State of Play. Summer Game Fest, Ubisoft Forward. Xbox Game Showcase.
All of these events gave us new PS5 game announcements, reveals, and updates — but out of all the titles that we've seen over the last week or so, which one had the best showing? Which upcoming release do you have the highest hopes for? These are questions we always like to ask after a big gaming event has come and gone, and so we've gathered the Push Square editorial team to share their thoughts. Once you've had a read, we invite you to vote for your own favourites at the bottom of the article. We'll be putting together a results article for this poll next week, so choose wisely! There were a few games that stood out to me during the Summer Game festivities, like Perfect Dark , Dragon Age: The Veilguard , Assassin’s Creed Shadows , and even Gears of War: E-Day .
But the game that was a bona fide day one purchase for me was DOOM: The Dark Ages . Medieval DOOM sounds like an awesome pitch that gets left on the sidelines for something safer, but iD Software is here with this heavy metal concept, filled with chainsaw shields, skull-crushing guns, and dragons. It sounds like this is going for a more boots-on-the-ground approach than what we saw in DOOM Eternal , but if it can keep that frenetic and gnarly gunplay up, then I’m totally there for it.
Far and away, the standout for me was the reveal of Civilization VII , which I'm probably going to dump a disgusting amount of time into if history repeats itse.