- #TOP 10 BEST VIDEO GAMES 2016 PS4#
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You’re free to study the battlefield as long as you like: Perhaps you could launch an artillery shell at this alien here, moving it over one square to make it shoot that alien there, but then the shell will also damage a nearby city. Into the Breach is a game that will throw five or six problems your way in a turn, and you have just three mechs to try to solve all of them. Each turn, you can see exactly what each enemy will do, but that only helps you so much. But it’s God of War’s delicate touch, as Kratos and his son slowly connect over the course of their journey, that makes this game truly impressive.įrom the creators of indie hit FTL, Into the Breach is a turn-based strategy game in which you control three mechs protecting near-apocalyptic Earth from marauding aliens - think Pacific Rim mixed with chess. The game’s bravura camerawork is done in one long, uninterrupted shot with no loading screens in sight, and the combat has a real thunk to it thanks to weighty animations that make every axe blow feel thunderous. In between, there’s plenty of combat and exploration, some scheming Norse gods, one very entertaining talking decapitated head, and a deftly-handled dramatic arc of a father opening up to his son. The pair set off to fulfill his wife’s final wish, spreading her ashes from the highest peak. Now he’s a widower, grieving, and unable to do much more than gruffly bark orders at his son. Kratos has grown old, moved north to the realm of Norse mythology, married, and had a son. The first shot of this franchise reboot establishes an entirely new tone, with Kratos wielding an axe not to chop off someone’s head, but to cut down a tree for a funeral pyre for his recently deceased wife. The first three God of War games were very dumb but kinda fun, featuring Kratos, a pissed-off Greek demigod, killing the entire pantheon while being humorless and horny (bathhouse sequences were not infrequent). The usual caveats apply - I wasn’t able to play every game released this year, there are some great titles that I wasn’t able to include, and taste remains maddeningly subjective - but here are my favorite ten games of 2018. And some truly pleasant surprises stayed under the radar until right before release, like the jaw-dropping Tetris Effect.
#TOP 10 BEST VIDEO GAMES 2016 PC#
Defiantly unique PC titles like Subnautica and Rimworld finally hit 1.0 after years in “Early Access” states, proving that devs can work closely with a community without falling prey to design-by-committee.
#TOP 10 BEST VIDEO GAMES 2016 PS4#
The PS4 hit it out of the park, with exclusives like Spider-Man and God of War both being good enough to justify purchasing the console, especially with prices falling. The Switch has become a place for indie titles to flourish, providing huge audiences for titles like Dead Cells and Into the Breach. Instead, the year continued gaming’s hot streak.įortnite made gaming more culturally relevant than it’s ever been, turning a whole cadre of Twitch streamers into micro-celebrities. The sheer number of instant classics released in 2017 meant 2018 could easily have felt like a letdown. It's hard not to be equally thrilled to play it.Photo: Maya Robinson/Vulture and Photo by Rockstar Games Even amidst a long and reportedly troubled development, Metal Gear Solid V feels like a game that's thrilled to exist. Its best moments are so carefully implemented, so precise, so simultaneously sinister and silly, that it's easy to imagine the joy that went into their creation.
#TOP 10 BEST VIDEO GAMES 2016 SERIES#
Free from the structures and tropes that have defined it up until this point, you can the series start to have fun again. It's a Metal Gear remarkably unlike other Metal Gears, which is its secret brilliance. Ditching the narrow, narratively focused structure that dominated the previous games (with the exception of Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker, which serves as a rougher test bed for some of the ideas here), this entry throws the player into large swaths of enemy controlled territory, giving you the ability to plan and execute missions when, where, and how you want them. Metal Gear Solid V (PS3, PS4, Xbox 360, Xbox One, PC): Hideo Kojima's final Metal Gear Solid is also his most ambitious.
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