When playing with Yuan Shao, you’ll be able to boost the performance of your captains in various ways, with later unlocks really diversifying the ways you engage battlefield dilemmas. As has become the norm for Three Kingdoms, many of your missions and objectives tie in seamlessly with the narrative, and new units and mechanics make sure the experience stays fresh and not just one that’s coated with a layer of narrative paint. We just checked out the new Fates Divided campaign, after previously looking at The Furious Wild as well as Eight Princes, Mandate of Heaven and A World Betrayed.įates Divided starts out in the year 200 CE and features an elaborate setup with plenty of decisions to make surrounding the fates of Cao Cao and Yuan Shao, with Liu Yan being the third protagonist. When we reviewed Total War: Three Kingdoms, we really enjoyed its approach to the long-running franchise, using narrative design and a rich storytelling backdrop against the strategic gameplay of the Total War formula. The full price upgrade here isn’t worth it, but if you’re a first time player then this is still a solid Monster Truck racer for those who prefer something a bit more serious than Steel Titans 2 offers. Without some kind of cross-buy option though, this is a tough sell for anyone with the PS4 version already in their library. Having said that – there is definitely more shine to the game this time around and it feels a lot less dated as a result. But where the PS4 release felt underwhelming for a release late in the console’s lifespan, the PS5 edition doesn’t set itself apart from some of the better looking racers on the PS4 either. The PS5 port has all the expected features like smooth 60 frames per second gameplay and higher resolutions, as well as slightly more detailed textures. The driving itself is still worth it though – Monster Truck Championship is much more of a sim racer than THQ’s Monster Jam Steel Titans 2 is, and the handling feels good even if the DualSense support isn’t what it could have been. While there’s plenty of rumble, the game makes little to no use of the controller’s more advanced features like the adaptive triggers and haptic feedback – two things that would have worked great in a game like this, where you want to feel the power of the beasts you’re driving. It turns out we were wrong – Monster Truck Championship on the PS5 looks and sounds quite a bit like the PS4 release, doesn’t contain any new content and doesn’t excel through its DualSense support either. Part of that anticipation was because there wasn’t going to be a free upgrade for owners of the PS4 version, which fueled the idea that this was going to be rather different and more than a small update. Our main gripe with it was that it didn’t push the envelope hard enough, so for that reason alone we were extremely curious what the PS5 version would bring to the table. Is it just me, or are about half the native PS5 games racing games? Luckily, this particular one was a pretty decent take on a niche subgenre of racing that we enjoyed well enough when we reviewed it back in October. Nacon’s Monster Truck Championship, which was developed by Teyon, is the next game getting a post-release version for the PlayStation 5. We’re returning to two games that we previously covered, as we check out the PlayStation 5 version of Monster Truck Championship and look at Fates Divided, the new DLC campaign for Total War: Three Kingdoms.
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