Hi, folks, this is Pritam.
And today on Gams X,
the games you gotta pay attention to
in this upcoming month August of 2022.
Starting off with number
10 it’s Way of the Hunter,
an extremely beautiful hunting simulator.
The game is oriented towards realism,
and it really does create
some beautiful environments
and depicts animals
in a really realistic and interesting way.
It’s really cool.
Like, you get a really, really
big open world environment
where you’re sort of tracking prey,
attempting to find animals
that you’re attempting to hunt.
You also get co-op, which is pretty nice.
If you’re somebody who enjoys hunting
and yet know some other people
who enjoy hunting and, well,
you’re not really in a position
to do some real hunting,
get your buddies together and play this.
I’m not gonna say I have direct
experience with the game,
but it’s certainly,
like, intriguing to me.
I’m not big in hunting,
but I like the idea
of being able to kind of
do it without, you know,
actually killing anything.
Plus, you get a cool looking
car and traverse this,
I really have to underscore
how pretty the environment’s
in this game are.
It’s enough to get me
interested in something
that I probably wouldn’t
normally be interested in.
And that’s saying a lot.
Way of the Hunter is
coming to PS5, Xbox Series
X and PC on August 16th.
And number 9 is Marvel’s
Spider-Man Remastered,
a game you’ve seen on PlayStation.
But boy, oh boy, it’s coming to PC.
And ooh, this is something
I am very excited for.
Because, yes, it is nice to
play the game on PlayStation,
but, wow, will it be nice to play it on PC
where I can really throw
everything I’ve got at it
in terms of graphics.
On the PC, we are gonna be
seeing ray-traced reflection.
We’ll be seeing the DLSS, the DLAA,
the stuff that just makes
incredibly good looking games
work very well.
This version of Spiderman
is also going to support
ultra-wide monitors.
Not really my cup of
tea. I kinda like 16:9.
But I know there’s a lot of
people out there that like it.
If you look at some of the screenshots
and footage of this game
on PC, it is stunning.
I mean, this is a game that
has been a looker on consoles.
And, frankly, I think
we’re really just gonna see
a gorgeous port that now
people are gonna be able to mod
and do whatever the hell they want with.
Spider-Man Remastered
coming to PC on August 12th.
At number 8 is Two Point Campus
coming to us from the same folks
that did Two Point Hospital,
developers by the name
of Two Point Studios.
Published by SEGA.
I don’t know if you’re familiar
with Two Point Hospital.
It’s kind of like a return
to really old school
theme park type games.
Like, there’s a lot of these right now.
But Two Point Campus
is probably one of the
better ones to look at,
’cause it looks like
they’ve really done a lot
in terms of ramping up the absurd stuff.
And that’s really, like,
one of the bigger reasons to
play these types of games.
They’re more or less city builders,
except for they’re limited
to one specific thing,
the theme park, a hospital,
or in this case, a campus.
And it looks like you’re able to build
a truly absurd, ridiculous campus.
Frankly, some of what I’ve
seen looks like Hogwarts,
but like it’s not magic oriented.
It’s literally just an
absurdist management sim
that I think, if I’m honest,
I’m of course going to play.
This is the type of game I really enjoy.
And Two Point Hospital was really good.
Two Point Campus is coming
to the PlayStations,
the Xboxs, Nintendo Switch
and PC on August 9th.
At number 7 is Sword
and Fairy: Together Forever,
also known as the Legend
of Sword and Fairy 7.
It’s actually a game that
came out on mobile in China
and was so popular,
they decided to port it
over to the Play Stations
as well as PC.
And, wow, is it a pretty game.
It’s an action adventure RPG.
And the fact they’ve brought it over here
actually works pretty well on account.
It’s actually the ninth game
in the Legend of Sword and Fairy,
a series that’s been going on
for apparently quite a while in China,
like, the original game
was actually released in 1995 on MS-DOS.
But this one is actually set many years
after the events of
the rest of the series.
So it’s kind of functioning as
a reboot for Chinese gamers.
And as a first game in
the series over here,
again, it’s called Sword
and Fairy: Together Forever.
Certainly doesn’t scream
sequel in any way.
It’s, like I said,
got these crazy good looking environments.
And the game has been lauded
for having a very good story.
We don’t really get a lot
of Chinese RPGs over here
and it really looks
like a high quality one.
So I’m really interested to see
exactly how it comes together.
I will be playing it.
It’s landing on the
PlayStations on August 4th.
At number 6 is Destroy
All Humans! 2-Reprobed,
the second of the remakes
of Destroy All Humans!.
This is a series that I relish, I enjoy.
Getting another one of
these makes me very happy.
I loved the first remake,
because I loved the first game,
and they left the first game intact.
Just gave us much better graphics.
What is there to complain about?
We’re likely getting the same thing here.
It’s Destroy All Humans! 2.
Takes place in the ’60s. It’s more absurd.
It’s gone all the great
telekinesis mechanics
and all that same stuff.
Lots of new levels, pure
chaos all over Earth.
What is there not to like?
What’s interesting is
that Destroy All Humans!,
for all intents and purposes,
is a pretty unique game.
