AVOWED
Developer/publisher Xbox Game Studios (Obsidian Entertainment) Format PC, Xbox Series Release 2024
Might Ghostwire: Tokyo turn out to be one of the most unexpectedly influential games of its generation? It appears to have inspired the recent wave of elaborate spellcasting animations in titles such as Immortals Of Aveum and this, a firstperson sword-and-sorcery roleplayer. It’s perhaps the most noteworthy element in a game that resembles nothing so much as a new-gen take on The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion, with the gamma and saturation levels bumped up in post-production. Sent to an island called The Living Lands to investigate a plague – one that causes fungi to sprout on zombies and bears alike – your envoy will amass an arsenal of weapons (from flintlock pistols to frost axes) and curses (binding roots, swirling vortices) that will have residents wondering whether you’re here to save or destroy them. Familiar stuff, in other words.