What are you playing in 2024: these 18 high-profile video games are launching in January and February

Looking again: Last year changed into a combined bag for noticeably predicted games. On the one hand, we had exceptional titles like Baldur's Gate three, System Shock (remake), Star Wars Jedi: Survivor, and Hogwarts Legacy to preserve us happily occupied. On the other, Diablo IV, Starfield, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare three, and The Walking Dead: Destinies didn't live up to expectations.

There is not any purpose to anticipate this yr now not to supply a in addition combined bag of hits and misses, but with 18 excessive-profile video games coming in just the first two months, we've got a short sampling of the year to come back. Let's take a second to examine 2024's early services.

• Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown
• The Last of Us Part II Remastered
• Apollo Justice: Ace Attorney Trilogy
• Tekken eight
• Like A Dragon: Infinite Wealth
• BlazBlue Entropy Effect
• Granblue Fantasy: Relink
• Persona 3 Reload
• Suicide Squad: Kill The Justice League
• Helldivers 2
• Banishers: Ghosts of New Eden
• Mario Vs. Donkey Kong
• Skull and Bones
• Nightingale
• Pacific Drive
• Brothers: A Tale Of Two Sons Remake
• Star Wars Dark Forces Remaster
• Final Fantasy VII Rebirth

January

January gets off to a past due start with Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown arriving on January 18. It has been approximately 14 years since the final entry on this franchise, and it is tough to mention how this 2.5D platformer will fare. Players do not get to govern time like in in advance iterations, but the antagonist does. Furthermore, it is no longer a sequel or a prequel to any of its predecessors, and functions an surprising new hero. Unfortunately, we saw how that labored out with the Saints Row reboot. You would possibly need to preserve off on this one until critics and enthusiasts have time to talk out.

The Last of Us Part II Remastered arrives day after today, January 19. But did we even want The Last of Us Part II within the first area? While it turned into successful, with critics incomes a 93 Metascore, customers have been less inspired, giving it handiest 5.8 out of 10. I misplaced hobby in the sport approximately midway via, so it seems like an useless remake in my book – hard bypass. Plus, as a PlayStation one-of-a-kind, it might be years earlier than it lands on PC.

Like A Dragon: Infinite Wealth might be promising while it hits shops on January 26. The Yakuza series has been a historic breadwinner for developer Ryu Ga Gotoku Studio and publisher Sega. In the numbered collection, we played as Kazuma Kiryu. Yakuza: Like a Dragon added the wild-haired Ichiban Kasuga because the player individual. In this direct sequel to the sport, both protagonists are playable. If you are a Yakuza fan, hold this one in your radar.

Other games arriving in January include Apollo Justice: Ace Attorney Trilogy (01/25), Tekken 8 (01/26), and BlazBlue Entropy Effect (01/31).

February

A full dozen video games arrive in February, beginning with Granblue Fantasy: Relink. The "Relink" inside the name connotes a port of the 2014 cellular game Granblue Fantasy, released exclusively in Japan. However, it is an entire new sport set inside the Granblue universe. Final Fantasy veterans Nobuo Uematsu (composer) and Hideo Minaba (artist) go back inside the flip-based totally RPG. Cygames centered it for the PlayStation four as opposed to cellular, however PS5 and Windows variations release the same day.

In an technology of endless remakes, it's probably no marvel Persona 3 Reload hits stores on the second one day of February. It's debatable whether or not any sport in the Megami Tensei collection needs a remake, but something keeps the developer's lighting fixtures on is great with me. The unique is a traditional Atlus JRPG, and I'm fascinated with giving it another spin.

Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League also arrives on February 2. All I have to mention approximately this one is, "Please, for the love of games, be better than Gotham Knights." The truth that SS:KtJL is from Rocksteady in preference to QLOC and WB Games approach there may be desire it is going to be true. If you love Harley Quinn, go your arms.

One of the most not on time games in current memory lands ashore on February 16. Ubisoft to start with announced the pirate sport Skull and Bones at E3 2017, straight away piquing the gaming community's interest. That was so long in the past that the studio became touting that the Xbone and PS4 variations could have "improvements for PlayStation four Pro and Xbox One X" consoles. After no fewer than seven delays in as many years and a console technology later, we will most effective wish the sport turned into well worth the wait.

Final Fantasy VII Rebirth (unofficially FFVII part 2) subsequently launches on Leap Day, February 29. Don't get me wrong right here. Final Fantasy Remake became a amusing retelling of part of the FFVII story. However, therein lies the hassle I actually have with Rebirth. I have waited 4 years to play the second one a part of a game I played in complete in 1997. Now that component one is a vague reminiscence, Square Enix releases part and nonetheless has as a minimum one extra to head (but permit's be honest, possibly more). I do not assume I have the patience for this "remake" and its parts stretching into the indefinite destiny.

Other titles arriving in February consist of:

• Helldivers 2 (02/08)
• Banishers: Ghosts of New Eden (02/13)
• Mario Vs. Donkey Kong (02/16)
• Nightingale (02/22)
• Pacific Drive (02/22)
• Brothers: A Tale Of Two Sons Remake (02/28)
• Star Wars Dark Forces Remaster (02/28)

Nightingale and Pacific Drive are survival games that intrigue me, however I want to await a few opinions earlier than rushing out to shop for them. What games are you eagerly expecting in 2024, despite the fact that they may be slated for later within the year?