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PLAY Magazine
January 2022
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Playstation
Welcome
As the sun sets on the first year
Regulars
Happy first birthday, PlayStation 5!
The new-gen console is now one year old. We look back at its highs and lows
REPLIES
NATE EXPECTATIONS Aren’t you being a bit hard
READERS’ MOST WANTED
Which games are bleeping loudest on your radar?
Insider
Taylor- made news
Oscar Taylor- Kent’s news slap
Head to head
Zany Warner Brothers platform fighter coming to PlayStation in 2022
New signs of alien life
Mass Effect teasers are Geth-ing interesting
Cyberpunk serenade
Nana Moon explains how Keylocker lets you kickstart an anti-capitalist rebellion with some epic guitar shredding
PlayStation voices
The month in mouthing off
Fierce competition
PS5 wins Best Gaming Hardware at this year’s Golden Joystick Awards
Having a Ball
Beat Dragon Ball villains in this asymmetric survival game
Mines of more-iah
Deep Rock Galactic blasts onto PlayStation
Numbers Game
We do the maths
Which kids’ book would you turn into a game?
Traumatised by fairy stories as children, the team decide which villains they’d like to thump as adults
Musical moments
Times when we had the perfect song to go with an epic PlayStation moment
“GETTING A PS5 IS STILL HARD – BUT DO WE NEED ONE RIGHT NOW?”
With PlayStation committed to cross-gen for the year ahead, wait
“UBISOFT COULD, AND SHOULD DO MORE THAN CHASE THE LATEST TRENDS.”
XDefiant and Ghost Recon Frontline indicate a publisher stuck in a rut
Features
2022 PREVIEW SPECIAL
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HORIZON FORBIDDEN WEST
A finely honed sequel
2022 PREVIEW
FORMAT PS5, PS4 ETA 2022 PUB PLAYWING LTD
FORSPOKEN
Sorry publishers, this game is already spoken for
THREE MORE NEW WORLDS
THE LORD OF THE RINGS: GOLLUM FORMAT PS5,
GHOST WIRE: TOKYO
Fiendish folklore
SUICIDE SQUAD: KILL THE JUSTICE LE AGUE
Blowing away the competition
2022 PREVIEW
FORMAT PS5 ETA Q2 2022 PUB BANDAI NAMCO
TINY TINA’S WONDERL ANDS
Grab your dice, grab your guns
2022 PREVIEW
KARTRIDER: DRIFT FORMAT PS4 ETA 2022 PUB NEXON
STRAY
Everybody wants to be a cat
WE ARE OFK
Toe tapper
ELDEN RING
The bell tolls for thee
THE KING OF FIGHTERS XV
Kick and collect the ultimate fighting crown
PLAY TEAM PICKS
OSCAR TAYLOR-KENT EDITOR ELDEN RING I’ve already spent
STAR OCEAN THE DIVINE FORCE
To the stars and back
BABYLON’S FALL
Burning the candle four different ways
DEAD SPACE
Dismember of the series returns
GRAN TURISMO 7
Road rage
GOD OF WAR R AGNARÖK
Happy Father’s Day
THREE MORE IN THE WORKS
BOMB RUSH CYBERFUNK FORMAT PS5, PS4 ETA 2022
DYING LIGHT 2: STAY HUMAN
A real no-brainer
STRANGER OF PARADISE: FINAL FANTASY ORIGIN
Kill Chaos
LIT TLE DE VIL INSIDE
A long-awaited journey
WEIRD WEST
Cowboys, cults, and the restless dead
MARVEL’S MIDNIGHT SUNS
Play your cards right
GOTHAM KNIGHTS
Two owls with one stone
2022 AND BEYOND
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EA gambles on another roll of its DICE; wins big
The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Anniversary Edition
Bethesda’s RPG is back, bigger and faster than ever
Ruined King: A League Of Legends Story
An excellent entryway to the world of the PC hit
Call Of Duty: Vanguard
Chewing through enemies leaves a Nazi taste in the mouth
Sherlock Holmes Chapter One
The adventure of the imaginary Jon
Grand Theft Auto: The Trilogy – Definitive Edition
Oh *blorp*. Here we go again…
Hermitage: Strange Case Files
Little bookshop of horrors
A Short Hike
A tweet adventure
Treasures Of The Aegean
Striking gold in Santorini
Grow: Song Of The Evertree
This charming adventure sim will grow on you
Jurassic World Evolution 2
A sequel genetically engineered for roaring success?
Röki
A fairy tale with a bite
Epic Chef
All in good taste
Blue Reflection: Second Light
Enjoying school? Weirdo
Death’s Door
An undead world full of life
THREE TO PLAY
PSN games you might have missed
TOP FIVE ONLINE GAMES
Team up with pals or take on the world
First Class Trouble
LA Noire meets… Among Us?
Nickelodeon All-Star Brawl
As empty as the official voice lines
Riders Republic
Pretty shallow and pretty fun, dudes
Tiny Tina’s Assault On Dragon Keep
The Bunker Master moves in for a second strike
Alter vista
New Horizons freshens up Outriders
LIVE GAMES
Online games still holding our attention
PS5 Hall of fame
THE DEFINITIVE GUIDE TO THE NEW GEN’S GREATEST GAMES
THE GAMES GLOW UP
PlayStation 4 hits replayed on PS5. This month: head off to Horizon Zero Dawn
PS4 Hall of fame
THE DEFINITIVE GUIDE TO THE LAST GEN’S GREATEST GAMES
STILL PLAYING
Games that continue to hold our attention
PSVR Hall of fame
THE VIRTUAL REALITY HITS YOU HAVE TO PLAY
WHAT’S NEW PLUS-SY CAT?
Digging into the random acts of gaming a lengthy PS Plus subscription offers
RetroStation
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Robots, music, and a dash of Vanilla
Jak And Daxter: The Precursor Legacy
An iconic duo celebrate two decades of adventure
EVIL DEAD: REGENERATION
Speaking with some of the game’s groovy dev team, James Dyson hails the inventiveness of this schlocky horror
Duke Nukem Forever
Bringing back his (rusty) balls of steel
Lego games
Block out some time to educate yourself
Blood in the snow
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ELDEN RING
Get in the Ring, and prepare for an epic fight
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