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FRENZY

Jess Kinghorn is all

about the action... AND

NOTHING ELSE, OKAY?

This boasts all three of my

requirements: cute

outfits, feisty dames, and

plenty of punchups.

Unfortunately, some of the outfits are

questionable, and the dames are feisty

as they’re there against their will, but

at least the fisticuffs are intense.

Mechanically levelling the playing field,

fights can only be ended with a super

move. You’d think that’d mean hope for

someone whose lack of co-ordination

is so well-documented but online play

brings me right back to reality.

WARFRAME

Oscar Taylor-Kent

gets in the robot

The Fortuna update gave

me ample reason to jump

back into Warframe.

Before I even get to

Venus, I’m distracted by

how good it feels to play

• especially considering
  it’s free. There’s a lovely
  fluidity to the movement as I dash
  through the environments, sliding on
  the floor, and freezing time as I aim my
  weapon. It’s like a slippy, slidey Destiny.
  My sights are set on the challenges
  that lay in wait across the solar
  system, and I’m itching to get them.
  Venus, your time will come.

PES 2019

Ian Dean finds value

in rage quitters

There’s 84 minutes on the

clock and I just drive in my

third goal of the match. A

cheeky low pass puts two

of my rival’s defenders

out of the game and my

striker side-foots the ball

into an open net. My

opponent, who has stuck with it for

so long, quits. In the past I would have

complained but these days I take great

pleasure in rage quitters. There’s no

other testament to how a PES 2019

performance has gone than seeing

an opponent quit the pitch in a huff.

It probably makes me a bad person,

to judge my success by another’s

emotional outburst, but in PES this

is the only way to judge a victory.

100

review

INFO

FORMAT PS4

PUB PUBG CORPORATION

DEV BLUEHOLE

REVIEW N/A

Y

ou know the drill, right? 100

players dropped onto a huge

map, all weapons and items

must be scavenged, only one

player or squad (depending on

your game mode) can be left standing.

Fortnite may be the game making a

billion pounds a day (or something), but

this is the one that first succeeded and

inspired all the copycats.

It must be said that rather than a

dashing young trendsetter, PUBG

nowadays comes across as a retired

soldier who, while still fit, has been left

rapidly aged and haggard by their

experiences. The PC Early Access roots

are painfully obvious. The graphics are

rather basic, textures can take several

seconds to load at the start of a match,

and framerate hitches are common (the

worst of which, to be

fair, are pre-match).

The control scheme,

too, is indicative of a

developer unfamiliar with

the expectations of PS4

players. You must hold

rather than tap r to

reload, for example, while

u switches between

third- and first-person

perspectives rather than

throwing grenades

(which must be equipped

in place of another

weapon). Most jarring of

all, in either perspective,

holding p focuses the

aiming reticule while

tapping it brings up the

first-person ADS view.

It takes a bit of getting

used to.

Still, once you’ve

adjusted to it all, it’s very

easy to see why so many

PlayerUnknown’s

Battlegrounds

Winner winner chicken dinner, or simply fowl?

IT BECOMES A

TENSE GAME OF CAT-AND-

MOUSE WITH DOZENS OF

OTHER PLAYERS.