And when they hit with the first one,
people wanted more, and they obliged.
Thankfully, they’re
remastering all of them.
My hope, of course, is that we see
new Destroy All Humans!
games in the future.
We shall see.
These remakes, however,
the Reprobed series,
have been going very well.
Destroy All Humans!2-Reprobed
is coming out
on PC, PS5 and Xbox Series X August 30th.
At number 5 is Midnight Fight Express
and isometric brawler.
Now, for all intents and purposes,
what this game looks like to me,
very much takes a lot of inspiration
from older Streets of Rage style games,
as well as Twin Stick Shooters.
And if you want my opinion,
that is a good couple
of things to combine.
It’s got a great look
to it. Good aesthetic.
Looks like the fighting is fun.
What’s interesting, it’s the story
of somebody who got out
of the criminal underworld
and was lured back into it
with the intent of preventing
a citywide criminal takeover.
There’s 41 levels. They’re
not randomly generated.
They’re handcrafted.
Music comes from this
artist called Noisescream.
I’m not really familiar with them,
but the music and trailer’s great.
If I’m honest, if it
plays out how it looks,
this is gonna be a really solid game
and something that takes
up a lot of my time.
It scratches an itch that
I definitely do have.
Midnight Fight Express
comes to PS4, Xbox One,
PC and Switch August 23rd.
At number 4 is Cult of the Lamb.
Interestingly enough,
is a cult building game.
You are a possessed lamb who
was saved from certain death
by a shadowy figure, let’s say,
and you basically have to build a cult.
You actually have to compete
against other cults, too.
This is regarded as a game taking place
in a land of false prophets.
It is a very interesting looking title
in terms of its graphics.
In some ways, it kind of reminds me
of a faster pace Legend of
Zelda: A Link to the Past,
but with the cult building
elements, I don’t know.
I really enjoy the graphics, though.
The sort of cut out paper
look. It really works.
And Cult of the Lamb
looks like a unique game.
That’s landing
on PS5, Xbox Series X,
Switch and PC August 11th.
And number 2 is Soul Hackers
2 coming to us from Atlus,
as we all know, very
good RPG making people.
It’s the sequel to a very, very old game,
Devil Summoner: Soul Hackers
came out back in 1997
on the Sega Saturn, which, by the way,
can we talk about how
great the Saturn was?
It was a terrible console
filled with amazing games,
and it flopped so hard
and it did not get the
appreciation it deserved.
Soul Hackers 2, obviously continues
the Devil Summoner series,
which this is actually
the fifth installment
of Devil Summoners also,
part of the Shin Megami Tensei franchise.
So it is tangentially related
to Persona, and it shows.
It’s a Atlus RPG. Like,
that’s what I want.
I very much want an Atlus RPG.
I’m pretty much on board automatically.
Soul Hackers 2 is coming
to the PlayStations, the
Xboxs and PC on August 26th.
And finally at number 1,
the Big Saints Row reboot
that seems to be blending a lot
from all of the various games
and putting together a new world,
a new type of target for satire.
And from what I have heard thus far,
actually really good action.
Now, obviously, it takes a
lot from Grand Theft Auto,
that’s what Saint Row is,
but it seems like there’s
also a lot more here.
Everything I’ve seen in previews,
I’ve thought looks delightful,
looks just, like, really
enjoyable nonsense,
pure chaos, too.
That’s exactly what I
want out of Saints Row.
And for all intents and
purposes, I’m pretty excited.
It looks like it gets what
makes Saints Row good,
and maybe understands
it a little bit better
than any one Saints Row game.
If that ends up playing out,
this is definitely gonna be a
new series of Saints Row games
because I don’t see how
if they’ve figured out
a new special sauce,
it’s not gonna play out that way.
Saints Row is coming
to the PlayStations, the
Xboxs and PC on August 23rd
Got a bonus game for you, too.
PAC-MAN World RE-PAC, a complete
remake of PAC-MAN World.
PAC-MAN World came out on
the original PlayStation,
and, wow, it was one of those
games that came out in 1999,
it was kind of like a really good example
of a platformer, actually.
Like, if you remember,
that was kind of a really
good time for platformers,
was the time immediately after
both Crash Bandicoot and Mario 64.
It’s around the same time
that Sonic Adventure came out,
which was, I mean, I’m
gonna go ahead and say,
flawed, but a really good example
of taking a franchise into 3D
PAC-MAN World was a game
that is really nothing like PAC-MAN.
I mean, there’s certain parts of it
that really call to mind
the old PAC-MAN games.
But for the most part,
it’s a pretty straightforward platformer,
with a completely different move set,
really creative levels and
they’ve redone it completely.
They’ve got new graphics, they’ve
overhauled all the levels.
I don’t know to what extent
they’ve made the game
play a little tighter.
Because like I said,
it would actually was a
pretty good platformer,
but I have a feeling they’ve
modernized it a little bit.
It’s one of those games I
kind of just wanna play again.
And seeing it with much better graphics
makes it a very high priority
platformer for me, actually.
And I’ll be definitely checking that out
when it lands on the
PlayStations, the Xboxs
and on Switch August 26th.
That’s all for today. Leave us a comment.