Story mode is an earth-shattering John Woo soap opera the fatalities are absurd and eye poppingly gorgeous and its lessons on attacks, cancels, frame data, zoning, and character movesets help to create one of the best fighting game tutorial that gaming has ever seen. Their fixation with design and performance remains, but MK11 is more of a nostalgia-inducing romp than a modern classic. Mortal Kombat 11 is in a league of its own because the decades-spanning team at NetherRealm is absolutely nuts. Release date: April 23 ( PS4, XB1, PC, Switch)

It's a feat that is held back by predictability, but it's one that will forever earmark A Plague Tale as a gorgeous rarity in emotive storytelling. Every maze, backdrop, companion, and smattering of alchemy is used to let the world unfold around you - analyzing the links between innocence and resilience, and how hope will find a way to blossom in the horrors of tragedy. Its linearity makes it more of a stealth affair than an action-adventure soap opera, but by choice. It's a grim narrative that's full of ominous sequences and gnarled out rat infestations that swarm around as a main puzzle mechanic, and it uses the emotional pull of every environment and set piece to trace the ups and downs of a teenager who is left to care for her 5-year-old brother.

Asobo Studio's A Plague Tale: Innocence tells the story of two orphans, Amicia and Hugo, who are on the run from the Inquisition and the Black Death terrorizing 14th century France.

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