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DIRT 4
Few gaming experience are as thrilling as the Dirt rally games. Trying to push your car at the fastest possible speeds down narrow, windy tracks with trees, rocks, jumps and more in the way is so rad. Dirt 4 is the best in the series in a long time, focusing right in on long, challenging rallies, car damage and perfect handling. A random track generator means you always have something new to play, too.
(PS4)
KNACK 2
While his first game was fun, but flawed, Knack’s sequel is a much better experience. By making the combat a lot deeper and exciting, and adding in more moves and abilities to help get around the levels, everything just felt better. The game looks great, too, and adding in a co-op mode was icing on the cake for this platformer.
Nintendo are always trying new, crazy ideas, but they outdid themselves with Arms. It’s a third-person fighting game, where you control warriors with extendable arms. By throwing punches in real life while holding the Joy-Con controllers, your character on the screen begins to fight. With lots of different weapons to customise your fighter’s arms with, and a range of characters and stadiums, the game turned out great.
We had to mention this strange platformer for one big reason. You play as a snake! I don’t think we’ve ever played as a snake before! It’s strange controlling a character with no arms or legs, who needs to slither around the ground and wrap themselves up objects, but it works surprisingly well. Collecting all the elements in each level is challenging and fun.
CARS 3: DRIVEN TO WIN
Set just after the movie, this game adds to Lightning McQueen’s story by taking us through his mission to defeat rival racer Jackson Storm. There are 20 characters to choose from and six modes to play across 13 different locations. The racing is a lot of fun, too, with moving obstacles, jumps, nitro pads, weapons and stunts to pull off. This is what movie-games should be like!
WORDS BY CHRIS STEAD
(PC, Switch, PS4, XBO)
SNAKE PASS
(PC, Switch, PS4, XBO)
(Switch)
ARMS