5 Gamescom reveals you simply must know about

Even if you’re not lucky enough to be going to Cologne for the 2010 Gamescom expo, there are some games that you owe to yourself to go out of your way to find out about. Here are the top 5 biggest reveals of Gamescom 2010, games worth flying to Germany just to get the bragging rights on being there first when they finally let the public loose on them.

5) Fallout: New Vegas

Since E3, news on Bethesda’s second Fallout game has been a little more forthcoming, so Gamescom attendees can look forward to exploring a different area of the desert, character creation and more of your character’s dark back story. You’ll want to know why you’ve been pulled out of the Mojave with a bullet in your head and who shot you, yes?

4) Guild Wars 2

Having been in development since January 1833, Arenanet is overdue to give this MMO sequel a live demo. So Guild Wars 2 will be there with 45 demo stations for attendees to get a hands-on, while NCSoft gives away a tonne of gear for them to taunt the unlucky masses with. Jealous yet?

3) Rage

Bethesda’s other big reveal of course, is Rage. The live presentation of the shooter, whose hype has spiralled way beyond the actual amount of information available on the game, will allow the select few to get a bit more intimate with some grossly deformed mutants. Which you can also do in the Pig & Whistle in Bournemouth.

2) Deus Ex: Human Revolution

With console gamers only just cottoning onto the reason why hardcore PC fans have been back-flipping over virtually nothing but teasers since 2007, Square Enix is preparing for a third major preview at this year’s Gamescom with new footage and gameplay details.

1) XCOM

The limited amount of information 2K has given us on the XCOM reboot has created ten times the number of questions it answered. The Gamescom reveal will hopefully broach some of our most burning queries, like, will there be a four-player co-operative mode, how does research and development work and should we be wary of Dave Shaw oozing black stuff from every orifice?