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Game Releases in SA this Week — Overwatch, TMNT: Mutants in Manhattan
We take a look at what games are hitting local stores and online retailers this week.
If you’re looking to spark up a monstrous war, become a hero, or just save New York with pizza in-hand, this week’s game releases will deliver on all those things, and a little more.
Here are our picks for the games releasing 30 May – 3 June 2016:
Total War: Warhammer
Release date: 24 May (PC)
Total War: Warhammer delivers some much-needed strategy to gamers who’ve been seeking for a little something more than shooting terrorists in the face. Total War: Warhammer combines an addictive turn-based campaign of epic empire-building with explosive, colossal, real-time battles, all set in the vivid and incredible world of Warhammer Fantasy Battles. The game features four wholly different races: the Empire, the Dwarfs, the Vampire Counts and the Greenskins, each with their own unique characters, battlefield units and play style.
Overwatch
Release date: 24 May 2016 (PS4, Xbox One, PC)
From Blizzard, the guys who brought us Warcraft and Diablo, comes Overwatch – a first-person multiplayer shooter that injects elements of heroes into the formula. Before you begin a game of Overwatch, you’ll need to choose a hero to play. Maybe controlling a cannon-toting, genetically-engineered ape from the moon appeals to you. Or, you might prefer zipping around as a teleporting, time-traveling freedom fighter. Whoever you choose, players will need to use their hero’s abilities to defeat their opponents, protect their teammates and move around maps — they’re the key to winning a match.
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutants in Manhattan
Release date: 24 May 2016 (PS4, Xbox One, PS3, Xbox 360)
Mutants in Manhattan marks the return of those pizza-loving heroes-in-a-half-shell, as they take on aliens, mutants and the Foot Clan in order to protect The Big Apple. The game features a full single-player campaign, with the ability to team-up with up to three friends in four-player online co-op, which is what you really want to do, because each Turtle has a unique combat style that can be customised with Ninjutsu moves, combat items and special bonuses. The visuals are looking rather swish thanks to a cel-shaded art design, whilst the story comes from IDW Publishing’s acclaimed ongoing Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles comic-book writer, Tom Waltz. It looks to have all the ingredients for a brilliant TMNT experience, and we can’t wait to team up and throw down when it launches this month.
What game are you most excited for this week? Let us know by tweeting @MenStuffZA and commenting below.
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