Is "revengeance" even a word? We doubt it, but the Metal Gear universe will live on in this spinoff that features Raiden as the star character. Players will wield his sword and dice their way through this highly anticipated action title.
Tomb Raider will relaunch the venerable franchise and retell the story of Lara Croft's origins. This vision of Tomb Raider features a grittier and darker tone than previous titles had. The quintessential city-building simulator will be back and better than ever with a brand-new engine and fresh gameplay mechanics. God of War: Ascension will take things back before the events of the trilogy and provide the ultimate origin story of Kratos.
Gears of War: Judgment will also be an origin story, depicting the events that took place before the trilogy. With one fantastic "Walking Dead" video game in the books, this first-person shooter based on the AMC TV series has a lot to live up to.
Seen this game on the list before? That's because BioShock Infinite was originally scheduled for release in , but the necromancers over at Irrational Games pushed this highly ambitious title into this year. Call it GTA Lego style. Lego City Undercover will offer Wii U owners a unique and lighthearted take on the open-world action adventure game. Last Light is the follow-up to Metro , the story of post-apocalyptic Russia.
Luigi will battle ghosts and solve puzzles this time, exclusively on the 3DS. Heroes and villains from the DC Comics universe do battle in this fighter from the team that brought us Mortal Kombat. Riptide is the sequel to Dead Island that picks up right after the original left off. The game looks like it'll provide a lot of what we loved about the original, perhaps save for that unforgettable first trailer! The same studio that brought PlayStation 3 owners the Uncharted series takes a dark turn in The Last of Us , the story of a man hired to protect a girl during a devastating plague.
Don't expect the lighthearted tone of Uncharted in this one. Pikmin 3 is the long-awaited third game in the strategy game series that won over crowds when it first debuted on the GameCube. Sam Fisher is back again beating up terrorists and making it look easy. Will it even go online in , or will it get pushed back to ? While these are important questions, thanks to the massive success of Skyrim , we're willing to give Bethesda some leeway in bringing the first MMO set in the Elder Scrolls universe 1, years before the events in Skyrim to market.
Scores for the first three Gears of War games: 94 , 93 , and There are several reasons to think such a feat is achievable. Sony's own "of War" series gets its own prequel installment this spring with Ascension , the seventh God of War game overall and the first new title in the Greek mythology action-adventure series to debut on the PS3 since 's God of War III In the single-player mode, you'll help Kratos begin his rebellion against Ares.
The big news, however, is the addition of online multiplayer for the first time in the series. So many big names on our list so far, and we're only now arriving at what could be the biggest of them all: Rockstar's long-awaited follow-up to 's Grand Theft Auto IV , a game that has sold more than 25 million units to date while receiving the highest Metascore of all time 98 on both the and PS3.
GTA 5 will be based in Los Angeles called Los Santos in the game and the surrounding area—encompassing the franchise's largest playable world to date—and feature three different playable characters.
But even if it's just more of the same, it'll likely wind up as one of 's best games. Note that, while rumored, a Wii U release has not been confirmed. This delayed third installment—a Diablo -style dungeon-crawler which serves as a loose prequel to the first two games—still doesn't have a release date, but is expected to arrive early this year. Expected in April, this new fighting game features some very familiar-looking combatants: your favorite heroes and villains from the DC Comics universe.
A new franchise from one of the PlayStation's top developers? The new game is a horror-themed action-adventure that follows Joel and the younger Ellie across a post-apocalyptic America teeming with zombie-like infected humans and small groups of healthy survivors. One challenge ahead for Naughty Dog could be the need to differentiate its product from Telltale's recent and very similar on paper Walking Dead game, released to great acclaim last year; early previews, however, suggest that the visuals alone are enough to set The Last of Us apart.
Grand Theft Auto V may or may not come to the Wii U, but Undercover basically amounts to a Lego-ized take on the GTA formula, albeit with the protagonist being a law enforcement officer rather than a criminal. It's also less violent than Rockstar's series.
The open-world game prompted a positive response when an early version was unveiled to the press last fall, with praise going to the world's vast size and the game's plentiful personality and humor. Probably the most-anticipated announced title coming for Nintendo's handheld device this year, Dark Moon is a direct sequel to the GameCube adventure Luigi's Mansion Expect that game's vacuum cleaner-driven gameplay to return as poor Luigi is sent to explore several new haunted houses.
Originally announced for a late release, the game should now land in stores this spring. Another holdover from our games preview, Revengeance may not win points for its goofy title, but it does bring a new emphasis on action to the decades-old stealth franchise, thanks to the arrival of co-developer PlatinumGames Bayonetta.
