and methods for murdering. That's a heck of a lot of content for zero pounds and zero pence. A fantastic way to reacquaint yourself with the brave and the bald.

5. Zone of the Snake

Game: Metal Gear Solid 2
Platform(s): PS2
Developer: Konami
Released: 2001

We've got all the demos the videogame industry has seen to talk about, and two for Kojima projects feature on our list? Absolutely. No such list would be complete without PT, an🧸d the absence of this – a hands-on with what was at the time perhaps the most anticipated sequel of the year – would be a pretty notable omission too. Metal Gear Solid 2 – Trial Edition was included with Zone Of The Enders (another game Kojima was attached to) as a pre-order bonus, leading to ZOE enjoying higher sales than it perhaps otherwise🌟 would have. Offering at least 20 minutes of activity (and easily much more depending on how sneaky you are and your chosen difficulty), it goes up to and slightly beyond the first boss fight in the Tanker section.

Comparing this demo to the final version of the game reveals more differences than you might usually expect (spoken dialogue is in Japanese, the Codec screen looks almost completely different, Snake has a shorter health bar, and more) but few people at the time would have known or cared about most of this. They were playing the new Metal Gear Solid! And most importantly of all, the cardboard box was present and correct. The demo begins with Snake on deck, looking for a way 𒁃inside. Sneaking around corners and taking out goons with his tranquiliser gun (with the option of a less gentle way through once he gets his hands on the USP), Snake eventually finds Olga Gurlukovich and, well...it doesn’t end well for her. And we’d have to get the full game to see how it ended for Snake.

6. The Hour arrives

Game: Resident Evil 7
Platform)s): PS4, Xbox One, PC
Developer: Capcom
Released: 2016

After one entry that split opinion straight down the middle (Resi 5) and one that was almost universally panned (Resi 6), Capcom had a lot to prove. Free to download about six months before the game itself, this teaser for 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Resident Evil 7 – while not actualꦕly featuring any action drawn directly from the main game – showed players that the beloved ᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚseries was going to come back with a big, scary, and pretty dirty bang. Beginning Hour makes it very clear, very quickly, that the pendulum of design has swung violently from action back to horror. 

For the first time since Resident Evil 4 in 2005 the camera perspective changed completely, turning Resi into a first-person experience. Graphics took a roll down the photorealism road, and your surroundings were pretty dark...and absolutely filthy. It was all very unsettling, something Capcom exploit♛ed for multiple﷽ scares. Just ask anybody who's played it about the mannequins.

Remarkably, it’s a demo that has received post-release support. There are now a total of seven endings, and five murders to solve. Nothing happens as such during most of the experience, but that’s precisely what makes it such an effective horror; your mind fills in the gaps. Although it’s not entirely reflective of the final game – there's no resource management, few enemies, anജd no combat as such – it does give you a good idea of what to expect, and contains many secrets in and of itself. Whether you have any interest in Resident Evil or not, this is well worth playing through. It just might surprise (and yes, scare)𓂃 you.

7. All tricks, but no trick

Game: Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 2
Platform(s): PS1
Developer: Neversoft
Released: 2000

Ask anybody old enough to remember this demo, given away on OPM #59's cover disc, and, once they've stopped complaining about their back problems, chances are they'll tell you they spent more time playing this than they did some f💝ull games. Although it's just a tiny taste of the finished product, the trick system is mostly finished, and it even included a two-player mode. Replay incentive was added via a competition where players could submit high scores on a 'website' via something called the 'internet' for a chance to win a big cash prize and even to meet Mr Hawk himself.

8. The little prince

Game: Final Fantasy 15
Platform(s): PS4
Developer: Square Enix
Released: 2016

Another self-contained teaser rather than a demo cut from the main game, the Platinum demo was a prologue that was, for reasons only understood by Square Enix, pulled from PSN a year after release. Players controlled an eight-year-old Noctis in the world of his dreams, where he was able to communicate with his furry big-eared friend Carbuncle via text messages on a smartp🌊hone and...look, it was weird, okay? He even turned into an adult for the boss fight at the end before turning back again immediately afterwards. It was unique and memorable, if nothing else.

9. Kratos' Blu mood

Game: God of War 3
Platform(s): PS3
Developer: Santa Monica Studios
Released: 2009

While the 2009 E3 demo was added to PSN in February 2010, yo✃u could've got hold of it two months earlier if you'd bought District 9 (a movie worth watching) on Blu-ray at the end of December. Put the disc into your PS3 and you'd find a sample of one of Kratos' best adventures ready to go. Considering the fact that PS3's Blu-ray player function was touted as one justification for the high price and that Sony has a big finger in the movie industry pie, it's 😼odd that this kind of thing never became common practice.

10. Now this is loot

Game: Outriders
Platform(s): PS5, PS4, Xbox Series X, Xbox One, PC
Developer: People Can Fly
Released: 2021

This blurs the line between a demo and a trial, but one thing is clear: the⛎re's a ridiculous amount of playtime in the Demo Version of Outriders if you want it, all for free. There's roughly three hours worth of the campaign but, as it's a looter shooter, there's plenty to grind for beyond that. Online functionality is included, so you can play with friends to your heart's content. There are restrictions (your character can't progress past level 7, and the skills you can unlock are limited) but any progress you make carries over to the full game.

This feature originally appeared in Play Magazine. For more great features, interviews, and more, . 

For those lost in the fog and uninitiated, Silent Hill: Ascension is an all-new streamable series broadcast via app and browser for 16 weeks, but the twist is that the entire community can vote in Telltale-esque choices and complete fatal QTEs when characters get into paranatural dangeℱr. Twitch Plays Pokemon meets Unti⛦l Dawn, in a way.

The game comes from developer Genvid - which is now 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:wor♌kingಌ on a series based on Borderlands - in coll🤡aboration with Dead By Daylight’s Behaviour Interactive and JJ Abrams’ Bad Robot Games. That all sounds pretty promising, but the show-game-live-event hybrid landed on its face when it debuted this Halloween.

Silent Hill fans, in dismay, said As𒈔cension mad𒐪e “the pachinko game look like a heartfelt passion project.” The complaints were mainly aimed at wonky online infrastructure, annoying microtransactio🐬ns, and a live chat that’s somehow both unmoderated and sometimes over-moderated. You couldn’t type “Hideo Kojima” into the chat, for example. 

In 𒅌a recent social media post, Genvid announced that some community complaints would be addressed soon: “We hear and appreciate our community’s feedback and are constantly working to improve your Silent Hill: Ascension experience.” The team is currently tuning Rallies, updating the Fate system, and imprไoving the video player and server connection. 

The team also promises that future updates are in the pipeline⭕, but we’ll need to wait for the Wednesday night post-shows to get information aꦓbout what’s next for Konami’s latest controversial joint. 

The setup for Ascension sees two separate (but connected) occult deaths occur in two separate (but also probably connected) towns, with the series’ signature twisted creature wreaking havoc and emotional trauma as well. Those looking for a more traditional and slightly less money-hungry Silent Hill game are in luck. A 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Silent Hill 2 remake is in production at Bloober Team, meanwhile, the studio behind indie horror Observation is developing 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Silent Hill: Townfall together with publisher Annapurna Interactive. Both are expected to drop next year when they’ll hopefully fare better than Ascens༒ion.

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No matter what, I was now definitely going to pick up an NTSC-region PS2 to complement my PAL console back home in Scotland. I checked my watch: just after 5 o'clock in the morning. Dutch DJ Ferry Corsten still had another hour of his set left to g🧸o. I was flying home to Glasgow at 4pm later that day. An꧙d GameStop on Fifth Avenue didn't open for another few hours.

Play it again

I discovered the Suikoden series by accident. After my 12th birthday way back in 1998, I used money from my family to buy NanaOn-Sha's rhythm game, PaRappa The Rapper on PSOne. I hated it –ꦆ so much so that I traded it in at my local video games store just a few days later. I hadn't heard of Suikoden before then, but its gorgeous box art caught my eye, and its promise of waging war against a corrupt empire and building an army of 108 playable characters captured my imagination. Having not long finished Final Fantasy 7 for the first time, my experience of JRPGs was limited, but I fell in love with Yoshitaka Murayama and Konami's flagship role-player from the title screen onwards. 

Fast forward a couple of years, and Suikoden 2, a game that's now widely considered to be one of the best JRPGs of all time – one I've since likened to Pokemon-meets-Game of Thrones in more recent years – arrived on European shores. Building on everything its predecessor put in place and then growing it beyond recognition, the sequel is to this day one of the best games I've ever played; with over a hundred playable characters, each with an array of bespoke weapons, armor and maꦦgic, and a suite of heartfelt and sophisticated backstories to match. 

When Suikoden 3 was announced in 2001, I was beside myself. The first of the series to land on PS2, the third entry was also the first to adopt 3D graphics – against the first two games' Alundra-style 2D visuals – and the first to weave its narrative around not one, not two, but three separate protagonists. Even from e🗹arly screenshots shared in print magazines at the time, it was also clear a number of returning characters featured, both good and evil, and I could not wait to get lost in another high fantasy foray with magic and dragons and epic turn-based battles. That is, until it was announced as a US and Japan region exclusive. And then on July 11 (Japan) and October 24🧜 (US) in 2002, days that should have been celebratory became days of mourning. 

Suikoden 4 and Suikoden 5 landed in Europe in 2004 and 2006 respectively – the latter of which is the series' last mainline entry – and I jumped on them, playing and replaying both games shortly after completion. As you might imagine, each Suikoden game exists within the same shared universe and extended timeline, and while each game is pretty much standalone in narrative terms, I always felt like I had a glaring blackspot in my series knowledge. Fan-run websites such as helped fill the gaps – it&𓂃apos;s worth noting that Suikoden 3 predates YouTube by a few years – but nothing beats getting your hands dirty with the real thing. 

The same principles here apply to consumer-to-consumer sites, the biggest and most recognized of which is, surely, eBay. I knew what eBay was during the early-to-mid 2000s, but I didn't start using it with any degree of regularity until into the 2010s. That said, I did check for NTSC-region PS2 consoles in, I want to say in 2003, maybe 2004-ish, but any that were available, once ܫI also factored in shipping, VAT and customs tax, were well out of my price range.

Victory

And so, in 2008, following a close family bereavement, my mum, dad, girlfriend and I booked up for three nights in New York. With my parents traveling on to Boston after that, and my girlfriend and I heading back to Glasgow, we spent the first three days speeding round the Manhattan tourist circuit – from the Empire State Building to Staten Island, Little Italy, Central Park and more. By the end of it, we should have put our feet up on the final Friday night… but then I discovered the aforementioned DJ Ferry Corsten was playing at 𒁏the nearby, now shuttered Pacha nightclub. 

It was there in the throes of the party – punctuated by loud music, strobe lights and smoke machines – that I got chatting to that random stranger in the toilet about video games. We spoke about our favorites from over the years, our preferred genres and best-rated series. I mentioned Suikoden and how I always lamented not 𝐆being able to play the third game from six years earlier in 2002, to which the stranger simply said: "Have you tried GameStop on Fifth Avenue?"

I hadn't, of course, but suddenly my mind was racing. I concocted a plan on the spot: I'd go to GameStop for it opening its doors, I'd grab a US region PS2 console, and I'd raid the bargain bins for a discarded copy of Suikoden 3. Surely it was fitting given that I picked up the original Suikoden second-hand all those years ago in a video games store, ri♍ght? I'd then travel home to Scotland and play Suikoden 3🔴 and fall in love with it in the exact same way I had all the other games to that point. 

And that's exactly what I did. I stayed till the club's 8am curfew, long after the headline DJ had left. I dragged my girlfriend straight down to GameStop on Fifth Avenue in last night's clothes, I waited for the manager to arrive and open up, I grabbed a second-hand US region PS2 and… drumroll… did not manage꧂ to pick up a copy of Suikod🅘en 3. I was gutted.

What I did do, though, was try eBay again for the first time in years. It took a bit of digging, but I managed to get a second-hand copy of Suikoden 3, plus VAT, plus shipping for under £50 (which, at the time, was probably around $80). I played Suikoden 3 to death, and it was glorious – so much so that it's now my favorite JRPG. I love Suikoden 2, and I love Chrono Trigger, 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Final Fantasy 7 and Final Fantasy 8,🍨 but Suikoden 3's story, characters, and sheer weirdness, for me, puts it just above the rest. 

If you fancy checking it out, know that Suikoden 3 hit PlayStation's digital storefronts in all regions in 2015, and that it's also 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:getting a beautiful HD fan-made remaster. I'd love to re-experience that 🅰feeling of playing it for the very first time – and I'd endure another six-year wait, a transatlantic journey, a drunken conversation, and a sleepless night in the Big Apple all over again ✨in a heartbeat.  

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Brought to life by Gen🦂vid Entertainment in collaboration with Konami, Silent Hill: Ascension is the former's latest MILE (Massive Interactive Live Event) endeavor – an𝐆 undertaking that unfolds over several months, whereby players all over the world dictate who lives, who thrives and who dies by mass vote every 24 hours. Ascension takes its first tentative steps this evening (6pm PT / 9pm ET / 1am UK), and with over one million pre-registrations globally already, it certainly seems like fans of the series are on board for what lies ahead.

Back to the beginning

With a wealth of experience steering similar projects for the Rival Peaks and Pac-Man communities, Genvid's biggest MILE venture to date was last year's The Walking Dead: Last Mile. When I was shown the game's inner workings at Gamescom 2022, I came away with a question: Is this the future of video games? As a Facebook Gaming exclusive, that Alaska-set episodic interactive narrative game was part-Telltale, part-visual novel, part-Farmville, and part-live studio TඣV show; wherein important decisions had major in-game consequences, that were put to a community vote every week over the course of four months. 

Between times, players could customize an avatar, mess around with mini-games, complete 'bids' that helped inform said irreversible choices, 𝓰read graphic novels, watch new scenes related to the game's story, and revisit prior narrative highlights, each outcome of which, once finalized, was cemented as canon within the wider, overarching The Walking Dead universe. At the end of each week, the events of the previous seven days were recapped via a Facebook Watch live-stream, hosted by actors Yvette Nicole Brown and Felicia Day – best known for their work in Community and The Guild, and Supernatural respectively – and then the process started all over again for the next stretch of minute-to-minute storytelling. 

Breaking from Last Mile's Facebook exclusivity, Silent Hill: Ascension is its own thing, powered by a dedicated mobile app or straight from desktop browsers. The story follows the "complex lives" of two families on the cusp of uncovering Silent Hill's darkest secrets right at the very beginning of it all. Unlike every other Silent Hill game to date, Ascension kicks off before the fog, the twisted rituals, the ungodly monsters, an꧒d the Great Knife-wie༺lding Pyramid Head, with ordinary people living ordinary lives in a seemingly ordinary setting.

