Third-person shooters were a dime a dozen during the Xbox 360/PS3 era. While the genre is still popular, they’re certainly fewer and further between nowadays. This week however sees two heavy hitters arrive, with both the IO Interactive published MindsEye and SEGA’s remaster Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine Master Crafted Edition due out Tuesday.
MindsEye – due on PS5, Xbox Series and PC – looks set to offer action packed ride, with special attention going into its car chases scenes and cinematics. It takes place the fictional desert town of Redrock, renown for being a testbed for new technology with even robots put in control of carrying out basic duties. You play as Jacob Diaz, a former special-ops soldier struggling with their MindsEye neural implant. It isn’t long until Jacob finds themselves in a battle between a technology corporation and Redrock’s mayor, with one wanting to control human evolution, and the other wanting to control Redrock’s citizens.
Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine meanwhile is a remaster of the THQ published 2011 third-person shooter, now with up-to-date lore, new voice clips, 4K visuals, and all DLC. Curiously, it’s skipping PS5 – which would suggest Microsoft bankrolled this one specifically for Game Pass. SEGA are publishing, due to retaining the rights.
Another new release hitting Game Pass (also due on PS5 and PC) is the sci-fi survival game The Alters. Set on a hostile planet, it’s your job to gather resources and craft a mobile base for your crew. The game’s quirky name is due to the protagonist’s ability to make alternate clones of themselves, each one shaped by alternate outcomes of their past. Smoke ‘em a kipper.
Other new games of note include the body-swapping overhead shooter Memory Lost, a PSVR and Meta Quest release of Rebellion’s Zombie Army VR, a belated console release of the well-received horror adventure Y. Village – The Visitors, and a double-whammy of the retro style shooters Alien Hominid Invasion and Alien Hominid HD for PS5.
Then there’s an Xbox release of the 16-bit style arcade game Freddy Farmer, the 3v3 soccer roguelike Wild Rumble, the polished looking Vampire Survivors-alike Keeper’s Toll, the mobile phone controlled rhythm game Musical Vibes RX, and the empty prison set horror adventure Prison Alone. Lost In Random: The Eternal Die also gets its early access ‘Fortune Edition’ ahead of next week’s release.
New release trailers
MindsEye
Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine Master Crafted Edition
The Alters
Memory Lost
Zombie Army VR
Y. Village – The Visitors
Keeper’s Toll
Alien Hominid
Prison Alone
Musical Vibes RX
God of Weapons
New multiformat releases
- MindsEye
- Y. Village – The Visitors
- Lost In Random: The Eternal Die – Fortune Edition
- Memory Lost
- The Alters
- Keeper’s Toll
- TETRA’s Escape 2
- Wild Rumble
New on PSN
- Zombie Army VR
- Star Trucker
- Prison Alone
- Wizard of Legend 2
- Stunt Flyer
- Alien Hominid Invasion
- Alien Hominid HD
- Luminaria: Dark Echoes
New on Xbox Store
- Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine – Master Crafted Edition
- Final Fantasy XVI
- Freddy Farmer
- Idle Wizard
- Ramp Bike Racing
- Supermarket Owner Simulator: Business
- Minos Dungeon
- Musical Vibes RX
- Death Kid
- Super Slime Boy
- Guardian of the Water Altar
- God of Weapons
- Tropical Resort Story
New Switch retail releases
eShop round-up coming Thursday
- 7’scarlet
- Gal Guardians: Servants of the Dark
Next week: RAIDOU Remastered: The Mystery of the Soulless Army, Lost in Random: The Eternal Die, FBC: Firebreak, Disney TRON: Catalyst, Gex Trilogy, REMATCH, Star Overdrive, Arena Renovation, Velocity Riders, Date Everything, Badminton Time VR, Rooftops & Alleys: The Parkour Game, Soulstone Survivors, Without a Voice, Presentiment of Death, Through the Nightmares, Maestro, Revival: Recolonization, Dustwind: Resistance, CarX Street, Robots at Midnight, Architect Life: A House Design Simulator, Rogue Loops, and Chronicles of the Wolf.