PC Gamer's Phil Savage and Mollie Taylor have been at Gamescom in Cologne this week, and so far they've published previews of The Callisto Protocol, Homeworld 3, and Jagged Alliance 3. They&
PC Gamer’s Phil Savage and Mollie Taylor have been at Gamescom in Cologne this week, and so far they’ve published previews of The Callisto Protocol, Homeworld 3, and Jagged Alliance 3. They’ve seen many more games than that—I saw some fearsome-looking schedules before they left—so we’ll have to wait for them to regain consciousness to find out what they’re most excited about.
The rest of us have been watching from home: Gamescom continues through this weekend, but its biggest reveals and announcements happened closer to the start of the week, particularly during Tuesday’s livestream, which was once again hosted by the host with the most videogame shows that he hosts, Geoff Keighley.
You can watch all of Opening Night Live here (opens in new tab) if you missed it. It’s about two hours long, and FYI, the big reveal at the end is just the release date for Dead Island 2. It’s not really a moment you need to witness in context, but there were some exciting games at the show. There were other shows, too, including another edition of our publisher’s Future Games Show. After watching all of the week’s activity, here are the six games we’re most curious about. (And here’s the rest of our Gamescom 2022 coverage (opens in new tab).)
A new RTS from the C&C Remastered studio
Wes Fenlon, Real Time Strategist: RTS renaissance. RTS renaissance!! A couple years ago EA partnered up with Petroglyph Games, a small studio founded by many of the former Westwood developers who made Command & Conquer, to work on a very good remastered collection of the original C&C and Red Alert. Off the back of that success Petroglyph announced a World War I RTS called The Great War: Western Front. I have to say it’s a bit brown for my taste, but I like the sound of Petroglyph dipping its toe into larger-scale strategy in a way it never did with C&C. This quote from the Steam page sounds a lot like Total War:
“As Theatre Commander, experience enthralling turn-based grand-strategy as you direct the deployment of forces, perform research and carefully consider how you disseminate your resources across the Western Front in a war won by inches.
