Taking each one down involves a fair bit of coordination with your partner as you tie them up and slice them to pieces, so there’s depth to its aerial battles beyond just button mashing. Flying around, dashing from building to building is both entertaining and really helps to sell you on the scale of the game’s Titan enemies. Even if you’re not hugely up to speed with the franchise, though, the co-op experience here is so top notch that you’re still bound to have a good time.Īttack on Titan 2 is a game about scaling huge behemoth enemies and dashing around impressive cityscapes, so it works hard to make traversal feel super satisfying. Not to mention the gameplay does well to bring to life the awesome Titan-slaying action that defines the anime. Its cel-shaded aesthetic looks suitably anime and perfectly translates the action of the show from the television to PS4.
It’s clever stuff, and though there’s the occasional dialogue overlap, it all works together really well.Ī Way Out has set a co-op benchmark that will be difficult to better in 2018.Īttack on Titan is an anime series that was just crying out for a decent video game adaptation, and we’ve finally got one that’s worthy.
Half the time, you’re observing two games in one, watching your partner execute their role in the master plan from a totally different area. We've rounded up every PS4 game that scored at least an 8 on GameSpot in 2018, and organized them by. But arguably the most novel feature of A Way Out’s design is the way the action often unfolds in split-screen. Before jumping into the new year, now is a great chance to revisit the best PS4 games of 2018. There’s a range of different gameplay to be enjoyed, from the puzzles of its main quest arc to a host of bizarre mini-games, such as wheelchair balancing and weightlifting.
This brilliant prison break tale is an absolute blast with a friend, and thanks to the awesome invite system, you don’t even need to both own a copy to enjoy it. AAA co-op action games aren’t supposed to be a thing in 2018, but A Way Out has suddenly reminded us why we need more of them in our lives. Joseph Farez’s off-the-wall personality certainly helped to fire up interest in A Way Out, but it caught the eye even before his theatrics at the Game Awards, and we’re happy to say the game has delivered on the promise of its potential.