Apex Legends is an online multiplayer battle royale game in which teams of three players use pre-made characters with unique skills known as "Legends", which are similar to those seen in hero shooters. Since the game's debut, alternate modes have been added that allow for single and two-player squads. The game is free to play and is commercialized through microtransactions and loot boxes, which let the user spend both real money and in-game cash on cosmetic items such as Legends costumes and new weapon colors.

Each contest typically involves twenty-three-player groups. Players can form squads with friends or be paired at random with other players. Each player on the team chooses one of the 21 available characters (as of season 13), with the restriction that no character may be chosen by a squad more than once. Each character in the squad has a distinct design, personality, and powers that give the team a variety of play styles. After that, all teams board an airplane that flies across the game map. Each squad has a jumpmaster who decides when and where the squad will skydive out of the plane, with the approval of the other squad members.

Once on the ground, the team can scavenge for guns, armor, and other equipment dispersed around buildings or in containers spread randomly around the area, while keeping a watch out for enemy squads. Apex Legends has a nonverbal communication "ping system" that lets players utilize their gaming controller to transmit specific directives, weapon placements, adversaries, and proposed methods to their team. While the game provides mobility choices comparable to other shooters, it also contains gameplay elements from earlier Titanfall games, such as the ability to climb over small walls, slide down inclined surfaces, and use zip lines to fast traverse an area.

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Assassin's Creed Odyssey is an action role-playing video game released in 2018 by Ubisoft Quebec. It is the eleventh main chapter in the Assassin's Creed series and the sequel to Assassin's Creed Origins, which was released in 2017. The game, like its predecessor Assassin's Creed Origins, has a big open world and incorporates numerous aspects of the role-playing genre, with a focus on battle and exploration rather than stealth. Odyssey features naval action similar to earlier entries in the series. The setting of the game, while fictitious, is based on real-world events. It depicts the mythical account of the Peloponnesian War, which lasted from 431 to 422 BC.

Players take control of a Spartan mercenary who battles on both sides of the conflict in their quest to locate their family and destroy the enigmatic Cult of Kosmos. Odyssey also continues the story arc of Layla Hassan, a prominent character introduced in Origins who uses the Animus device to relive the mercenary's memories in order to discover a powerful item on behalf of the Assassin Brotherhood.

Odyssey was published on October 5, 2018, for Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 4, and Xbox One. It garnered mostly excellent reviews from critics, with acclaim for its gameplay, visuals, characters, role-playing features, and environment design, but it was chastised for its too ambitious pacing and inclusion of microtransactions. Odyssey was a commercial success, selling more than 10 million copies globally by March 2020.

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Battlefield 1 is a first-person shooter game that stresses collaboration, similar to its predecessors. It is set during World War I and is based on actual events. To engage opponents, players can employ World War I weaponry such as bolt-action rifles, submachine guns, automatic and semi-automatic rifles, artillery, flamethrowers, and poison gas. DICE overhauled melee combat, incorporating new melee weapons like sabers, trench clubs, and shovels into the game. These melee weapons were classified as heavy, medium, or light.

Players can also pilot light and heavy tanks, armored trucks, automobiles, torpedo boats, bi-, and tri-plane planes, an armored railway, reconnaissance vehicles, a dreadnought, and an M-class zeppelin, as well as horses into battle. Destructible surroundings and weapon customization, which were featured in prior games, have returned and have become more dynamic in Battlefield 1. In the campaign, players can take control of many characters. If the player dies during the prologue, instead of reloading from a checkpoint, they will assume control of another soldier and duty. Tank gunner to rifleman are examples of these positions. Unlike its predecessors, the game contains a collection of war stories, much like an anthology.

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Bloodborne is a 2015 action role-playing game for the PlayStation 4 developed by FromSoftware and published by Sony Computer Entertainment. Bloodborne takes the player's character, a Hunter, through the run-down Gothic, Victorian-era–inspired metropolis of Yharnam, whose residents are infected with a blood-borne sickness. The player's avatar investigates the city's mysteries while fighting animals and cosmic creatures in an attempt to locate the cause of the epidemic.

The game is played in the third person. The gameplay revolves around strategic weapons-based combat and exploration, with players controlling a customizable protagonist. Players fight various foes with swords and weapons while exploring different locales, interacting with non-player characters, and unraveling the city's mysteries. Bloodborne's development began in 2012 under the codename Project Beast. Bloodborne was inspired by the literary works of authors H. P. Lovecraft and Bram Stoker, as well as the architectural design of real-world locations in countries such as Romania, the Czech Republic, and Scotland, and bears many similarities to the Souls series of games by the same developer and director.

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Call of Duty: Modern Warfare is a first-person shooter game released in 2019 by Activision and developed by Infinity Ward. It was published on October 25, 2019, for Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 4, and Xbox One as the sixteenth overall chapter in the Call of Duty franchise, as well as a reboot of the Modern Warfare sub-series. The game is situated in a realistic and modern environment. The campaign follows a CIA officer and British SAS soldiers as they join forces with rebels from the fictional country of Urzikstan to fight Russian invaders and the terrorist organisation Al-Qatala.

The single-player campaign in Modern Warfare focuses on realism and includes tactically-based moral choices, after which the player is evaluated and assigned a score at the end of each level; players must quickly determine whether NPCs are a threat or not, such as a civilian woman who appears to be reaching for a gun but instead simply grabs her baby from a crib. This collateral damage score, sometimes known as a threat assessment, is based on the number of people injured or killed by the player and goes from A to F. Those who achieve higher scores are rewarded. Character conversation will vary depending on the decisions made by the player in the game.

