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Greetings all!This week was huge for some of gaming's biggest franchises. Pick of the bunch was Assassin's Creed 4, which turned out to be a sweet and tasty piece of self-referentialism. Battlefield 4 felt like business as usual: a really fun multiplayer game with a very-tacked-on-feeling single-player mode. Batman: Arkham Origins couldn't quite hit the bar set by its predecessors. It's decent enough, sure, but not quite the runaway winner most were hoping it would be. And finally, Lego Marvel Superheroes surprised us all with a delightfully fun superhero romp that nobody should feel embarrassed to play on their own, and absolutely should play with their kids if they have any.
But while these games were singing their swansongs for this current generation of consoles, our minds kept wandering to the next. So we decided to do something fun and give each Xbox One launch game a rating based on whether or not they're worth pre-ordering. Of course, the ultimate recommendation is to not pre-order anything and simply wait and see what the general consensus is before opening the old wallet. But that doesn't make for an engaging feature, so instead we went ahead and assigned a "Buy", "Safe" or "Hold" rating to each game based on what we know. Which was really an excuse for us to write a smorgasbord of mini preview opinions.
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