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Initially, only available in Japan, Yakuza: Like a Dragon has now made its release worldwide. Changing from a beat-em-up style game into a turn-based RPG seems to have been a step in the right direction. It is a breath of fresh air and the reviewers are absolutely loving the game and its new fighting mechanics. And although it has only been released recently, Sega's 8th entry in the Yakuza series has already surpassed many of the earlier top releases this year blowing everyone's expectations away.

The latest entry in the Animal Crossing series, Animal Crossing: New Horizons was definitely expected to be a success but no one could predict the impact it made on people's lives.

The game released just when everyone needed it the most and it took the world by storm. With quarantine, most people couldn't carry on their regular lives and had to live through the game to get a sense of normalcy while living in a community with their villagers , or by hopping on an in-game plane and visiting their friends.

Seen as the deepest Formula One experience that's been provided in game form, F1 has been acclaimed by the reviewers and more than earned its place at such a high spot in 's best console games. The game provides awesome new features. F1 's My Team adds significant content to the game that can keep players hooked for longer than they'd expect.

So, fans might want to proceed with caution as this new feature might take more hours from their free time than they intended. Demon's Souls is another game that may have only recently been released but has already delighted the reviewers. Bluepoint's remake has given new life to the PS3 game and made it feel like a true PS5 original. The quality of life changes alone are enough to get players to jump in and play through the game once again.

Plus, given how easy it is to die in a Souls game, it's definitely great to know that with the power of the PS5, players won't have to wait for more than a few seconds in between deaths. With its stunning visuals and fun platforming sequences, it is no surprise that Ori and the Will of the Wisps has made it into 's top 10 console games. Just the game's unique art style is enough to make it stand out between so many of the other great releases.

The game's visuals truly benefit and take full advantage of the console's powerful hardware. Hades has only been out of Early Access for a few weeks now and it's already made its way up the charts.

It has been a success on Nintendo Switch , in particular, its Metacritic rating is actually higher on Switch than on PC. Supergiant's latest game is on its way to becoming an indie classic as it's already been considered Game of the Year by many critics.

They have quickly gained new fans and delighted previous fans with Hades's addictive rogue-like gameplay and lovely graphics. Naughty Dog 's were very successful with the series first entry , The Last of Us, and the people wanted more so they got more. With extremely positive reviews, just like its predecessor, The Last of Us Part II has been a success since it hit store shelves back in June.

With its avid fanbase, it's impressive storytelling, and great graphics, it's bound to become another Sony classic. Suddenly, whole families could compete together, from the youngest to the oldest — and Nintendo sold more than m units as a result. A victory for utilitarian design over technological obsession. The machine saw an array of idiosyncratic titles — Jet Set Radio, Shenmue, Seaman, Rez, Phantasy Star Online — that either invented new genres or utterly revolutionised old ones.

But the lack of support from western developers and the sheer might of the PS2 ensured that its life was as brief as it was beautiful. The Switch is a brilliantly flexible home console, seamlessly switching local multiplayer between the living room and the world at large, somehow combining the genius of the Wii and the Game Boy.

He designed an architecture that was powerful yet easy to develop for and focused on pushing 3D shapes around the screen as efficiently as possible. Sony then solved its lack of development experience by purchasing UK studio Psygnosis and inking an exclusive deal with Japanese arcade veteran Namco.

This machine changed everything. Like Hoover and Aspirin before it, the brand was so synonymous with the activity that it became genericised. But the games, oh the games. Based around similar tech as the Xbox One and launched almost simultaneously, the PS4 saw Sony concentrating on games rather than multimedia functionality, immediately winning the PR war against Microsoft.

By building an architecture capable of accurately converting arcade hits such as Golden Axe, Strider and Altered Beast, and bullishly marketing at teenagers, Sega made Nintendo look fusty and old-fashioned. This punk attitude was amplified further in by the arrival of Sonic the Hedgehog, a speed-obsessed, spiky-haired dude-bro perfectly in tune with earlys MTV culture.

The Mega Drive would go on to sell 35m units and host a wide range of experiences from romantic role-playing adventures to real-time military sims. In the process, for better or worse, it invented the whole idea of console gaming as a lifestyle — an identity.

The first console of the broadband era, Xbox put online multiplayer functionality at the core of its offering from the very start. Innovations such as Achievements and the Gamer Score turned the global user base into one vast competitive community whether the battleground was Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare, Halo 3 or Forza Horizon.

Arguably, this was also the machine that saw the superior versions of epic adventures such as Mass Effect 2, Elder Scrolls V, Bioshock and Read Dead Redemption, ushering in our modern era of mature narrative game design. Its utter dominance, its technical power and its familiar development environment allowed studios around the world to be extraordinarily creative.

And then everybody did. Whole days in front of Street Fighter 2, the living room crowded with mates, coffee table loaded with snacks and Coke cans. Blasting through the Super Star Wars series. Discovering Donkey Kong Country. Millions of us have these memories. The SNES arrived in an industry already changed by the Mega Drive, but Nintendo stuck with what it knew — solid tech and astonishing, fecund creativity.

The machine produced beautiful, colourful visuals and lush sampled sounds, and it had the flexibility to allow enhanced cartridges later in its lifecycle. But really, the lasting influence was all down to the games — more than 1, of them — and the way they made us feel. Sega Master System Throughout the early s Sega made several attempts to transfer its arcade expertise to the home console market — the Master System was the most successful.

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