Mafia 3's creators say it won't skirt around the racial problems that were prevalent during its late-60s setting.īeing an open-world, third-person game, Mafia 3 will always draw comparisons with GTA V, which isn't a bad thing. Here, the player takes control of Lincoln Clay, a mixed-race Vietnam-Vet who joins the 'black mob.' Clay is on a mission to wipe out the Italian mafia as revenge for murdering his crew. The third game in the Mafia franchise is quite a departure from the previous two titles.
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This will be the first time that the long-running Total War series abandons its historically accurate theme. While a lot of people are still waiting for the third game in this franchise to make an (unlikely) appearance, we'll soon have another GW strategy game that looks even better - Total War: Warhammer.
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There has been a fair number of PC titles set in the Games Workshop universe, the most famous being the Warhammer 40K: Dawn of War series. Buy if you like: Total War series, Games Workshop titles, orcs, dice with more than six sides.Genre: Turn-based strategy, Real-time tactics.Exploring new worlds, survival and resource gathering elements, space combat, and battling alien lifeforms - if No Man's Sky lives up to the hype, it could become one of the biggest hits of 2016. So big is No Man's Sky's universe that the team behind it, Hello Games, believes most players won't even see 99 percent of what it contains. Thankfully, with the likes of Elite: Dangerous, EVE Online, and the upcoming Star Citizen, the genre has seen something of a resurgence of late, and one of the most exciting looking space sims of recent years is No Man's Sky.ĭevelopers claim that, thanks to the clever algorithms used in the game, No Man's Sky will contain 18 quintillion procedurally generated planets, which theoretically gives it more content than any other title in gaming history. But in the early 2000s, the number of games being released that revolved around exploring and fighting in outer space started to dry up. There was a time when the PC was the true home of the space sim there was the magnificent Wing Commander franchise, Elite 2, Freelancer, the X-Wing series, and many more. Buy if you like: Elite: Dangerous, open worlds, genre-blending titles, games without endings.Genre: Space sim, Adventure, Survival, FPS.You really will be able to complete this Deus Ex without killing anyone, should you wish. Moreover, Mankind Divided will remove the most criticized aspect of the last game - unavoidable boss battle combat. The game promises to build on the elements that made Human Revolution such a classic: a great story, the fantastic blend of action and stealth, and some truly awesome weapons. Now, five years since we first met him, Adam Jensen will return in Mankind Divided. But not only did this third game in the series (there was also the less-memorable Deus Ex: Invisible War in 2003) prove the naysayers wrong, it became one of the best action/RPG/stealth titles to grace the PC in years. In the run up to Deus Ex: Human Revolution's release back in 2011, few people imagined that the game could match the brilliance of the original, despite it being over a decade old. Buy if you like: Deus Ex, Deus Ex: Human Revolution, player freedom when tackling objectives, cyborgs.