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This year just got blown wide open. On the one side, blaster flashes and lightsaber swishes herald the arrival of Star Wars: Battlefront. On the other, tracer fire and technological angst rather more moodily announce the inevitable Call of Duty: Black Ops III. Frankly, fitting our impressions of both of them takes up a fair chunk of the new issue of Official Xbox Magazine by itself.

These are truly next-gen shooters, games brimming with new ideas – trust us, we’ve seen them both first hand, and we’ll be telling you just what we think of them in exacting detail. Suffice to say, we’re pretty excited about X-Wings.

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