2021 PREVIEW
DEATHLOOP
RELEASE May 2021 | DEV Arkane Studios | PUB Bethesda | LINK bethesda.net/game/deathloop
Deathloop puts you in the role of Colt, an assassin trapped on a giant party island where the main attraction is killing him. Colt, meanwhile, has eight targets who must all be dead by midnight.
So far, it’s a typical premise from Dishonoreddeveloper Arkane Studios. But there are a couple of twists. When you die, the whole game resets roguelike style. What’s more, another player can invade your game as counter-assassin Julianna Blake, and her job is to prevent you doing yours.
Deathloop is an amalgam of everything Arkane has learned in its 20-year history. It’s got the creative play of Dishonored, and the open-ended level design of Prey. But the biggest influence here is Prey’s expansion, Mooncrash. Arkane’s Games are all about giving players the tools to play as they want. But it’s easy to get tunnel vision when playing them, using only the most efficient tools and ignoring everything else. Mooncrashwas designed to counter this, to make experimentation as much a part of the game as player choice. Deathloopaims to be a evolution of that idea.
ANOTHER PLAYER CAN INVADE YOUR GAME AS COUNTER ASSASSIN, JULIANNA BLAKE, AND HER JOB IS TO PREVENT YOU DOING YOURS
TOM CLANCY’S RAINBOW SIX QUARANTINE
RELEASE 2021| DEV Ubisoft Montreal| PUB In-house LINK rainbow6.ubisoft.com/quarantine
As Rainbow Six continues to conquer the esports world, the series takes a roundabout route back to its PvE origins. Beginning life as a pacifist game about exploring cramped space stations in zero-g, Quarantine now looks more like a conventional co-op shooter – albeit one that finds Team Rainbow bringing coordinated death to aliens, rather than terrorists.
Quarantine appears to have its roots in Outbreak, a time-limited mode for Siege that pulled liberally from Left 4 Dead. Should be fun.
FAR CRY 6
RELEASE May 2021| DEV Ubisoft Toronto| PUB Ubisoft LINK ubisoft.com/en-gb/game/far-cry/far-cry-6
Ubisoft has unveiled plenty of information about Far Cry 6’s story. It’s set on the fictional Caribbean island of Yara, and sees you play as freedom fighter Dani Rojas against the regime of dictator Antón Castillo. By comparison, details on play are sketchy. The most significant new feature appears to be