Ascension doesn't kick off til𒁃l Halloween night proper, however the game's first decision is available right now. There, you'll find mother and cult leader, Rachel Hernandez, attempting to perform some pretty shady-looking pseudo spiritualism on new recruit, Joy Cirelli. When things inevitably gꦗo south, players assume control of Rachel as she tells Joy to: 'Finish the oath', 'Run', or 'Plead for mercy'. 

With that, Silent Hill: Ascension wastes no time in ramping up the signature tension-driven 🐼horror the wider  series is now renowned for, and the idea that every decision made in Ascension becomes series canon is really interesting – assuming whatever lies ahead for the series elsewhere decides to revisit these story threads and their framings, therefore really giving each decision made here extra weight.  

Players interested in learning exactly how voting works should check out the above explainer video, but Genvid says each major decisi⛄on 🌞is open for 24 hours after the fact, meaning players who can't tune in live can do so at their leisure between times. Moreover, between each major decision, players can solve puzzles, play mini-games, and rewatch the game's latest scenes on-demand before the next big one rolls around. Players can also compete in so-called 'cameo contests' whereby winners' avatars will feature in-game in various ways. 

As a Silent Hill fan who's been around since the dawn of the series in the late '90s, the prospect of Ascension is an intriguing on𝓰e. I've longed for a proper origins story for so long – 2007's PSP title Silent Hill: Origins was a prequel to the first game that didn't explore the actual origins of the town in any significant way – and am already interested in how Ascension is framing those foundations. I'm still not 100% sure of the f💖ormat at this point, but that's almost certainly down to my own preconceptions, again tied to the fact I've been playing these games since the days of the PS1 last millennium. That said, I'm also 100% willing to give it a shot; to play along with the world and see where this latest stretch of Silent Hill horror takes us. 

Are games like Silent Hill: Ascension the future, then? I still don't know. They could be. There's certainly so much potential for storytelling in this space, and Silent Hill is a great video game setting to host it. In any event, I'll report back in a few months time with a more informed opinion afte🎃r Ascension has either swallowed me up or spat me out. 

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Metal Gear Solid Master Collection Volume 1 repackages the first three MGS outings, alongside the two lesser-known Metal Gear games. The HD port compilation is a 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:beautifully comprehensive 🐈way to experience (or maybe re-exper𝓡ience) some classic stealth gems, but the existence of a “Volume 1” obv🍌iously implies that a future collection is incoming. 

According to images shared on the series , modder Timo654 dug in and found files that reference three games that aren’t in the newly-released collection. The files specifically mention “MGS4,” “MGS5,” and “MGSPW” which is surely Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker, further spar♛king hopes for a second volume.

Metal Gear Solid 5: The Phantom Pain is currently available to play on PC, Xbox, and PlayStation consoles (old and new via backward compatibility.) Assuming that a potential Volume 2 launches on the same platforms as the first, MGS 5 could make its way to the Nintendo Switch for the first time. Or the 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Switch’s successor, depending on when the second collection launche෴s. There’s oddly💟 no mention of Metal Gear Solid 5: Ground Zeroes, which served as a standalone extended prologue to the main game.

Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots and Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker woul🍒d be the more exciting inclusions, as both games have been relegated to the PS3 and PSP respectively since their initial releases. Peace Walker actually introduced several ideas that would later be refined in MGS5, like the abil🌺ity to recruit (kidnap) foes and micromanage Mother Base. I suspect it would've been just as beloved as its siblings if it had come out on consoles.

Metal Gear Solid 3 is actually getting a fully fledged remake at some point in the future. 

The end of Metal Gear Solid 2 sees Arsenal Gear - a giant submersible fortress - crash into Manhattan. In-game, the scene simply jumps from the ship speeding across the ocean to it sitti♐ng amid several ruined New York buildings. A few behind-the-scenes details released over thܫe years made clear that scenes of Arsenal Gear crashing into the city were removed in the wake of 9/11.

In a recently-translated interview with magazine Weekly Toyo Keizai, Kojima said that "The depiction of [the] game'sဣ themes and its numerous similarities with the real-world events on September 11 rendered it unfit for release at the time. After consulting with lawyers, the end result was that the game required revisions in 300 spots. It goes without saying that we were in crisis mode and it was threatening the release and sale of the game."

Kojima said that he was called into a meeting with Konami&aﷺpos;s board of directors in order to explain the details of MGS2's story to them. "Everyone's facial expression had a look of 'this is not good'," K🐭ojima said.

At the time, the director thought "the game shouldn't be released at this period in time. I have no other choice but to take responsibility and resign from the company." Two people changed Kojima's mind. One was then Sony Computer Entertainment president ♔Ken Kutaragi, who told him "this is not a matter you should be ashamed of. You should ⛎go ahead and release the game."

Kojima also "reached out to Kagemasa Kozuki, the founder of Konami through email. He responded with, 'I have made up my mind. 🐲The game should be released. What are your thoughts?' I was moved by the words and I too m🐈ade up my mind."

While the game's release "was postponed by a few weeks," Metal Gear Solid 2 ende🦋d up launching in November 2001 to critical acclaim, and is belo🍌ved by fans today.

MGS2 was not the only 2001 game to undergo change⛦s in the wake of 9/11. Grand Theft Auto 3 changed the design of Liberty City's police cars to less closely resemble that of the real NYPD. Spider-Man 2: Enter Electro on PS1 was delayed to change its final level, which would've taken place on top of the World Trade Center.

A new Metal Gear Solid collection will bring back the OG MGS2 on top of the 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:new Metal Gear Solid 3 remake.

Earlier today, first noted that Konami was seemingly teasing a mystery addition to the Metal Gear Solid collection. The developer/publisher r𓂃evealed on their website that more ad🐓ditions would apparently be coming to the collection at some point in the future.

Looking elsewhere though, we have a pretty good idea of what these additions might b🌜e. It turns out that the listing for the Metal Gear Solid collection reveals both Metal Gear and Metal Gear 2 will come bundled in with the original trilogy when it launches later this year.

It looks like the PlayS🍒tation Store has let Konami's secret announcement out of the bag🧸 a bit early. Still, that might not actually be the case though, and it could be that Konami actually has several further secret reveals for their new Metal Gear Solid collection.

Metal Gear and Metal Gear 2 are the first two games in Konami's series, both launching before Metal Gear Solid, and being headed✃ up by Hideo Kojima. The second of these will actually please Phantom Pain fans who never got around to playing the older entries, as it's weirdly critical to understanding the late-game story twist.

There's also been a lot of speculation about the collection just being the start of something new. The 'Vol. 1' in the collection's title implies there'll be another collection further down the road, and this brings up the possibility𒀰 of Metal Gear Solid 4 finally being freed from the PS3 after so many years ♚of fans wishing to play the game again on modern platforms.

澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater, a full remake of the original third game in the trilogy, was also announced by Konami earlier this week. We don't have a release window for this remake yet, unlike the collection, but it already looks to be an incredibly faithful remake, with n🧔ear-identical level design from the original game.

Check out our guide to everything announced at the PlayStation Showcase 2023 for a full recap of Sony's blockbuster offerings.

The game director has been doing a fair bit of reminiscing recently, revealing last week that Metal Gear Solid 3&apos🌱;s The End figh🐎t was meant to take place across multiple areas. Now, the series director has spoken to Metal Gear Solid's core themes and concepts with the very Kojima-like reflection 🅷just below.

Whereas Metal Gear Solid 2 hinted at our digital future and society at large, Kojima says Metal Gear Solid 4 is all about the "digitalization of the battlefield." Kojima points to aspects like drones, personal ide🎀ntification on weapons, and namely weapon laundering as aspects that lean i𝔍nto this core concept for the sequel.

Somewhat predictably, these two tweets from Kojima﷽ have fans 𒐪in the replies begging for a re-release of the classic Metal Gear Solid games. Of course, it's worth pointing out Kojima has zero control over the series now, since he departed Konami and left the rights to the series behind back in 2015.

Last year actually, a former Kojima Productions developer revealed 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询ꦚ:Metal Gear Solid 4 could've come to Xbox 360, but it was simply too complicated to pull off. The developer dispelled the common notion that PlayStat🐻ion had an exclusivity deal i꧙n place for the game and revealed the sequel could've come to platforms after all, if the entire porting process wasn't so downright complicated and time-consuming.

A Metal Gear Solid actor also revealed how they ended up in a Ford commercial, if you're curious about how one of the weirder crossovers in history came to be.

Despite host Geoff Keighley promising a shorter event this year, The Game Awards 2022 ran for almost four hours if you include the pre-show, so naturally we have a ton of ground to cover. F🉐rom an update on the Super Mario Bros. movie to Horizon Forbidden West D🍃LC and so, so much more, we have everything announced at The Game Awards 2022 right here.

Kratos actor God of War actor Christopher Judge gave an eight-minute acceptance speech, Halsey showed up to sing a song dressed as Lilith from Diablo 4, and Hideo Kojima showed up wearing a freakin' Death Stranding 2 𓄧suit, but what we're about to break down are all of the actual announcements, so if you're looking for the Final Fantasy 16 release date or news on Hades 2, he🅘re's where you'll find it.

Here's everything announced at The Game Awards 2022.

Dead Cells x Castlevania DLC

One of our favourite roguelikes ever is crossing over with Konami's classic Castlevania series, in a new piece of D🎃LC set to launch in the first quarter of 2023.

Vamp Survivors mobile port

 Surprise! The hit indie action game is now available on iOS and Android, so you never have to separꦅate yourself from garlic's sweet embrace. 

Returnal PC release date

Perhaps Sony's most-anticipated PC port (well, as long as you don't count games that start with the letter B), Returnal was finally confirmed for an early 2023 l𝓡aunch on home computers.

Mike Mignola's Hellboy: Web of Wyrd announced

Web of Wyrd blends roguelite action with a gorgeous aesthetic that impressively recreates the look of Mike Mignola's original comics.🎀 Mignola himself is involved with the game, too, working in partnership with devꦬeloper Upstream Arcade. 

Horizon: Call of the Mountain new look

We got a new look at Horizon's PSVR 2 spin-off, showing a bunch of combat against fami💧liar machines like bellowbacks and shell-walkers.

Post Trauma reveal

Post Trauma, from developer Red Soul Games, has been kicking around for some time, but made an impressive 🌌showing at The Game Awards under new publisher Raw Fury. This is a thoroughly impressive take on classic survival horrorꦕ games like Resident Evil and Silent Hill.

Viewfinder reveal

This is an incredible-looking puz꧙zle game where you… well, you'll probably get the idea a lot faster if yoཧu just take a look at the trailer below.

New Atomic Heart trailer

Atomic Heart continues to look like BioShock's more surreal cousin, and𒁃 a new trailer shows off some very unhinged - and occasionally gnarly - gameplay.

 Scars Above release date

Returnal already made an appearance at The Game Awards, but it looks like Scars Above is set to scratch a very similar itch - though without the r🍎oguelike elements.

Relic Hunters Legend closed beta trailer

This top-down looter shooter is opening sign-up🐭s for itꦕs closed beta, allowing you to get an early look at its colorful, fast-paced action. 

Among Us hide and seek mode

Amo🌸ng Us is still going strong in 2022, and a December 9 update wil🐼l add a brand-new mode where crewmates have to outrun a not-so-sneaky impostor.

After Us reveal

After Us is the next game from the Arise studꦆio, and it's about saving the souls of extinct animals.

 Replaced reveal and 2023 release window

Street Fighter 6 World Premiere trailer

 Hades 2 reveal (!!)

A sequel to one of the most acclaimed indie games𝓀 in rec𓆏ent years has been revealed, and it looks incredible.

Ghost Story Games' Judas revealed

Ghost Story Games, 🎐co-founded by BioShock creator Ken Levine, was finally revealed dur🌃ing today's event.

 Bayonetta Origins: Cereza and the Lost Demon reveal

Bayonetta Origins: Cereza and th𝓡e Lost Demon is a whole new Bayonetta experience with a fresh art style, though it still stars the same heroine. It launches exclusively on Switch on March 17.

Destiny 2: Lightfall trailer

Lightfall is no secret at this point, but the trailer shown at The Game Awards is maybe 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:our best look yet at the new Strand powers coming in Destiny 2's next expansion. To the surprise of n✱o one, it absolutely whips.

 Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League new release date

Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League got a new trailer paying tribute to the late Kevin Conroy, and in it a new release🧸 date was revealed: May 26, 20🌄23.

Party Animals trailer and release window

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The Last of Us Part 1 PC release date

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Star Wars Jedi: Survivor first gameplay trailer and release date

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Forspoken demo drops on PS5

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Genshin Impact trailer and new character revealed

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 Death Stranding 2 revealed

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 Tekken 8 trailer

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New Nightingale trailer

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Colossal Cave remake release date

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Baldur's Gate 3 release date

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 Wayfinder reveal

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 Fire Emblem Engage DLC and season pass

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 Diablo 4 release date

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 Blue Protocol release window

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Remnant 2 reveal trailer 

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Transformers: Reactivate trailer

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Company of Heroes 3 console reveal

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Super Mario Movie clip

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 Lords of the Fallen remake trailer

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Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 first ever raid announced

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New Cyberpunk 2077: Phantom Liberty trailer

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Final Fantasy 16 trailer and release date

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It's safe to say that survival horror is alive and well in 2025. Whether you love indie terrors or have your eye on some of the biggest and 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:best horror game developers as they prepare to unleash fresh nightmares, the year is looking scarily good for all fans of things that go bump in the dark. Below, we'll help you keep track of all the upcoming horror games stalking you in the shadows, helping you pick out the spooky gems amid all the 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:new games for 2025 we're expecting.

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The top upcoming horror games to watch for in 2025 (and beyond)

Upcoming horror games 2025

Dying Light: The Beast

Developer: Techland
Platform(s): PC, PS5, PS4, Xbox One, Xbox Series X
Release date: August 22, 2025

Kyle Crane is back from the assumed dead in Dying Light: The Beast, an upcoming standalone chapter in the first-person survival horror series. Last seen supposedly sacrificing himself on a rooftop in Harran, Techland surprised fans by bringing back the series' inaugural hero for one last hurrah. Having spent 13 years in captivity being experimented on, it makes sense that Crane is pissed and not afraid to let the bad guys know it. With its dynamic day-night cycle, super-chargers volatiles, and a greater focus on gunplay than in past installments, The Beast is shaping up to be pure Dying Light zombie-killing mania wrapped up in a tight 18📖-plus hour story. It's also going to be free to all owners of Dying Light 2's deluxe edition. Thanks, Techland!

