10 most anticipated games of 2019

In 2019, the game season starts already in the third week of January, and February and March seem to surpass even the fall of 2018 in the number of high-profile releases. So you have Too little terms left to finish the games bought at Christmas sales. We hope that our material on the Best Games of 2018 helped you while shopping. Well, let's see what awaits us in 2019, especially since the number of exciting projects that are due out in the new season is imposing. Shooters, role-playing games, strategies, action/adventure - we are sure everyone will find something for themselves. Please note that the games in this material are sorted by release date.

Ace Combat 7: Skies Unknown

Genre: Arcade Flight Simulator, action

Release Date: January 18, 2019

Platforms: Windows, PlayStation 4, Xbox One

The seventeenth in 24 years, part of the legendary series of arcade flight simulators from Bandai Namco Studios will be multi-platform. And thank God, the previous part, which was released on PC and Xbox, was Ace Combat: Assault Horizon (2011, 2013). Traditionally for the series, we are waiting for a pathos story and intense aerial battles on modern and futuristic fighters, which from time to time violate the usual laws of physics. In some ways, the Ace Combat series can be compared with Forza Horizon. Its authors are also fanatically in love with the technique that is shown in the game.

At the gates

Genre: Turn-Based Strategy

Release Date: January 23, 2019

Platforms: Windows, macOS, Linux, iOS

At the Gates - 4X strategy from John Shafer, the lead designer of Civilization the V. Your task is to bring prosperity to one of the barbarian states that arose on the ruins of the Roman Empire. The original features of the game are the change of season, which affects the number of available resources, the management of your own clan and the elements of roguelike RPG. In addition, the game has an interesting, unusual for global strategies, watercolour style graphics.

Resident Evil 2

Genre: survival horror

Release Date: January 25, 2019

Platforms: Windows, PlayStation 4, Xbox One

A remake of the classic Resident Evil 2 (1998), one of the best parts of the series, on the RE Engine used in Resident Evil 7: Biohazard (2017). Instead of a fixed camera and a "tank" control system, the camera behind the shoulder, as in Resident Evil 4 (2005), which is familiar to third-person shooters, will be used. In general, the remake can be defined as more realistic, but the main plot and characters will remain the same. So we are waiting for a new meeting with police officer Leon Scott Kennedy, student Claire Redfield, agent Ada Wong and schoolgirl Sherry Birkin.

Kingdom Hearts III

Genre: Action / RPG

Release Date: January 29, 2019

Platforms: PlayStation 4, Xbox One

Despite the modest number in the title, Kingdom Hearts III is already the twelfth game in the series of role-playing crossovers of the universes Square Enix and Disney Interactive, and the direct sequel to Kingdom Hearts II (2006). Well, finally a full-fledged game, not a hodgepodge in the style of Kingdom Hearts HD 2.8 Final Chapter Prologue. The main character of the game will again be Sora, and Rick, Donald Duck, Goofy, King Mickey and other characters will help him. In addition to acquaintances from previous parts of the game worlds, Kingdom Hearts III will also have new locations built on the basis of such Disney cartoons as Tangled, Big Hero 6, Toy Story, Monsters, Inc. and frozen.

Sunless skies

Genre: Role-playing game

Release date: January 31, 2019

Platforms: Windows, macOS, Linux

Sunless Skies is a sequel to the Victorian role-playing horror game Sunless Sea from Failbetter Games. This time, the action of the game takes place not in the twilight of the underground ocean, but in the airless space that the steampunk space locomotives plough. Everything the main features of the previous match - Lovecraftian horror and madness, a mixture of Gothic and Steampunk, elements of survival and RPG - migrated to the sequel. Since September 2017, the game has been in Steam Early Access, and a full release is scheduled for late January 2019.

Astroneer

Genre: survival, adventure

Release Date: February 6, 2019

Platforms: Windows, Xbox One

Astroneer is No Man's Sky of a healthy person. Survival sandbox with procedural generation of planets, cooperative for four people, crafting, the possibility of building bases and vehicles, terraformation, etc. Since December 2016, the game has been in Steam Early Access, where it managed to collect very positive reviews. The release of version 1.0 is scheduled for February 6, 2019.

God eater 3

Genre: Role-playing game

Release date: February 8, 2019

Platforms: Windows, PlayStation 4

Originally introduced on mobile platforms, the Bandai Namco action / RPG God Eater series now also conquers older consoles. God Eater 3 promises fan new characters, locations, even more, powerful opponents of Aragami and new weapons to defeat them.

Crackdown 3

Genre: action / adventure

Release Date: February 15, 2019

Platforms: Windows, Xbox One

Initially, the release of action/adventure Crackdown 3 from Sumo Digital / Microsoft Studios was planned for 2016. Unfortunately, with the implementation of the main feature of the game, large-scale destruction, calculated on Microsoft Azure cloud servers, it was not so simple. Finally, after five years of development, a remote destruction calculation has been implemented, and the game is ready for release. True, at the start, players are promised only a few maps and a limited selection of weapons.

Dead or Alive 6

Genre: action / adventure

Release Date: February 15, 2019

Platforms: Windows, PlayStation 4, Xbox One

The developers of the new series of the fighting game Dead or Alive promise to shift the focus from the sexualization of heroines to the actual gameplay, which will certainly upset some players, but will please others. In Dead or Alive 6, they promise even more visual visualization of the injuries of fighters and the effects of sweating. Still, they promised to reduce the physics of the chest slightly. In the starting version of the game, there will be 25 fighters, including several new ones.

Far cry new dawn

Genre: Shooter

Release Date: February 15, 2019

Platforms: Windows, PlayStation 4, Xbox One

Far Cry New Dawn - spin-off to the main series of Far Cry shooters, in the spirit of Far Cry Primal - the same map, a different environment. The game takes place in the familiar scenery of Hope County from Far Cry 5 17 years after the nuclear war (a conditionally good ending to the original game). The basic gameplay has remained almost unchanged, although the opponents, animals and the player's arsenal have been updated. Get ready to meet some characters familiar from Far Cry 5.