The spookiest month of the year has come and gone, but it's left behind a handful of choice video games. October's Game of the Month vote ended in a good old fashioned scuffle as several titles vied for our all-important Platinum Trophy, proving that Halloween season was a good time for gaming on PlayStation 4.
Bronze Trophy: Call of Duty: Modern Warfare
Captain Price is back, and his mutton chops are bigger than ever. Associate editor Stephen Tailby tackled terrorism this time around, awarding this reimagined blockbuster a respectable 8/10. "When Call of Duty: Modern Warfare is at its best, it's easily one of this generation's best entries in the series," Stephen wrote. We heaped praise on its gunplay, campaign mission design, and its top notch visuals.
Read our full Call of Duty: Modern Warfare review here
Silver Trophy: The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel III
The third entry in the fantastic Trails of Cold Steel series, we reckon Cold Steel III is one of the best Japanese role-playing games on PS4. We gave this lengthy anime-infused adventure an impressive 9/10 in our review, writing: "This latest entry strikes a near perfect balance between story and gameplay, all while juggling an ever-growing cast of great characters and an in-depth, hugely rewarding battle system."
Read our full The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel III review here
Gold Trophy: Return of the Obra Dinn
Another 9/10 for October, Return of the Obra Dinn had Stephen glued to his controller. This gripping murder mystery arrived on PS4 having received widespread recognition on PC, and it's easy to see why it's so beloved. "The Obra Dinn mystery is a joy to uncover," Stephen concluded while highlighting its "ultra-satisfying" puzzle solving, "intricate story", and overall "genius" of the title.
Read our full Return of the Obra Dinn review here
Platinum Trophy: The Outer Worlds
The RPG masters over at Obsidian have done it again. The Outer Worlds blends Fallout with Mass Effect, and the result is one of the best role-playing experiences of this generation. It may not reinvent the genre, but it's a combination of almost everything that you could want from an in-depth RPG fuelled by player choice.
We concluded our 9/10 review by writing: "The Outer Worlds is a role-playing triumph. With its sights set squarely on player choice, Obsidian delivers a brilliantly crafted sci-fi adventure that's packed with witty writing, great characters, and a fantastic degree of freedom." A worthy Game of the Month winner for October 2019.
Read our full The Outer Worlds review here
Do you agree with our Game of the Month for October 2019? What was your favourite PS4 game in October? Vote in our poll, and then tell us why in the comments section below.
How we decide our Game of the Month: At the end of each month, the editorial team put together a list of nominees. Nominees must have been released within the month, and preferably, they should have been reviewed by Push Square. We select nominees based on our own review scores.
The editorial team then presents this list of nominees to the rest of the Push Square staff. Staff are asked to vote for three games that they think deserve to be crowned Game of the Month. First choice gets 3 points, second choice gets 2 points, and third choice gets 1 point. When voting closes, we tally the results to determine the order of this article. The game with the most points is our Game of the Month.
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I'd have to agree with The Outer Worlds.
COD was the best it's been in a long time, but OW is outstanding.
Medievil just beating out Concrete Genie for me. Don't know what's likely my no 1 for November though lol
Definitely Outer Worlds. Haven't played the other ones on the list, maybe I should give them a try.
I've just finished The Outer Worlds. What a fantastic game. Time for another playthrough on supernova difficulty where I'll play a different path.
Yooka Layle and the Impossible Lair. My goty that unfortunately didn't get the best review on this site. If you guys like Donkey Kong Country buy that game. It's easily better than 3 out of 4 games on this list.
Luigi's Mansi...oh.
Outer Worlds looks ok, but needs more colon.
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare. Easily the best campaign in the series since the original MW 1 and 2 and not nearly as controversial as people tried to make it. There is one bad revisionist history moment that should've had more thought put into it, but other than that it was a great campaign.
I haven’t yet played The Outer Worlds, and on PS4 I’m still playing games from before October, like Borderlands 3. So my only NEW game of the month goes to a Nintendo one (wrong forum I know, sorry)...Luigi’s Mansion 3.
The Outer Worlds hasn't grabbed me like I would've hoped, its ok though.
Been having a great time with Modern Warfare though.
Other - Frostpunk
I'm guessing The Outer Worlds is all about replayability. Because the 10hrs Main and 32hrs Completionist time I'm seeing on HLTB is so small for an openworld RPG.
The Outer Worlds is probably my GOTY as of today.