Silent Hill f 

Developer: Neobards Entertainment
Platform(s): PC, Xbox Series X/S, PS5
Release date: September 25, 2025

Not only is 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Silent Hill f the long-awaited next game in Konami's legendary franchise, it's fast become oཧne of our top upcoming horror games to watch since we learned more about it at a Silent Hill: Transmission showcase in early 2025. Silent Hill f is "a completely new story set in 1960s Japan featuring a beautiful, yet horrifying world", marking a series-first deviation from the usual small-town USA setting. When dropped, it showed us what to expect in even more detail - think bloodied sakura blossoms, a creepy abandoned village, and a brand new monster stalking our nightmares.

Directive 8020

Developer: Supermassive Games
Platform: PS5, PS4, Xbox One, Xbox Series X, PC
Release date: October 2, 2025

The second season of interactive horror series The Dark Pictures Anthology is preparing for take-off. Space-themed Directive 8020 was unveiled in September 2023, giving us a peek at its desolate deep space terrors that evoke a sense of Dead Space, System Shock, and even a touch of Alien. This upcoming horror game loo♎ks set to del🌠iver Supermassive's choice-based narrative adventure stylings once againm - this time with survival horror leanings to up the stakes that much more. Ready to hold the lives of an ensemble cast in your hands as you fight to keep them alive against impossible odds? I know I am.

Upcoming horror games: TBC 2025

Cronos: The New Dawn

Developer: Bloober Team
Platform(s): PS5, Xbox Series X, PC
Release date: Fall 2025

Off the back of its Silent Hill 2 success, Bloober Team's new upcoming horror game looks like a spiritual successor to Dead Space. Third person survival horror action is the flavor of the day in Cronos: The New Dawn as we step into the spaceboots of The Traveler. Even gnarlier? We'll have to despatch of our foes with fire, lest living enemies merge bodies with fallen undead corpses and come back even stronger. Expect 🅷grotesque body horror in the silent chasm of deep space when Cronos: The New Dawn launches later in 2025.

Killing Floor 3

Developer: Tripwire Interactive
Platform(s): PC, PS5, Xbox Series X
Release date: TBC 2025

Nothing screams horror more than blood, hordes of monsters, and some good old-fashioned carnage. The latest entry to the iconic Killing Floor series, 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Killing Floor 3, is making its way into Early Access sometime this year, and from gameplay trailers that we've seen so far, it lo൲oks like the fear factor has been taken up a notch. You and a group of friends will have to venture into Horzine and blast your way through waves of bio-mutants known as ZEDs. There are new bosses, newly improved enemy AI, and tons of guts and gore to look forward to here. Horror fans will for sure want to add this one to their wish lists as soon as possible.

Dark Fracture

Developer: Twisted 2 Studio
Platform(s): PC, PS5, PS4, Xbox One, Xbox Series X
Release date: TBC 2025

Touted as a psychological horror experience, Twisted 2 Studio is bringing us a truly unsettling terror of a new game in the form of Dark Fracture sometime this year. From the gnarly screenshots and reveal trailer alone, it already sounds like I'll be calling my therapist about it later. We'll be exploring an "ever-changing world where reality and nightmares combine", reads the page. What's more, it's looking like Dark Fracture will launch on current and past gen consoles as well as PC platforms. Sign me up.

Little Nightmares 3

Developer: Supermassive Games
Platform(s): Nintendo Switch, PS4, PS5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X, PC
Release date: TBC 2025

This spooky platformer series is getting a third instalment in Little Nightmares 3. We'll be accompanying two new mini-heroes, Low and Alone, as they navigate the treacherous world of Necropolis and beyond. LN3 will be the first game in the series to be developed solely by Supermassive Games since past co-developer Tarsier Studios moved on to other projects. With Supermassive being the mind behind some of the scariest interactive horror titles ever, we can't wait to see how the Dark Pictures Anthology studio brings its unique brand of chills and thrills to the ser🍸ies.

Ritual Tides

Developer: Vertpaint Studios
Platform(s): PC (consoles TBC)
Release date: TBC 2025

Rockstar vets have a new project in the works under a b☂rand new studio, and it jus♑t so happens to be one of the most intriguing upcoming horror games around. Ritual Tides sees players awaken on a strange island, forced to reckon with the secrets lurking throughout. With little more than a and some vague concept art to go on right now, there's still a lot to be learned about this insidious Lovecraftian terror. All the more reason to keep Ritual Tides in your periphery as 2025 unfolds...

The Occultist

Developer: DALOAR
Platform(s): PC, PS5, Xbox Series X
Release date: TBC 2026

Described on its as a "spine-chilling" experience, upcoming horror game The Occultist has ♋pretty much everything I look for in a paranormal thriller. Creepy seances, ghouls galore, and what looks like a haunted carnival ground...what's not to love? I'm loving the sound of its first-person survival horror gameplay blended with stealth and psychic manipulation – thanks to protagonist Alan Rebels' trusty pendulum – all delivered in impressively high fidelity. This is one of those indie games that has the potential to rival the looks of many triple A games, and I'm hoping to put that theory to the test come The Occultist's as-yet undisclosed 2026 release date.

Upcoming horror games: 2026

Resident Evil Requiem

Developer: Capcom
Platform(s): PS5, Xbox Series X, PC
Release date: February 27, 2026

Resident Evil 9 has finally been revealed, and its real name is 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Resident Evil Requiem. The explosive announcement trailer shown at Summer Game Fest 2025 shows off our new protagonist Grace Ashcroft, FBI agent and daughter of Resident Evil Outbreak's Alyssa Ashcroft, as she confronts her demons at the Wrenwood Hotel - the place where her mother died some eight years prior. With shots of a dilapidated Raccoon City peppered throughout the trailer, excitement doesn't begin to cover it - and what's more, we know that Resident Evil Requiem already has a release date confirmed for February 2026. Survival horror fans, get ready to eat good.

Upcoming horror games: TBC

Alien: Isolation 2

Developer: Creative Assembly
Platform(s): TBC
Release date: TBC

It's finally happening. 2014 survival horror masterpiece 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Alien: Isolation is set to receive 🍎a sequel in the coming years, according Creative Assembly's Al Hope via Twitter. That's pretty much all we know about the upcoming horror game right now, but it's already got us hyped for what's to come next. The possibilities are seemingly endless, and until the developer is ready to share more information, we'll have plenty of time to get our theorizing hats on. What's next, Amanda Ripley's daughter?

darkwebSTREAMER

Developer: We Have Always Lived In The Forest
Platform(s): PC
Release date: TBC

This upcoming horror game is a special one. Game director Chantal Ryan describes as a psychological h🤪🗹orror RPG meets "narrative roguelike", and though ❀it might look like deeply harrowing exploration of the endless secrets and mysteries of the deepest parts of the World Wide Web, it's also a deeply incisive comment on society, social media, and all the wicked things that go bump in our hearts. There's no sign of a release date yet, but the development of this compulsively-replayable narrative experience is one to watch if you're looking for an indie horror game that promises to do something wildly different, both to the genre and to you as the player.

ILL

Developer: Team Clout
Platform(s): PC
Release date: TBC

澳洲幸运5开🦋奖号码历史查询:Rev🅠ealed at the Future Games Show in 2022, ILL is an ultra gory survival horror with its bloodshot eyes focussed on pure dismemberment. The monsters here are mutated and tentacled creatio🌠ns all intent on making sure that the last thing you see is a collection of flesh so twisted you don't even really know what killed you. Even more disturbing, is the fact that you're hardly going to have any ammo so you're going to have to get smart about when to engage or when to just hurtle away in the other direction.

Nowhere

Developer: Midnight Forge Ltd.
Platform(s): PC
Release date: TBC

Think 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Alan Wake 2 meets LA Noire, add some extra Norse mythology, and you have 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:hardcore detective horror game Nowhere. Picking through the detritus of a deserted village, this upcoming horror game will see us examining items to made deductions in a series of investigations as we puzzle together what happened here, and what the vengeful gods had to do with it. If you love yourself some spooky Nor🎃dic themes and settings, this atmospheric delight is one to watch.

OD

Developer: Kojima Productions
Platform(s): Xbox Series X, PC
Release date: TBC

It wouldn't be a Kojima project if it weren't shrouded in mystery, now, would it? A collaboration between ex-Konami developer Hideo Kojima, Xbox Game Studios, and even Jordan Peele, OD is an upcoming horror game that looks less like a game and more like an experie✨nce. The brief look we got at OD during The Game Awards 2023 shows it to be suitably creepy and weird, and with A-list talent like Euphoria's Hunter Schaffer on deck, we'll just have to sit tight and wait fꦑor more info on this one.

Paranormal Tales 

Developer: Digital Cybercherries
Platform(s): PS5, PS4, Xbox Series X, Xbox One, PC
Release date: TBC

Of all of the horror subgenres, found 🌜footage crawls under your skin in a very specific way. On the surface, our brains know that this is fiction but the shaky handheld footage from phones or even body cams demands to be taken seriously as a threat. Cue Paranormal Tales, a terrifying looking Unreal Engine 5 creation that lets us play various found footage files, encouraging us to explore further into the dark to discover what happened to those who were foolish enough to start hitting record. Expect plenty of movie-influenced jump scares and figures lurking in corners. You didn’t even see the one in the screenshot above, dඣid you..?

Project M

Developer: Bloober Team
Platform(s): TBC (Nintendo Switch)
Release date: TBC

Okay, so this is less of a game announcement and more of just a heads up that a game is being made, but Layers of Fear developer Bloober Team ꦉhas revealed a mysterious upcoming horror game called Project M is currently in the works for Nintendo Switch. The revelation came in an with CEO Piotr Babieno, saying that "its budget is significantly smaller than ♏the games we are working on at Bloober Team, [but it] is extremely important due to our long-term plans.

"In addition, we are working on it in cooperation with the world's best game creators for Nintendo platforms, so we cannot afford to create just a decent game," he says, indicating that whatever Project M is, a lot of pressure has been heaped upon the studio🍷. That's all we really know just now, but we will be keeping you posted should Bloober reveal anything new in the coming months.

Reanimal

Developer: Tarsier Studios
Platforms: PS5, Xbox Series X, PC
Release date: TBC

From the original Little Nightmares developer studio comes a brand new nightmare. Reanimal is an upcoming horror game that strikes a similar tone to Tarsier's past work, introducing us to two seemingly helpless child protagonists as they navigate a world of unimaginable horrors. As a shared screen local multiplayer experience, Reanimal could end up being one of the 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:best co-op games if you and your friends are in the mood for a chilling tale rife with danger, atmospheric dread, and t𝄹he stuff of fairy tales gone oh so wrong.

Silent Hill Remake

Developer: Bloober Team
Platform(s): TBC
Release date: TBC

It's little more than a teaser in the form of a , but we finally have confirmation🍸 that Konami and Bloober Team are working together on a remake of 1999's Silent Hill. The short clip posted to the official Silent Hill Japan Twitter account shows little more than a title card, but with the original game's ever-familiar main theme underscoring it, I'm finding it hard not to very much freak out about the news right now. There's no indication as to when we can expect the upcoming horror game, but with Silent Hill f scheduled to launch later in 2025, the next couple of years are looking highly likely...

Silent Hill Townfall 

Developer: No Code
Platform(s): TBC
Release date: TBC

As part of the bumper Silent Hill: Transmission stream, Silent Hill: Townfall was announced as a brand new addition to the series. If you enjoyed the creeping delights of Stories Untold and Observation, then you’ll be pleased to know that Glasgow-based dev studio No Code is working on this fresh slice of the franchise. The teasingly didn’t give much away with a man talking over shots of a small pocket television with discussions of punishment and judgement. “It's a real honor for us to bring a new title to this series that both respects the source material but also does something a little bit different with it,” creative director Jon McKellan said on the stream. This could be very interesting indeed.

Tenebris Somnia

Developer: Andrés Borghi, Tobías Rusjan
Platform(s): PC
Release date: TBC 2025

Upcoming survival horror game Tenebris Somnia is an 8bit horror game interspersed with live-action cutscenes. The grisly 2D adventure sees play💙ers solving puzzles and fighting back against horrific monsters, blending the worlds of video game and cinema to present a very different type of horror experien𓃲ce. The developer cites old-school Resident Evil and Silent Hill as stylistic inspirations, so it's definitely one to add to your list as we wait to hear more about what this delightfully strange new game might entail.

Routine

Developer: Lunar Software
Platform(s): Xbox Series X, Xbox One, PC
Release date: TBC

We're used to long wait times for games after announcements, but it's been over ten years since sci-fi horror Routine was originally revealed. The shows an atmospheric abandoned lunar base of flickering lights and juddering robotic monstrosities. Everything looks pleasingly analog, too, as weaponry clicks and clicks into place. Hopefully, we don't have to wait another ten years ♈♈for release, but at least we know it will arrive on day one through Game Pass on Xbox Series X and Xbox One.

Terror: Endless Night

Developer: Unseen Silence
Platform(s): PC
Release date: TBA

You’ll want to put an extra pair of socks on for this one, especially if you’ve already watched the first season of The Terror. This strategic survival stressfest isn’t officially affiliated in any way but in Terror: Endless Night we’re tasked with managing a crew aboard a 19th century ship hunting down the missing HMS Erebus and HMS🅺 Terror. As we too become trapped in the grip of the ice we’ll have to contend with sickness, fuel, starvation, and choose between life and death for the crew. Sadly, those socks probably aren’t going to keep your sanity in check as reality starts to crumble under the stress of it all. Enjoy?

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In a lengthy conversation with , the Metal Gear Solid creator revealed that after he split with Konami in 2015, he was put into a difficult position as an independent entity. He explains while trying to set up what is now Kojima Productions: “The bank wouldn’t lend me any money. And when I tried to lease a floor in this building, they told me that now I was independent. It was a🥀s if I was yet to create anything. That’s when I thought, ‘Oh, I really am indie.”

Luckily though, Kojima’s name still held power despite the lack of backing from a major publisher. One of the owners of the building Kojima Productions now resides in was a fan of his games and stepped in to offer a rental agreement. It all worked out too, as Kojima Productions has one of the most striking and futuristic ๊development spaces in the world.🍌 

Finding that space allowed the team to go on to create 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Death Stranding, and reaffirm Kojima as a serious developer even without Konami. Kojima Productions is now working on its second independent title, 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:reportedly called Overdose, with Kojima making hints that 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:it stars Margaret Qualley.

Of course, the split with Konami was not without casualties, as it infamously canceled Kojima's Silent Hills, which was set to star Norman Reedus. However, like Kojima finding his place as an independent entity, it seems to have worked out as Konami has just announced several Silent Hill projects, including 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Silent Hil 2 remake and 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Silent Hill f, a take on the franchise set in 1960s Japan.

Rumour has it that Kojima’s next game is a horror too, so even those holding out for a scary title from the develope🎃r look l♍ike they could soon be satisfied. 

