Simply the best
MAY has arrived, and this month’s releases read like a best of.
The compelling Little Nightmares finally gets a full release on the Switch, Agent 47 is back with a definitive edition in Hitman and Street Fighter fans can feel both old, and excited by the release of a 30th Anniversary Collection.
HITMAN: DEFINITIVE EDITION PS4, XBOX ONE. Release: May 18
OF all the titles to get an episodic series, Hitman seemed the most unlikely candidate.
For fans who missed the six-part series the first time around, this definitive edition will be a mustbuy.
This new release packages together the base game and all its DLC – meaning you get the Game of the Year Edition content, the Summer Bonus Episode and the Blood Money Requiem pack.
On top of that you get three new skins, including Mini Ninjas, Freedom Fighters and Kane & Lynch.
With more than 100 hours of gameplay, fans of the series will struggle to find a better collection.
LITTLE NIGHTMARES: COMPLETE EDITION Switch. Release: May 18
LAST year’s critically acclaimed Little Nightmares finally comes to the Switch.
Tapping into your childhood fears, you play as Six, a rain-coated, bare foot child who wakes up in a dark cell.
With nothing but a lighter for protection, Six ventures from foreboding room to foreboding room in a bid to escape ‘The Maw’.
This unsettling facility is deep underwater and filled with sickeningly monstrous inhabitants – all of whom want to catch the tiny child.
The game’s hauntingly beautiful graphic style only fans the flames of fear and, to be fair, the villains are not to be sniffed at.
There’s the hideous butcher brothers, twisted chubby chefs who will put Six on the menu if they catch her. There’s the Janitor, with incredibly long arms who lurks in the darkness to grab at you. And then there’s The Maw’s guests, who come to the facility to eat – and nothing will stand in their way.
It’s smart, it’s grotesque and it’s an absolute must-play.
DARK SOULS REMASTERED PS4, XBOX ONE, PC. Release: May 25
UNIVERSALLY regarded as one of the best RPG series ever made, the original Dark Souls has had the remaster treatment.
Fans can return to Lordran, for terrifying encounters now in high-definition with detail running at 60fps.
As well as including higher quality textures, the game will support 4k resolution and increase the number of multiplayers from four to six.
The release will also include DLC Artorias of the Abyss.
For PC gamers, if you already have the Dark Souls: Prepare To Die edition in your Steam library, then you can get the remastered version for half price.
If you don’t already own the original, and want to take advantage of the offer, then be quick.
You have until May 8 to buy Prepare To Die, currently priced at £19.99 from store.steampowered.com
SEGA MEGA DRIVE CLASSICS COLLECTION PS4, XBOX ONE. Release: May 29
AN all-our-yesterdays for Sega fans arrives in the form of the Mega Drive Classics Collection.
Including more than 50 games from the company’s iconic 16-bit system, you’ll find Sonic the Hedgehog and Sonic the Hedgehog 2, Shining Force, Virtua Fighter 2, and several games in the Phantasy Star and Streets of Rage series – to name but a few.
Up-to-date features bring some modern convenience to these classics, such as the ability to save your game at any time, rewind slip-ups, and customise the controls.
There’s online multiplayer and achievements to be unlocked to earn trophies.
STREET FIGHTER: 30TH ANNIVERSARY COLLECTION PS4, XBOX ONE, PC, Switch. Release: May 29
CAPCOM unleashes its 30th Anniversary Collection on fans at the end of the month.
Collected together in one bumper edition, there’s the arcade versions of 12 games from the Street Fighter series including the 1987 original Street Fighter; five iterations of Street Fighter II, 1991’s The World Warrior, and three iterations of Street Fighter III.
As well as the games, there’s a ‘Museum’, where fans can follow the evolution of the Street Fighter characters, view stunning pieces of concept art and uncover little known facts behind each game release.
You can also revisit historic moments from the series and explore an interactive timeline of events that helped create one of the world’s leading fighting games.