Well would you look at that: we're only a measly three months into 2016 and already, gamers are being inundated with an incredibly good-looking lineup of games headed our way over the remaining nine and beyond. For the first time in maybe forever, there are a bunch of first-class, triple-A exclusives headed to all of the big three consoles, and, if everything goes to plan (delays and cancellations be damned), we gamers are going to be very, very spoilt for choice. Hell, we haven't even reached the point in the year where all of the heavy-hitters take to the stage at E3 to overwhelm us with brand new games, teasers and announcements for future games to get excited about all over again. Cloud-based mass destruction, the return of a certain world-famous JRPG series and Nintendo-brand charm are on their way to your TV screens in droves this year. Indeed, 2016 is going to continue to be wonderful across the board, and here are just 10 titles we can't wait to see more of in the coming months.
10. Crackdown 3
Get ready to cause some mass destruction, Agent. Crackdown 3's release date is on the cards for some time later this year, and while several videos detailing its technical ambitions have been slowly trickling out of developer Reagent Games' HQ, we need to see more before we can safely hop on the hype train in anticipation. As the threequel is heavily focused on multiplayer mayhem this time around (by way of its cloud-gaming setup enabling hugely ambitious, physics-based destruction) it's sure to be an anarchist's wet dream, but some more solid details surrounding moment-to-moment gameplay wouldn't go amiss. Will we be going back to the original format of infiltrating gang-controlled sections of a dystopian city to destroy their hierarchy from the ground-up? Perhaps those weird mutant 'things' from Crackdown 2 will make a return? (please, no). Right now, it's painfully unclear whether Reagent Games simply intends to give the player free-reign in a Minecraft-esque world with no clear goal, or one that has some form of expanded focus on a narrative that'll weave through it. Either way, from what we've seen so far of the fundamentals, all the right boxes are being ticked.
Joe is a freelance games journalist who, while not spending every waking minute selling himself to websites around the world, spends his free time writing. Most of it makes no sense, but when it does, he treats each article as if it were his Magnum Opus - with varying results.
