Rick Lane forecasts the next 12months’ big hitters
JANUARY
Resident Evil 7: Biohazard
Since Resident Evil 4, the eminent horror series has struggled to find its feet, relying on the mechanical glories of Shinji Mikami’s masterpiece without understanding why that game was so strange and terrifying. So, for the seventh canonical entry, Capcom has boldly ditched Mikami’s template, abandoning the action-focus and camp storytelling of 5 and 6, switching instead to a slower-paced, first-person horror designed to take advantage of VR. Players assume the role of new protagonist Ethan, who is searching for his missing wife. The trail leads him to a dilapidated mansion in the fictional Louisiana town of Dulvey, home to the mysterious Baker family.
The game offers a fascinating mix of old and new ideas, returning much of the emphasis to puzzle solving and navigating a single, complex virtual space. It also ditches traditional zombies for a smaller, specific cast of enemies to fight and evade throughout the game.
Meanwhile, the Baker family has more than a touch of The Hills Have Eyes about them, with different characters hunting you down in different sections of the game. Ranged and melee combat will still feature, but as last resorts; stealth and evasion are the preferred options. Resident Evil 7 looks as if it’s doubling down on the horror elements that previous games have lost.
MARCH
Ghost Recon: Wildlands
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Games Of 2017
Rick Lane forecasts the next 12months’ big hitters
Vive & Learn
Joe martin describes the pains and pleasures of using the htc vive’s room-scale virtual reality system at home
Readers' Drives Spec-Edge
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Asus ROG Strix Z270i Gaming/£184 incVAT
Costing £184 inc VAT, the Asus ROG Strix Z270i Gaming is the priciest Z270 mini-ITX board available.
Edifier R2000DB/£180 incVAT
Edifier makes a whole range of premium stereo PC speakers, with the R2000DB sitting roughly in the middle when it comes to price.
The 4k Multi-GPU Challenge
Ben hard widge teams uptwo xfx rade on rx4808gb cards to see if they can give you 4k gaming on a budget
The Fall And Rise Of White Wolf
Rick Lane looks at how one of the most eminent pen and paper RPG publishers is being reborn for a new, virtual generation.
Nvidia GeForce GTX 1080 Ti Founders Edition
If you spent over a grand on a Titan X card a few months ago then you might want to flip through the next couple of pages and pretend you haven’t seen them.
Cobra
Rick Lane speaks to David Braben about the changes to Frontier’s tech since the launch of Elite Dangerous.
Ryzen Is A Strong Comeback For AMD
But the CPU isn’t a critical component any more, argues James Gorbold.