The Ancient Labyrinth brings a new campaign that takes the player to a long-forgotten library, locked away between the human and demonic realms millennia ago. The player has to uncover the mysteries hidden in the maze’s corridors, lay waste to the undead followers of the fallen god roaming within it, and find his way to the most powerful Lord in the Rhogar army and end his demonic reign.
For details of Lords of the Fallen, see my earlier post.
The Bright Lord brings the player to the Second Age to face the Dark Lord Sauron. The player takes on the role of Celebrimbor, the Elven Lord who forged the Rings of Power, and returns to Middle-earth thousands of years before the events of Shadow of Mordor.
The Bright Lord can be played on Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One.
For details of Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor, see my earlier post.
The following video is the official Bloodborne story trailer.
See also my earlier post on the game.
Recreating the classic Chinese novel Journey to the West, Monkey King Escape has the player taking on the role of the Monkey King as he runs, flies and jumps through a colourful world collecting coins and avoiding obstacles as he tries to evade capture from the Jade Emperor. The Monkey King can also transform into various animals to gain new powers and take part in quicktime combat sequences.
The Man from U.N.C.L.E. is set in the early 1960s. Despite the Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union at the time, CIA agent Solo and KGB agent Kuryakin put aside their countries' hostilities to team up in an attempt to stop a mysterious international criminal organisation from destabilising the balance of power through the proliferation of nuclear weapons.
The Man from U.N.C.L.E. is scheduled to be released by Warner Bros. Pictures on 14 August 2015.
In Monster Hunter 4 Ultimate, the player takes on the role of a hunter who joins up with a travelling caravan to explore new lands and towns along the way. The game includes hundreds of quests that require the player to take on monsters who, when defeated, yield resources that can be used for weapons and equipment.
Reviews of Monster Hunter 4 Ultimate have generally given it very good ratings. Following is a video review from IGN.
Hitman: Agent 47 tells the story of an elite assassin who was genetically engineered from conception to be the perfect killing machine and is known only by the last two digits on the barcode tattooed on the back of his neck. His latest target is a corporation that plans to unlock the secret of Agent 47’s past to create an army of killers whose powers surpass even his own.
Hitman: Agent 47 is scheduled to be released by Twentieth Century Fox on 28 August 2015.
In preparation for the launch, a live-action video was released last week.
For a breakdown of what Evolve is about, watch the survival guide video that was released earlier.
Assassin's Creed Rogue had been released for the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 on 11 November.
Assassin's Creed Rogue is a historical action-adventure video game developed by Ubisoft Sofia and published by Ubisoft. It is set in 18th century North America and tells the story of Shay Cormac as he turns his back on his fellow assassins, joins the Templars, and devotes his life to hunting down and eliminating every last member of the Brotherhood.
For more on Assassin's Creed Rogue, see my earlier post.
On 4 February, Ubisoft released Grow Home.
In Grow Home you play as BUD (Botanical Utility Droid), a robot on a mission to find the Star Plant and save his planet. Discover a world of floating islands with precipitous drops, caves and waterfalls. Grow the giant Star Plant so you can use your unique climbing abilities to reach ever higher ground and ultimately reach your ship, and bring this new plant species back to your home planet.
On 5 February, Ubisoft released The Mighty Quest for Epic Loot.
The Mighty Quest for Epic Loot is a free-to-play game that thrusts you into an outrageous medieval fantasy world called Opulencia where wealth, status and showboating are the name of the game. Create your own castle to protect your treasure and attack another player’s castle to steal their loot. Pick between four Heroes: the Knight, the Mage, the Archer or the Runaway.
Risk brings with it the following features:
• The latest in military armaments and a high tech look and feel.
• Combat videos set in 3D environments.
• Ability to compete with up to three other players either offline or online.
The new movie, called Fantastic Four, will be released by Twentieth Century Fox on 7 August 2015.
The movie depicts how the four protagonists teleport to an alternate universe and become physically altered. The transformation gives them new abilities, with which they must use to save the Earth from a former friend turned enemy.
Heroes of Might & Magic III is a turn-based strategy game originally released in February 1999 on the Windows PC.
In the game the player has to explore the kingdom of Erathia and help Queen Catherine Ironfist unite her homeland.
There are 48 skirmish maps and 7 campaign scenarios to play. In addition, the PC version has a multiplayer mode and a map editor.
