Our Most Wanted Games of 2024 – #20 to #16

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We’re heading fully into wish fulfilment with this latest set of Most Wanted games, with two of the five totally lacking any kind of release date announcement or indications. That, and that four of the five are all reviving series and games that are decades old! So, what games are we talking about?

After far too many years of waiting, Sega is finally giving fans what they want and rebooting a whole host of their cult classic franchises. Out of a crowd that includes Crazy Taxi, Golden Axe and others, we’re by far and away most excited for Jet Set Radio.

Details are really thin on the ground right now – we don’t have platforms or a release date right now – but there’s snippets of info. For one thing, some of the original team are returning, and it seems that this could be a shift to a fully open world, while retaining so much of the original cel shaded art style and cyber funk tone. It’s been over 20 years since the last Jet Set Radio (and this is heartbreakingly still not being remastered or released via back compatibility), and it’s amazing to have it coming back.

PS5, XSX|S, PC – 26th January 2024

Tekken 8 is so close that fighting game fans can practically taste it. After all, they’ve been able to play it very recently thanks to the Tekken 8 demo that was available through December.

It’s been a good long time since Tekken 7, and the team have made plenty changes to depths and nuances of the combat system. There’s a new heat system, a modified Rage Art system that uses common inputs, and a recover gauge that’s seemingly drawn from the Tekken Tag Tournament games. Of course, there’s also the use of Unreal Engine 5, which is allowing for some stunning visuals.

PS5, XSX|S, PC – 20th March 2024

Reviving one of the earliest