When you test out tech and games for a living, you often get access to things before they launch but, for a host of reasons, rarely more than a week or so out from the on-sale date. So, when I got a review code for Kingdom Come: Deliverance II right at the very start of January this year, a full month before its release, I was impressed by the implied confidence.
Now, a month later, the game is on the cusp of being available, and I've spent some 65 hours in its version of medieval Bohemia, all the while reflecting on its immediate status as the most impressive game my PS5 Pro has yet powered. I've talked a bunch about how it's an expensive console that feels hard to justify if you already have a PS5, but this feels like the start of a tidal shift.
