Being the last major Western gaming convention before the Christmas shopping season properly gets underway, Gamescom can feel like a retread for all of the big titles that debuted in Los Angeles a couple of months earlier. However, as expected, Sony made a reasonably big splash during its press conference earlier in the week, announcing several new exclusive and timed exclusive titles for the PlayStation 4.
Naturally, we’ve included a handful of those among our 20-strong shortlist for this year’s Game of the Show poll. As with previous instalments, we’ve restricted voting to titles that received Gamescom trailers, appeared during any of the main press conferences, or, of course, were playable on the showfloor. That means that you won’t find the likes of Uncharted 4: A Thief’s End in the rundown.
Also, to keep things nice and tidy, we’ve tried to limit the roster to the titles that we thought had the strongest showing, so it’s possible that you may not see your personal favourite. If that’s the case, we hope that you’ll find something else on the poll that takes your fancy – and don’t be afraid to tell us what else caught your eye and why in the comments section. Of course, you only get one vote, so choose carefully.
The question is: what will you select? Are you obsessed with the gorgeous gothic setting of Bloodborne, or do you prefer The Order: 1886’s alternate interpretation of Victorian London? Can you believe how beautiful DriveClub is looking these days, or are you more amazed by the creative features being implemented into LittleBigPlanet 3? As with E3 earlier in the year, peruse our poll, pace around the room – and then make a choice.
You’ve got until Sunday, 17th August at 18:00PM BST to place your vote, so don’t dawdle for too long. The game with the most nods at that point will be crowned our champion, and the winner will be announced in a future feature. In the unlikely event of a tie, the Push Square team will conduct a private poll to decide upon an overall victor.
Voting has now closed, thank you everyone for taking part. Check back soon for the results.
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Tearaway Unfolded, was beautiful and charming on Vita, I'm sure gonna be gorgeous on PS4. Rime and Wild both are great too.
Where's Dying Light ?
A lot of these games are really appealing, but I think I have to go with Tearaway. Earlier this summer, I decided to buy a new Vita game and had to decide between the new Killzone game or Tearaway and I fortunately decided to go with Killzone. I played the Tearaway demo on the Vita and it wasn't as good as I imagined it to be. But the PS4 version really looks better in terms of controls and hardware, so I'm really glad I waited to play this game.
@XFsWorld "Also, to keep things nice and tidy, we’ve also tried to limit the roster to the titles that we thought had the strongest showing, so it’s possible that you may not see your personal favourite."
Hopefully you still find something to vote for!
@Sadodi Same for me. The Tearaway demo kinda killed it for me. I'll get it when the price is dropped or if it's free on Plus.
@get2sammyb Lol I didn't read it, just went straight to the pole. Voted for Wild.
I voted for Until Dawn. I don't think it's going to be the best game on this list by any stretch of the imagination, but I don't think Supermassive Games could have made a game that personally appeals to me more. Intentionally silly writing, goofy voice acting, jump scares, Quantic Dream-style branching paths — it's perfect!
Wild for me, it would have been silent hills but I don't think we saw any actual gameplay as the demo was a sort of teaser? I wouldn't vote for anything that I've already seen chunks of previously.
Where's Tomb Raider though............
@BenTarrant As @ShogunRok will testify, I butted heads with him to include it in the E3 one. Epic backfire...
@SimonAdebisi Silent Hills was a point of contention, but we felt that the manner of the announcement — in addition to the P.T. demo — meant it should be included.
I can't decide between The Order 1886, Bloodborne, Tearaway Unfolded, or Rime.
I guess I'll choose... Hmmm maybe they'll let me vote thrice.
OK I choose Bloodborne
I'm voting for 'The Tommorow Children'... At least in my mind I am.
That game might not be included in the poll, but really managed to grab my attention: I liked the premise, the style and the setting.
I must admit I'm getting indie-tired (also tired of the name indie itself), but this one showed there are still some developers out there who try to "think outside the box" (weren't that their exact words).
I picked Bloodborne, but honestly, I had a few favorites. CoD looks awesome, Bloodborne looks awesome, Farcry 4, Until Dawn, Silent Hill seem to be awesome. Just a good sum of games that I like or that seem fun to play.
I was torn between The Order and Until Dawn. However, I've been looking forward to The Order ever since it's reveal, while Until Dawn was not on my radar before Gamescom. It's firmly on my radar now, therefore, Until Dawn got my vote.
Hell of a list though!!
Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain gets my vote. Love the series.
i wish i could vite more than once until dawn looks so cool, but MKX looks like a game i will play for a ling time. There is so many good looking games in that list that i cant wait to play on PS4: )
MGS V for me.
That list makes me sad. With the exception of Wild which we don't really know much about it's short on originality and innovation. Too many sequels and ports.
@voodoo341 wow, dude. You must be fun at parties.
@Shellybird27
I love how you guys make assumptions of people based on stuff they post on the internet. First of all, nothing said was really wrong, secondly, not everything about PlayStation is perfect. If everybody just sat back and was satisfied with everything this industry would really suck. Critical, and cynical, people are the reason the PS3 wasn't the complete disaster it was on track back to be back in 2006 had everybody just sat back like the fanboys and let Sony continue down its path of stupid.