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With the 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Silent Hill 2 Remake now out in the wild and 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Silent Hill Townfall also on the horizon, it's looking like a brand new dawn for SH fans. It's also the perfect excuse to look back on the series that edified the DNA of the 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:best survival horror games we know and love today. We've ranked the ♑10 best Silent Hill games right here so you can set off on your harrowing journey with the most iconic titles, so keep a health drink handy as you head into the fog - you're going to need it...

10. P.T.

Developer: Kojima Productions
Platform(s): PS4
Released: 2014

As P.T. is technically just a playable demo, one which Konami has made impossible to download in the modern era. Still, it's worth discussing all the same. The Silent Hills dream died with Hideo Kojima's departure from Konami, but that doesn't mean that we should let the legacy of P.T. disappear completely. Short, ill-fated, and confusing as it may get toward the end, PT is a 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:brilliant little pocket of terror that surpasses the quality of horror games twice its💃 length.

On the surface, P.T.'s concept is simple: you're stuck in the hallway of a small house, and you have to find a way out with something sinister breathing down your neck. But this simple concept conceals a genius understanding of horror, where an environment full of flickering lights and unfortunate sounds peels back all your defenses and uses your imagination against you. Only when you're at your most vulnerable does the game start to get weird, throwing out ghostly happenings, frightening creatures, and hints about who you are and why you're here (none of them good), turning you into a shivering puddl⛎e of fear. Oh, what could have been.

9. Silent Hill: Book of Memories

Developer: WayForward Technologies
Platform(s): PS Vita
Released: 2012

Book of Memories took the Silent Hill series in a wholly unexpected direction by tur෴ning it into an isometric dungeon crawler – a semi-blasphemous notion that nonetheless had loads of potential. The atmosphere is genuinely creepy, and the combat/puzzle-solving combination suits the style perfectly. This had all the makings to become a classic. However, there are a few factors that stop us from ranking it higher.

The problem is that nothing you pick up actually matters in Book of Memories – it doesn't make any difference what gear you collect because none of it has any stats associated with it. With no driving reason to go searching for newer, better loot, there is little point in scouring the levels to completion. It's not quite a Silent Hil🔥l game, not quite a dungeon crawler. Book of Memories is one of the stranger entries to the series, but it's still one that fans should check out if they have the time.

Read our 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Silent Hill: Book of Memories review for more.

8. Silent Hill: Origins

Developer: Climax Action
Platform(s): PSP, PS2
Released: 2007

Most of the Silent Hill games can be characterized in a handful of words. Silent Hill 2 is the one with Pyramid Head, Shattered Memories is the one with motion controls, and The Room is that weird one, you know, with the ghosts? Silent Hill: Origins, however, can't be described as much more than the one that's there. While there's nothing inherently wron🍒g with it, it doesn't offer much that the rest of the series hasn't already done better and with more soul.

Origins stars a troubled middle-aged trucker named Travis Grady, who is drawn to Silent Hill by a mysterious entity and must battle his way through both a quiet fog world and a grizzly Otherworld. As the name implies, Travis experiences the events that precede the original Sile🦩nt Hill. You get the thrill of seeing those familiar characters again and then the dull realization that they don't do anything new. Basically, Origins is a great game if you're absolutely craving some Silent Hill action.

Check out our four-star 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Silent Hill Origins review for more details.

7. Silent Hill: Homecoming

Developer: Double Helix Games
Platform(s): PC, PS4, Xbox 360
Released: 2008

Far from the return to form that its title implied, Silent Hill: Homecoming brushed aside many of the conventions of the franchise, even if it didn't wave away that dreadful fog. At its outset, everything about Homecoming seemed to trigger the skeptic's alarm: it would be developed by a Western studio, it would be published on multiple platforms, and it would introduce a new combat system. A combat sys🔯tem? In Silent Hill? Unbelievable.

Ignoring the fact 🦋that Homecoming was oddly the one Silent Hill game where everyone suddenly cared about the combat (as if we hadn't tolerated a sloppy pipe-swinging sim all this time), it stands out for actually having the first protagonist who would really be able to fight. A former soldier, Alex Shepherd, is uniquely equipped to deal with Silent Hill's twisted menagerie. And spoiler: not only does getting closer make the monsters creepier, but Homecoming uses Alex's background to unfurl the difficulty of returning to mundane suburbia after a traumatic military service.

Read our 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Silent Hill: Homecoming review for more on this blast from the past.

6. Silent Hill 4: The Room

Developer: Team Silent
Platform(s): PC, PS2, Xbox
Released: 2012

Rumor has it that The Room was originally a standalone title that got integrated into the Silent Hill series towards the end of its development. Konami has assured us that this isn't true, but it's just very different in terms of tone. And it is certainly is different. Following Henry Townsend, as he attempts to escape his gradually more haunted apartment, it's an instantly uncomfortable experience. Holes in the wall, terrifying subways, and a horrendous area kn🐬own as the water prison – it's an exercise in genuinely uncomfortable horror.

Lurking enemies such as the Twin Victims – yes, those two groaning baby heads stuck together who walk around on tw💖o legs – make for toe-curling exploration. In one unforgettable scene, Henry enters a room only to find an enormous model head of his neighbor Eileen with rolling eyes that follow you around. The Room is best in these little moments. Overall, The Room is an unsettling and somewhat miserable experience that encompasses the true horror of the series.

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5. Silent Hill: Downpour

Developer: Vatra Games
Platform(s): PS3, Xbox 360
Released: 2012

Silent Hil🌳l: Downpour is a brilliantly flawed game. It tried to mend the rift between the unorthodox Silent Hill: Shattered Memories and the rote Silent Hill: Homecoming by making the spookiest town in gaming a pseudo-open-world.ꦰ And to its credit, developer Vatra Games succeeded in making the town of Silent Hill feel genuinely different. The ever-present fog is downplayed in favor of frequent, violent rainstorms that whip nearby enemies into a frenzy. The constant threat of rain makes exploring Silent Hill feel all the more threatening.

Other moments of genius include the game's opening combat tutorial. In it, the player learns how to fight by brutally stabbing a man to death in a prison shower.ꦦ In addition to being a gripping scene, our protagonist's motivations are left completely open-ended. However, for all the good Vatra accomplished, there's enough bad (combat, technical issues) to balance it out. But what u🅠ltimately held Downpour back was that it's too familiar to be terrifying.

Check out our 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Silent Hill: Downpour review for more insights.

4. Silent Hill: Shattered Memories

Developer: Climax Studios
Platform(s): Wii, PS2, PSP
Released: 2009

A lot of things could have gone wrong with Silent Hill: Shattered Memories. A motion-controlled Silent Hill designed for the Nintendo Wii, which reimagines the story of the original game... but different? The groans of despair were loud and mighty when this one was announced. So imagine the surprise when Shattered Memories turned out to be genuinely interesting, creative, and fresh. And its use of the Wii-mote didn't make you want to throw it across t🍨he room accidentally.

Perhaps what stands out most about Silent Hill: Shattered Memories is the use of the psychologist, who pushes you out of your comfort zone by psycho-analyzing you in conjunction with events that happen in the main story. And I don't mean he analyzes the main character, Harry Mason, but you, the player, and then use your answers to change the game. Ultimately, the changes are just cosꦑmetic, but they leave you more vulnerable to the rest of the game's scares.

Read our 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Silent Hill: Shattered Memories review for more spooky details!

3. Silent Hill 3

Developer: Team Silent
Platform(s): PC, PS2
Released: 2003

Silent Hill 3 put its own stamp on the distressing creatioওns that fill Silent Hill's streets, with developer Team Silent producing a fascinating new look at horror from the perspective of a rather unique protagonist. The eerily empty environments of the first two games are well-executed here, but the game's at its best when the gore comes out, creating a version of Silent Hill's Otherworld that feels more morbid and suffocating than ever before. There's a truly disturbing atmosphere to Silent Hill 3, and that's a big part♛ of its appeal.

The monsters within are brilliantly grotesque, from the club-armed Closer to the disgusting Glutton, to the point that the series' iconic nurses as easily the most boring enemies. And Silent Hill 3 only gets more disturbing when you consider the game's themes of fertility and childbirth – few games explore these areas so directly and unwaveringly, and that's an area where the game truly innovates. Plus, Silent Hill 3 introduces the technically harmless but completely terrifying Robbie the Rabbi🍸t, who still gives Pyramid Head a run for money.

2. Silent Hill

Developer: Team Silent
Platform(s): PS1
Released: 2003

When life gives you lemons, make one of the 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:best PS1 games and one of the most highly-regarded horror games ever. That's what Team Silent did when it created Silent Hill. Working with the PS1's limited technical capabilities, which could only render nearby chunks of the environment before the draw distance faded into a featureless mass of gray pixels, Team Silent's ꦑdevelopers decided this limita༒tion would be a good stand-in for fog. Suddenly, a technical problem became a deeply unsettling boon that helped to define the series' style and atmosphere.

From the minute Harry Mason enters Silent Hill looking for his lost daughter, you're 𓂃assaulted with its unsettling nothingness, and just knowing that something is out in the fog waiting for you is an instant nerve-frayer. Of course, not everything about Silent Hill was a happy accident. From its opening scene, the game is full of deliberately unnerving set-pieces, like mauled dogs, blood-smeared walls, and the world's creepiest locker. It's all about the build-up to fear, and the original Silent Hill is still the master of the slow, painful burn.

1. Silent Hill 2

Developer: Team Silent
Platform(s): PS2, PC, Xbox
Released: 2001

We hate to be predictable, but this is a given. The original Silent Hill may have introduced the series' unique brand of creeping dread and bare-faced gore, but none execute everything they try to accomplish as brilliantly as Silent Hill 2. It's subtle at first, almost getting you to believe it's just another monster thrasher. But then whispers about James' history bubble to the surface, obscure hints fall into place, and a brilliant twist forces you to face the truth: this town is a personal hell for James.

All of Silent Hill 2 is focused on realizing that vision, so everything fits together like a perfectly esoteric puzzle. Every monster serves a symbolic function outside of just being scary (and oh, are they ever), especially the iconic Pyramid Head. And James' seemingly milquetoast personality is laid out so meticulously that you're completely sideswiped when you figure out who he really is. Perhaps most notable of all, it has no fear in approaching an intimate and uniquely terrifying topic in a way that only Silent Hill can. From its first moment to its last, it asks you, "Why?" And "I don't know" is still the scariest answer of all.

Over 20 years later, Silent Hill 2 remains one of the 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:best PS2 games and one of the 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:best horror games ever made.

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P.T. was actually unintentionally playable on the PS5 for a short time before being pulled, although Konami stated that it would never be backwards compatible. That is, until this work-around was discovered.

However, if you’re looking to get༺ P.T. running on your PS5, it’s a little more complicated than just downloading the app, and you will require a second, modified PS5, which let’s be real, yoꦫu likely don’t have lying around. For this to work, you need a ‘jailbroken’ PS5.

Jailbreaking refers to modifying a console to bypass restric▨tions placed on it by a manufacturer. On the PS5, this allows the system to install software and features that go beyond what Sony intended. This is the part where we should say, jailbreaking your system isn’t a great idea as it will get you banned on PSN, and can potentially cause your system to break entirely.

However, if you’re just curious about how this works, you need access to P.T. on your account so you can download🐟 the teaser on your jailbroken PS5, back up the game on a USB, and then bring that USB to your unmodified PS5 to install it. That’s a simplification of the method, and for anyone who doesn’t mess around with the software of their consoles to mod it, it’s not something you’re going to be able to do.

It’s a shame too, as P.T. has become one of the most elusive modern video games. It was released back in 2014, and after some puzzle-solving, it was discovered that it was a teaser for a now-canꦛceled Hideo Kojima lead Silent Hills. That game famously never came out after Konami had a messy split with Kojima, and eventually, the publisher pulled the game, making it impossible to get access to unless you already had it on your PS4.

However, with the announcements that澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询: Konami is hosting a Silent Hill showcase this week, could it possibly suggest that one day it might make P.T. downloadable again? While it’s a nice thought, without the return of the Silent Hills game entirely, it seems unlikely, making preservation efforts like this really important.

For things that 100% will be playable on Sony's next-gen console, here are the澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询: upcoming PS5 games confirmed so far.

Over the past weekend, Kojima took to Twitter to share a few new details about the original Metal Gear Solid. As reported by , Kojima revealed that putting his﷽torical footage in the stealth-action game was a tough deal, chiefly because he just didn't have 🌌the contacts necessary to make licensing negotiation easy.

It turns out Kojima approached Japan's public broadcaster, NHK, and requested the use of live-action materials for use in Me🍰tal Gear Solid. Kojima now claims negotiations went far slower than he initially anticipated because he didn't have the contacts or know-how to procure the footage.

Kojima has now revealed it took him several years to agree a licensing deal with NHK, on top of learning how to edit and insert the footage into Metal Gear Solid. After these events, you'd forgive Kojima for swearing off using historical footage again, but the developer would use live-action footage again in Metal 🉐Gear Solid 2 and 3.

From a technical standpoint, as SiliconE🔜ra points out, it would've made perfect sense for Kojima to slo✨t live action footage into Metal Gear Solid, as the original PlayStation could play condensed movie files. There really weren't any technical barriers holding Kojima back - it was simply a matter of access.

As we've seen over the past year, licensing surrounding historical footage can be a tricky business. Konami announced in late 2021 that Met♚al Gear Solid 2 and 3 would be pulled from digital ♉storefronts over licensing issues surrounding the use of historical footage. Although the publisher announced earlier this year it was working to get bot𓄧h games back on digital sജtorefronts, licensing remains an🐻 obvious ongoing issuﷺe with historical footage.

Meanwhile, new reports of a fully remastered Metal Gear Solid trilogy emerged over the last week, the latest in a long line of claims of a revival for the series. 

These reports come in the wake of news that Konami plans to🎉 announce a new title in a "world-loved series" at Tokyo Game Show. According to , that announcement is likely to be for 🔥a "smaller project" unrelated to rumored revivals for Konami franchises like Castlevania, Silent Hill, and Metal Gear Solid.

VGC's 🌃source says that "remasters of classic Metal Gear Solid games" are in the works, reiterat𝓀ing a from the outlet last year which suggested that classic Metal Gear games were on the way to modern consoles.

In the wake of the VGC article, prolific leaker added that the report is "100% true," and will be coming to both consoles and PC. Dusk Golem says that all three of the original Metal Gear Solid games will be released as part of the🅷 remaster, available separately and as part of a collection. The collection would also include the original MSX versions of Metal Gear and Metal Gear 2: Solid Snake.

MGS2 and 3 were previously remastered as part of the Metal Gear Solid HD Collection, originally released in 2011 for PS3 and Xbox 360. That collection included the PSP game, Peace Walker, but it did not include the original Metal Gear Solid. The first MGS has be♚en available as a downloadable PlayStation classic title in the past, and is still available as a PC download through GOG.

