The best festive buys for the gamer in your life

reboot.

Picking up where the last game ended, Agent 47 and his handler set off to uncover more details about his past.

The game offers six missions set in six distinct sandbox locations, with the first taking place in Hawke’s Bay.

Sitting alongside the main game is Sniper Assassin, a multiplayer co-op, which sees players tasked with offing targets against the clock using a sniper rifle.

Ghost Mode gives you the chance to hunt targets in the same location, seeing a ‘ghost’ version of your rival player.

Time-limited Elusive Targets missions are back, with Game of Thrones star Sean Bean lending his face to the first.

While Hitman 2 feels more like a continuation of it predecessor, it still offers genuinely deep and interesting maps to lose yourself in. £38 FROM AMAZON.CO.UK HITMAN 2 COLLECTOR’S EDITION, IN A REPLICA GUN CASE CONTAINING AGENT 47 BULLET KEY RING, RUBBER DUCK, SIGNATURE COIN, PLUS HITMAN 2 GOLD EDITION £109 FROM AMAZON.CO.UK BLACK Ops 4 is a very different beast to the CoDs which have gone before.The biggest change is that there is no story campaign. Instead, there’s Solo Missions mode – which focuses on the backstories of the various different ‘specialists’, six of who are returning from Black Ops III, and four new faces to add to the roster.

In a bid to discourage lone wolves, this year’s multiplayer boosts teams that play together, and stay together, with rewards for all players that contribute as well as for individual performance.

The ‘Guns Still Up’ system means you’re always prepared to defend yourself, and the addition of ‘Fog of War’ really keeps you on your toes, essentially rendering all but the closest enemies invisible.

For me, personally, the best part of CoD is always Zombies mode, and Black Ops 4 boasts one of the most fun ever.

Blackout is the campaign mode which has been causing the most excitement – essentially a Battle Royale, which sees 88 players dropped into a sprawling map and fighting till the last specialist’s standing. A must for CoD fans in your life.