I vote for AC Unity! Looks awesome and I love the game seance Altair Ibn la Ahad. Whop whop!
Oh! It's not on the list but really looking forward for GTA V to. (:
Even if P.T wasn't representative of Silent Hills, being just a teaser...it was done so well that it set up my expectation of the game....and after sh*t like SH:Downpour I never thought that would happen again. I completed the P.T demo on Thursday afternoon after the damned thing had driven me to the point of madness trying to get the phone to ring, and I loved it....Silent Hills can't come soon enough for me.
I literally can't choose!
There's 6+ games there I could go for. So good to be a gamer right now!
Bloodborne at last getting the attention (and hype) it deserves.
On the other hand Lords of the Fallen still more or less ignored and actually I kinda understand why they didnt bother releasing a new trailer
MGS 5: The Phantom Pain, obviously!
Bloodborne and Silent Hills at the top right now. Interesting!
I'm absolutely disgusted that The Witcher 3 isn't getting the praise it deserves. Its trailers and gameplay were ridiculously good!
Personally most hyped for bloodborne.very closely followed by mgs 5. What little was shown of bloodborne was awesome and I really cant wait. Honourary mentions to witcher 3 and rime as well.
Wild for me, every time I look at the trailer, I'm getting a open world Tokyo Jungle vibe, plus Michel Ancel is one of the most original game creators out there, so Sony closely working with him was a big get.
I had to go with Mortal Kombat X. If Tearaway was a sequel and not a retouched port, I would have chosen that. I also like how DriveClub looks.
Even if I love Rayman, I find it hard to get excited for Wild at this point.
And of the games missing from this list The Vanishing of Ethan Carter.
I decided that I would vote for a "new" reveal. Something that was just shown at gamescom. That took away quite a bit of your list but I am still eagerly awaiting several of the games that were previously announced. Due to these restrictions I placed on myself I went with Wild. Something about it seems deeply satisfying, and we all know Ancel will give it his very best, being the very passionate developer he is. Witcher 3, BloodBorne, and Dragon Age all look ridiculously good and I am just as hyped, or maybe more so, for those as Wild. Not sure if it was there but No Mans Sky also has me wanting to throw money at my monitor to play it now. Man, great time to be a gamer with so many amazing games in the near future. Patience young ones, the games are coming.
Sony gamescom was quite underwhelming too many Indies not that I hate Indies but just wish they would of showed us some bigger exclusive games but whatever my top games at the show were ,Rime ,wild and pt aka silent hills.
Rime is looking awesome
Why do so many people vote for Wild when we still don't know what the game is about?
I'm surprised to see the Witcher where it is. It's what I voted for.. the game looks incredible to me!
Rime Wild Bloodborne DriveClub Destiny and The Order
@get2sammyb Stupid question(maybe): Why is Assassin's Creed Rogue not an option? Was it not actually AT Gamescom?
@Kohaku
Indie= Win that's how it works. I agree though, if it's an AAA, however, it gets written off it not much is shown. Unless it's Naughty Dog of course, seems that's the only AAA studio to get a pass (I'm guilty of giving ND a pass too).
@ObviouslyAdachi We decided to focus on Assassin's Creed Unity, purely because we didn't want two of the slots being taken up by the same series.
@Gamer83 @Kohaku We didn't see much, true, but it's a Sony published game being fronted by the creator of Rayman and Beyond Good and Evil — and it's sounds wildly (chortle!) ambitious to boot. I certainly can see where the excitement's coming from, even if I personally didn't expect it to get this many votes.
@get2sammyb
Fair enough. But Rise of the Tomb Raider was written off because we haven't seen much of it. Maybe that's because it's cross-gen, maybe it's because it's Xbox exclusive, but that's terrible reasoning. I'm writing it off because I simply am not supporting a piece of sh*t publisher in SE that continually sh*ts on its biggest audience but the last Tomb Raider was a great game. If that doesn't get a pass based on reputation, it's kind of hypocritical to turn around and praise Wild left and right. Not saying it won't be a good game, I'm actually looking forward to it.
tied between destiny and tearaway, so went with tearaway.
@Gamer83 Oh, I agree with you - I didn't vote for WiLD because we haven't seen enough of it either. Clearly others disagree, though.
@get2sammyb Ahhhhhh I see. Well I voted for COD because Rogue wasn't an option
RIME! RIME you fools!
@RawWilson1 LOL! I voted for it. It looked stunning.
RiME all the way.
Honestly I don't know what to vote for. There is simply too many good ones to choose from. Drive club is the best looking racer I've ever seen, Until Dawn looks like sheer Co-op fun, Rime looks epic, The Tomorrow Children looks very interesting, the Order looks epic, Tearaway Unfolded looks groundbreaking, Mortal Kombat X looks like a true revival of the series, same goes for COD Advanced Warfare, MGS 5 looks like a combination of all the best aspects of Metal Gears of the past in other words epic, I can keep going but it's impossible to choose. "Sigh", Sorry I just can't think of any one in particular to vote for, I just want to play them all
Voting has now closed. The winner will be announced next week.
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