PlayStation Magazine UK - 12.2019

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ingle-player might

be taking point for

Call Of Duty this

year (and boy

were we thankful

to welcome Price’s ’tache

back after Blops 4), but its

multiplayer options live up

to the original Modern

Warfare name too.

The highlight for us is

Spec Ops Survival Mode,

which is exclusive to PS4 all

the way through to October

2020 – a whole year. It has

players collaborating to

survive wave after wave of

oncoming enemies, putting

the best fireteams to the

test as you try to make it as

far you can. Gather up your

friends and see how long

you can hold out for.

Spec Ops Survival Mode is

just one option, however.

There are plenty of other

multiplayer modes to enjoy,

from newcomers like 2v2

Gunfight and 32v32 Ground

War to returning classics

such as deathmatch.

Whatever online

multiplayer is your favourite,

Modern Warfare will be

keeping Call Of Duty fans

busy for a long time to

come. We’ll have a full

review next month.

live games THE MONTH IN...

FORTNITE

Have the constant

multimedia collaborations in

Fortnite become too much?

Well, that’s a question for

another month. This time

Batman himself starred,

leaving little room for

cynicism. It wasfun.

To celebrate

Batman Day,

last month DC

teamed up with Epic Games

to add some great Dark

Knight content to Fortnite.

Sometimes it just feels great

to kick back and celebrate

an icon like the Caped

Crusader with a bunch of

friends at your side, and

doing it the battle royale

way. Tilted Towers was given

a coat of paint and turned

into Gotham City, and various

skins revolving around the

Bat-Family were on offer.

With real money you could

buy skins based on the

comics and the Dark Knight

movie, plus a Catwoman skin

and bat-glider.

Most exciting

were the

gameplay

changes. The explosive

batarang and grapnel gun

really made the Fortnite

island feel a bit more like

Gotham, and collecting

hidden Bat-Signals was

a fun challenge (though I

should apologise to the rest

of my team for being too

distracted finding them to,

you know, be any good at the

game). The answer to ‘how

do you make a good game

better?’ is always ‘Batman’.

@MrOscarTK

DESTINY 2

SHADOWKEEP

This massive new update to Destiny

2 came in two parts. First, the

base game was renamed Destiny

2 New Light, and reshaped around

being free-to-play. Second, the

Shadowkeep expansion dropped,

introducing some of the biggest

additions to the game yet. It’s a

must-have for hardcore Destiny-

heads – we’ll have all the details in

our big review next issue.

FINAL FANTASY XIV –

THE COPIED FACTORY

Patch 5.1: Vows Of Virtue, Deeds Of

Cruelty came to the Final Fantasy

MMO, bringing plenty of updates.

Stealing the show, of course, was

Yoko Taro, who has been designing

the Nier: Automata crossover raid

series, YoRHa: Dark Apocalypse.

5.1 introduced the first part of the

series, The Copied Factory, which

saw 24 players at a time teaming

up to take on the raid.

OVERWATCH –

BASTION’S CHALLENGE

Everyone’s favourite robo-

guardian Bastion headlined an

Overwatch event which saw plenty

of brick-themed rewards added to

the game to get people playing. (We

all love bricks, right?) Your reward

for winning nine games was the

brick skin for Bastion himself, and

it’s fast become one of our all-time

favourites. Just don’t step on him

and you’ll be okay!

COD: Modern Warfare’s mode is PS4-exclusive

SURVIVAL MODE HAS PLAYERS

COLLABORATING TO SURVIVE

WAVES OF ENEMIES.

Spec Ops

Survival Mode lives on

EXPANSION RAID EVENT

NEW

IN THE BLACK

Modern Warfare’s Operator

Edition comes with a Classic

Captain Price skin for use in Black

Ops 4’s Blackout mode. Even

though MW is the new game, don’t

expect Blackout to be replaced.