@TheArt you'd have to ignore a lot to do it in 10 hours and the side quests and main quest are indistinguishable without looking in the menu's. I haven't even been to half of the locations and my save file is 12 hours. It definitely feels smaller than the recent Fallout games without ever feeling like a short game but yeah there is high replayability as pretty much every quest seems to have multiple outcomes and your character build can make a big difference in how you approach the game.
Definitely my game of the month and a far better RPG than Fallout 4 was. I also have had a great time with MediEvil this month and quite enjoyed how basic it was and I love the art style
Valfaris looks like the winner to me.
@carlos82 Looking to pick it up some day though. Till then I think I'm still left with seeing different outcomes roaming Far Harbor or taking Dogmeat sightseeing in Nuka World in F4. Plus I know there's still tons of side quests I've skipped in Skyrim SE. It'd be lovely to add Outer Worlds to the family.
@TheArt I really enjoyed Far Harbour and Nuka World to an extent, I remember when Playstation told us our most played games and I think Fallout 4 came in second at around 170 hours. I think half of that was building a giant Batcave and town with a huge multi part power station before they updated it to reduce how much power you needed
@carlos82 Yep I think it's still in top 10 of most played games on Steam or something. Funny how I disliked Fallout 4 after my 1st playthrough, it was during the 2nd I really got hooked. It's just funny I never really liked Fallout 3 the first time either, it was all green and sepia I didn't keep tabs on the series so didn't even bother with New Vegas. But F4 was a bit more neutral in colour and that unique everything rusty art style at 1080p just got me to appreciate the game more.
I have a love/hate relationship with The Outer Worlds. The game is great, but I still feel as if Fallout (yes, 4) is better. Don’t get me wrong, the writing and characters in TOW is better than Fallout 4, but the exploration isn’t. There’s just so much repetitiveness in TOW. Sure, there may be different worlds to explore, but most of the places (buildings) are closed and can’t be entered, and the ones that can — especially living quarters or bars — are all laid out in the same manner; and exploration isn’t rewarding. You’ll find nothing but bits, heavy ammo, light ammo, adreno, energy cells. There just isn’t a sense of awe and wonder and “I wonder what’s around this next corner,” unlike Fallout 3 and 4. It’s a great game, it really is, but if a sequel happens, Obsidian really needs to work on variety.
I’m actually disappointed in the Outer worlds personally and I guess this can link in a bit with the article about tedious trophies from the other day.
I must admit I played on Supernova first which probably spoiled the experience for me as it’s very tedious to play. I always like to play on the highest difficulty first though.
It felt like 1/2 my time playing was to direct companions away from fights to keep them alive because they are literally useless , even if you give them really good gear and command them correctly they go down so easy then I had to load a checkpoint back up from probably 10/20 minutes ago to get them back. The eating , drinking sleeping mechanics and then lack of fast travel added to the frustration as you would have to fast travel back to the ship to sleep to then run across the map again back to where you was. The loading times then added to the frustration of all this... it’s got awful loading times.
The story is good though if can get through all this and the game play is okay but I just think this game is getting more praise just because of how bad fallout is.
Personally I would have picked Ghostbusters, then MediEvil. CoD would have appeared nowhere on the list as I don't play trash and I'm waiting on Black Friday for Outer Worlds. Currently trying to get through Witcher 3 while waiting on my Death Stranding PS4 bundle.
I'm playing The Outer Worlds on PC. I love it, but there are some weird flaws to it. There are party members who barely talk while other ones get loads of conversations and reactions to places you go.
As a test, I killed Ellie's friend - with Ellie in my party - and she didn't comment on it at all. It's like they let you kill people because people expect that in WRPGs yet they really didn't know how to do it but still get it to make sense. Oh, I also killed the girl that Parvati is in love with - again with her in my party. She did actually comment on it, but she was just a little bit miffed and still carried on as normal afterwards. You'd think she'd hate my guts. Or at least be sad for longer than 5 seconds. Odd little glitches too but nothing serious apart from a common glitch where the game crashes on the last mission on a certain route and stops you from completing the game.
All that said, those drawbacks don't stop it being a great game. I just wish they had more time or money. Fingers crossed for a bigger budget sequel.
@Nintyfan Why is Call of Duty “trash”? That term is so ridiculous. If you don’t like the game or its annual releases that is fine, but at least use better terms to describe something.
None of these grab me. This time last year we had RDR2 and Ass Creed Odyssey, both of which kept me busy till June. I'll have to keep grinding away with Elite Dangerous until something tempting comes along, like GTA6 on the PS5.
I still don't know how they got Jason Lee to be the cover of Modern Warfare.
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