Our favourite PS4 games so far

The PlayStation 4 has been, for the most part, a highly enjoyable platform with many excellent titles to get stuck into.

Remastered PS3 titles aside, here are 5 of our favourite titles out of many that have released thus far.

Killzone Shadow Fall

This was the first game I played on PS4 and my introduction to this generation, and what a pretty and enjoyable one it was.

Whilst never being much of a fan of the drab Killzone series, this one was mighty entertaining and accessible.

Certainly not one of the best games I’ve ever played, I’ve included this game due to it being my pleasant baptism into PlayStation 4.

It looked sharp and vibrant, it felt smooth and streamlined and it had a great multiplayer to boot.

Being one of the launch games for the console, I’d say it did a fine job introducing us to the new chapter of PlayStation.

Following ‘Shadow Marshall’ Lucas Kellen’s misadventures involving loyalty to his own people, the ‘Vekta’ and the immorality of oppressing the ghastly ‘Helghast’, Shadow Fall’s campaign wasn’t perfect, but I did really enjoy it.

I just love how badass the Helghast units look, something that still sticks with me.

The game wasn’t ground-breaking and it did have its clunky issues, but this is one worth sticking out to the end.

It adds a few interesting tweaks to the FPS experience and the multiplayer is a rock-solid romp.

Dying Light

Perhaps one of the most enjoyable games recently made, Dying Light combines free running parkour with mass-murder like jelly and custard.

Both elements never seem to run out of steam in the enjoyment department (as with several other zombie games), and players are free to climb and kill to their hearts’ content.

The game revolves around the outbreak of a zombie virus in the fictional city of ‘Harran’.

The player is an agent called ‘Kyle Crane’ sent in by a shady humanitarian organisation known as the ‘GRE’ to secure a vaccine.

Dropping into the quarantined hellzone from a plane, Crane immediately finds himself trapped in a big bucket of zombies he needs to hack and leap his way out of.

The story is gripping, filled with twists and horror.

There are endless zombies and you’re only one lad, so you will want to join up with friends and strangers to even the odds and increase the fun tenfold as gangs of parkour-enthusiasts fly from roof to roof, lopping heads and limbs off along the way.

Alien: Isolation

The skin-crawling adaptation of the 80s horror classic is without a doubt one of the best survival horrors ever made.

With jarring music and atmospheric gloominess, the scene is immediately set to loosen your sphincter before the true horror even begins.

Taking place on board a devastated space station crawling with hostile surviving humans, menacing androids and the iconic Xenomorph, there is plenty to be chased by and to hide from.

Amanda Ripley is tasked with investigating the mysterious disappearance of her mother Ripley and their crew, embarking on an insane descent into sci-fi hell to uncover the truth.

Combining stealth, engineering and frugal combat, this is an experience perfectly crafted for those who prefer crawling around in the shadows and being repeatedly disembowelled at random.

With one of the most intelligent antagonists to date, the alien is, in itself, a creation of genius.

Sniffing you out, memorising your behavioural patterns and using vents and hidden passageways to its advantage, you are in for a real screamer.

The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt

This is an RPG that gets it right; a plethora of weapons and armour to be crafted, a group of exploitative sorceresses and a massive, gorgeous world that never stops beckoning the player.

Not to mention all kinds of horrid, snarling monsters that populate this lush dimension just begging to be decapitated.

The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt is just so damn crammed with alluring content that it’s hard to ever put it down, even with over a hundred of hours of gameplay.

Every village and city, bog and forest, mountain and valley is just so very loaded with complex characters and interactions that the feast for the senses just never gets stale.

With an intriguing, epic story and cast the player is free to manipulate, there is much one will want to attempt again just to see how things would turn out differently.

Every person’s fate is in the protagonist Geralt’s hands and you are free to choose who wins and who loses.

I found myself becoming very emotionally attached to each character, many of the less important ones as well.

Make your choices carefully, as their outcomes hang in your balance.

The game is relatively straight-forward and accessible for an RPG, so even the uncultured role-play-hater will enjoy this one.

Free of exhausting grinding and cinematic story-telling, this is one anyone can enjoy.

There are DLCs, and the ‘New Game +’ has just gone live for Xbox One and will be available for other platforms as soon as possible, increasing the challenge and input from players.

Bloodborne

Where do I even begin… the trembling, sweat-pouring hands; the pounding heart; the dilated pupils; the innocent bystander being yelled at.

Bloodborne isn’t a game for the faint of heart or the faint of skill.

It is one of the most gruelling challenges video games have to offer and you will never forgive or respect yourself if you do not see it through to the bitter end.

A mute wandered finds him or herself stumbling through the gates of a cursed town called ‘Yharnam’.

Festering, maddened folk skulk through the eternal night on a purge, in search for monsters, unaware that they have become monsters themselves.

The deeper cloisters of the town are hosts to further mutated beings once human, now sporting spiked tendrils or coated in fur.

The player is tasked with battling their way through Yharnam and beyond, constantly being battered by excruciating difficulty from the get go.

This game was indomitable from level one.

There was no hand-held guide from the shallow into the deep end. I was drowning from the beginning and was convinced I wouldn’t make it past the first stage.

I did triumph in the end, and the reward was incomparable to most games. This is one of the most punishing yet rewarding experiences around, as well as one of the most thrilling, profoundly beautiful and enigmatic.

You won’t find much of a better game than this on the PS4, so if you consider yourself a hard-core gamer and have yet to play Bloodborne, go down to the mall right now.