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Eighth episode of the famous horrifying saga created twenty-five years ago, Resident Evil Village propels us into a sinister village of Eastern Europe. Ethan Winters, hero of this adventure, will go looking for his pink daughter, kidnapped by the mysterious Miranda mother and her furious acolytes.

From the outset re8 sets the tone with monsters that arise on all sides and an Ethan who shoots all that moves. We sometimes feel like playing a FPS both Gun Fights are numerous. The pump rifle is here our best friend. This new opus delivers a journey to the dark atmosphere, sometimes suffocating. A sublimated atmosphere thanks to the beautiful decorations with, on PS5 and Xbox Series X very realistic light effects. Beautiful, intense, sometimes harmful, this episode, while being very action, is quickly taking. A shooter in horror film mode more than a survival horror.

Resident Evil Village, Capcom, on Xbox Series X / S, Xbox One, PS4, PS5, PC and Stadia.

Everyone did not have the chance to play Left 4 Dead in 2008 or after a year later... Even if it succeeds a World War Z on the same theme, Back 4 Blood (the same creators as L4D) returns with its origins by offering a multiplayer experience under the sign of cooperation. The scenario is simple: four heroes / heroines must survive hordes of zombies, point. No open world here, but extended levels that will take, weapons, attempt to cross. The missions may vary: rescue of survivors, transport of parcels (one of the players then has the hands taken and can not use a weapon), crossing a densely populated area of ​​macchabed... there is something to do and the Coordinations between the different team members become essential. If you do not like to exchange with your neighbor, go your way.

To try to survive it is necessary to palate, chat, debate... On pain of seeing the game over quickly. Unless you play in easy mode, the crossing of each level is intense. Care must be found, ammunition and other objects essential for its progression. Added to this a card / perks system allowing the characters to get assets that will take before each mission choose carefully. One way to bring a touch of originality to a concept that in fine remains ultra classic... for those who knew LEFT 4 Dead at least. For others, the vast majority of players will only have to find a handful of friends to face this end of the fun and gore world.

Back 4 Blood, Warner Bros. Games, on Xbox Series X / S, Xbox One, PS5, PS4 and PC.

Direction La Mesopotamie, 2000 years before our era! For this third opus of his Dark Pictures Anthology, the Supermassive British studio changes decor and registry for his new horrifying tale. After a long introduction, the story propels us in 2003 in full war in Iraq. House of Ashes is inspired by real historical facts. There, a squad of marines goes looking for supposed chemical weapons in the land of Saddam Hussein. But it s something else that awaits them once underground... No need to say more about the plot that is inspired by the Sumerian myths around the Demon Pazuzu and Hell called Ashes House.

Side changeover, this episode makes the job. What to mark the difference with the first two opus even though the mechanics of play remain little or prro the same. Cinematographic staging and QTE (you have to press a button at the right time) constitute the very essence of this title which, once again, offers multiple scriptwriting branches. Many dialogues punctuate these underground wanderings. We must choose the answer that we want to give, often in limited times, to guide history but also the relationships between the characters. Where House of Ashes stands out is that it puts much more forward the possibility of doing nothing. Do not act or say nothing constitutes an action in itself and can also have consequences... sometimes happy! It s not because the game prompts you to squeeze a button that must be done. Beyond Jump Scares (you have to play the helmet), House of Ashes manages to establish a real tension at the same time as an atmosphere. Then certainly, the modeling of the characters is uneven, the sometimes curious staging and the action sequences a little soft, but despite this, the formula always works. One hangs, to have the end of the story as much as to find out which characters will survive this journey in the heart of the eastern myhologies.

The Dark Pictures Anthology: House of Ashes, Bandai Namco, on PS5, PS4, Xbox Series X / S, Xbox One and PC.

When fevering video game specialists offer a new adventure, the result necessarily gives cold in the back. The medium is an exclusive title to the new Xbox Series X / S, PS5 and PC consoles.

The adventure begins at the end of the 1990s, in Krakow (Poland), in a small funereal pump business. This is where Marianne says goodbye to his adoptive father. This is also where the player understands that the young woman has some powers. It can indeed communicate and move in the world of spirits. A capacity that, on the screen translates into certain passages where the action is visible simultaneously on both planes.

Once again, Bloober Team traces large features the dark designs and springs of the human soul for an adventure sometimes glaze but nevertheless attractive that already has many players around the world. It closes in the top of the best video games of the year.

The Medium, Bloober Team, on Xbox Series X / S, PS5 and PC.

In the tendency of so-called demanding video games, Returnal propels the player in a mysterious SF universe where death is watching every moment. It s feeling and gripping at a time.

Everything starts with a crash. That of Selene and his Spaceship Helios, somewhere on the strange exoplanet atropos. The starting point of an adventure that takes the shaped game of sci-fi thriller action game. The site of this crash will soon have no secret for the player who will return again and again, tirelessly, to better explore the mysterious planet.

Because, as this exclusive PlayStation 5 leaves it (too) sub-hear we come back very often, after each death, at this starting point. Returnal follows the trend of these titles where one dies repeatedly. Adventure to multiple inspirations, Returnal manages to demonstrate its own singularity. Difficult, hard but just, the title of housemarks offers a fast challenge for little that we manage to cling and start again and start again the same passage, the same fight... until you reach a species of sickly perfection.

Returnal, Sony, on PS5.