20 Best Video Games Of 2018 (So Far)

3. Monster Hunter: World

Like Yakuza, Monster Hunter seemed destined to be "one of those games" your friend was always recommending but you never played.

All that changed in Yakuza's case with Yakuza 0, and here we have the absolutely brilliant Monster Hunter: World. Taking all the franchise's most loveable traits: Tailing beasties across huge expanses of land, eating your bodyweight in stat-boosting meals and crafting human-sized swords from the carcasses of defeated creatures, on current-gen hardware, it looks and feels immaculate.

Some hiccups included a bizarrely convoluted matchmaking system, but it's countered for solo players by letting you drop in to help any ongoing battle, reaping the rewards and ensuring the newbies don't get eaten alive in the process.

Monster Hunter: World has more depth, tactics, nuance and mechanics than I could ever cover here, but if you still somehow haven't dove in... get on that.

Oh, and if you are playing, check out this and this for some things you probably didn't know.