Taking inspiration from Sledgehammer's past experience with the Dead Space franchise at Visceral, Nazi Zombies features more horror elements than ever before as well as a new progression system that helps players feel like each playthrough is accomplishing a larger goal. The change of pace has paid off considerably as Call of Duty: WW2 is now the best selling game of 2017.Ĭompetitive multiplayer appears to be the major draw as it is every year, though the package also includes an infantry-focused campaign and a completely redesigned Nazi Zombies mode as well. Ultimately, the studio decided to take the franchise back to its roots with boots on the ground infantry action set within World War II. These rock-solid mechanics are the foundation on which all of Cold War’s modes are built, making for excellent moment-to-moment action across campaign, multiplayer, and Zombies.After underperforming in 2016, Activision tasked Sledgehammer Games with switching up the recent Call of Duty formula of futuristic settings and jetpacks. Treyarch has continued the series’ streak of excellence in regard to player movement and shooting mechanics, thanks to stable 120fps support on compatible hardware and weapons that look, sound, and feel great – especially on PS5 with the DualSense’s gun-specific trigger effects adding a whole new layer of tactility. Enter Star Wars: Squadrons, a first-person single-player and multiplayer driven Star Wars spaceship combat game with incredibly tight mechanics, tons of customization options, and all the iconic sounds, lasers, and explosions a Star Wars fan could possibly want. While 2019’s Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order finally gave single-player Star Wars fans a big, story-driven game to saber through, longtime fans of Star Wars ship battles, dogfighting, and multiplayer were left wondering when they’d get some love, too. See Doom Eternal at Amazon Star Wars: Squadrons Just as Doom defined the FPS in the early '90s, so too does Doom Eternal in 2020.įor more, check out our full Doom Eternal review! Even multiplayer wised up, tossing out the vanilla Deathmatch mode and bringing in Battlemode, a unique 1v2 face-off that pits one fully loaded Doomguy against a pair of human-controlled Doom monsters. By layering on more combat strategies and getting smarter about its traversal, the follow-up to Doom (2016) – which was itself like waving smelling salts under the first-person shooter genre's nose – is one of the best fast-action shooters of the entire decade.

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