Furious 4. The Big Shooter Games of Highlighting our most anticipated shooters set to launch by the end of this year.
By Lucas M. Thomas Updated: 8 Aug pm. With the current generation of consoles coming to a close and the next one just around the corner, the year ahead is shaping up to be one of the most exciting the gaming industry's ever seen — and the quality of the new releases just over the horizon looks better than ever, too.
All this week we've been highlighting some of our favorite upcoming titles scheduled to release before the end of , breaking them down by genre to help you get up to speed on what you'll be playing between today and New Year's Eve.
On Monday we kicked things off with the Racing genre. Not all of them are available instantly though. You need to unlock all avatars with in-game purchases. This free to play FPS is a bit more complex than regular battle royales. Players in this game are mercenaries who are given dangerous tasks to complete.
In-game action is aplenty and includes kill quests and various side objectives. While players complete their objectives, other live players can attack them. While this game feels similar to other battle royales, the primary highlight is the soundscape and huge weapons cache. It includes some of the latest weapons of modern-day warfare. Black Squad has simple graphics just like Counter Strike, but the sound quality of bullets whizzing past your face and making a headshot are a substantial notch above.
This free to play game provides a great multiplayer mode suitable for those late-night gaming sessions. Ironsight surely is a worthy candidate for it. This is undoubtedly one of the best free online FPS games on Steam and a popular one at that too. Experienced players will find Ironsight to have striking similarities with Call of Duty: Black Ops II other than the fact that this is free-to-play.
In short, Ironsight tries to right the wrongs of common FPS while keeping the gameplay simple and addictively fun. Apex Legends came out of the blue to dominate the free to play FPS games. It has impressive graphics and unique gaming aesthetics. Players always spawn with a team of 3.
Thumbs up to teamplay! This Battle Royale features a unique shoot to kill approach. Apex Legends offers 14 playable characters with unique abilities. While some can open portals to flank enemies others can call airstrikes. Note that, you may find it hard to compete with the best without splurging the cash on loot boxes. But it also one of the most popular ones around.
Its popularity can be attributed to the large esports prizes and one of the most consistently played multiplayer games in the world. Grim Dawn. Nothing can contain our excitement over Grim Dawn - look! We hoped this would appear in , actually, but we'll settle for Crusader Kings II. Few men can truly say that they wouldn't want to have conquered Europe in Medieval times, but the truth is that most of us would be too lazy and weak to actually get on with doing so. Not to worry, because there's a game for that - Crusader Kings II should appear in a few short weeks and sort the men from the benevolent dictators.
A simulation that is as much about people as it is armies, this will is one of the more fascinating wargames out there. We have studied it at length. Carbine's beautiful-looking intergalactic pseudo-Wild West seems the perfect locale for a traditional MMO romp. With exploration skills and giant alien yetis, we can't see any way that this can fail to be entertaining.
That is, of course, if you like to do a bit of questing. And we know you do, you filthy beast. You can read lots about what to expect from the thing just here. Carrier Command: Gaea Mission. Ooh, a remake 80s super-classic Carrier Command? One that's actually faithful to the original game?
Why, it can only be from a European studio. Yes, that's right, it's by Bohemia, the Arma chaps. Odd choice, perhaps, but this is actually a new studio that the Czech company have purchased, and it will be cross platform. That might limit things a bit, but my hands on time with the game was promising indeed. Haha, I used the tagline "carrier bagged". I am clever. Risen 2: Dark Waters. Germanic RPG Risen did a great deal to impress us, and we're expecting far more from its pirate-themed sequel, Dark Waters.
With a huge archipelago to explore and a mix of 18th century swashbuckle and magic, this could well be the pirate-RPG treasure we've been searching for all these years.
Some more coverage can be found here. Metro: Last Light. Almost everyone I've spoken to who played the original Metro talked about what a great game it nearly was, and then about how they hoped the team would fix its problems the next time around. That's precisely what 4A are aiming to do with Last Light, and that means it could be a classic if they're successful. John had a first glimpse of the game back during E3. The game will also be using a variant of DICE's Frostbite engine, which means it could have the same level of fidelity as Battlefield 3, as well as lots of exploding scenery.
Game of Thrones RPG. The game of Mr Martin's fantasy feudalism is being made by Cyanide, which means there's some scepticism about how good it's going to be, which is something that will dampen the excitement we might otherwise feel about this enormously popular book-to-TV series becoming a game.
If they can get the backstabbing and the undiplomatic power-mongering right, then this really could be a classic. We wait and hope. Here's what we know so far. Red Five Studios' attempt at making an open world shooter look fabulous in their Borderlands-style sci-fi cell-shadings, but it should play well, too, with the lead designers from World Of Warcraft and the original Tribes games both being involved in the genesis of this free-to-play beast.
