I'm no fan of calling one game the best, especially when perhaps 20 deserve a shot at that crown. After much consideration, I chose 10 of the finest offerings videogame entertainment can create circa 2012. It was a year when publishers continued their focus on banal sequels, but a few new additions to old franchises stood head and shoulders above the rest to become their own amazing entities. Most of the best games, though, aren't part of a series at all. If you haven't yet played them, these 10 pieces of popular art will offer you every kind of emotion the world of entertainment is likely to offer, from unreserved hilarity to abject horror.
2012 In Review: The Best Games Of 2012
Far Cry 3
The cover of FAR CRY 3.
Ubisoft
Far Cry 3 grabs you from moment one when Lewis Carroll is quoted before the game itself begins. From that moment on, it's Heart of Darkness circa 2012 in the Rook Islands as insanity and nightmares come together to form one of the more believable open world experiences ever created – despite the lunacy that surrounds you at every turn. Here, you meet Vaas Montenegro. His monologue on insanity, voiced by Michael Mando, is among the finest written and acted in a videogame.
Dishonored
The cover of DISHONORED.
Bethesda Softworks
In a sometimes ugsome, plague-filled world of violence and adventure that evokes the swashbuckling nature of The Count of Monte Cristo, you're presented with so many super heroic abilities, you feel like an omniscient kid in a candy store. The favored ability? Sneaking up to an enemy and blowing him off, say, a balcony with a mighty gust of wind. Another treat: Writer Austin Grossman's narrative is engaging, compelling and never gets in the way of the gaming in the backstabbing world of Dunwall. And the actors include Carrie Fisher and Susan Sarandon (whose Granny Rags is both creepy and memorable).
I'm no fan of calling one game the best, especially when perhaps 20 deserve a shot at that crown. After much consideration, I chose 10 of the finest offerings videogame entertainment can create circa 2012. It was a year when publishers continued their focus on banal sequels, but a few new additions to old franchises stood head and shoulders above the rest to become their own amazing entities. Most of the best games, though, aren't part of a series at all. If you haven't yet played them, these 10 pieces of popular art will offer you every kind of emotion the world of entertainment is likely to offer, from unreserved hilarity to abject horror.
2012 In Review: The Best Games Of 2012
Far Cry 3
The cover of FAR CRY 3.
Ubisoft
Far Cry 3 grabs you from moment one when Lewis Carroll is quoted before the game itself begins. From that moment on, it's Heart of Darkness circa 2012 in the Rook Islands as insanity and nightmares come together to form one of the more believable open world experiences ever created – despite the lunacy that surrounds you at every turn. Here, you meet Vaas Montenegro. His monologue on insanity, voiced by Michael Mando, is among the finest written and acted in a videogame.
Dishonored
The cover of DISHONORED.
Bethesda Softworks
In a sometimes ugsome, plague-filled world of violence and adventure that evokes the swashbuckling nature of The Count of Monte Cristo, you're presented with so many super heroic abilities, you feel like an omniscient kid in a candy store. The favored ability? Sneaking up to an enemy and blowing him off, say, a balcony with a mighty gust of wind. Another treat: Writer Austin Grossman's narrative is engaging, compelling and never gets in the way of the gaming in the backstabbing world of Dunwall. And the actors include Carrie Fisher and Susan Sarandon (whose Granny Rags is both creepy and memorable).
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