Best games you can play this week – Battles and bullets

This week’s game releases see the return of a sci-fi stalwart, an anthropomorphic hedgehog, a crime-fighting force of fury, and a whole lot more!

StarCraft: Remastered

15 August 2017 (PC)

Fans of old-school real-time strategy games will need no introduction to the StarCraft series, but a remastered version of the first game is arriving this week to please veterans and entice newcomers who may have missed out.

StarCraft: Remastered upgrades the essential sci-fi strategy experience and its award-winning expansion, StarCraft: Brood War, from beginning to end . Upgraded visuals for units, buildings, and environments, improved game audio, and resolutions have been improved. Most importantly, the strategy gameplay that StarCraft perfected years ago remains unchanged.

Agents of Mayhem

18 August 2017 (PS4, Xbox One, PC)

Volition, the studio behind the successful Saints Row series have always had a knack of creating tongue-in-cheek games that, while admittedly silly, were actually pretty good.

And the offbeat studio’s next project follows those lines but adds a dose of super-powered task-force into the mix. Agents of Mayhem takes cues from stereotypical A-team-inspired action shows, and throws them into a single-player, open-world third-person game set in Seoul.

What makes Agents of Mayhem different is that before each mission you choose three out of the 12 agents to bring with you, and you can switch between these three at will.