What to Play First on Your New PlayStation 5

Assassin's Creed Valhalla River Raid

Situation: you bought a PS5, and you feel like a kid in a candy store when opening a games’ catalog. It is not clear what is worth spending time on and what is better to skip. We’ll help you navigate the rich library of hits.

The Playstation as usual delighted us with exciting graphics, and the plots for games like God of War were most likely written by the best professional writing company. The best games for Play Station 5 at the moment range from family adventures with funny characters and exciting battles of comic book heroes, to third-person fighting games and gangster showdowns on the streets of the city. So let’s pick a game soon!

Marvel’s Spider-Man: Miles Morales

Almost a full-fledged sequel to the best superhero game of our time, in which instead of Peter Parker, the main character is Miles Morales – the protagonist of the masterpiece cartoon “Spider-Man: Across the universes.”

Assassin’s Creed Valhalla

Assassin’s Creed Valhalla is the most successful installment of the near-historical saga in years. This time, the action takes place (mostly) in ninth-century England, and the protagonist and his entourage are real Vikings.

The theme is well played: much of the time will be spent looting various monasteries and enemy camps to improve their settlement, make alliances with local clans, weave intrigues. You can even go to Asgard and participate in a separate scenario with the Scandinavian gods!

Ghost of Tsushima

“Tsushima” is not at all nextgen in technology, but still a spectacular game in the rather exotic setting of 13th century Japan. It’s almost an interactive samurai movie after Kurosawa: the main character miraculously survives a devastating Mongol attack on his home island and wants to take revenge and reclaim the land from the invaders. He soon realizes that to win will have to compromise samurai principles and face the inevitable consequences.

If you play a lot of sandboxes, the gameplay of Ghost of Tsushima will not surprise you: there is a standard mopping up of markers on the map, only a few types of activities, and not the most impressive tasks. But the local world is so colorful that it is comparable to the paintings.

Ghost of Tsushima - Story Trailer & Release Date

Overwatch

While Valve has finally slammed its support for the iconic team shooter Team Fortress 2, Blizzard has released its variation of it. In Overwatch a nice bright graphics and a few dozen heroes with fundamentally different gameplay: someone swings a turbot and covered energy shield, the other firing a machine gun, the third treats everyone, and sometimes resurrects.

Over the years, the game has lost a lot of excitement, but it’s not dead, and shortly we’ll see Overwatch 2 – its multiplayer will be common with the original.

Destiny 2: Beyond Light.

Another shooter, but online and for fans of science fiction. The action takes place in the far future: Earth’s population was almost exterminated during interstellar war, and the remaining people and aliens became Guardians – powerful heroes fighting for good. With each new addition, a new alien invasion attacks the solar system, and you have to fly to different planets, perform missions, clear the strikes (dungeons) and even go on epic raids. Well, or to participate in battles against other players in multiple modes.

Understanding the story and the world of Destiny is not easy, but everyone will be able to appreciate the beauty of the game. More importantly, it plays well: this first-person shooter was made by the creators of the legendary Halo series from Bungie.

Demon’s Souls

A large-scale remake of the game that started the popularity of the souls-like genre: third-person action games where almost every player error leads to death and checkpoints are very rare.

The game mesmerizes with a detailed grim setting of a once-great kingdom that has fallen into decline due to an invasion of demons. The player in this setting doesn’t feel like a chosen hero at all, but another doomed madman warrior. Because every victory over a demon boss feels like a huge achievement, and the failures only fuel it.

If you like it, be sure to try the Dark Souls series, the direct successor to Demon’s Souls in a different world.

Celeste

A remarkable two-dimensional platformer with an enjoyable story about finding yourself and chiseling gameplay. A girl named Madeline arrives at the foot of Mount Celeste to conquer its summit – according to legend, it helps people find inner harmony. Each stage of the climb is a series of levels with unique rules and challenges. You’ll have to die a lot – especially if you dare to pass additional levels and challenges – but at least the heroine is revived instantly.

Celeste DLC Will Not Be Ready In Time For The Anniversary

The Last of Us Dilogy

These games have been compared to Cormac McCarthy’s novel The Road, not only because of the similar plot but also because of its significance to the art. A couple of decades after the collapse of civilization due to a parasitic fungus that turns people into zombies, a tired smuggler, Joel, takes on the task of transporting a teenage girl, Ellie. She has a secret that makes her transportation a matter of humanity’s survival.

As they travel through several states of America, the heroes grow closer: Joel begins to treat his companion as his adopted daughter. The formation and evolution of this emotional bond are fully revealed by the script – in a way that games have never been able to before.

The Last of Us: Part II, as the title suggests, is a direct sequel to the story, even darker, more emotional, and more impressive graphically.

God of War

A noticeably matured reboot of the hit series from PS2 about a ruthless God of War determined to take over all of Olympus. Kratos tried to leave the bloody past behind and even became a father, but the Scandinavian deities wouldn’t let him live in peace. Paired with his son, the hero goes on an epic quest, and we can see impressive story and elaboration of the key characters.

In the coming years, a sequel will be released on PS5, the plot of which will be based on Ragnarök from the same Germanic-Scandinavian mythology.

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