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Maddy Thorson developed, directed, and wrote Celeste, a 2018 platform game, and Thorson and Noel Berry coded it. It is a full-fledged remake of the 2016 PICO-8 game of the same name, which Thorson and Berry created in four days during a game jam. Set on a mythical Mount Celeste, it follows Madeline, a young lady who strives to climb the mountain and must confront her inner demons in order to reach the peak.

Celeste is a platform game in which players control Madeline, a young lady climbing Mount Celeste while avoiding different hazardous traps. Madeline may do an eight-direction mid-air sprint in addition to jumping and climbing up walls for a brief duration. This maneuver can only be done once at first and must be recharged by landing on the ground, striking specific items such as floating crystals, or switching to a new screen; later in the game, the player is allowed the ability to conduct two mid-air dashes.

The player can acquire extra speed or access regions before they are expected to by combining dashes with mobility in various ways. Some of these complex mobility mechanics are revealed to the player as they proceed through the game's later stages. The wavedash, superdash, hyperdash, ultradash, and an unexpected feature, the demodash, are all examples. Throughout the game, the player will come across new mechanisms such as springs that propel the player or feathers that allow for temporary flying, as well as hazardous things such as spikes that kill Madeline (returning her to the start of the screen).

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Control is an action-adventure game released by 505 Games and developed by Remedy Entertainment. The game was launched in August 2019 for Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 4, and Xbox One, and in February 2021 for PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X/S. In October 2020, a cloud-based version for the Nintendo Switch was published, followed by a Stadia version in July 2021. When the service was made accessible to the general public in March 2022, it was available on Luna. The game also received two paid expansions.

Control is a third-person shooter designed with Remedy's proprietary Northlight Engine, which was initially utilized on the company's prior product Quantum Break. The fictitious Federal Bureau of Control (FBC) analyzes Altered World Events (AWEs) and gathers and examines Objects of Power from these AWEs within the Oldest House, a featureless Brutalist skyscraper in New York City. The inside of the Oldest House, an Object of Power in and of itself, is significantly greater than the outside, a huge, continually shifting supernatural world that defies the rules of spacetime.

At the start of the game, an entity known as the Hiss is attempting to transcend a dimensional barrier into our reality and has taken over many areas of the Oldest House, rearranging its design to suit its demands, as well as many FBC personnel to fight for it. The player takes control of Jesse Faden, who has gone to the Oldest House in search of information concerning her brother following a previous AWE but becomes entangled in the battle against the Hiss.

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Kojima Productions created the action game, Dead Standing. It is the first game by director Hideo Kojima and Kojima Productions after their 2015 departure from Konami. It was released in November 2019 by Sony Interactive Entertainment for the PlayStation 4 and in July 2020 by 505 Games for Windows. In September 2021, a director's cut version was published for the PlayStation 5, followed by a release for Windows in March 2022.

Death Stranding is an open-world action game with asynchronous internet functionality. Death Stranding is referred to by Kojima as the first "strand game", an innovative genre defined by the game's use of social features. Kojima contrasted this genre to how his previous game Metal Gear, which is today considered a stealth game, was labeled as an action game during its first release since the stealth genre had not yet been formed.

The player takes control of Sam Bridges, a porter for the BRIDGES corporation. The player is entrusted with bringing supplies to several isolated cities known as KNOTs, as well as isolated researchers and survivalists, while also connecting them to the Chiral Network communications system. The firm and receivers rate the player based on their performance, which includes whether the cargo was delivered and if it is undamaged, among other things.

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As with Divinity: Original Sin, players can play alone or in groups of up to three. The player can choose from a variety of pre-made characters with backstories. At the start of the game, players may also create a new character and choose their attributes, race, gender, and origin story. Unlike the original game, players may also build an undead character from one of the various races. They can enlist up to three friends to help them, however, there are modifications available on the Steam Workshop that boost the maximum number of party partners. All companions are fully playable and may interact with the environment and NPCs differently than the player character.

Players can divide and manage their party members independently, allowing for potentially complicated battle strategies and role-playing options. The game includes competitive and cooperative online and local multiplayer modes. A skill crafting system enables players to mix and match skills. The game also has a competitive multiplayer mode in which players are separated into two teams and compete on an arena map.

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Doom Eternal is a first-person shooter game published by Bethesda Softworks and developed by id Software. It was launched on March 20, 2020, for Windows, PlayStation 4, Stadia, and Xbox One, with a Nintendo Switch version following on December 8, 2020, and versions for PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X and Series S following on June 29, 2021. The plot picks up some time after the events of the 2016 game, with the Doomslayer on a mission to stop Hell's absorption of Earth and prevent the extraterrestrial Maykr's ambitions to annihilate mankind.

A multiplayer option, Battlemode, was launched alongside the single-player narrative. In this mode, players can battle as either the Doom Slayer or a demon until either the Doom Slayer or the demons are defeated. Doom Eternal had strong critical reception, with acclaim for its storyline, visuals, level design, soundtrack, and combat mechanics, however, some criticized the increased emphasis on storytelling and platforming parts. Doom Eternal was nominated for five Game Awards in 2020, including Game of the Year and Best Action Game.

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