From awesome platformers, to first person shooters and dizzying racers, the PS4 has the most amazing line up of games coming in May 2015.
Let’s get started on what’s coming up for the PS4 in May 2015:
Wolfenstein: The Old Blood
- Published by: Bethesda Softworks
- Release Date: May 5th 2015
- Genre: First Person Shooter
Wolfenstein: The Old Blood is the standalone prequel to the critically-acclaimed first-person action-adventure shooter, Wolfenstein: The New Order. The game takes you back to the year is 1946 and places you in a situation where the Nazis are on the brink of winning World War II. You play as B.J. Blazkowicz must embark on an epic, two-part mission deep within Bavaria to help turn the tide in the Allies favor. You take on a two part role where in Part one of Wolfenstein: The Old Blood – Rudi Jäger and the Den of Wolves – You’re pitted against a maniacal prison warden as he breaks into Castle Wolfenstein in an attempt to steal the coordinates to General Deathshead’s compound. In part two – The Dark Secrets of Helga Von Schabbs – you go to the city of Wulfburg, while searching for co-ordinates, where an obsessed Nazi archaeologist is exhuming mysterious artifacts that threaten to unleash a dark and ancient power.
Project CARS
- Published by: Slightly Mad Studios
- Release Date: May 12th 2015
- Genre: Racing
C.A.R.S. aims to be the definitive racing simulation franchise, and allow players to carve out a personalized career starting in the Karting world and then progressing on to whichever motorsport specialization they prefer including Rally, Touring Cars, Open-Wheel, GT, Le Mans, and many more! Players can get in at every role in professional racing — play Co-Op with a friend as Driver/Co-Driver, and create and manage a full team to compete against friends and challengers. User-generated content lets you take advantage of the advanced graphics and physics model to design your car exactly as you want. This should certainly be interesting, and from the looks of it, they’ve might have just nailed it!
Final Fantasy X / X-2 HD Remaster
- Published by: Square Enix
- Release Date: May 12th 2015
- Genre: Turn-Based RPG
Need we say more about this? Square Enix brings back two of the most popular RPGs of all time with this bundle of Final Fantasy X and Final Fantasy X-2, both remastered in glorious HD! Final Fantasy X-2 is the first true sequel in the popular RPG series, and picks the story up two years later.
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt
- Published by: CD Projekt
- Release Date: May 19th 2015
- Genre: RPG
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt is easily one of the most anticipated games of it year itself. The third installment of the franchise brings a unique combination of a non-linear story and an open world. The game is really driven by player choices that one makes, and is supported by an amazing tactical combat system which has been redesigned in order to combine traditional RPG elements with the speed and precision of a dedicated fighting game. There’s also a new in-game economy system varies the price of goods based on surrounding conditions or their place of origin, encouraging players to seek out through hunting and collecting items that are in demand. This might either end up being a lot of fun or a real pain in the ass.
Magicka 2
- Published by: Paradox Interactive
- Release Date: May 26th 2015
- Genre: Adventure
Very easily the most fresh take on co-op action adventure returns with Magicka 2, where you and others in co-op style ascend from the ruins of Aldrheim to experience a Midgård almost wiped free of Wizards after the Wizard Wars, with the few that do remain having either gone mad or extremely hostile toward all others. To rid the world of evil, again, up to four Wizards, and their guide Vlad, will traverse Midgård armed with the next iteration of the famous Magicka dynamic spell-casting system, as players reprise their roles as the most overpowered, unpredictably funny Wizards ever known to fantasy!
Well, that’s some of the most hotly anticipated PlayStation 4 games coming up in May 2015. Here are a few other noteworthy ones that should have you interested too.
- Ultra Street Fighter 4 – May 26th
- Destiny: House of Wolves (DLC)Â – May 19th
- Dragon Age: Inquisition — Jaws of Hakkon (Expansion) – May 26
Sound off in the comments below on what you’re looking forward to play on the PS4 this May!