Yes, despite the image above of a half-octopus swashbuckler, this year's innovation isn't destructible characters.

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The tropical island setting is littered with destructible objects and AI buggies to avoid or crash into.

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Environments are destructible: you can break furniture and use it on enemies, burst through walls to open up new areas, and so forth.

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Mr Cheney is proving no more destructible than Lord Voldemort.

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While a game like Uncharted makes combat feel like something out of a movie with climbing, rolling, jumping and destructible cover, Call of Duty just features endless streams of enemies that you point and shoot at.

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