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FINAL FANTASY XVI

The future of the JRPG is crystallising

DEATH LOOP

Game director Dinga Bakaba reveals why we’ll have time to kill in 2021

CHORUS

Watch this space

Christmas Sweet Treat

Ghostbusters: The Video Game delivers a squashy heap of nostalgia that’s more addictive than any sugar rush

Planet Coaster

Life is a rollercoaster, just gotta ride it

NBA 2K21

Rebounding in style on PlayStation 5

Haven

Fly on the boots of love

The Pathless

This launch lineup adventure isn’t a misfire – or lacking in direction

Praey For The Gods

These titans are a big deal

Godfall

All that glitters may not be gold, but it can still be a lot of fun

GAME OF THE YEAR 2020

Once again we’ve been at each other’s throats arguing about the year’s best games. The only way to settle things was to throw the task over to you and let you choose. Here are the 2020 Games Of The Year, in order of greatness, as decided by you and all of OPM’s other readers!

Demon's Souls

The Old One reawakens after one incredible, loving makeover

Assassin's Creed Valhalla

Let me axe you a question

SCARLET NEXUS

Open up your mind to this futuristic ‘brainpunk’ action adventure

THE PATH TO PS5

It’s taken us over a quarter of a century to reach this point. Look back with us over PlayStation’s history

THE DARK PICTURES ANTHOLOGY: LITTLE HOPE

The road to Hell is paved with jump scares

WATCH DOGS LEGION

City of the DedSec

REMOTHERED: BROKEN PORCELAIN

A disappointing follow-up that squanders its best ideas

QUANTUM ERROR

This cosmic-horror first-person shooter is playing with fire

FIFA 21

Footie stalwart looks ready for current-gen retirement

DIRT 5

Has Dirt become the perfect pick-up-and-play racer?

Call Of Duty: Black Ops – Cold War

Luke Kemp has some hot takes on the cold war

BALAN WONDERWORLD

Square Enix + Sonic Team founders = musical theatre. Wait, wut?

Manny smells the flowers

Grim Fandango Remastered has us pushing daisies

Marvel's Avengers

Saving the world from randomised loot?

STAR WARS: SQUADRONS

EA goes rogue for one of PS VR’s best games yet

CRASH BANDICOOT 4: IT'S ABOUT TIME

Accept this invitation to the masked platforming ball

SET FOR LAUNCH THE PS5 GAMES

The new hardware catches the eye, but it’s the games that will define PlayStation 5’s launch. Take a closer look at the console’s day-one lineup…

GOING UNDER

Well worth spending your Styxcoin on

CRYSIS REMASTERED

More like ‘Should it run Crysis?’ at this point