1) The Response So Far
This one’s kind of hard to ignore. It’s won literally everything there is to win during its run-up world tours of gaming shows and seemingly has more awards to its own name than all the Oscar winners this year put together. It went to Tokyo and got the ‘Future Game of Show’ award. It went to PAX and won the GamesRadar ‘Best of PAX’ award. It went to Gamescom and won the ‘Best Next-Gen Game’ award. It went to E3 and won just about everything else. Genuinely more awards that I could list, but they included Game Critics ‘Best of Show’, IGN’s ‘Best Overall Game’ and Polygon’s ‘Editor’s Choice’ awards.
And then I went to Eurogamer and I tried it. All those previous awards are no doubt fantastic accolades, but we all know that the most prestigious vote one could possibly hope for is that of my own endorsement. And if you hark back to the beginning of this epic narrative, you’ll remember I began the highbrow inquest as to whether Titanfall could be the reason Xbox One owners can finally rejoice in their first brand new, next-gen IP. So, the answer? Well, all things considered, I did queue twice to play it…
What do you think? Excited Xbox owner? In-the-dark PlayStation owner? Believing the hype either way? Let us know below!