Need for speed : Payback – Drifting all the way

Need for Speed™, one of the world’s bestselling video game franchises, returns with a vengeance in the new action-driving blockbuster, Need for Speed Payback. Set in the underworld of Fortune Valley, you and your crew were divided by betrayal and reunited by revenge to take down The House, a nefarious cartel that rules the city’s casinos, criminals and cops.

Need For Speed Payback sees the long-running franchise return after a two year-long absence. The last entry acted as a bit of a reboot and saw things shift from open-world racing to more of a narrative-driven structure complete with live-action footage mixing in with game models. Prior to the release of Need for Speed Payback I made a joke how this could be NFS Refund or NFS Retrovizor. After I invested more time in that game than she deserved, I think it would be better to be NFS Payoff. Namely, everything in the new NFS is about paying. For every possible thing, even the most ridiculous, the game pays you some points.

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Call of Duty : WW2 - New chapter of history

Call of Duty returns to its roots with Call of Duty: WWII—a breathtaking experience that redefines World War II for a new gaming generation. Land in Normandy on D-Day and battle across Europe through iconic locations in history’s most monumental war. Experience classic Call of Duty combat, the bonds of camaraderie, and the unforgiving nature of war.

This year the Activision series used a joker card called "back to roots" in the hope of reconciliation of the haters and lovers, and that everyone in the new CoD will be happy. It is unlikely that this will happen, but it does not diminish the fact that Sledgehammer Games has made a decent WW2 game, that will not be ashamed beside the first two Call of Duty. Decently in this case that means exactly what you would expect from a Call of Duty game, and not much more than that. The campaign is firmly directed and scripted, and the multiplayer is recognizably conservative for the terms of today's shooters. The advantage of all this is that Call of Duty: WWII slides without any need for instructions. Nevremind you have you have to switch from the futuristic Infinite Warfare to World War II since both fronts in the performance of Call of Duty games are very similar.

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Assassin's Creed Origins - Walk like an Egyptian

Ancient Egypt, a land of majesty and intrigue, is disappearing in a ruthless fight for power. Unveil dark secrets and forgotten myths as you go back to the one founding moment: The Origins of the Assassin’s Brotherhood.

We would think that people are at least partially interested in history when they enjoy Assassin's Creed games. Of course, that does not necessarily have to be the case. One group have just joined this series for love of history, other one love history only after they have allowed Ubisoft to take them to this wonderful world, and the third group is playing just for fun and history does not really interest them in real life. But anyway, most of these players return year after year to the Assassin's Creed series and they stand with it in good and evil.

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Thief - New birth of old series

Step into the silent shoes of Garrett, a dark and lonely thief with an unrivaled set of skills. The most challenging heists, the most inaccessible loots, the best kept secrets: nothing is out of your reach.

When Thief saw for the first time the light of the day back in 1998 it brought a real small revolution as a game where stealth is a primary component of gameplay. Sequels that followed in 2000 and 2004 only cemented the cult status. Of course a variety of copy / paste games followed, but none had such as good quality as the demo. Now, 10 years after the last game, Thief returned.

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