BioMutant
Arguably one of THQ Nordic’s most interesting upcoming titles, BioMutant sees players assume the role of the menacing-looking furry creature pictured above as they attempt to save the world and Tree-of-Life from an encroaching plague.
The game blends martial arts combat, shooting, and a variety of mutant abilities to form the core of its combat, and will have players utilizing them all in fast-paced combos to take down the enemies that stand in their way.
Heck, you’ll even be able to re-code your genetic structure to completely change how your character looks and plays, which, in turn, affects your attributes.
And if that wasn’t enough, any time you become exposed to any bio-contaminated or radiated areas of the world, you’ll sprout some kind of physical mutation or psi-mutations.
There’s a whole lot going on in terms of your characters ever-changing attributes and combat systems, and we can’t wait to get our hands on the full title.
Alas, all of this open world, gene-morphing goodness hasn’t properly been talked about in a while. The last we saw was a 30-minute gameplay chunk dating back to Gamescom last year.
Considering BioMutant is due to release at some point in 2019, it’s a little concerning it hasn’t been talked about more already this year.
Here’s hoping we get some more gameplay demos and a set release date at E3 so we can dive into this intriguing title for ourselves sooner rather than later.
Pikmin 4
At this point, it feels like I write something every year about how Pikmin 4 needs to get talked about again in the near future.
Well, that’s because I’ve got some damn good reason to keep asking, because the game was apparently “very close to completion” back in 2015, according to series creator and general Nintendo legend, Shigeru Miyamoto, when he spoke with Eurogamer.
Then, in 2016, we were told Pikmin 4 was still happening, and the year after that, Miyamoto spoke to Eurogamer again to confirm that “it is progressing.”
Now, we don’t pretend to be experts of video game development, but a four-year gap between being “very close to completion” and still not seeing anything seems a little bit concerning to us.
However, now that the Switch has entries from a bulk of Nintendo’s major IP, it seems about right that the cute, colorful minions may show up in Nintendo’s Direct this year.
Besides, there’s something about the real-time strategy and puzzle series that seems like a rather great fit for the hybrid nature of the Switch.
Even if it’s still not due out until next year, including Pikmin 4 in its E3 plans would certainly help Nintendo to alleviate the fears of many fans that the title may never see the light of day, particularly after the relatively disappointing Hey! Pikmin.
Final Fantasy VII Remake
Yes, yes, we’re aware that Final Fantasy VII Remake has already been confirmed to be shown this month, but that’s not really enough at this point.
2015 was the year that Sony blew everyone away with a plethora of massive reveals such as FFVII Remake, Shenmue III, and The Last Guardian.
Since then, we’ve not really heard or seen anything particularly noteworthy of the Remake outside of the State of Play trailer from last month teasing that Square Enix was “preparing to release more official information in June…”
It was certainly enough for some fans, but everyone will be hoping that the four-year wait since its announcement will bring at least a gameplay demo, or showcase somewhere outside of Midgar… and dare we say a release date for part 1?
All we know for now is that it’s likely the June announcement will be at Square’s stage at E3, and it’s got to be more substantial than the minute trailer we received last month.
Square fans waited forever for Final Fantasy XV, and even longer for Kingdom Hearts 3. Here’s hoping Final Fantasy VII Remake can put this trend to bed with an info overload at E3.
Back 4 Blood
Hey look, that’s the Left 4 Dead 2 characters. Yes, we’re aware, but sadly Back 4 Blood doesn’t even have any promotional artwork we could use for this entry it’s been that quiet since Turtle Rock Studios announced it back in March.
In case you weren’t aware, Turtle Rock Studios was the developer behind the original Left 4 Dead, and announced Back 4 Blood — a co-operative zombie FPS title — that’s stylized suspiciously like the developer’s previous classic.
No prizes for guessing what they were trying to achieve by doing that.
Alas, outside of a name and a very minor confirmation of playable mutations zombies via an April Fools tweet with a little Easter Egg, we know or have seen absolutely nothing else of Back 4 Blood.
There’s no better stage than E3 to blow the lid off a hotly anticipated spiritual successor, and we can only hope that we won’t be waiting much longer to see just how big the zombie hordes we’ll be gunning our way through will be.
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