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GAMING PREVIEWS visit stack.com.au AUGUST THYMESIA If you’re a fan of the FromSoftware school of games such as Dark Souls and Bloodborne then Thymesia could be your next big challenge. It’s a dark, demanding experience in which you harness the plague as your weapon. The once thriving Kingdom of Hermes has fallen to an age of calamity, and alchemy has become common practice, with denizens using it to enhance and heal at will. Inflation has struck hard, leaving you as shapeshifting Corvus to save the kingdom from a chaotic fate. ACTION RPG MULTIPLAYER 18/8/22 TWO POINT CAMPUS: ENROLMENT EDITION You built the perfect health care hub in Two Point Hospital, now it’s time to take the educational route and get your perfect university happening! The world of academia won’t know what’s hit it once you construct your campus inside and out – get as detailed as you like, down to positioning every tree just where you want it. The tools abound, do you have the vision to match? This limited Enrolment Edition also includes a foldout map, DLC and a 14-page “prospectus” full of hints and tips. SIMULATION MULTIPLAYER 9/8/22 MADDEN NFL 23 This year’s release of the legendary gridiron series pays tribute to its late namesake, with John Madden gracing the covers of all releases. Game-wise, the big new thing on new-gen is the FieldSENSE Gameplay System, which sets the scene for consistent, ultra-realistic gameplay, and allows players more control over all positions in every mode. Get into Face of the Franchise: The League, enjoy updated Franchise, and build your perfect football side in Madden Ultimate Team. SPORTS MULTIPLAYER 19/8/22 SAINTS ROW The Saints are coming – again – in all of their purple-tinged glory. A reboot of the wild and crazy series, this one welcomes us to Santo Ileso, a fictional American Southwest city, where the player becomes their very own bespoke future Boss, leading a group on their own criminal venture. You’ll be fighting for gang supremacy, capturing territory and building your city-controlling empire. Promising the biggest and best Saints Row playground ever created, the Saints are back, baby! ACTION ADVENTURE 32 MULTIPLAYER AUGUST 2022 st214_032_GAMING-OutThisMonthX8-PROOFED-AF.indd 1 23/8/22 PAC-MAN WORLD RE-PAC Pac’s back! He went 3D in 1987’s maze-based Pac-Mania, then returned to the fray in 1999’s Pac-Man World – but that time, Pac-Man turned adventurer! Now the originator of what became a trilogy is back, and it’s making its way back in newly remastered form. Those ghastly ghosts have kidnapped Pac-Man’s family and friends, totally ruining his birthday party! Our hero must explore six areas of Ghost Island to rescue everybody, before facing off against scary ghost boss TOC-MAN. ACTION ADVENTURE MULTIPLAYER 26/8/22 SOUL HACKERS 2 The massive world of Shin Megami Tensei, which has given us more games than we could list here, including the wild Persona series, delivers again with a sequel to 1997’s SEGA Saturn hit Devil Summoner: Soul Hackers. Complete with art from manga artist Shirow Miwa, enter a world where humans have been consumed by commercial convenience, in which a demon war is taking place. As AI agent Ringo, you’re tasked with saving humankind from an imminent world-ending disaster. RPG MULTIPLAYER 26/8/22 DESTROY ALL HUMANS! 2 - REPROBED Get probing once again, with the return of cheeky alien invader Crypto in a new-gen take on the groovy original sequel, which is planted firmly in the swinging 1960s. This time, our alien fiend is out for revenge after what the KGB did to his mothership, but to take them out he’ll need to form alliances with humans… then perhaps destroy them later. Fully rebuilt from the ground up, this is set to be the definitive Destroy All Humans! experience – well, unless another one comes along, man! ACTION ADVENTURE MULTIPLAYER 30/8/22 F1 MANAGER 22 If your love of Formula 1 is centred more around what goes on off the track rather than on, then this may be the game for you! This officially licensed simulation allows you to be boss of your own F1 constructor, picking from a roster of 2022 drivers and staff before getting busy. All the nitty-gritty of management comes into play, as you aim to impress your board by hitting season targets and other goals, securing your team’s current and future success – as well as keeping your very sweet gig! SIMULATION MULTIPLAYER 30/8/22 jbhifi.com.au 25/7/2022 4:18 pm
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