Rated M for Mature
Games
Starfield
(Series X, S, PC)
Rated M for Mature
Pros: Great story, huge universe to explore, each planet has its own gravity, flora and fauna, different RPG skill trees, star-ship battles are fun, ability to create your own or customize a star-ship, classic Bethesda dialog choices, ability to have companions join throughout the game, ability to customize weapons, space suits and more, players can create their own bases.
Cons: Some glitches and bugs
Robocop Rogue City
(Series X, S, PC, PS5)
Rated M for Mature
Pros: Great environments, good looking character models, wonderfully destructible environments and enemies, fast and fun shooting mechanics, blood and gore makes it feel like the Robocop movies, complete fan service, dialog and side mission lets you make different choices. One of the best and fun shooters I’ve played in sometime.
Cons: At times frame rate drop, requiring reloading checkpoints.
Alan Wake 2
(PS5, Series X, S, PC)
Rated M for Mature
Pros: Visual masterpiece, great story and writing, excellent voice work, truly scary and tense experience, variety of weapons, solid combat making fights a tense experience, two characters to play through, different worlds to explore,
limited resources makes players choose to fight or run.
Cons: Non
Assassin’s Creed Mirage
(Series X, S, XBox One, PS5, PS4, PC)
Rated M for Mature
Pros: Great middle eastern setting, simpler combat, story is a highlight in the series, great writing and voice work, still fun parkour around the environment, stealth still easy to do and fun,world feels more immersive, new crowd abilities lets you hire mercenaries and other to distract or attack enemies, still a lot to do besides main missions.
Cons: Non
Accessories
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Sascha Heist is a lifetime gamer who makes his home in Penticton. He has been with The Herald as a regular columnist since 209. Contact Sascha at sggall@telus.net with gaming questions.
