It’s a smart, confident piece of work, and anybody interested in either of the genres it builds on should consider checking it out.- Garrett Martin Dead Cells beautifully captures what makes both of those genres impossible to put down, uniting the “just one more” drive of a roguelike with the “must keep going” compulsion of a Metroid. Few games are as addictive as those Metroid-style backtrackers, and perhaps the only thing that has come close this decade is the spate of roguelike platformers that flourished in Spelunky’s wake.
Not content with sheer novelty, Dead Cells importantly taps into the most significant aspect of both of the genres it fuses together. An absolute must-play for anyone who likes games that involve shootin’ dudes.- Javy Gwaltney The game’s combination of powerful gunplay and a thematically rich narrative about a man dragging himself into the arena for one last fight against fate is equal parts exhilaration and tragedy. It’s the best shooter since Half-Life 2 and I’ll take on anyone who says differently. I will drown you in a hundred copies of the game until you swear your allegiance to it. Except when it comes to Wolfenstein: The New Order, a game I’m downright belligerent and obnoxious about. I’m mostly content to let people shout whatever they want no matter how silly it is or how much I disagree with it. If you own a PlayStation 4, here are 50 games that you should probably try out at some point in your life.
The PlayStation 5 will inevitably take over from the PS4 in full, but who knows how long that will take? There’s still a lot of life left in the PS4, and it’ll be a long time before we will know the final version of this list.
The PS4 has a number of high-profile releases throughout 2022, including the next God of War entry. Maybe a few big-name multiplatform games would come out on an older system the year after its replacement was released, but the flood would gradually become a trickle, with the newer system squarely having the spotlight, both promotionally and with new game releases, by this holiday season. Typically the PlayStation 4’s days would be rapidly disappearing at this point. Once you’re solidly in your adult years everything washes together into one endless, overwhelming now, where moments from 20 years ago can loom larger and fresher in your memory than something from last week. If you’re in high school or college 2013 was forever ago. That’s another thing about time: it collapses in on itself as you age. Of course it was actually in 2013, which means it served a lengthy seven-year term as Sony’s console of record before the PlayStation 5 came out, with an extra two years (and counting) of relevance tacked on to the end of that. Meanwhile from my vantage point it feels like it’s been about six months since the PlayStation 4 came out. It’s coming up on its third Christmas season. And not only does it exist, but it’s been out for almost two years. Here’s how messed up time is: the PlayStation 5 actually exists. That’s a good thing, of course, because if it ever does it’d pretty much be the end of all existence as we know it.