Jetpacks and aliens and so forth make us quite excited about getting our hands on this. We talked to the team back when the game was announced. Tribes Ascend. When we're talking about multiplayer jetpack games, however, there's another name on the block: Tribes Ascend. Hi-Rez of Global Agenda and more jetpacks bought the Tribes licence and are now making their own game in the series.
The free-to-play shooter is in beta right now and we're hearing some positive noises from in there. Our own Mr Cobbett even had a cautious look at how it's getting on. End Of Nations. It'll be worth playing End Of Nations if just for the sheer amount of stuff you can get on screen. With huge maps full of strategically-manic players, this could be one of busiest multiplayer RTS games of all time, and it'll be free to play, too.
Behold the prior coverage. Far Cry 3. That should hopefully be remedied in by the arrival of the third Far Cry game. The second game received a mixed reception and so Ubi are claiming to have read the signs, understood the feedback, and put it together to create a jungle-island shooter to please everyone.
Here's what Dan saw of the game at E3 last year. The big publishers might have decided that the age of turn-based games is at an end, but that doesn't mean they're right to do so. Xenonauts is one game aiming to prove them wrong by making a game that resides firmly with the spirit of the incredible X-Com games. Will it take over the world in ?
Take a look at what Alec thought when he previewed the game. GTA V. The chances that the PC version of GTA V will fall in do seem slim, but it's hard not to be intrigued by what the Rockstar chums will come up with for the fifth game in the series. We've already seen that trailer, of course, but it will be the details which really make the gangster pudding Mmm, pudding. Anyway, a big game, however you look at it. Thi4f No, really, that is their logo.
I'm sorry. Whether the ludicrous Thi4f nomenclature will survive into release, or whether the game will arrive in , these things are unclear. What is clear is this: We are so excited about the studio that made Deus Ex: Human Revolution making a new Thief game, that we might have some kind of frantic episode.
What we know about the mystery game so far is compiled here. Hitman: Absolution. Look, we're all disappointed that it's not actually called "Hitman: Subtitle", but that's just the way life is: unfair, po-faced, taking itself too seriously. Hopefully though the game will be more Blood Money and less What we know about the new killing game is here. Spy Party. Gosh, this is a long list. Am I half way through writing it yet?
Must be close. Anyway, Hecker's Spy Party - and one of the most exciting indie games ever, in my opinion - is one of those ludicrously ambitious game ideas: you attend a party and some of the people in there are spies. Can you figure out which ones? There's actually a beta sign-up going on, so you can express your interest in discovering the spy just here. The Witness. While we're on the topic of enormously ambitious and clever indie games we should probably mention that Jon Blow is making a PC-exclusive, The Witness.
It's an open-world first-person puzzle game. That might sound a bit like something Cryo would have a go at if they were still around today, but there's every reason to expect that Blow's impressive brain will create something rewardingly complex and cerebrally tickling. Reasons for this line of thinking can be found in this. I know. But I still want to play it, I think it's going to be a blast.
The team making it are good at what they do, which is make shooty FPS games with lovely art, and that's exactly what's going on here, only with additional squad management and a sprinkling of alien-technology metagame.
I can't wait to get my hands on it, frankly. Here's an interview. There's every reason why this could be a splendid co-op shooter in a cyberpunk world. It's looking absurdly violent, too, so there's lots of scope for this to entertain us with exploding heads and evisceration. A tactical world-conquering isometric shooter it isn't, but there's scope for that elsewhere on this list.
Everything we know about the new Syndicate can be found here. Tomb Raider. Players can compete in standard affairs like team deathmatch and CS-like modes, but there are other fantastic modes such as Survival and a tank escort gametype that is extremely fun.
It's jam packed in content, especially for a F2P game. Blacklight: Retribution is an online multiplayer FPS shooter with a number of game types and maps.
Weapon depots are a new addition to Blacklight: Retribution, They can be used to buy Health or Ammo Refills, Flamethrowers, Rocket Launchers, and Hardsuits, which are pilot-able mechs equipped with a minigun and a railgun, they can be bought using Combat Points which can be earned by doing actions in the game. Explore dungeons and landscapes bursting with ferocious monsters alone or with friends, and engage in real-time combat. Taking loads of inspiration from the original, including the names, abilities and look of several heroes, this action-RTS looks like it could be the first real competitor for Riot Games' League of Legends.
IGN's been covering the hell out of this game, and if you want to learn more you should check out their numerous video commentaries. At the moment capped at 16 vs.
Commanding units in intense firefights is something many of us adore in games like StarCraft II and Company of Heroes, and the idea of playing on battles sounds amazing.
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