The hotly anticipated Final Fantasy XV game is just a few months away from being released, and part of Square Enix’s efforts to promote the game ahead of its release, they’ve given everyone one a sneak peak of what to expect from the world environment. What their trailer shows us is that they’ve prepared a world that is as rich and varied in geography and architecture as virtually any other game out there, and, as you would expect from a Final Fantasy game, with some truly cinematic graphics going hand in hand.

With the game having such a long development process, some of the initial excitement at the announcement of the release of the fifteenth game in the series has waned recently. While this isn’t guaranteed to completely make up for the close to 10 years from its initial announcement and its actual delivery, it is clear that that time has been well spent on ensuring that the graphics quality is world class and that the size of the map is huge. The only thing left to concern ourselves with is whether or not the story and combat is able to meet or exceed our expectations.

Two upcoming games are generating a lot of interest within the gaming community; Horizon Zero Dawn and FarCry Primal. I make a note of placing them side by side because they seem to share a lot of similarities. Horizon Zero Dawn has yet to be released, so these similarities could be pretty superficial.

Both of these games are set in a prehistoric era, but with some important differences. FarCry provides a more realistic image of the time, where you play as a hunter who is working his way up the ranks to become a tribal leader. It includes inter-tribal conflict, training/taming of wild animals, and organised hunting trips between you and NPC’s.

Zero dawn is also set in a prehistoric era, but with a massively important difference. Namely, the monsters in the game aren’t biological but machine. Killing them will give you a lot of resources that could see you firing explosive arrows and laying explosive trip wires.

March is just around the corner and there is a line of games of different types, across different consoles due to be released throughout March.

There is too much too go into for this article, though we will just give a brief teaser into each of the selected titles:

Far Cry: Primal (PC): Ditch the tech and go primal; tame and control beasts and take control of each of their unique abilities as you battle against man and beast in this ultimate hunting and survival based game.

Heavy Rain (PS4): The Origami Killer is out on a killing spree. Play as a variety of characters throughout the adventure, including an everyday father, a private investigator, and a member of the FBI; their journeys cross over at various points in the game.

The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess HD (Wii U): Ok it’s a rehash of Twilight Princess, and so it’s going to be clearer and crisper in terms of a gaming experience. Play the hero and save the princess; solve puzzles, go on an adventure, and battle your way through the dungeons of the game and work your way towards the final showdown with Ganandorf and his many forms.

Tom Clancy’s The Division (PS4, Xbox One, PC): New York has gone to hell and maybe even the world after a pandemic sweeps the city. Play as a division of elite sleeper agents trying to maintain control and order on the streets of NYC, and battle against gangs, rioters and enemy agents.

Hitman (PS4, Xbox One, PC): Play as the notorious Agent 47 and move around on a fixed style freeze-frame area finding different ways to avoid or kill enemy targets; learn how to use your skills and tools with the different skills and tools of the enemy targets and access secret areas of the game.

Aside from the illegal stuff, you can download a variety of games legally online from various sites; the cost of the games vary’s depending on where you are downloading and the type of game you are after. Hey if you are lucky some of them may be free!

Some of these games will be downloadable and playable for a particular console only, so might not be possible to play on your P.C or other consoles; games from the PSN network for example.

You can get free quick easy-play games from myrealgames, iwin, and bigfishgames; they have a massive selection of games there that you can play, though be aware that some of the games will claim to be fully free, but may be a stripped down demo that you can play to a certain point, but will need to pay (buy the game), to unlock the full game (it varies on different sites).

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Depending on how old the computer is, you should be able to download a variety of different games to play on you P.C/Laptop, but it depends on the graphics card you have as well as the RAM (Random Access Memory), in you’re computer.

Some of the more powerful games may meet the minimum requirements, but you also have to consider the age of the computer and the worn out hardware that may be reaching the end of it’s life.

Therefore if your computer won’t play the games you want, even after meeting the minimum requirements, then a partial upgrade may be possible if the system is less than 2 years old. So if it is less than 2 years old you only really need to get a new Graphics card and more RAM for your system to give it a boost; possibly even a new CPU, but process of elimination first.