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It’s the weird fever-dream followup to Far Cry 5, reimagining the original swathe of rural Montana as a post-apocalyptic nightmare full of sawblade guns, Mad Max types, and lots and lots of flowers. But damn, it is very impressive to just walk around in this one with all the bells and whistles.įor a more daring break from tradition, there’s also Far Cry: New Dawn ($40 on Steam). Sure, there’s not much reason to visit this world, and like many Ubisoft games Far Cry 5 ($60 on Humble) ends up feeling more like an art showcase than anything else. Even the scattered homes and ranger stations are exceedingly detailed, with a lived-in quality that’s rare in open-world games. Craggy mountain peaks, sprawling wheat fields and abandoned farm equipment, winding rivers hidden by morning fog-wherever you travel there’s some new vista to admire. Far Cry 5 and Far Cry New Dawnįar Cry 5’s recreation of Montana is stunning, in no small part because of its variety. It even has real-time ray traced reflection capabilities for those who bought one of Nvidia’s fancy GeForce RTX graphics cards, albeit not with the same visual oomph as newcomer Control. Buildings crumble, tanks burn, and snow scatters in little poofs when stray bullets hit the ground. Frostbite has proven to be a disastrous engine for some of EA’s other projects, but it’s sure great at turning out phenomenal-looking shooters. Best of all, they finally added the M1 Garand. October saw the addition of the Pacific theater, introducing the Americans and Japanese into the conflict alongside a reimagined Iwo Jima map (with Wake Island to follow in December). Luckily, DICE continues to build on Battlefield V. And it’s going to be Battlefield V for a while, as EA’s confirmed there won’t be a follow-up until 2021. As we close out 2019 that game is Battlefield V ($60 on Origin), DICE’s first foray into World War II in almost a decade. All positive developments, and good omens for the future.Ī prediction: As long as this list exists, there’ll be a DICE game on it. Destiny 2 moved to Steam, forked off a generous free-to-play version, reworked the Eververse marketplace to reduce the presence of loot boxes and change how cosmetics manifest, and more. The Bungie-Activision divorce has led to big changes, though. I know, I know, Destiny fans have been through this wringer before-and to be fair 2019’s Shadowkeep expansion didn’t reach the same heights as its predecessor, 2018’s Forsaken. Heading into its third year, Destiny 2’s as good as it’s ever been. It’s jaw-dropping to behold for the first time. It doesn’t approach the realism of Battlefield, but I struggle to name another shooter as consistently beautiful as Destiny 2, or with any environment as dynamic as the Forsaken expansion’s Dreaming City. But maybe that makes it more impressive that Destiny 2’s one of the best-looking shooters on PC. Is Destiny 2 (free on Steam) a performance hog? Not to the same degree as some other games on this list, that’s for sure. It’s stunning, and makes Control’s world feel just that little bit more lifelike. Hell, you can even see reflections (albeit blurrier) on the polished concrete floors. The difference is immediate and obvious, in a way that none of the other RTX implementations have been so far. It’s the showstopper, the game that makes people go “Oh, I understand why ray-tracing is important.” The Oldest House is full of glass-office partitions, poster frames, televisions-and real-time reflections turn each and every one into a mirror. Months later I’m still thinking about my journey through the Federal Bureau of Control and its headquarters, the Oldest House.īut more pertinent to this list, Control is also the reason to own a GeForce RTX graphics card with its real-time ray tracing capabilities. Drawing inspiration from New Weird literature like The Southern Reach Trilogy, from the SCP Foundation, from David Lynch, Control is Remedy’s best game since Max Payne 2, or at least its best-realized. There are plenty of reasons to play Control ($60 on Epic Games Store).
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