Rival consoles – this week’s top games

Dead Space

Platform: PC, PS5, Xbox Series X|S Price: £49.99; Age: 18

After all the hype and anticipation, the Dead Space remake is finally here! And does it live up to the hype? Oh boy, does it ever. Completely rebuilt, added detail and a few changes pack plenty of surprises for even the most hardcore fans. You play repair engineer Isaac Clarke who has docked with theUSGIshimuraforroutinework. Upon boarding, you find disaster, horror… and a missing girlfriend. Enhanced gameplay, detail, and atmospherekeeptheessenceofDead Space while bringing it to a generation who weren’t even born when the original came out. 9/10

SpellForce: Conquest of Eo PC

Price: £24.99

On the surface, a turn-based fantasy hex game sounds like it’s going to have a lot of rules and a lot more buttons – and you wouldn’t be wrong. But even if you’re a total newbie, everything here comes rather seamlessly. You start off with a small tower and a quest to find out what happened to your master. Before long, you’re commanding a vast army, facing off against monsters and exploring a map filled with secrets and treasures. The story does leave something to be desired but once you get in the flow of it, it’s really hard to stop playing. 8/10

Fashion Police Squad

Switch, PC, PS5

Price: £15.49; Age rating: 12

A cute and exciting concept, this game with its fashion-led shooting missions is very different, and the classic graphics are great, but ultimately, much like said graphics, the game falls a little flat.

It’s rather unintuitive, and withwith repetitive missions it both needs a better tutorial process and considerably more complicated stages to really engage the player. There’s a lot to love here, the story and the funny lines, and the characters are certainly entertaining, but if you want an exciting FPS this may not be for you. 6/10