Downloadable versions of MGS2 and 3 were delisted ꦫlast year, apparently due to licensing issues around historical footage included in those games. In July 2022, Konami announced that thꦆose games would soon "resume sales." At this point, the new remasters may be the venue for these games to return on♔ moder꧒n platforms.

These remasters are entirely separate from the 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:rumored Metal Gear Solid 3 remake, which is reportedly in development at a Chinese studio called Virtuos.

Yesterday on August 25, Konami announced that ℱa series of classic and new games alike would be coming to the Official Konami Shop, purchasable for download on Steam. That's 23 games and 18 DLC packs, including the likes of Castlevania, Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance, Contra, and more.

This revival of older Konami games🥃 for easier access o♎n Steam has inspired hope in two fan groups in particular. Heading over to , for example, you can find countless Metal Gear and Silent Hill fans hoping for Konami to bring classic games from both series to the Official Konami Shop for activation on Steam.

Currently, it's incredibly difficult to play old Metal Gear games in particular, especially since Konami was forced to remove both Metal Gear Solid 2 and 3 from PC in late 2021 澳洲幸运5开🔯奖号码历史查询:over licensing issues for historicꦚal footage. Meanwꦏhile, the original Metal Gear Solid is still available on PC, but only through the GOG storefron🌠t.

There is actually some hope for Metal Gear fans though, as Konami pledged earlier this year that it would relist o𓆏lder titles from the series on digital storefronts at some point in the future. Konami didn't s♏pecify which games it would be relisting though, or when this would ha🏅ppen, and we've heard nothing more since the announcement in July. 

As for the Silent Hill series, it's even more dire. The original Silent Hill is still locked e🌠xclusively to the PS1, and while Silent Hill 2 is playable on Xbox systems, it's barely compatible with modern PCs (to that end, a group of fans are actually ). If any series deserves to be preserved, it'd be hard to argue against Metal Gear and Silent Hill.

Meanwhile, we've seen nothing come to fruition from the 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:report of multiple Silent Hill games being in the works, including a full remake of Silent Hill 2. 

, but that hasn't stopped our imaginations from running wild. After all, the website may be fake but the anniversary itself is very real. It's a huge milestone for one of the video game industry's most acclaimed franchises, one which is currently on ice following 2018's Metal Gear Survive's failure to... well, survive.  

So with that Metal Gear 35th anniversary here, here are five ways Kꦉonami should have celebrated Solid Snake's first mission into Outer 𝔍Heaven. 

1. Bluepoint remakes Metal Gear

Walk with me into the land of wild speculation. To your left is 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Metal Gear Solid 6 developed by Remedy Entertainment and to your right is Bluepoint Games with a remake of the original 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Metal Gear for PS5. While rumors have long circulated suggesting that the master of the remaster – who last gave Demon's Souls an impressive glow up before 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:PlayStation Studios acquired the group – would one day tackle a Metal Gear Solid remake, Iﷺ💃'd rather see the original Metal Gear given some love. 

Metal Gear launched in 1987 on the MSX2 home computer, was later ported to the Famicom and NES, and is now immortalized in the MGS: HD Collection. The game tracks FOXHOUND oper🐽ative Solid Snake as he embarks on a solo infiltration mission into Outer Heaven. There's a Metal Gear to destroy, banter with Big Boss over the radio, and you even get to meet Frank Jaeger before he gets that rad Gray Fox moniker and accompanying exoskeleton. It's a great game weathered by time, making it the perfect candidate for a generous remake. 

2. Metal Gear Solid returns 

While the 35th anniversary of Metal Gear should focus on theꦦ genesis of the series, I wouldn't be opposed to Konami showing the legendary Metal Gear Solid some love. It's one of the best PS1 games out there and needlessly difficult to actually get hold of and play today, and is well deserving of ꩵa little care and attention – particularly as it has a 25th anniversary of its own to celebrate in 2023. 

Whether that's something as simple as Konami ensuring that Metal Gear Solid drops into 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:PlayStation Plus Premium or something more ambitious, like drඣagging the fantastic Metal Gear Solid: Twin Snakes remake out of the archives and giving it another chance at life on Nintendo 🥀Switch or, better yet, doing the necessary legal wrangling to get the infamous GameCube remake out there on other platforms. 

3. Konami reconciles with Hideo Kojima

Following the release of 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Metal Gear Solid 5: 𒐪The Phantom Pain in 2015, Konami broke with Metal Gear creator Hideo Kojima. It was a messy end to a fruitful partnership. Kojima Productions was later reinstated as an independent entity, with Kojima collaborating with PlayStation Studios to develop 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Death Stranding. We have no idea what the studio is working on now but, you know wha෴t they say, time heals all w༒ounds. 

Given Konami's reluctance to do anything with this franchise, you hav🦩e to wonder if the publisher would even consider handing the reins back to Kojima Productions, or if it would even want them after everything that went down. It was only in 2014, a year before The Phantom Pain released, that Hideo Kojima was in developing remakes of Metal Gear and Metal Gear 2: Solid Snake to resolve some of the plot discrepancies that had emerged over time. He wants to do it, we want to play it – make this a birthday party to remember, K🧜onami.

4. Oscar Isaac gets in the suit

I'm pretty sure that there's been some version of a Metal Gear Solid movie in production for the last 16 years. But hopes of seeing a Shadow Moses set improved significantly in 2020, when 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Oscar Isaac signed on to play Solid Sn🎃ake. Kong: Skull Island's Jordan Vogt-Roberts is attached to direct the untitled🐎, undated film and… well, that's all we know about it. This Metal Gear Solid film is likely years away from release, so chances of seeing anything outside of new concept art as slim. 

But♏ then again, we're in the business of dreaming big here, so why not hope for a look at Isaac dressed in a Sneaking Suit – bandana flowing in the wind, slow drag on a cigarette, turn to camera, and a "Kept you waiting, huh?" Job done, internet goes wild, our ending love for Oscar Isaac continues. When to reveal what Robert Pattinson looked like in the Batsuit, he did so with a short, implausibly dark, camera test clip. 55 seconds of very little, but it got the job done.

5. The anniversary passes without incident

The future of the Metal Gear series is uncertain. I wish that weren't the case, but that's where we are right now. Metal Gear Solid 5: The Phantom Pain released to critical acclaim in 2015, debatably without its intended ending, and the series has barely been seen or heard from again. The problem for Konami is that bringing the series back in any capacity, particularly without Hideo Kojima or the current incarnation of Kojima Productions at th♐e helm, will be heavily scrutinized. 

The Konami of 2022 is vastly different from the Konami of even 2015. It's largely out of the AAA game d💟evelopment space, and has heavily increased its output on mobile platforms. Not every anniversary has to be celebrated and, the truth is, unless Konami plans on investing heavily in the series, outsourcing the IP to an external studio, there isn't any harm in letting the Metal Gear 35th anniversary pass without incident. After all, , so, you know, maybe silence isn't the worst thing in the world. 

While we're waiting for the anniversary, why not check out our ranking of the 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:best Metal Gear games.

Just like many of the 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:best PS1 Games, 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:best PS2 Games, and 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:best PS3 Games, the PSP is home to many memorable experiences from a host of beloved series, with many including their own unique handheld spin to make the most of the platform. And thanks to its beautiful screen and impressive tech specs, the PSP became a no brainer go-to for gamers who put quality and portability on equal footing. Of course, the Vita came along just after to take Sony's handheld offering to greater heights, which many of the 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:best PS Vita Games showcased. 

But the PSP's stellar library contains plenty of innovative experiences. So, if you need a handheld break while we wait for all the 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:upcoming PS5 games, come back in time with us and read on below to finﷺd our pick of the 25 best PSP gam✤es.  

Best PSP games ever, ranked

25. Half-Minute Hero

Developer: Marvelous Entertainment
Released: 2009

Got a mi♑nute? How about half? Good, because that's all the time you get to save the whole dang world. Developed by Marvelous Entertainment, Half-Minute Hero turns standard RPG conventions on their head by holding players to a 30-second time limit in which they must battle fiends and build up their powers in order to save the world. Luckily, that timer can be reset, and the fun comes in using each groundhog day scenario to push forward towards greater enemies, acquire better gear, and become generally better at kicking ass in thirty seconds or less. Half-Minute Hero is a game that tries its damndest to defy categorization, but you won't have time to care what it is.

24. Killzone: Liberation

Developer: Guerrilla Games
Released: 2006

For a game that deals in death and destruction, Killzone: Liberation remains not only one of the most polished and prettiest games on the PSP, but it's arguably the best Killzone game ever made. Liberation swaps the FPS vantage point for a top-down isometric view that𝐆 rewards fast trigger fingers as much as tactical thinking. The game is also tough, training players to think before they shoot and perfect their approach in every mission. 

Rather than a glut of weapons and upgrades with no perceivable benefits, a huge assortment of tech and skills will keep you constantly reconsidering what the best way to play is. With the addition of one of PSP's most robust ad-hoc multiplayer modes, Liberation is truly one of the PSP's killer apps. Check out our 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Killzone: Liberation review for more details on this PSP must-play.

23. Jeanne d'Arc

Developer: Level-5
Released: 2006

Why Level-5 felt obliged to rewrite Joan of Arc's history instead of creating a French heroine o☂f their own is beyond us. But no matter because this mܫagical, demon-fighting version of the historical figure does a fine job of leading one of the deepest and most creative tactical role-playing game on the system. 

Like Tactics Ogre and Final Fantasy Tactics, Jeanne D'Arc sees players taking on battles throughout an overworld map, collecting new team members, and leveling their teams along the way. Innovative choices like using skills stones over classes or setting time limits for each battle give Jeanne D'Arc a play style all its own, its presentation and swift-yet-complex battles do their part to hoist it into the history books as one of the 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:best anime games ever made.

22. Secret Agent Clank

Developer: High Impact Games
Released: 2008

The name's XJ-0461. Clank XJ-0461. Remember it because if you're in the mood for a cool and efficient Ratchet and Clank spin-off, you can c🔯all Secret Agent Clank to handle the job. Clank pulls off this solo adventure with class, blending traditional Ratchet and Clank gameplay with a nice variety of 3D platforming diversions. 

You'll speed through vehicle levels, lord over Gadgebot objectives, play out Quark's exaggerated memories, and even blast away foes with Ratchet. With numerous gadgets and outlandish weapons at his disposal, and familiar friends to fill in the gaps, Clank's spin-off comes fully-loaded with the series' trademark creativity and polish. Honestly, it's a joy to play and easily one of the 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:best adventure games on the PSP. 

21. Every Extend Extra

Developer: Q Entertainment
Released: 2006

Screenshots don't do Every Extend Extra justice, as it's easy to dismiss Q Entertainment's shoot-'em-up as a colorful mess. Spend time learning the ropes and wrapping your head (and eyes) around the explosive gameplay, however, and Every Extend Extra will leave y💝ou star-struck. The mission is straightforward: detonate a ship to set off chain reactions and keep doing so until each main bos▨s is destroyed. 

It's learning how to detonate strategically and when to risk it all for power-ups that make each level a hybrid of twitch gaming and puzzle-solving. What's more, each stage features new enemies, backgrounds, and music composed by Tetsuya Mizuguchi (Rez, Lumines), making Every Extend Extra a game that always has something new coming up in its playlist. Read our 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Every Extend Extra review for more details!

20. Ys Seven

Developer: Nihon Falcom
Released: 2009

Seven was indeed a lucky number for Nihon Falcom's action RPG franchise. Ys Seven represents an evolution of the series, evolving Ys' 2D sprites and environments into a full 3D adventure with new party members to discover, new systems to fine-tune, and fresh new ways in which to dispatch justice in Altago. You'd think a 30+ hour RPG would wear out its welcome on a portable system, but Ys Seven's satisfying combat, rich world, and fascinating storyline keeps the quest feeling lively and fresh. So yeah, if you are a collector of the 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:best RPGs to play on a handheld, tꦆhis PSP icon needs to be on y♛our radar. 

19. Mega Man Powered Up

Developer: Capcom
Released: 2006

Mega Man Powered Up is not just a remake of one of the 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:best NES games. It earns its place here by drawing from the series' humble beginnings and reimagining them with cutesy new graphics, two new levels, and modes of play that let you swap Mega Man for one of his robotic bosses. Think of it like The Muppet Babies if the Muppet Babies were constan𓃲tly blowing each other up to snatch their abilities from each other. If that weren't enough to keep old-school fans busy, it comes with a level editor and the ability to share player-created Mega Man stages with the world.

18. Ape Escape: On the Loose

Developer: Japan Studio
Released: 2005

Ape Escape: On the Loose is a pristine, thoughtful remake of the PS1 original with upgraded graphics and a smattering of new monkey-themed minigames. The translation isn't perfect, and🌳 the controls miss something without the second analog stick, but the game's mix of platforming challenges, gadgetry, and▨ charm overshadows these few complaints. Ape wrangling is messy work, after all, but in the end, it's worth it.

17. Kingdom Hearts: Birth by Sleep

Developer: Square Enix
Released: 2010

Kingdom Hearts: Birth By Sleep would have been easy to turn into a quick♔ cash-in, a portable Kingdom Hearts to milk fans perpetually waiting for a proper sequel. Instead, Squar🌊e made one of the most important games in the series, filling out the strange world's lore with the same level of care as other titles in the series, such as the epic Kingdom Hearts 2. Long before Kingdom Hearts 3 was announced for PlayStation 4 and Xbox One, this was the closest thing everyone thought we would get to a third full game. 

Heroes Terra, Aqua, and Ventus make for a disorienting shift from Sora. Still, the game's Command Deck and D-Link combat mechanics help to keep the adventure moving with fast and surprisingly deep enemy encounters. It only takes a few visits to familiar Disney locales to ease back into the Kingdom Hearts vibe. If you want more Disney in your life or need something to play while you wait for 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Kingdom Hearts 4, read our 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Kingdom Hearts: Birth by Sleep revi🍌ew. 

16. Gran Turismo PSP

Developer: Polyphony Digital
Released: 2009

Gran Turismo PSP is a title that had no business looking and playing as good as it did on the PSP. In fact, it's probably one of the 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:best racing games tha🌼t the console has to offer. Polyphony Digital barely took its foot off the pedal when creating an exclusive GT experience for Sony's portable, and the result is a standalone title that purrs. No doubt, GT is great to look at, but it also packs a lot under its hood. With over 800 cars, 35 tracks, and 60fps of r🅠aw racing performance, it makes up for its lack of a traditional career mode or some of the deeper customization you'll find elsewhere in the series. Plus, GT PSP's ad-hoc vehicle sharing and one-off multiplayer races are a nice touch. 

