The entire game was built with the mobile experience in mind, so scenarios don't become long or drawn out indeed, part of the challenge lies in maximising your efficiency to out-think your opponent. The premise is that the game is a tool used by alien races to settle important disputes, rather than that whole nasty going to war thing, and the idea is to take out your foes and capture the most territory before your opponent does, using a variety of different units optimised for different tasks. Warbits is a sweet and funny turn-based strategy game cut from the same cloth as Advance Wars, but it's refined and updated it for a whole new generation.

Resistance 3 breaks out of that rut to give you a family and relationships to defend.This is the first game from two-person outfit Risky Lab, and it bodes extremely well for their future.

Most first-person shooters put a gun in your hands and point you in the direction of the things you are supposed to shoot.

But the formula is gold and will keep you coming back. Pokemon games are strictly formulaic, with blocky graphics and weak characters. It is rare for a game with full-frontal nudity to get praised for its maturity. Sequel to an old Nintendo franchise, this time our young heroes have to use magic and weapons to save their world. The sequel was more of the same, but better. The original Portal was a first-person shooter that didn't really involve any first-person shooting, and it was awesome, with a minimalistic story lightened up with some excellent humour. From the team that brought us Grand Theft Auto, LA Noire works wonderfully as a detective story.īeing bad can be such fun (see review on this page). The combat is fluid, levelling up actually feels like you are making choices rather than trying to max out everything, and the world is stunning - right down to 3D water effects. Part three of the (D)rake's progress sees one of the most memorable PS3 characters do more jungle-crawling, sand-sifting and wise-cracking in search of legendary treasure discovered by his purported Elizabethan ancestor. The top ten titles that blew us away in 2011Ī well-written story, good game mechanics and great graphics made this follow-up to Arkham Asylum our game of the year.

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