5 Upcoming Games to Watch in September 2016

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ReCore

It’s a funny month, is this year’s September. Sportsmen and women have PES 2017 and FIFA 17 to look forward to this month, as well as Forza Horizon 3 for all of you petrolheads out there. For everyone else, most big titles centre around either remasters or collections.

Nevertheless, although looking at remasters feels a bit like breaking the rules in terms of new upcoming releases, here are five of September’s finest that us button-lords would do well to keep our eyes on.

The Elder Scrolls Online: Gold Edition

Release Date: 9th September

Platforms: PC, Playstation 4, Xbox One

The Elder Scrolls Online is pretty damn big, so it sits comfortably as one of this month’s biggest releases when all rolled into one even bigger package. Bigness.

Containing all four DLCs, the Gold Edition might be a good choice for new players who want that fresh ‘season pass’ feeling without having to wait for any of the content to come out, as a host of updates including Shadows of the Hist make this an opportune moment to step in and play. Any apprehensive player may wish to hold fire and dip an appendage into The Elder Scrolls Online itself first, just to make sure you dig it first. But you all know that already, of course.

 

Recore

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Release Date: 16th September

Platforms: Xbox One, PC

Colours! Robots! Dystopian desert adventures! The otherworldly entities behind the Metroid Prime series are releasing new Action/Adventure title Recore this coming month, and from the snippets shown at last year’s E3 and this year’s Gamescom, there’s a good chance it has the cartoony shimmer of good fun about it.

With the E3 Trailer detailing the human protagonist, Joule; one of the few humans remaining in the deserts of Far Eden, her robot dog Mack, and mechanised companions Seth and Duncan and their quest to save mankind’s future, Recore looks to be full of character. Only release day will tell.

 

BioShock: The Collection

Release Date: 19th September
Platforms: PC, Playstation 4, Xbox One

Okay, so it’s technically not a new title. Let me explain my transgression: BioShock: The Collection has been rather highly anticipated since it’s leak a few months ago, boasting all of the content previously available as downloadable, and offering free upgrades to PC gamers who already own BioShock, BioShock 2, or the Minerva’s Den DLC.

Feedback from Gamescom has been pretty good regarding the remaster’s quality in graphics and gameplay, with some characters and environments being completely remodelled to accommodate current-gen standards. A good investment for Bioshock fans who’d like to see Rapture and Columbia again in all their modern glory, and series newcomers alike.

 

Dead Rising Remastered

Release Date: 13th September
Platforms: PC, Playstation 4, Xbox One

Who doesn’t remember dressing in children’s clothing and paying respects to the dead by shoving traffic cones on their shambling heads? Before then beating them to a mush with said traffic cones?

This month, you can do it again at current gen quality. To celebrate ten years of Dead Rising, the first game will become available on PC for the very first time, as well as porting over onto modern consoles. Dead Rising, Dead Rising 2 and Dead Rising 2: Off the Record will rise again, complete will all DLC costumes available in the original games.

 

XCOM 2 (For Consoles)

Release Date: 27th September

Platforms: PlayStation 4, Xbox One

The relentless and punishing PC strategy title pitting an under-equipped human resistance against a technologically superior alien occupation force comes to console this September. Simply assuming that players utterly cocked up XCOM: Enemy Unknown/Within and were outright defeated, XCOM 2 commences 20 years after it’s predecessor, as the player assumes command of the new XCOM, a bunch of guerrilla fighters even less well equipped than before.

It’s a defining game in the strategy genre. It’s challenging, it’s good looking and it’s extremely addictive. Just don’t go getting too attached to those soldiers of yours.

 

Destiny: Rise of Iron

Release Date: 20th September

Platforms: Playstation 4, Xbox One

After the success of The Taken King DLC (mostly because it fixed a whole host of Destiny’s original problems), comes the very last DLC before Bungie and Activision crack on with Destiny 2. The expansion, which looks like the illegitimate offspring of a Sci-Fi shooter a Medieval MMO rolls in with tasty new stuff such as a brand new raid, strike, maximum light increase, new gear, new quests and story, as well as a new Private Match mode for players who particularly enjoy killing if there’s a human on the other end. What’s not to like?

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