It’s that time of year when Federal regulations mandate that all media organizations publish their Top Ten lists. All of Player Affinity’s gaming department will be rolling out our choices for Best Of in these last few days of 2011, and the PC Department is starting off with Fergus Halliday’s choices for Ten Best PC Games of 2011:
Remember back in 2010 when all that crazy business between the former heads of Infinity Ward, Activision and EA was going on? Well, it hasn’t stopped and probably won’t for a while still.
In Los Angeles, the California Superior Court has just ruled that Activision can now go ahead with its lawsuit against EA in regards to the departure of former Infinity Ward leaders Jason West and Vince Zampella. A motion filed by the former heads and EA was ruled against by Judge Elihu Berle, which allows the jury trial involving all three parties to go ahead in May next year. Activision maintains its claims that “EA interfered with its employment contract with West and Zampella and aided and abetted the pair in what the company says is the breach of [their] fiduciary duties”.
The PlayStation Vita hit Japanese stores just last week and Sony is now getting
ready for the US launch on February 22nd. Here are all the titles expected to release with the handheld at launch.
Here are my top 10 games of 2011. It has been quite an amazing year for games, one of the best in a long time for me in fact and I am very excited for 2012.
1. Batman: Arkham City
While not the perfect sequel to Arkham Asylum, it got pretty close. Less Riddler junk and a slightly bigger, more interesting world with perhaps the more interesting characters getting more time in the spotlight would have made it far better, but Batman still takes the lead for me this year.
1) Shadow of the Colossus & ICO HD Collection
This game was already locked at number one for me the day that it was released. The first time I played Shadow of the Colossus, it was unlike any game that I had ever played before. It was so simple, but at the same time difficult; beautiful,yet sorrowful. Shadow hit me on a level that I had previously never thought possible, and of which has never happened again. Shadow was a groundbreaking game for me, so its spot on my top 10 list was pretty much set. When compiled with ICO at a lower price tag, this collection is one that all PS3 owners should have on their shelves.
2) Skyrim
Chances are that if you are reading this list, then you have already made your opinion on whether or not you are going to be playing Skyrim, but for those who have not played or heard anything about it, Skyrim is a pretty amazing game. Let me preface this by saying that there are still a lot of bugs (as in most all Bethesda games), but there is also an extreme amount of polish from the last Bethesda developed game, Fallout: New Vegas. The sheer depth and scope of everything in TES: V makes it something that you really should experience first hand, and will likely be in the top three of most game websites “Top 10” lists.
The Gears
of War 3 downloadable content train keeps on rolling in January with the
release of another load of new content for one of 2011’s biggest releases. Entitled ‘Fenix Rising’, this new map pack introduces five new maps, four character skins, and a new experience system
that lets players “Re-up” through level 100 to unlock exclusive weapon skins.
Coinciding with the Winter Solstice, Atlus and Cyanide Studios have released a trailer for the latest video game adaptation of George R. R. Martin’s A Song Of Fire And Ice book series, A Game Of Thrones the RPG. This should not be confused with Cyanide’s other adaptation that came out earlier this year, AGame Of Thrones: Genesis, the strategy game.
