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@BAMozzy Origins is part of the Arkham "canon" and even Rocksteady say so with multiple references in Knight. All 4 Arkham games had 2 year gaps, so its hardly a cash-in, it was just poorly developed by an inexperienced team at Warner Bros. Games Montréal. Having it in this collection would have been a great opportunity to clean up - what is for the most part - a great game.

As @Anthinator said, Origins had an awesome story and some great boss fights. Honestly, being a hardcore Batman fan, Origins had a better story than most of Arkham Knight - excluding the Joker in Batman's head plot-line, which was amazing.

Great review! Looks like I'm gonna upgrade If/when my old Elgato bits the dust.

Not a big CoD fan, but I would love to play Modern Warfare again!

Sucks that Remastered only comes with the Legacy Editions, but they will probably release it as a standalone in due time.

@KelticDevil Yep lol

God knows how many hours I've sunk into this game, but I have officially hit the burnt out brick wall. If it wasn't for the big laughs and fun I've had hanging out with friends, I would have abandoned Destiny a long time ago!

@stylon I'm a big AC fan myself, so I full understand your disappointment, but something had to give sooner the later.

At this point I think the annual releases were starting to hold the series back from being much more and this little break should do wonders for the franchises.

I do agree they need to remaster Rogue!

Great review Dave.

I've been looking forward to this one, but I think I'm gonna hold off on Battlefront till early 2016. DICE make very fun shooters, but haven't had the best track record when it comes to balancing and servers at launch.

Great review @SuperKMX.

Nice to hear that they tweaked the balance of combat, story and exploration.

I enjoyed the first one, so lets hope the sequel will be good.

Going all out religious and biblical should be interesting.

Great review!

@Red620Ti Not really. If there's one thing I've learn from MMO's like WoW, its that any free stuff in a game built for grinding is treated like gold!

@lucieisawesome Same here. Goosebumps!

The end of an era for us, Luss!

@KelticDevil It's possible. The two "biggest" games out in October are Halo 5 and AC Syndicate, so they might have moved to avoid conflict with them. Now, Siege with be competing with Just Cause 3 on Dec 1st.

Regardless, I'm happy with the date change as it will give more time to polish and tweak the game based on feedback from the September Beta.

@ElkinFencer10 The focus pull effects are every stylistic, but its a practical optical effect as well.

The eye tends to respond and focus on the clearest part of the image first at a fast rate than it would to process the depth of a 2D image and focus accordingly.

Look at the same background point in the images above and compare how quick you feel your focus.

Every cool trickery!

So I guess the creative direction Yager was heading in wasn't in line with what Deep Silver wanted.

The Dead Island franchise functions as a parody of the zombie genre, so maybe Yager were giving it a Spec ops twist and made it too dark?

@KelticDevil You're not far off. Once Kojima leaves he could literally go to any Publisher to make a new game and they will give him everything he needs.

Come January 2016 I can see an all out bidding war happening to get an exclusive Hideo Kojima game.

@KelticDevil Mass Effect happened because EA bought Bioware and Microsoft relinquish their publishing rights in the deal.

Regardless of who owns what licences and publishing rights, its more complicated than just a Blu-ray drive. Not only would Konami have to put the time and money into porting it away from Cell, but they would have to completely re-build and/or cut bits of the game that have strong ties with Sony and PlayStation. It's a lot of work and Konami being Konami, they just won't do it. Doesn't matter what Kojima said, Konami has firmly said it won't.

At the end of the day and in an ideal world, its up to Konami and they chose their side with MGS4.

This looks so pretty!

Always nice to see experimental and abstract titles like this!

@KelticDevil Its not gonna happen and if by some miracle it does, it won't be any time soon.

Ignoring the fact it was build for PS3 Cell architecture, which is why it wont be on PS4 (on disk anyway), it's still a Sony exclusive title and they have a say.
The day MGS4 comes to Xbox is the day Microsoft lets PS4 have the next Halo or lets Rise of the Tomb Raider release on all Platforms at the same time. Just won't happen

@KelticDevil It will be most likely be no different than of it was online, just no other players.

