New video games coming out this week | Call of Duty: WW2, Bubsy, Lost Dimension

In case last week's series of releases, which made up what will likely be the biggest day in games for 2017, wasn't enough to take up all of your free time, yet another AAA release is coming this week, with a few RPGs to sink your time into coming alongside it. There's also the return of a franchise that had its last release in 1996, which is going to certainly be an interesting day.

Lost Dimension - October 30, PC

This title originally came out in 2015 for the PlayStation 3 and PS Vita (in Europe and America, anyway, it came out in Japan in 2014), but is now getting a PC release at the hands of publishers Ghostlight. Developed by Lancarse, what makes the game interesting is how it combined RPG elements with the style of a visual novel. Travelling up five floors of a pillow, the player must deduce who of the eleven characters is a traitor, and kill them: choose the wrong person, and an innocent character will be killed, changing the story. 

Who the traitors are is randomly selected, so each playthrough would be different, and there's no way to see how the story would go as it could be any of the characters. The game did suffer somewhat from this random selection, lacking the hand-crafted nature of a specifically written story, but it's a great concept nonetheless, with interesting RPG combat. 

Bubsy: The Woolies Strike Back - October 31, PS4, PC

If you had said in 1996, when the last Bubsy game came out, that the next Bubsy game would be releasing in 2017, you'd be laughed out of the room. But here we are, apparently a new  Bubsy game is coming out. 

Developed by Black Forest Games, developers behind Giana Sisters: Twisted Dreams (and clearly developed to be similar in gameplay and visual style),  Bubsy: The Woolies Strike Back is a platformer where you, as Bubsy, must collect yarn and get your revenge on the Woolies for stealing all the yarn. The original Bubsy games didn't really have much charm or substance, and this new entry seems to be at least somewhat self aware in that regard.

Call of Duty: WW2 - November 3, PS4, Xbox One, PC

The biggest release for this week, and this first major title to come out in November, is Call of Duty: WW2. While recent Call of Duty games have been going further and further into the future, with sci-fi weapons and technology, they're now going back to the past, to its roots in WW2 warfare. 

Developed by Sledgehammer Games, the team behind Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 (alongside Infinity Ward) and Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare, it's the first Call of Duty game to be set in WW2 for almost a decade. Set in Europe, on the Western Front, it's very much a Call of Duty game. In single player, you'll be running from cover to cover, shooting baddies (with some changes, such as the removal of health regeneration and instead a reliance on health packs and medics. It is, though, very much a Call of Duty game.

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.hack//G.U. Last Recode - November 3, PS4, PC

If you can ignore the somewhat absurd name here, there's a whole lot of RPG to get through here. .hack//G.U. Last Recode is a remaster of the .hack//G.U. series, including parts of .hack//G.U. Vol. 1//Rebirth, .hack//G.U. Vol. 2//Reminisce and .hack//G.U. Vol. 3//Redemption.

The series has the player chasing a character in a simulated game who defeats players in an online game, leaving them in a coma in real life. This remaster is aimed at those who have never played .hack//G.U. before, with a new chapter included, with HD upgrades and a lot of new features to rebalance the game and make it more accessible. It's releasing on November 1 in Japan, while those in Europe and North America have to wait until November 3.

Other releases this week:

Cartoon Network: Battle Crashers - October 31, Nintendo Switch

Zwei: The Ilvard Insurrection - October 31, PC