15. Dissidia 012 Final Fantasy

Developer: Square Enix
Released: 2011

The first Dissidia Final Fantasy may have turned the fan service up, but this sequel cranks its love for FF to 11... er ... 012... um... it cranks it up to Duodecim. Designed as a prequel to the first Dissidia, Dissidia 012 mixes standard JRPG mechanics with flashy, high-octane, one-on-one fighting game mechanics. It also tweaks a few balance issues from the first game and brings nine new FF characters into the fold. This is explicitly an FF fan's delight, but there's plenty for newcomers to cling to in Dissidia 012 Final Fantasy, thanks to its theatrical antics. If you are after a new title to add to your collection of the 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:best fighting games around, look no further. 

14. Persona 3 Portable

Developer: Atlus
Released: 2009

What's amazing about this PSP adaptation of the PS2's Persona 3 is how fresh and different it feels in the transition to handheld. In optimizing the overworld for quick-and-easy exploration and shifting the main character's perspective from male to female, the overall tone of the story is changed, giving even old fans something new to latch on to. Impactful tweaks like these make the PSP version of this JRPG worthy of attention, but its biggest strength is the unchanged dungeon crawling that's peerless in the RPG canon. The only thing that matches it is Persona 4 Golden on PS Vita. And with the remake Persona 3 Reload in 2024, the legacy of one of the 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:best Persona games in history lives on. 

13. LocoRoco 2

Developer: Japan Studio
Released: 2008

LocoRoco 2 is impossible to hate. Go on, try. After just a few minutes with Jap🌸an Studio's painfully cute platform puzzler, you too will be singing along with the titular blobs and spending every extra second digging int꧙o their rich, colorful world. Everything that made LocoRoco an innovative hit returns in this sequel, including the game's trademark tilt-a-world mechanic that takes a moment to learn and multiple playthroughs to master. 

And you'll want to be🔯come an expert at rolling, bumping, and squishing LocoRocos through their environments, too, if you hope to collect all of the game's secr🍸ets and bonus missions. Don't let the Saturday morning cartoon vibe turn you off. LocoRoco 2 is as challenging as it is charming and as devious as it is cute.

12. Valkyria Chronicles 2

Developer: Sega
Released: 2010

T♏here was fear this portable sequel to PS3's Valkyria Chronicles would rob the series of its breadth and depth, but Sega handles the transition like a champ. Valkyria Chronicles II picks up Avan Hardin's story without missing a step, setting you on a path through the Lanseal Royal Military Academy that will see you navigating conflicts both on and off the battlefield that feel just as complex and satisfying as before. After spending countless hours managing troops, customizing vehicles, and perfecting your strategy in the war for Gallia, it'll become clear that this handheld Valkyria Chronicles entry can hold its own.

11. Final Fantasy Tactics: The War of the Lions

Developer: Square Enix
Released: 2007

As an updated remake of Final Fantasy Tactics from the first PlayStation console, Final Fantasy Tactics: The War of the Lions extends the tactical role-playing goodness with new characters, jobs, and cutscenes which give even veterans of the original motivation to head back into the fray. If you don't get lost in the labyrinthine plot, you'll spend days tinkering with your army and perfecting your strategy in the field. As in the original, the game isn't kind to beginners; but those who spend time learning its inner workings will no doubt find themselves dedicated to the cause. For more on one of the 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:best Final Fantasy games ever made, check out our Final Fantasy Tactics: The War of the 🧸Lions review. 

10. Castlevania: The Dracula X Chronicles

Developer: Konami
Released: 2007

For years, Dracula X: Rondo of Blood was considered a lost holy grail in the Castlevania series, trapped as a rare, Japan-only exclusive for the Turbo-Grafx 16 CD. Then came Castlevania: The Dracula X Chronicles, packaging not just this 2.5D remake of Rondo, but the original and an updated version of PlayStation 1's legendary Symphony of the Night. The whole package is a blood-stamped love letter to fans, loaded with weird characters and a shiny new Boss Mode. To this day, it remains one of the 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:best horror games in the series.

9. Power Stone Collection

Developer: Capcom
Released: 2006

Forgetting the fact this compilation offers two of the 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:best Dreamcast games in one (Power Sto𒅌ne and Power Stone 2), Power Stone made 3D multiplayer brawling cool long before those fancy PlayStation All-Stars came onto the scene. The game delivers a whole stack of playable combatan🦂ts, all of whom light up the arenas with slick, explosive action. 

The decision to bring the formerly Dreamcast-exclusive Power Stone series to Sony's PSP was an inspired choice, not just because the handheld was an ideal venue for quick, pick-up-and-play arcade ac🌸tion꧃, but because it demonstrated how the PSP could give lesser-known series a second chance. In many ways, the PSP is the Dreamcast of portables - a misunderstood venue for brilliant, off-beat game making.

8. Monster Hunter Freedom

Developer: Capcom
Released: 2005

Monster Hunter Freedom demands the best from you. It requires cunning, patience, the ability to take a beating, and the willingness to return for more. For those willing to tackle its challenge, however, it's also one of the most re💞warding experiences on the PSP. Taking its lead from Monster Hunter G, Freedom is a massive mo🐷nster-hunting game full of prey who will put your warrior through hell and back. 

You can try mashing your way through early-game bounties, but bigger enemies require experimentation and expert planning. That said, the genius of Monster Hunter Freedom is you'll want to keep trying, not just to reap the in-game rewards, but to soak in that rare sense of accomplishment you only get from looking genuinely tough foes in the face and living to tell the tale. This game made MonHun an international treasure, and is a great way to spend your time ahead of 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Monster Hunter Wilds. 

7. Crisis Core: Final Fantasy 7

Developer: Square Enix
Released: 2007

Crisis Core: Final Fantasy 7 returns fans toꦗ one of the most iconic gaming realms in a way that feels right on a handheld platform. There's still plenty of opportunities to kick around with Zack and other FF7 familiars, but the short-burst missions do away with tﷺime-consuming RPG tropes and let you hack away at the meaty adventure at your own pace. 

Even the slot-machine feature (memorably dubbed Digital Mind Wave) keeps the action humming and injects a sense of luck and surprise into every encounter. It may operate differently than what we were used to, but Crisis Core keeps the FF7 components intact while delivering a fresh spin on a classic tale. This was one of the first big projects by Hajime Tabata, who went on to direct the big series with Final Fantasy 15. If you read our 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Crisis Core🐻 Final Fantasy 7 Reunion review, you can also see how it ha𝕴s brought the PSP gem into the modern era. 

6. Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories

Developer: Rockstar
Released: 2006

Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories (VCS) isn't the first portable GTA spin-off, but it's the most polished of its kind in the PSP roster. A prequel to PS2's Grand Theft Auto: Vice City, VCS pushes the PSP in all the right places to bring the Grand Theft Auto world to life in ways that seem impossible for the technologically limited PSP. This was thanks in part to a new game engine, resulting in a cleaner, more visually arresting handheld Grand Theft Auto. Even in the post-GTA Online world, it stands as a technical and creative achievement. It's also worth noting that in the new GTA game, GTA 6, we'll be heading back to Vice City, so now&ap🌼os;s a great time to play this PSP gem. 

5. Patapon 3

Developer: Pyramid
Released: 2011

What you do in this bizarre, PSP-exclusive series is hard to describe without using the word Patapon itself. It's a game that marches to the beat of its own drum, borrowing notes of the rhythm game genre to compose a unique tune all itsꦿ own. It's like Lemmings meets Elite Beat Agents. Or LocoRoco meets Donkey Konga. See? Hard. With Patapon 3, the developer Pyramid perfects its formul🎀a. 

Once again, the game challenges you to lead an army of Patapons to victory against the Seven Evil Archfiends by tapping out drum beats to control their actions. The controls are more intuitive, the visuals are more varied, and the multiplayer adds a whole new dimension to the Patapons' quest. It's a sequel that layers improvements on top of nearly every aspect of the game without missing a beat. Read our 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Patapon 3 review if you want to know more about this must-play. 

4. Daxter

Developer: Ready at Dawn
Released: 2006

Daxter is the ꦯspin-off to the Jak & Daxter PS2 series you never realized was possible. Taking place at the beginning of Jak 2, Ready at Dawn's offbeat open-world platformer/shooter chronicles the adventures of wisecracking ocelot Daxter as he attempts to save his buddy Jak from the clutches of Baron Praxis. If you've never played a Jak & Daxter game before (shame on you), ๊then that sentence might as well be gibberish to your ears, making this an experience catered to franchise fans above all else. 

Still, the visual and gameplay fidelity of Daxter on such a teensy, portable console was mega impressive at the time, and the title still holds up today as a big, premium action-adventure with a t൲onally consistent story deserving of the Jak & Daxter branding. There's action, drama, laughs, boss fights, LAN multiplayer, mini-games, collectibles an🌌d much more to be enjoyed in Daxter, making it an absolute must-play for the PSP enthusiast. 

3. God of War: Ghost of Sparta

Developer: Ready at Dawn
Released: 2010

Ready at Dawn and SCE Santa Monica Studio captured Zeus' lightning in a bottle when they crammed the God of War s💮eries into Sony's handheld. God of War: Chains of Olympus was an impressive achievement, but Ghost of Sp🦩arta surpassed it with an adventure that is slick and gorgeous. Following Kratos' search for his brother Deimos, Ghost of Sparta is essential for followers of the series canon. And while it doesn't rise to the same scale as its console siblings, it comes damn close while showing off a few new moves along the way. By the time you plumb the depths of Atlantis, swim the River of Lament, and tear a swath through the Domain of Death, you'll feel as if you've survived an authentic Greek myth.

2. Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker

Developer: Kojima Productions
Released: 2010

Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker captures the blockbuster feel of its console comrades in a way that make us wonder if Hideo Kojima secretly upgraded our PSPs. The insane plot, mounds of bonus content, and the obsessive army building later used in Metal Gear Solid 5: The Phantom Pain keeps you rapt the entire 30-hour runtime. Yes, thirty. 

The action mixes classic Snake ass-kickery with deep squad management that sees you 🧸tweaking the ins and outs of Mother Base while training Militaires Sans Frontieres for deployment in missions. Combined with ✨the multiplayer co-ops and versus ops modes, these elements make Peace Walker feel like it's about to burst out of its UMD at any moment. But then, Snake is never one for staying within bounds to begin with.

1. Lumines: Puzzle Fusion

Developer: Q Entertainment
Released: 2004

Lumines is timeless and one of the 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:best puzzle games you can play, period. Tetsuya Mizuguchi's psychedelic puzzler scratches our synesthesia itch by using light and sound in ways that make every round feel as fresh and exciting as the last even more than a decade after its release. Lumines turns block-matching into art, changing the landscape with every skin and evolving a well-worn concept into a trippy, tub-thump♌ing,🅰 zen-like vacation for the senses. It says a lot that a PSP launch title remains its crowning achievement, but it only takes a few rounds with this musical prodigy to understand why. While it's had sequels on PS3, PS Vita, even iOS and Android, the PSP original is still the best.

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We've seen more 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:new games emphasize their scores and even live orchestra shows belting out classic tunes selling out theaters around the world. So, while it wasn't an easy list to put together, below you'll find what we believe to be the 25 🦩best video game soundtracks of all time.

25. Pokemon Gold / Silver

There's a good chance that if you've been a Nintendo fan for a while, the best video game soundtrack ever to come from it in the way of Pokemon Gold/Siler played a role in that great love.

The anticipation of that Gameboy Jingle, the awe of hearing actual Pokemon noises, the nostalgia of hear🌺ing old games and that dread of getting older... this works as a testament to both the game itself and you. Whether it comes from the scary tale behind Lavender town(originally from Blue/Red but still in Gold/Silver) or that nostalgic optimism imbued throughout every 𒆙second of National Park, Pokemon has and will always offer a wonderful escape that gets further away with each second.

24. The Last of Us

Argentinian composer Gustavo Santaolalla is well known for his film compositions and The Last of Us (and its sequel 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:The Last of Us 2) take full advantage of this. Where songs like "The Path" offers a melancholic travel song, "Vanishing Grace" announces the very short brevity The Last🎐 of Us can possibly allow it.

In this sense, "The Last of Us" offers this dichotomy of the darkness of its melody and the brightness of its accompaniment in an interesting way that directly parallels the story itsel꧟f. Together, broken chords and dissonant melodies appear strongജ and almost hopeful, but alone, they appear to be what they are, broken.

Read our The Last of Us Part 1 review

23. Everybody's Gone to the Rapture

Everybody's Gone to the Rapture is a 🦩powerful game that expresses and sings emotions and feelings that are hard to explain. It fits so meaningfully into the themes and stories of the game that removing them should take away some of their power. Somehow, it does not. The opening song, "All the Earth," strikes you by the second note with a piercing howl of emotions, only to be accompanied by the low rumble of a drone and strings as it teases the melody at its center.

It follows and folds around this ꦗmelody with wonderful countermelodies and additional voices in "Finding the Pattern" only to be stripped away and built back up again. Much like the soundtrack, the game itself follows this idea o🎃f getting to the root of something only for it to fall away in your fingers. "I don't know if anyone will ever hear this. It's all over. I'm the only one left."

Read our Everybody's Gone to the Rapture review

22. Katamari Damacy

It might be a bit of a cliche, but sometimes a prince just has to suck up the world, universe, and everything greater to impress his father, the King of All Cosmos. Katamari Damacy somehow manages to tell this story through the hour or so of music it has. "Katamari Nah-Nah" starts with a wonderfully weird acapella that probably helps brace you for the game in front of you until "Katamari on the rocks" blows that out of the water with the more fleshed-out version of this same son💞g, complete with electronic drums and synth.

It's not alway♕s this fast-paced with songs like "Walking on a Star" giving an oddly pretty break from the hectic world that is Katamari Damacy. Much like that of an actual star and the cosmos, the idealism of its existence is enough to ground all those who look at it. You exist and nothing expresses this greater than the human minds behind Katamari Damacy.

Read our 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Katamari Damacy review

21. NieR: Automata

T༺here is something often very subtle about the way lead composer Keiichi Okabe put together Nier Automata's soundtrack. It is loaded with small yet incredibly pretty pieces that might be skipped on the first three or so playthroughs. Luckily, Automata is meant to be played over and over again.

From the gentle yet anthemic guitar and vocal accompaniment in "City Ruins" to the over-the-top "Grandma/ Destruction," Automata's willingness to change at the drop of a hat is something that works very well for its overall presentation. Despite this, it stays consistently beautiful through its use of vocal performances and melancholic piano. Rather fitting for such an emotiona♓lly charged game.

Read our 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Nier: Automata review

20. Stardew Valley

If you were lucky enough to experience the live orchestra in 2024 for Stardew Valley: Festival of Seasons, then you'll know better than anyone how wholesome and mesmerizing the music from one of the 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:best farming games truly is. Stardew Valley is beloved for many reasons, but only recently has🌃 its relaxing and upbeat soundtrack really gotten the attention that it deserves. Composed by Eric Barone (aka ConcernedApe) himself, each in-game season in Stardew Valley has its own theme that fits perfectly.

