This Week in Games – The Sims and Inferno Squad Solve a LEGO Murder

<p>It&&num;8217&semi;s a week of ports&comma; LEGO&comma; and one of the last big releases for the calendar year in This Week in Games&period; So get ready to re-solve some murders in Los Angeles&comma; save some citizens with LEGO&comma; and avenging the Emperor in a new <em>Star Wars <&sol;em>game&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>First and foremost&comma; <em>Star Wars Battlefront II <&sol;em>arrives on November 17th for PS4&comma; Xbox One and PC&period; It&&num;8217&semi;s already available for those with EA Access&comma; as one might have guessed since there have been <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;bagogames&period;com&sol;complaints-ea-lowering-hero-unlock-costs-star-wars-battlefront-ii&sol;">many complaints already<&sol;a> about some of the game&&num;8217&semi;s microtransactions&period; Regardless&comma; fans of the <em>Battlefront <&sol;em>games will be excited to know that there is a story in this one as opposed to 2015&&num;8217&semi;s release&period; On top of that&comma; there have been tweaks to the multiplayer&period; So hopefully the early opinions of some of the more minor features in the multiplayer haven&&num;8217&semi;t plagued the entirety of that component and that the story is a worthy addition to the <em>Star Wars <&sol;em>canon&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>If comic books are more your thing though&comma; there&&num;8217&semi;s always Marvel to rely on&period; <em>LEGO Marvel Super Heroes 2 <&sol;em>is the newest LEGO game and will be released on PC&comma; PS4&comma; and Xbox One on November 17th&comma; as well&period; As always&comma; this is a great option for if you want to play with multiple people in the same house&period; I also find these games to take stories and characters from the Marvel universe and weave them together in an interesting way&period; You&&num;8217&semi;re probably mostly interested in this for the characters you can play as&comma; and as with any <em>LEGO <&sol;em>game&comma; there will be plenty of Marvel fanfare to go around&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>But now we&&num;8217&semi;re onto the ports&period; Remember <em>L&period;A Noire<&sol;em>&quest; I have very fond memories of the game when it came out on PS3 and Xbox 360&period; It had some technical problems&comma; but Rockstar&&num;8217&semi;s detective game also had compelling characters and interesting stories for players to accuse their way through&period; Well&comma; Nintendo Switch owners will now get the opportunity to play through Rockstar&&num;8217&semi;s love letter to the Hollywood detective film&period; PS4 and Xbox One versions will also be released on November 14th&comma; when Switch owners will also get it&period; I&&num;8217&semi;m more curious how the game&&num;8217&semi;s motion capture holds up after being absolutely breathtaking when it was first revealed&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<figure id&equals;"attachment&lowbar;131718" aria-describedby&equals;"caption-attachment-131718" style&equals;"width&colon; 1280px" class&equals;"wp-caption aligncenter"><img class&equals;"size-full wp-image-131718" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;cdn&period;bagogames&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2017&sol;11&sol;13192008&sol;maxresdefault-4&period;jpg" alt&equals;"The Elder Scrolls V&colon; Skyrim" width&equals;"1280" height&equals;"720" &sol;><figcaption id&equals;"caption-attachment-131718" class&equals;"wp-caption-text">&lpar;The Elder Scrolls V&colon; Skyrim&comma; Nintendo Switch&rpar;<&sol;figcaption><&sol;figure>&NewLine;<p>How about <em>The Elder Scrolls V&colon; Skyrim<&sol;em>&quest; You must remember that since it&&num;8217&semi;s been re-released on pretty much everything at this point&period; This week we&&num;8217&semi;re getting two versions of Bethesda&&num;8217&semi;s popular RPG&period; First is for Nintendo Switch owners who will get <em>The Elder Scrolls <&sol;em>series on a Nintendo platform for the first time ever with <em>Skyrim <&sol;em>on November 17th&period; Utilizing the Joy-con controllers&comma; this might be one of the cooler ways to play the game&period; But Bethesda couldn&&num;8217&semi;t just release one cool way to play the 2011 game&period; PlayStation VR owners will get their hands on <em>Skyrim <&sol;em>on November 17th as well&comma; offering a completely new and immersive way to experience the game&period; This is the version I have my eyes on as possibly being enough justification to play through the world one more time&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>For those who are more about speaking Simlish than any other language&comma; <em>The Sims 4 <&sol;em>is finally making its way to consoles&period; The popular PC game will be released on PS4 and Xbox One on November 17th&period; The game will feature many of the additional content packs that were released for the PC version after its launch&period; There will also be post-launch content released after the console versions are put out in the world&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>And then there&&num;8217&semi;s <em>de Blob<&sol;em>&comma; which THQ Nordic will be bringing to PS4 and Xbox One on November 14th&period; The Wii classic makes its way to current gen consoles with better graphics and adds to THQ Nordic&&num;8217&semi;s arsenal of older games being updated for the current generation&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>That&&num;8217&semi;s it for this week&excl; Will you be picking up any games that are coming out this week&quest; I&&num;8217&semi;ll give you a fair warning&comma; there&&num;8217&semi;s not much on its way next week so you might want to reconsider if your answer is no&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;