Which game are you most excited to play on PS4 Pro?
EXTRA FIDELITY WILL EQUAL HEIGHTENED FEAR IN RESIDENT EVIL VII: BIOHAZARD.
As tempting as it is to pick The Witness (its PS4 Pro upgrade will make that island a digital holiday destination of the highest order, I’m sure), I’m looking to the future for this one – and the manky faces of Resident Evil VII’s Baker family are staring right back at me with frightening clarity. No, genuinely, it is frightening. The interplay between light and shadow will use HDR to great effect, and the more gruesome and grimy its locations – the craggier those mugs – the more terrifying Resident Evil VII becomes. And when I dare strap on PS VR? PS4 Pro will be there to pump pure, upgraded fear straight into my eyeballs. Love it.
SPIDER-MAN,SPIDERMAN, ALL YOU NEED IS SPIDER-MAN.
An Insomniac superhero game in a city so detailed you can see pedestrians’ faces while swinging high above them? Gimme. Even amid series wobbles, Ratchet & Clank has consistently raised the bar from a cosmetic perspective. Now the Burbank studio gets to do similar with one of the most iconic characters in comics. Footage of Spidey breaking bones and criss-crossing the skies wowed when revealed for ‘normal’ PS4 at E3; in Pro form, it should be a sensational experience – one which does for Peter Parker what Rocksteady did for Bruce Wayne in 2009. Is he strong? Listen, bud, he may be a kid, but he’s got 4K radioactive blood.
I CAN’T IMAGINE HOW HORIZON ZERO DAWN COULD LOOK ANY MORE BEAUTIFUL – BUT I’M READY TO SEE THE LIGHT.
Perhaps it was the lack of food, or the knowledge that David Cage was in the same building (eep!), but I choose to believe it was the sun-dappled majesty of Horizon Zero Dawn that made me come over all dizzy at this year’s E3. Guerrilla’s new robot-wrasslin’ RPG is the most breathtakingly vivid thing I’ve ever seen on PS4 – all glistening metal, wavy locks and rippling grass. Problem is, editor Matthew assures me PS4 Pro’s tech takes it to sublime degrees of graphical magic. If he’s right, it’ll be shades on for two reasons: that HDR sun, and to hide my overwhelmed tears…
UNCHARTED 4’S SINGLE-PLAYER DESERVES ANOTHER RUN AT THE VERY HIGHEST QUALITY.
As we get closer to the end of 2016, Uncharted 4 still remains the year’s best adventure – and one that has rarely left my PS4’s disc slot since release. Yes, the mere thought of revisiting its sweltering savannah, eerie jungles and wintry cliffs is already enough justification for me to dive back in – but add in the lushest colours and sharpest definition that only PS4 Pro can provide and I’m prepared to promise I’ll not even consider removing it from my machine for a full three months. Face it, Sully’s wrinkly face in 4K alone is going to be worth the price of a brand-new television set.