Winter has a soft and calm melody, "Winter (Nocturne of Ice)," perfect for winding down the in-game year. On the other hand, Summer features a jazzy number, "Summer (Tropicala)," complimenting all the outdoor activities and beach festivals scheduled on the player’s calendar. 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Stardew Valley's music is 🎀as charming and relaxing as the game itself and never gets old, no matter how many in-game 🔥years you play. That, in itself, shows you just how amazing this soundtrack truly is.

19. DOOM

Just kill stuff. This is the central command Doom repeats over and over again. Whilst the original few games are totally iconic, Mick Gordon's accompanying soundtrack to DOOM (2016) expresses this the most. Fitting somewhere between industrial djent, power, and prog metal,the opening track "Rip & Tear" fits♉ this headbanging, demon-killing niche to the best ability.

It pairs the chug of djent guitar ideas with industrial and drone and tops that off with killer riffs for the total cathartic package. It doesn't leave behind its roots in a nice callback to the cl𒅌assic "At dooms gate" with its own much harsher cover. This encapsulates the experience of DOOM (2016) incredibly well. It's not just a reboot but a total faithful reimaging, 𓃲and this works incredibly well in its favour

Read our 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Doom review

18. Minecraft

It's hard to really surmise the extent that Minecraft's popularity explosion has really had on the gaming landscape, but now, 11 years after its release, C418's music is ꦕstill heard everywhere, f💯rom video essays to TikToks.

It seems clear why. Tunes like "Subwoofer Lullaby" and self-titled "Minecraft" are both bright yet rather lonely songs. Every instance of Minecraft promotes the m▨ultiplayer aspects it was built on and this, fundamentally, is why we remember it so fondly. It's simple, fun and reminds us of friends online long gone off our profiles.

Read our 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Minecraft review

17. Street Fight 2 Turbo

Blasting out of the side of arcade machines, then tiny home TV's Street Fighter 2 Turbo made a lasting impression back in the '90s with its wide roster of characters 🗹and surprisingly tight combat controls. The music only helped sol☂idify this with easily hummable yet widely varied tunes.

From something as simple as its "Character Select" theme, you know you were in for a hell of a fight. You'd have to like it with how long your opponent took to pick the right counter, only for you to spam quarter-circle 💞forward for the entire fight. Fight!

Read our Super Street Fighter II Turbo HD Remix review

16. Sonic The Hedgehog 2

Consistency. Whilst Sonic has never been able to pull off consistency, Sonic🍷 2 absolutely does. Every theme and song just feels so succinctly part of their level. "Casino Night Zone" captures its level to great effect and the likes of "Chemical Plant Zone" is so wildly catchy you won’t be able to hum anౠything else after you hear it.

In a greater sense, both Sonic's personality and music sum up their time in wonderfully nostalgic ways. Thi൲s has always been one of Sonic's biggest strengths and why he's so fondly remembered to this day. It's now "way past cool" but that's why it's so enjoyable.

15. Super Mario 64 

Super Mario 64 is the second N64 exclusive to be included on this list and well deserved at that as one of the 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:best Mario games ever. Whether it be hearing the theme while pulling Mario's face across the screen or letting him freeze to enjoy "Cool, Cool Mountain" Super Mario 64's mu♏sic sure iꦛs one of the most identifiable and best video game soundtracks of all time.

Like OOT before it, music exists as a crucial part of the experience of Mario. Every track has this deliberate design that complements the level greatly through things like the eerie noises in "Haunted House" or the chomping of the piano as it chases afꦓter you. Super Mario's world is innately musical, and Mario 64 shows that with great glee.

Read our Super Mario 64 DS review

14. Halo 3

There is somet✱hing truly great about Halo 3's soundtrack. Sometimes, it's something as subtle as a flute and some strings, sometimes it's a full orchestra and choir. Going from the ominous foreboding of "Luck" to the earthy archaic sound of "Three Gates" annunciates what it is that Hal🧜o 3 offers the player.

It is a magical galaxy-defining epic. This is before mentioning its t🎃heme song, a perfect combination of all the above. Angelic voices sway back and forth as the string section warms up and wraps around the central melody. Then the drums hit. It shows a battle between the angelic and the archaic, the dark and the li🦩ght. This is Halo.

Read our 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Halo 3 review

13. The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time 

Ocarina Of Time managed to make a lasting impression from something as simple as its title theme. It simply moves from an F to a C with the gentle clip-clop ♋of Epona's hoofs operating as soft percussion and mꦕanages to captivate millions. The music only gets better from here. Going from the jingle that plays when you open chests to the composition at work in the temple of time, It has managed to stay relevant more than two decades after its release, making it without a doubt one of the best video game soundtracks ever for sheer staying power.

This isn't all without its share of annoyance. Hearing "Kepora Gebora's theme" through button mashing or "Hey Listen" for the 1000th time is grating, but itꦡ just makes Ocarina Of Time all the more lovable for it.

Read our The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time 3D review

12. Dark Souls

FromSoftware really pulled a belter with Dark Souls, one of the best video game sounဣdtracks you likely already know and love. One scroll through Motoi Sakuraba's Wikipedia page shows the wide range of musical styles he’s had a hand in. From his little known electronic prog album Gikyokuonsou to his work in Eternal Sonata, it's clear he's a composer withꦆ a depth of knowledge in the field. Nothing quite exemplifies this more than the Dark Souls soundtrack.

It's loaded with your typical epic boss fight music like "Taurus Demon💙" and "Ornstein & Smough" but also offers these beautiful moments of clarity felt through "Gwyn, Lord of Cinder" and "Nameless Song." These pieces are made with intelligence and oversight for the game's themes that work so well they leave you feeling a little hollow.

Read our 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Dark Souls review

11. Animal Crossing: New Horizons

澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Animal Crossing: New Horizons offered something very important: Joy. This is only pushed further as you indulge in the soundtrack. As "Welcome Horizons" greets y🍷ou in the startup menu and you get to watch your villagers go about their life, it's easy to get caught up in the monotony of every day as you r♋elax and enjoy the soft trumpet.

Each hour has its own interpretation with early hours fitting a soothing lazy town whilst evenings have a soft acou♍stic guitar and accordion for you to stroll around to. It might not be the most varied soundtrack, but it certainly is the most inviting.

Read our Animal Crossing: New Horizons review

10. Final Fantasy 7

Although perhaps a pretty obvious choice in the series, 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Final Fantasy 7 has such a strong emotionally sincere soundtrack that's hard not to love. Not only this, but it just understands the intent of the game so well. Barret's fiery but jovial nature is captured through "Barret’s theme" whilst Aerith's sad introspective♔ emotions are shown through "Aerith's Theme" in ways that are hard to express with words.

As you explore onwards and see the overwhe⭕lming yet ultimately optimistic greater world around you, Final Fantasy 7's main theme doesn't just accompany you; it engulfs you and refuses to let you go even 100 hours later.

Read our Final Fantasy 7 Remake review

9. Journey

The whole jou🗹rney part of thatgamecompany's crowning achievement is felt in many spheres. From its story to its visuals to even its music, there are many distinct paths you must go on. "Nascence," the opening track, is somber and foreboding with subtle moments of brightness. This is cast aside with eye-watering lush strings, only to fall away as you start your experience.

The entire soundtrack fits this motif of sole instruments alone, only to be accompanied by the swelling of hundreds of others, mimicking the excellent multiplayer design at its core. It somehow propagates a paradox where you feel alon༒e but never far away from company. Like both your character and the music, there is always an accompanimꦦent to your journey.

Read our 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Journey review

8. Transistor

Composer Darren Korb has managed to inject a little of himself into every SuperGiant game. From the more acoustic trip-hop Bastion to the eclectic mix that is Pyre, he has shown his ability to fit into many styles. Transistor is perhaps where this is at its most successful, perhaps tied with Hades and Hades 2 for best video gamไe soundtrack in not only Supꦺergiant's contingent, but that of games as a whole.

Self-described as "Old-world Electronic Post-rock," its strange mixture of "This will d♛estroy you" style post-rock and heavy electronic sampling results in a soundtrack unlike any other, a perfect accompaniment to oneဣ of the best indie games of the last decade.

Read our 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Transistor review

7. Bioshock Infinite

It's hard to u🃏nderstate how truly important the soundtrack of Bioshock Infinite is to the overall experience. As Booker, you sit down anticipating something terrible as the angry trill of violin fills your senses. You brace only to be interrupted by the🅘 twinkling of the piano. "Hallelujah."

Every moment, every sound 🃏feels so funda🦹mentally thought out from "will the circle be unbroken" reiterating the narrative to the big reveal of "CAGE." Music is as fundamental to the base experience as the story.

Read our BioShock Infinite review

6. Baldur's Gate 3

Larian's blockbuster RPG 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Baldur's Gate 3 is not on🃏ly a rollicking D&D adventure, but an absolute🀅 auditory masteripiece. Boris Slavov's stunning compositions have already achieved legendary status, having netted him a BAFTA and now performed by orchestras across the world - sometimes in the company of the game's actors themselves. From Down by the River to Raphael's Final Act, the BG3 soundtrack is bursting with iconic melodies that will burrow into your brain like a mindflayer parasite and stay with you forever.

Read our 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Baldur's Gate 3 review

5. Assassin's Creed 2

It wouldn't be a list of the best video game soundtracks without Assassin's Creed 2. Ezio's Theme has become synonymous with Ubisoft's stealth-action series, adapted throughout its long legacy with just enough flavor to make each a distinct throwback to that spine-tingling melody we first heard back in 2009. Sure, plenty of the 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:best Assassin's Creed games feature belter soundtracks, but we wouldn't have 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Assassin's Creed Valhalla's w⛎inding 🦂symphonies if not for this stellar contribution to video game compositions.

Read our Assassin's Creed 2 review

4. Fallout New Vegas

Every Fallout game has its own charm in regards to t🐬heir soundtrack. The very first games ambience, the 4th titles movie-style main theme and finally, New Vegas's country/blues. This late-night cross-country radio solidifies the loneliness the courier feels.

This is only made better through its comparisons to cowboys and lone wanderers, so to speak, ꦇthrough tracks like "Big Iron" and the sinister double meaning of "Ain't that a kick in the head." Fallout is well known for this gritty black humor contrasting overtly happy swing and old country songs with murdering bandits and blasting super mutant꧑s. It doesn't mind how you perform this but it's much cooler with a big iron on your hip.

Read our Fallout: New Vegas review

3. Persona 5

Style. In one word, this is exactly what Atlus encapsulates in both Persona 5 and its soundtrack. Any Per🌸sona game or Shoji Meguro soundtrack, for that matter, could place in this list but we've gone for Persona 5. From its killer opening tune "Wake Up, Get Up, Get Out There" to its more introspective “beneath the mask” Persona 5 just has this suave self-contained brilliance.

Not only is this the case, but the game daysℱ and night cycle leaves room for different styles and genres, and Shoji takes full advantage of this. If you're looking for a soundtrack to make your life just a little cooler, look no further.

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2. Undertale

Undertale helped solidify one-man powerhouse Toby Fox as a world-class game writer and composer all in one go. This focus on one central creator helped to give Undertale a concrete vision and understanding. The music of Undertale isn't just a catchy addition; it is Undertale. The nostalgic brightn💧ess of "Fallen Dow𝔉n" could fit in with any of Nintendo's classic soundtracks and hold its own as a simplistic yet heartbreaking "Bop."

This simplicity is entirel🌠y thrown out of the window with the iconic "Megalovania" a song that starts out simple only to be imbued with prog and synth-rock sensibilities as it ramps up with a crunchy bass riff and heavy drums. This disparity between songs is something Undertale nails. They f♈eel wildly different yet consistent with the overall feel of the game. Exactly what a good soundtrack should do.

1. Silent Hill 2 

Any Akira Yamaoka soundtrack could take this spot but we’ve settled on Konami legend Silent Hill 2 as the best video game soundtrack ever. With influences from classic rock, alt and ambient industrial trip-hop, it stands to reason that the 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:best Silent Hill game's soundtrack offers so much depth, both in regards 𓃲to its music and its themes.

The tense existentialism♛ of “Theme of Laura” hits you in the head as a few open chords evolve into a symphony of J rock. The iconic creepiness of “Promise(reprise)” pairs with swelling synthetic violins to imbue it with an innate sense of sadness, something Silent Hill 2 is oh so 👍aware of. This is what makes the soundtrack so fantastic. It isn’t created in a vacuum. It knows when to play it calm and it knows when to explode into a wall of sound helping solidify it as one of the scariest experiences even to this day. Just like the game itself, Silent Hill 2’s soundtrack deserves every bit of praise we can give it.

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Here, we've collected a slew of nail-biting action games that deserve a place amid titans of the genre, taking strides to evolve the genre by way of compelling new game mechanics, sprawling worlds teeming with memorable main and side quest material, and a whole lot of unique ways to get the job done. For that reason, you might find a few overlaps with our picks of the 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:best RPGs, but the games we've picked out here put a focus on combat above all else. For example, Doom Eternal gives familiar mechanics a facelift while retaining the series' core DNA, and 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Dying Light 2 further complicates your goal to simply stay alive in the zombie-infested streets of Villedor by infecting the player with the zombie virus itself. No matter what you're in the mood for, here are the 25 best action games to jump into if you're craving somet🐲hing fast, f🃏urious, and impossible to put down.

25. Metal Gear Solid 5: The Phantom Pain

Developer: Kojima Productions
Platform(s): PC, PS4, Xbox One  

There's a very good chance that Metal Gear Solid 5: The Phantom Pain is the last MGS game we get, following the dissolution of Kojima Productions, and what a legacy it has left behind. It's the pinnacle of stealth action, taking the classic rhythms that the Metal Gear Solid series was founded upon and stretching them out across a truly dynamic open world. You're giving the space and freedom to play against a web of interconnected systems, leading to an experience that feels as if it is constantly evolvinꦍg – forever pushing back against your best laid plans for espionage and infiltration. The Phantom Pain is a weird, one-of-a-kind monster. 

24. Elden Ring

Developer: FromSoftware
Platform(s): PC, PS4, PS5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X

澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Elden Ring is a lot of things. Grand adventure, deep RPG, challenging dungeon crawler, and, if you get your character build right, a pretty excellent action game. One of the strengths of FromSoftware's fantasy epic is that it's pretty malleable – you have un🐈iversal freedom to pick weapons and define a fighting style. The result of this means that you can play Elden Ring as an action experience if you want to – storming into battles with dual blades held high, dodge-rolling through encounters, and wielding weapon arts with precision to maintain combos. Elden Ring features of the best boss battles around, so don't skip out on this thunderous experience.

