What are the most anticipated video games of 2023?

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After a very good 2022, the year that begins can mark an era.

There are many other games that deserve special attention: the

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these are the most anticipated games.

The works that, if they turn out as good as they seem, will catapult 2023 as one of the best years in the history of the medium:

Resident Evil IV Remake

(PlayStation 5, PlayStation 4, Xbox Series X and Series S, Microsoft Windows).

The

of one of the best installments of one of the most iconic sagas in the world of video games.

is a term that can throw many back, but there is a small detail that changes things: the remake of

it was one of the best games of the last generation of consoles (and maybe ever).

For this reason, the new version of the 2005 game that revolutionized the horror and action genre is, in its own right, one of the most anticipated.

A couple of years ago we were able to play the original in Virtual Reality (with the graphic toll that that implies) and it was one of the best experiences of 2021. If the visual section is now polished and the mechanics are refined, the best game ever has been set in empty Spain (in an autumnal town in the north of the peninsula they had kidnapped the daughter of the president of the United States) can become a resounding success.

The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom

(Nintendo Switch)

Seven years after

, Nintendo will finally present its sequel, one of the most anticipated games in history.

And if it is so expected, it is for a simple reason: in addition to the endless wait (in principle, seven years are hardly justifiable for a sequel that uses the same engine, the same animations and mechanics, and a good part of the same map), there is something indisputable. : The above opus is a solid contender for best game ever, with millions of fans around the world (it sold almost 30 million units).

And this new installment promises to expand the physical, playable and narrative frontiers of the previous one.

How not to be excited?

Images of 'Resident Evil IV Remake' and 'Harry Potter Legacy'.

Final Fantasy XVI

(PlayStation 5)

The key to Final

is found in another installment: XIV.

And in a proper name: Naoki Yoshida.

After years of languid wear and tear, the saga opted for Yoshida to revive its most ambitious multiplayer installment (released in 2010), and based on talent, history and respect for the player, the director was even able to take WOW's throne as the most popular

role-playing game.

played.

Now, at the reins of one of the canonical installments of the saga, for one player, he promises to deliver a story with medieval reminiscences, revenge that lasts for decades, a very elaborate story and even something new in the saga: combats of giant creatures. , in the purest

, where we will control in real time one of the hallmarks of the saga: the powerful and terrible summons.

Harry Potter Legacy

(PlayStation 5, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Xbox Series X and Series S, Xbox One, Microsoft Windows)

Despite the attempt to boycott it is suffering due to the position against transgender people that many activists denounce by the author of the books, JK Rowling, this is undoubtedly one of the games that is attracting the most expectation and the greatest number of enthusiasts in Looking ahead to 2023. Let's be honest, the Harry Potter saga has never had a video game that lives up to the possibilities that its world offers, but

seems to come to correct that mistake: set at the end of the 19th century, it is a game in the one in which we will be able, from the skin of a student of the magic school, to discover an entire open world full of challenges and with the unmistakable touch of the saga.

Starfield

(Xbox Series X and Series S, Microsoft Windows)

Starfield

is a new franchise and then some: the first new universe Bethesda (

,

) has created in a quarter of a century.

It is a space RPG that will give us almost total freedom to explore the many worlds of a galaxy.

Located in the year 2330, in addition to exploration and action, it promises to give us a story (with the background of a colonial war between large companies) to match.

When they describe a game as "Han Solo simulator", you have to be careful.

Concept art of 'Starfield'.

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