ABOVE The game
was created in
collaboration
with the
creative and
stunt teams
behind the John
Wick films.
INSIDER JOHN WICK HEX
No rest for
the Wicked
John Wick Hex recreates the action of
the films with a strategy twist
twist that you only have one man
under your command.
The story includes the voice talents
of series stars Ian McShane and Lance
Reddick, and there are more cast
members yet to be revealed. It tells
an original tale created for the game- though we’d hazard a guess the
synopsis is ‘John Wick gets annoyed
and kills everyone, again’.
A release date is yet to be
announced, and currently it’s only
confirmed for ‘consoles’, though we
think that’s more than likely to include
Xbox One. While you wait, why not take
your dog for a walk? Q
The John Wick series is a full-blown
cultural phenomenon these days.
Keanu Reeves’ turn as a stony-faced,
dog-loving, unkillable assassin has
enchanted action-hungry cinemagoers
the world over – and now he’s headed
to your console, too.
Published by Good Shepherd
Entertainment, in partnership with
Lionsgate, John Wick Hex comes to
us from acclaimed developer Mike
Bithell, known for his indie hit Thomas
Was Alone. Far from the shooter you
might expect, it focuses in on the
hero’s tactical mastery, reimagining
his brawls as moments of intricate
turn-based strategy.One man army
You’ll essentially choreograph Wick’s
moves one by one, weighing up every
punch, parry, shot, reload and more
as you string together the perfect
action sequence to get him through
alive. There are echoes of the superb
Superhot in its remixing of the classic
Hollywood gunfight, but with some of
the flavour of XCOM’s squad-based
tactics, too – though with the obviousHEX
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RESIDENT COOPERFade To
Silence
And people call
dogs ‘man’s
best friend’.
Man’s best
friend, particularly in the cold snowy
wastes, is an oil drum with a fire in
it. Less barky and bitey too.God’s Trigger
Barrel lover’s
heaven, this.
Wooden barrels
are a staple of
any top-down
shooter and rightly so, being highly
destructible and splintering
magnificently when shot.Borderlands 3
Crates are tarts,
giving up their
loot all too
readily. Barrels
are not so quick
to give up the goods. You won’t get
anything from these except a nasty
burn when you blow one up.Code Vein
Another burning
oil drum, being
used to dispose
of Hell’s tax
records before
the auditors get there, on account
of suspicious irregularities in the
demonic stationery budget.Monster
Hunter World
I might be just a
cooper, and no
gardening
expert, but I
reckon I’d have moved those lovely
barrels out of the way before I
started mowing the lawn.012 THE OFFICIAL XBOX MAGAZINE