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23. Resident Evil 2 

Developer: Capcom
Platform(s): PC, PS4, PS5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X

Capcom has proven itself to be the masters of the remake. 2002's Resident Evil was an excellent trip back to the Spencer Mansion, but it's 2019's return to Racoon City in Resident Evil 2 that ultimately makes this list of the best action games. It's a truly phenomenal game, generating an incredible sense of time and place ♑through its beautiful environments, haunting sound design, and heavy third-person combat – bullets shred through infected flesh in a way that makes you feel truly powerful, which is forever offset by a vulnerability ♓created by dwindling ammo supplies. Resident Evil 2 is one of the more slowly paced action games on this list, but it's an undeniably excellent experience from start to finish. 

Read our Resident Evil 2 Remake review

22. Doom Eternal

Developer: id Software
Platform(s): PC, PS4, PS5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X

Rip, tear, and shred: that's the foundation of Doom Eternal's hyper-active, hyper-violent combat. And it's all the better because of it! Doom Eternal is so successful as an action game because it understands the value in forward momentu🤪m, in constantly pushing you within slashing distance of enemies. It forces you to engage with enemies to replenish your health and ammunition, and the harder you fight, the longer you can last out waves of towering demons that rush you from all angles. It's a powerful system that turns Doom's quickening rhythms into a form of blood-s🏅oaked magic.

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21. Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2

Developer: Saber Interactive  
Platform(s): PC, PS5, Xbox Series X

Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2 is non-stop action and is not only the 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:best Warhammer game made yet but is also one of the greatest third-person shooters to come out in 2024. It's brutal and intense, and as you slay hordes of Tyranid enemies and Chaos, it's impossible not to feel like you've stepped into a grand sci-fi opera. Using a mix of shooter mechanics and hack-and-slash melee attacks, you and your squad will be sent on various missions across various planets. There's also a grueling story cam𒈔paign packed with stunning visuals and some of the best fights you'll ever encounter in a sci-fi game. Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2 fully deserves its spot on our list and is 100% worth your time and attention. For the Emperor!

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20. Middle-earth: Shadow of War

Developer: Monolith Productions
Platform(s): PC, PS4, Xbox One

If you're feeling a little burned out on more traditional open-world action games, you might want to consider giving Middle-earth: Shadow of War a go. Developer Monolith Productions delivers combat and exploratio꧒n that will be familiar to any Assassin's Creed or Batman: Arkham fans out there, but Shadow of War is able to carve out its own unique space with its Nemesis system. It generates a steady stream of rivalries with just about any Uruk you come into contact with, making it feel as if the world is constantly reacting to your presence and pushing back against your progression. It's a really fun way to inject variety into your journey to forge a new Ring of Power.  

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19. Assassin's Creed Valhalla

Developer: Ubisoft Montreal
Platform(s): PC, PS4, PS5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X

澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Assassin's Creed Valhalla is not only one of the 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:best open-world games but one of the best action games, too. Marking the third of the initial Creed RPG trilogy titles, Valhalla proves that the stealth series' grounding in fascinating world histories lays the perfect foundations for an RPG. It builds smartly on the combat revisions introduced 🍒in Origins and Odyssey as it pushes you out across England in the Dark Ages. You have all the tools you need to conquer the land, fight armies of enemies, and go toe-to-toe with an array of mythical beasts. Assassin's Creed Valhalla is the ultimate Viking simulator, and its awesome combat reflects that. 

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18. Monster Hunter World

Developer: Capcom
Platform(s): PC, PS4, Xbox One

If you're after an action game that can hold your attention for months at a time, you can stop your search at Monster Hunter World. At a top-line level, the appeal is obvious: venture out into beautiful sprawling open areas alone or with friends, track screen-dwarfing beasts, prepare yourself for battle, and then use comically oversized weapons to kill down in combat – once the monster h🐭as been felled, use its bones and scales to create even more absurd swords, hammers, and axes. Monster Hunter World has a fairly steep learning curve, but if you're willing to invest time into this loop, you'll find a complex and moreish action game unlike anything else out there.  

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17. Gears 5

Developer: The Coalition
Platform(s): PC, Xbox One, Xbox Series X

If you're after an Xbox-exclusive action game, you shouldn't look any further than Gears 5. The Coalition expanded the scope of🐠 its battlefields to deliver a much bigger experience, a nice twist on Gears of Wars' classically claustrophobic level design. The result is an action game that knows when to up the ante and when to let you breathe, settling into an exciting rhythm of challenging shootouts and contemplative exploration. And it's still gory as all hell too – it's been over a decade since this series made its debut, but the Lancer and its chainsaw underbarrel attachment remains one of the most effective weapons in video game history.

Read our 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Gears 5 review

16. Super Mario Odyssey

Developer: Nintendo
Platform(s): Nintendo Switch

Alright, hear us out on this one: great action games don't necessarily need to be focused on bashing skulls. Super Mario Odyssey is an all-ages action game, eschewing the traditional focus on surmounting challenges in favor of something a little more relaxing. Odyssey is a tightly designed action game with fun platforming, good puzzles, and excellent boss battles – it's the sort of experience you'll be happy that you sunk time into. Super Mario Odyssey is considered to be one of the澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询: best Switch games for good reason, it's a genuinely enjoyable adventure from its opening moments t🧸hrough to itsꦆ last.

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15. Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order

Developer: Respawn Entertainment
Platform(s): PC, PS4, PS5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X

When Titanfall developer Respawn announced that it was shifting its attention away from first-person shooters to look toward a galaxy far, far, away, few knew what to expect. The studio channeled its penchant for smooth movement, excellent set-piece design, and considered storytelling into what is undoubtedly one of the 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:best Star Wars games of aౠll time. Jedi: Fallen Order is a fun romp, with a great structure and truly awesome lightsaber combat. One of 🐷the best weapons in entertainment history is given a new lease on life here, making us feel like a Jedi, unlike any game before it. 

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14. Dying Light 2

Developer: Techland
Platform(s): PC, PS4, PS5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X

How do you think you'd fare in a zombie apocalypse? Dying Light 2 will let you put that bravado to the test, dropping you into a sprawling city and leaving you free to survive w✤ith whatever weapons and equipment you can get yo🌄ur hands on. Dying Light 2 is so effective as an action game because of its willingness to shift its cadence between brutal melee combat and the ability to move about freely; navigating towering rooftops can feel just as suspenseful as swinging a spike-covered baseball bat into a crowd of fast-approaching zombies, and that's all a part of its charm.

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13. Dead Cells

Developer: Motion Twin
Platform(s): PC, PS4, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch

Dead Cells is the perfect pick-up-and-play action game. It's the sort of experience that creates an unshakable 'just more try' dynamic, forever willing you deeper into its worlds. Dead Cel🅘ls is certainly challenging, but it's so perfectly designed – from its generated level design to precise combat and aggressive enemy AI – that you'll be only too happy to try and try again. Don't let its retro aesthetic fool you either. This is a roguelike built for modern audiences to appreciate. It's an action game that's overflowing with variety, a gauntlet stacked with ever-surmounting challenges, and an experience that always feels as if it's testing and improving your ambition to succeed. 

12. Bayonetta 2

Developer: PlatinumGames
Platform(s): Nintendo Switch

PlatinumGames has always had a penchant for stylish action. The studio has a keen understanding of the action genre, and nowhere is that more evident than in Bayonetta 2. It's silly, and absurdist, pushing you into battles with angels and demons that tower beyond the borders of your television, all as you take control of a witch with pistols affixed to the bottom of her boots, but that's all part of the appeal. Bayonetta 2 is a pure video game, unwil♎ling to take itself too seriously and the sort of bold, bombastic action seque𒐪nces that'll make you fall in love with this genre all over again. 

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11. Nier Automata

Developer: PlatinumGames
Platform(s): PC, PS4, Xbox One

Nier Automata is one of those games that, if you spend enough time with it, you'll soon find yourself trying to convince your friends that it's one of the greatest games of all time. That's because there's far more than meets the eye with this styling action game. While it certainly fo🎀llows in the footsteps of PlatinumGames' previous works – Bayonetta and Vanquish in particular, which are each sterling works in their own rig🍌ht – Nier Automata is this weird little beast. It's a transformative experience, shifting effortlessly from caustic combat to frantic bullet-hell to open-world RPG, and it's all the better because of it. Tough to master, great to play, and surprising until the end, Nier: Automata… it has to be played to be believed. 

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10. Horizon Forbidden West

Developer: Guerrilla Games
Platform(s): PS4, PS5

One reason Horizon Zero Dawn and its sequel, 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Horizon Forbidden West, are so utterly enthralling is that they are able to take sublime action and thread it carefully through a sprawling open world. As expansive as thesꦕe games are, combat remains at the heart of the experience – Aloy is free to explore, but battling humongous robotic dinosaurs with all manner of melee weapons, 🧜electronic traps, and environmental effects is always the focus. Horizon Forbidden West isn't just a showcase for the power of the PS5, it's a stunning look at the future of the action genre, melding great combat design with a world you'll be desperate to spend time in. 

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9. Hades

Developer: Supergiant Games
Platform(s): PC, PS4, PS5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X, Niꩲntendo Switch

If you play Hades, you will fall in love with it. That's a deal you make with the devil – well, developer Supergiant Games – should you put this game in your hands. While it's classed as a roguelike, that genre branding comes with decades of baggage attached to it that belies the action mastery at the heart of Hades. While Hades is undoubtedly challenging, its combat is indisputably impressive. Death equals rebirth equals a chance to try, try again. Hades pulls off this wonderful trick where it always feels as if you're improving, learning something new about the parade of loveable villains openly mocking you, even as you're being put on your ass. It's a damned good time, and we can't wait to see Hades 2 take it that much ꦛfurther 🐷when it leaves Early Access.

8. Marvel's Guardians of the Galaxy

Developer: Eidos Montreal
Platform(s): PC, PS4, PS5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X

I'll tell you what's rare: an action game with a heart. And I'll tell you what's like gold dust in an industry renowned for its poe-faced protagonists: an action game that can have you genuinely laughing out loud. 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Marvel's Guardians of the Galaxy has both of these qualities, packaging them together with a kinetic adventure that delights from its first combat sequence through to its last. Eidos Montreal delivered a real sleeper hit in Guardians of the Galaxy; this is one of those games players and developers alike will talk about with real reverence in a couple of years due to its unique combat syﷺstem and masterful world-building, so why not get into it now – you know, before it was cool. 

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7. Control

Developer: Remedy Entertainment
Platform(s): PC, PS4, PS5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X

Remedy Entertainment has built itself quite the reputation. Through games like Alan Wake, Max Payne, and Quantum Break it has become known for creating weird, energetic, and contemplative adventures. With Control, it felt a🌊s if Remedy put all of that expertise into a single experience – an action game that isn't afraid to embrace the supernatural and shift its gears to accommodate waning attention spans. Whether you're blasting through waves of Hiss agents, trying to navigate ever-shifting combat spaces, or sifting through pap🍸erwork to get a better understanding of the world-state, Control always rises to meet the moment. 

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6. The Last of Us 2

Developer: Naughty Dog
Platform(s): PS4, PS5

The Last of Us: Part 2 isn't for the faint of heart. Naughty Dog effectively unleashed a 25-hour gut punch upon an unsuspecting world and we still haven't recovered. It is part-adventure game chronicling two characters on intertwining tracks of revenge and a part-action experience featuring some of the most meticulously detailed shooting and stealth mechanics you'll ever hope to see. 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:The Last of Us 2 is a true achievement, visually ambitious and sonically imposing, pushing fidelity and performance in a way that fꦫ🦋ew studios can. It's sad, somber, exhilarating, and awe-inspiring; an action game that will get your blood pumping before it rips your damned heart out. 

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5. Devil May Cry 5

Developer: Capcom
Platform(s): PC, PS4, PS5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X

Devil May Cry is the action genre incarnate. The series has always been audacious and outlandish, planting its tongue so firmly in cheek that it's aꩲ surprise it doesn't pierce the skin. That's on the power of Dante alone, the silver-haired fox who is as happy wielding dual-pistols as he is bloody huge swords, motorbikes, and any other objects he can get his demonic hands on. Devil May Cry 5 is a hell of a good time as a result, even as it shifts gears between a roster of characters – a pure adrenaline rush of climbing combos and suffocatingly tight combat mechanics, a heavy metal rhythm action game in all but name. 

Read our 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Devil May Cry 5 review

4. Bloodborne

Developer: FromSoftware
Platform(s): PS4

FromSoftware's gothic adventure is unlike any other. While it may draw from the same demonic force as Dark Souls, and be just as capable at wearing down the patience of any players that dare step into its gauntlets, Bloodborne succeeds on the power of its action. On that carefully balanced cadence between attack and defense, full-throated assaults and perfectly-timed retreats. Bloodborne isn't for everyone, but thos🐓e who are willing to put in the time and energy to crash through its skill ceiling will find an action game that is uncompro💞mising, exhilarating, and utterly enthralling. 

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3. Marvel's Spider-Man 2

Developer: Insomniac Games
Platform(s): PS5

If you thought the first game had it all, think again. 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Marvel's Spider-Man 2 sees Peter Parker teaming up with Miles Morales to explore whole new areas of the Big Apple in a character-swapping, web-shooting, bad guy-busting adventure. Deploying one of many newly-added abilities is simply the cherry atop the power fantasy cake, because I could spend hours upon hours simply traversing the busy Manhattan cityscape and still never get bored. Also, did we mention that both Venom and Kraven the Hunter make an appearance here? These are just a few reasons why Marvel's Spider-Man 2 is undoubtedly one of the best action games ever, never mind one of the 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:best Marvel games🙈 to boot. If y💯ou've yet to pick up this PS5 exclusive, here's your sign.

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2. Uncharted 4: A Thief's End

Developer: Naughty Dog
Platform(s): PC, PS4, PS5

Nathan Drake couldn't have hoped for a better send-off. With a Thief's End, Naughty Dog embraced the legacy of PlayStation's most important mascot in a generation and delivered a truly seminal adventure. Unchar♈ted has always felt as if it were this smooth blend of Tomb Raider's action and Indiana Jones' attitude, and nowhere is that better represented than in Uncharted 4: A Thief's End. Whether you're new to the series or have been following along from the beginning, this is cinematic action at its finest – leading you from one heart-stopping set-piece to another with heart, humor, and an atmosphere of swashbuckling resilience that you can't help but fall in love with.

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1. God of War

Developer: Insomniac Games
Platform(s): PC, PS4, PS5 

Few believed that Sony Santa Monica would be able to make Kratos relevant again. Times had changed, and the industry had moved on from the glorious, senseless aggression that helped define his original trilogy of games. And then God of War arrived, a title that straddled the line between reboot and sequel and delivered a definitive experience of the PS4 era in the aftermath of its action. It's a truly wondrous experience, capturing a sense of fluid motion and control in its combat that few games have ever achieved. God of War is a truly must-play action game, as is its thunderous sequel 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:God of War Ragnarok if you can't get enough of Kratos.

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