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DECEMBER 2018 THE XBOX ONE AND XBOX 360 MAGAZINE OXM INVESTIGATES GREATEST XBOX SPORTS GAMES Best sports sims from Fight Night to FIFA SEE PAGE 46 QHANDS-ON WITH THE POST-APOCALYPTIC MMORPG Q Exclusive access! Q Gameplay secrets revealed! XBOX EXCLUSIVE! FINAL SCORE! NEW DETAILS! 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ISSN 2053689 Daniella Lucas Adam Bryant Warren Brown Russell Lewin Deputy editor Staff writer Senior art editor Production editor Dani was so impressed Adam visited Aardman Foxes have recently Russ went to Malta this by the voice control of to find out about 11-11: taken up residence in month, and returned a trolley in Supermarket Memories Retold. He was Woz’s garden, and he’s with odd chocolate-filled Shriek (see p16) that Early Man and wearing learned the hard way banana sweets for the Future plc is a public company Chief executive Zillah Byng-Thorne quoted on the London Stock Non-executive chairman Richard Huntingford since then she’s been completely the Wrong that they’re not as cute team, and a joke: “How Exchange Chief financial officer Penny Ladkin-Brand (symbol: FUTR) shouting at everyone to Trousers, but he did have in real life as Starfox, Tails do you make a Maltese www.futureplc.com Tel +44 (0)1225 442 244 make us work harder. a Grand Day Out. or the fox from Tunic. Cross? Steal his crisps.” More Xbox news at gamesradar.com/oxm THE OFFICIAL XBOX MAGAZINE 003 START contents Everything you can look forward to over the next 100 or so pages ins ider 008 THE BIG STORY: TELLTALE GAMES 012 ALAN WAKE ON TV 014 CAPCOM 016 THE BIG PICTURE: SUPERMARKET SHRIEK 018 HOT TOPIC: FINAL FANTASY 020 OPINIONS previews 026 METRO EXODUS 030 BATTLEFIELD V 026 032 ANTHEM 034 METAL WOLF CHAOS XD 035 STREETS OF RAGE 4 036 DEVIL MAY CRY 5 080 038 BIOMUTANT 039 DYING LIGHT: BAD BLOOD 040 TWIN MIRROR 042 RESIDENT EVIL 2 045 OOBLETS 045 GWENT: THE WITCHER CARD GAME SUBSCRIBE NOW ON PAGE 046 004 THE OFFICIAL XBOX MAGAZINE 045 TALES OF VESPERIA 045 JUMP FORCE 045 THE ONE WE FOUND 045 THIS IS POOL features 048 FALLOUT 76 056 THE BIG INTERVIEW: AARDMAN STUDIOS 062 THE OXM SPORTING HALL OF FAME reviews 074 SHADOW OF THE TOMB RAIDER 078 FIFA 19 048 080 FORZA HORIZON 4 083 NHL 19 084 THE TALOS PRINCIPLE 086 PES 19 088 V RALLY 089 DAYZ 090 LIFE IS STRANGE 2 092 PLAYERUNKNOWN’S BATTLEGROUNDS 094 BAD NORTH extra 102 098 NOW PLAYING: THE HUNTER: CALL OF THE WILD 100 GEARS OF WAR 2 101 SEA OF THIEVES 102 RETROSPECTIVE: THIEF DEADLY SHADOWS 106 WHY I LOVE… SUPERHOT’S REPLAYS 108 10 BEST DISEASES IN XBOX HISTORY 112 DIRECTORIES 114 DISC SLOT: 074 WILLIAM BARR HAVE SOMETHING TO SAY? WHY NOT WRITE TO TEAM OX A OXM@O More Xbox news at gamesradar.com/oxm THE OFFICIAL XBOX MAGAZINE 005 INSIDER DECEMBER 2018 insider This month has been a bit of an odd one, full of sad goodbyes but also excitement for the future. First up is news of Telltale Games’ unfortunate closure on p8. Famous for The Walking Dead episodic series and others, it’s come as a huge shock to the games 008 industry, especially as the studio had some big projects on the horizon, such as a Stranger Things game. We have a full rundown of the situation and what it means for Telltale’s unfinished series. Elsewhere, Remedy’s excellent Alan Wake (p12) is being adapted for TV by Legion’s Peter Calloway. 012 Its episodic horror vibe is perfect for TV, so we’ve got high hopes. There’s also been another studio closure, this time Capcom’s Vancouver office – the people behind Dead Rising (p14). It’s been a huge part of Xbox’s history, so we’re incredibly sad about it, but here’s hoping we won’t be able to kill these 014 particular zombies off completely. Last we look at the huge collection of Final Fantasy games coming to Xbox One’s library on p18. While recent entries have made it to Xbox, you’ll also get the chance to play the classic FFVII on the world’s best console. 018 006 THE OFFICIAL XBOX MAGAZINE THE OFFICIAL XBOX MAGAZINE 007 TELLTALE INSIDER END GAME A sad tale of our times Telltale Games’ releases are in doubt following the shock news that it is shedding most of its staffwithimmediateeffect Over the past few years we’ve ultimately, that did not translate to witnessed a fair share of developer sales.