“THE YAKUZA SERIES DESERVES PRAISE FOR HOW POLITICAL IT IS.”

Welcome

It’s 2021 and PS5’s launch is a footnote

Initiate The Callisto Protocol

The creator of survival horror Dead Space brings chills to this space prison

Taking on the trash

Scavengers delivers a shot of new ideas

Night City comes alive

Cyberpunk 2077 without the crashes? It’s called real life

Reality hits hard

IO Interactive spills the details on bringing Hitman VR to wonderfully realistic life

GEAR: STUFF WE LOVE

This issue, the hottest  new Nier goodies

Is a new Mass Effect a good thing?

The news that BioWa re is making a new Mass Effect is exciting but raises questions

Toilets

We all need to use the facilities, so these games helpfully included them

“IT’S GREAT TO SEE SO MANY IDENTITIES IN SUPERHERO VIDEOGAMES”

A Marvel-ous way to bring cultural diversity and representation

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Hot Shots

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2021 PREVIEW SPECIAL

89 essential games you need to play on

DEATHLOOP

Game director Dinga Bakaba reveals why we’ll have time to kill in 2021

RESIDENT EVIL VILLAGE

Small town, big scares

RETURNAL

A change of space

FAR CRY 6

Every hero needs a great villain

GOODBYE VOLCANO HIGH

Get ready for an eruption of drama and… musical theatre?

THE LORD OF THE RINGS: GOLLUM

Is this adventure PS5’s precious? We speak to Daedalic Entertainment to discover Gollum’s secrets – and perhaps some of Sméagol’s

RATCHET & CLANK: RIFT APART

Through the looking glass

LITTLE DEVIL INSIDE

The devil is in the tiniest details

HORIZON FORBIDDEN WEST

So much to sea, so much to do

KENA: BRIDGE OF SPIRITS

Rotten to the core, in the best way possible

JETT: THE FAR SHORE

The journey, not the destination

NIER REPLICANT VER.1.22474487139…

Won’t be a Nier miss

ODDWORLD: SOULSTORM

A classic returns on PS5

RIDERS REPUBLIC

Go on, get on your bike

FINAL FANTASY XVI

The future of the JRPG is crystallising

GOTHAM KNIGHTS

Bat-friends will be there for you

OUTRIDERS

Bartek Kmita reveals People Can Fly’s shooter secrets

HOGWARTS LEGACY

Revelio! Enjoying life in the Wizarding World

SOLAR ASH

What’s your game, sunny Jim?

CRIS TALES

An RPG where you’re up against the clock

CHORUS

Watch this space

IN SOUND MIND

Boo-lieve us, this one’s good

EVIL WEST

Make our day, steampunk

GHOSTWIRE: TOKYO

A shock to the system

DESTRUCTION ALLSTARS

More fun than a ten-car pile-up

WEREWOLF: THE APOCALYPSE – EARTHBLOOD

i FORMAT PS5, PS4 ETA 4 FEB PUB

LEGO STAR WARS: THE SKYWALKER SAGA

Every Star Wars movie has been rebuilt brick by brick

GRAN TURISMO 7

Fuelled and ready to roll

2021 AND BEYOND

Here’s the best of the rest

Cyberpunk 2077

Needing no introduction but deserving plenty of judgement

Empire Of Sin

Al Kaput

When The Past Was Around

Welcome to the love nest

Puyo Puyo Tetris 2

Bubbles, blocks, and everything rocks

Space Invaders Forever

Should you keep your distance?

FIFA 21

DualSense is the star player of this mid-table offering

Dragon Quest XI S: Echoes Of An Elusive Age – Definitive Edition

Polished-up Switch port sweetens the deal

Ponpu

The golden egg of grotesque

Wildfire

One of the smartest stealth/ puzzle games in years

Chronos: Before The Ashes

If you fall I’ll catch you, time after time

Unto The End

Slash, block, die, repeat

Twin Mirror

A no-thrills mystery

Shady Part Of Me

Not living in anybody’s shadow but your own

WRC 9 FIA World Rally Championship

Car blimey, this runs like a dream on PS5

Phogs!

Mutts about solving puzzles

Call Of Duty: Black Ops – Cold War

We answered the call; reception was fuzzy

Worms Rumble

Let’s get ready to bumble

Godfall

Hardly a knight to remember

Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six Siege

Blowing up the streets and houses

Nioh 2 – The First Samurai

This yokai shiftling is a cut above the rest

The Traveler grants 4K/60fps

Upgrade to Destiny 2 on PS5 for free

PS4 Hall of fame

THE DEFINITIVE GUIDE TO THE LAST GEN’S GREATEST GAMES

PS VR Hall of fame

THE VIRTUAL REALITY HITS YOU HAVE TO PLAY

Yakuza

Bare-knuckle down with the start of Sega’s crime series

Five years ago in OPM

“35 new PS4 games inside!” we declared on the cover of OPM #119. Who doesn’t love new games?

Emily Davis

Jess Kinghorn says nice girls finish last and roots for the bad lass

Celebrating old Horizons (and more)

Artist Syed Ali Qaiser wanted to celebrate PS4’s greatest hits his own way, and caught the eye of Sony’s biggest devs along the way

Horror games

Three to play for free on PlayStation Now. Do these horrors still hold up?

Agent 47

Impress your friends with your baldy facts

Party hard

Peter Parker faces his Demons in Marvel’s Spider-Man. But who’s the real villain at this fancy-dress party?