With a bit of luck they may raise the zombie spawn numbers and have AI survivors, like the AI soldiers in ARMA. Give players something to fight.

Been many years since I played a Tony Hawk game!

Some have given it some flak because it looks outdated, but I personally think that's part of the charm.

If you're new to Metal Gear and interested in The Phantom Pain, now will probably the best time to scoop up all those previous installment.

Love this game! Great for long play sessions or get through a couple of areas short bursts. Controls can be a bit of pain when skid into an electric wall or over shoot a jump you think you'll nail, but its just fun!
Great for both nostalgic fans and newcomers!

Awesome review Tyler!

After playing it, I decided I'm gonna let it collect dust for for a few months.
At launch, Hardline felt like an expand-alone DLC pack for BF4. The server issues that haunted BF4 at launch are mostly fixed, but some of the classes are once again too overpowered in certain situations.

Hardline MP has a lot of potential if they fully embrace the cops and robbers theme, which I hope will be fulfilled once a couple of DLC's and balancing tweaks have been released.

@SLitz1979

@Utena-mobile No real news on Silent Hills yet.

With a bit of luck, Konami may outsource Kojima to make Silent Hills if he leaves and starts his own studio.

Using the films raw dialogue recordings? Yep! I'm sold!

"Clever girl...."

Great stuff Anth! I can't wait to go back to this game!

I was hyped for this trailer, but unfortunately it pales in comparison to the first one. There was so much cool stuff in the Part 1 and Part 2 boils down to the batmobile bitch slapping a few tanks.

@stylon No doubt!
If it is coming to XO, I wager we will know around March/April 2015.

@Emanouel Yep, as far as the story and core gameplay mechanics go, we feel its better than Unity,

Now we know what they truly meant by "10 year plan".

Great review Anthony! It's now at the top of my Christmas list!

Fantastic review Justin!

I don't care if it runs at 720p, 900p, 1080p or 4K, as long as the game runs and performs well.

@Emanouel Best we have at the moment is Spring 2015. We will update once the date is announced.

Great review @DRL

As long as new content and updates are added, I can see Destiny lasting a while. Personally, I hope a more typical MMO features are introduced, such as the ability to trade items and Guild Banks, so clans, fire teams and strangers can all share and trade items!. There is nothing worse in Destiny than finishing a raid after 30 minutes of action and randomly rewarded with gear that your class can't use.

Though there is plenty of potential, I hope the purchase doesn't force out a Minecraft 2. Since Minecraft just came out for current gen, I would prefer if they focused on making some big expansions instead.

Since there is no word if the King Washington and Freedom Cry DLC's for AC3 and AC4 are included, I would say the Assassin's Creed: Heritage Collection is better value for money at the moment.

This looks like fun! Follows the cartoon art style and it couldn't be any worse than Out of the Shadows!

Great review Ken, Looks like I will be picking this up over the weekend!

I'm surprised a crash bug like that got passed QA.

Finally!

@Anthinator Judging by all the footage and Ground Zeroes, I think it will be more seamless.
Watch Dogs still had loading screening, where i think MGSV will be a simple cross-fade transition and loading takes place behind-the-scenes, when you're in the helicopter.

@EternalDragonX True, but I don't think that's reason enough to shut them down. As long it remained not profitable, it shouldn't mattered what talent the ‘Outer Heaven’ team were able to get involved in the project.

That looks cool!

@Generik Releasing Hardline as a new IP could work, but given game budgets these days a through the roof, tying Hardline to the Battlefield brand is basically better for sales.

Good to know they saved the games from the Crytek UK crisis, lets just hope Dambuster can finish the job.

These issues have been getting worse over the last month, but not being able to play games takes the biscuit.

@TOMBOY25 We go with the information detailed in the blog, which in of itself seems conflicted, as it says the starting price is £3.99 and £4.99 a month.

@hydeks Did you end up trying it?