Resident Evil 2 is a remake of the 1998 horror classic, rebuilt by Capcom in their proprietary RE Engine previously used for Resident Evil 7 and Devil May Cry V. The company promises a fresh take on the original cult-classic, bringing it up to date with photorealistic visuals, immersive audio, a new over-the-shoulder camera, and a modernized control scheme.

The game stars rookie police officer Leon Kennedy and college student Claire Redfield, who find themselves in the middle of a zombie outbreak in Raccoon City. Both of these fan-favorite characters have their own playable campaigns, allowing the players to experience the story from different perspectives.

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Forza Horizon 4 is a racing game developed by Playground Games and published by Microsoft exclusively for Xbox One and Windows 10. As it is an Xbox Play Anywhere title, a digital purchase for Xbox entitles one to a free Windows 10 copy (not available with boxed versions of FH4).

The game is set in Great Britain, and allows the player to drive more than 450 cars across its scenic landscapes. One of its most touted new features is dynamic seasons, which challenge the drivers with ever-changing dry, wet, muddy, snowy, and icy road conditions.

In contrast to the Forza Motorsport series, Forza Horizon tends to have a more relaxed, arcade-like atmosphere, and the latest installment is no exception to the rule. Much like its predecessor, it boasts an open world, this time shared between players, albeit still playable offline. There are also casual and ranked team multiplayer modes.

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Just Cause 4 is an open-world action-adventure game developed like its predecessor by Avalanche Studios and published by Square Enix. It takes the rogue agent Rico Rodriguez to a conflict-ravaged South American country of Solis, where he has to face the Black Hand – the world’s most powerful private military organization headed by the unpredictable Gabriela Morales.

The game is said to offer 100 square kilometers of exotic locations to explore, including bustling cities, rural grasslands, rainforests, desert, and snowy mountain peaks. There is a variety of new vehicles to play with including military jets, helicopters, turbo-fueled sports cars, and construction machines. Just Cause 4 also introduces extreme weather conditions such as massive tornadoes, blizzards, and tropical lightning storms – which a savvy player can harness to their advantage thanks to the enhanced in-game physics.

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Fallout 76 is a multiplayer survival game set in West Virginia in year 2102, well before the events in the previous installments. It centers around Vault 76, the inhabitants of which are tasked with rebuilding society a quarter-century after the nuclear apocalypse.

The game is fully online, with a dozen or so players gathering resources and building bases in a shared world that is said to be four times larger than that of Fallout 4. It is possible to work at surviving alone, or in a party with up to four friends. If cooperation ain’t your thing, it is possible to collect launch codes and nuke other players’ bases. Progress isn’t lost upon death, however, and the characters can be freely transferred between servers.

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Anthem is a sci-fi themed cooperative action RPG developed by BioWare and published by EA. It is set in a world left unfinished by gods, and thus teeming with colossal beasts, otherworldly artifacts, vast ruins, and monsters corrupted by the titular Anthem – the source of all creation.

Mankind’s hopes of survival in this savage place hinge on Freelancers: pilots of powerful and highly-customizable Javelin exosuits, which enable humans to explore the frontier and engage fearsome enemies as equals.

Storyline aside, Anthem functions as an always-online multiplayer game where up to four players can play together in a contiguous open world. The Javelins may be upgraded and customized visually to reflect the player’s achievements. EA has confirmed that Anthem only features coop and not PvP – at least at launch.

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FIFA 19 is a soccer simulator developed in collaboration by EA Vancouver and EA Romania studios. It is EA’s first game in a decade to boast the official Champions League license, snagging it from the rival Pro Evolution Soccer series after the expiration of Konami’s partnership with the UEFA. In addition to Champions League, two other modes added are Europa League and UEFA Super Cup.

The cinematic story mode introduced in FIFA 17, The Journey, will continue in the latest installment. Titled The Journey: Champions, it will feature Alex Hunter’s journey to win the Champions League.

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Code Vein is an action RPG developed by Japanese studio Shift (the makers of God Eater) and published by Bandai Namco. The game is set in a post-apocalyptic world where once-towering skyscrapers are now lifeless graves of humanity’s past.

The player steps into the shoes of a vampiric Revenant, gaining powerful Gifts in exchange for their human memories and a constant thirst for blood. Those who succumb to the bloodlust become Lost: mindless ghouls roaming the wasteland in search of blood.

The player is joined by a partner on their journey, each of whom have their own combat style and background story. There are different classes of weapons to choose from – such as bayonets, axes, and spears – to accommodate various playstyles. Careful strategy and coordination with the partner is necessary to bring down the most threatening enemies.

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