Taking place after the events of Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots , the fast-paced game centers on the cyborg ninja Raiden and his battle against private militias run by criminal organizations.
Expect to do a lot more killing—using your high frequency katana blade—and a lot less sneaking around than you typically would in a Metal Gear game. A sequel to the FPS Metro , Last Light retains that game's post-apocalyptic Moscow setting and story-driven survival horror gameplay, but moves to an even more minimalist user interface with no on-screen UI elements, allowing players to fully immerse themselves in the bleak, mostly underground world of protagonist Artyom.
Author Dmitry Glukhovsky, whose book Metro inspired the first game, remains a consultant, though Last Light is not based on his sequel novel. The new game will indeed be available on the PS3 in addition to and PC versions even though its predecessor wasn't, but a once-rumored Wii U version is off the table for now.
Finally arriving in North America next week after a lengthy delay the Japanese version was released back in , this JRPG is a collaboration between animator Hayao Miyazaki's Studio Ghibli and game developer Level 5 creators of the Professor Layton series, among numerous other titles.
Expect stunning visuals reminiscent of Ghibli's acclaimed films like Spirited Away and Princess Mononoke and a storyline centering on an orphaned young boy who enters a magical parallel universe where his mother may still be alive. Reviews good ones are starting to come in this week. The first Pikmin game since 's GameCube title Pikmin 2 90 returns to the miniature garden world of the cute plant-like Pikmin creatures.
The real-time strategy title allows you to directly control four Pikmin leaders and up to creatures under their command, with several new types including Pink Pikmin who fly and Rock Pikmin who like to smash things.
The new game will make use of the GamePad controller's screen as a map though you may use the Wii remote and nunchuk if you prefer , though gameplay remains a single-player affair. Another key Wii U exclusive, this cartoony, fast-paced platformer is the sequel to 's Rayman Origins 92 , one of the original Wii's best-reviewed titles.
Up to four players can participate at once in local co-op mode choose from returning characters Rayman, Globox, and the Teensies, plus newcomer Barbara , while some levels involve rhythm gameplay using the GamePad's touchscreen. Formerly called Adrift , the game is a futuristic thriller centering on a "memory hunter" in a rather bleak Paris who has the ability to manipulate or "remix," in the game's terminology other people's memories, though her own memories have been erased, and she must find out why.
Gameplay blends stealth action, platforming, puzzle-solving, exploration, and melee-style combat, and Capcom hopes to turn the game into a major franchise. It has been a decade since the last real release in the massively successful city simulation series yes, we are intentionally ignoring SimCity Societies , which regular SC developer Maxis had no part of , which makes this reboot welcome indeed for anyone who fantasizes about zoning and mass transit.
A sophisticated new simulation engine called GlassBox is at the heart of the new SimCity , and the game boasts a number of major changes and improvements, including greatly improved 3D graphics, online multiplayer with your cities able to interact with those of other players , curved roads finally! Unfortunately, while an active modding community continues to add to SimCity 4 's playability to this day, the new game may not support user-generated content at launch.
And fans are already griping about the always-online requirement. The delayed fourth game in the Sly Cooper series brings your favorite thieving raccoon back for another stealth mission picking up right after the now-eight-year-old Honor Among Thieves left off , with time travel a key plot point.
Thieves in Time also brings a new developer Sanzaru Games to the franchise, but expect gameplay to be similar to that of the first three games, though with a much bigger world to explore and a more refined graphical design. While there have been numerous video games in the past based on Trey Parker and Matt Stone's enduring Comedy Central cartoon series, The Stick of Truth appears to be the closet yet any game has come to capturing the outrageous R-rated fun of the TV show.
The game is an RPG developed by Obsidian Entertainment Dungeon Siege III , Fallout: New Vegas with heavy involvement from Parker and Stone including the script and voice acting , and you'll be playing as the newest kid in South Park, who will have to befriend Butters, Cartman, and the gang and fight villains such as the school's goth kids.
Despite publisher THQ's ongoing bankruptcy proceedings, the game is still scheduled for a March 5 release. You'll get to customize your own spaceship, fill it with yellow-, blue-, and red-uniformed crew members, and send it out to explore the pixel-art-styled galaxy, where aliens both friendly and hostile await. While projected release dates have come and gone, the most recent news has Star Command reaching gamers early this year.
While Star Command may capture the spirit of Star Trek , the simply titled Star Trek is the real deal well, to the extent that you consider the J. Abrams vision of Star Trek as the real deal. The new game is a third-person action-adventure that takes place between the events of Abrams' film and the upcoming sequel , with cast members including Chris Pine and Zachary Quinto reprising their roles in an original storyline involving the alien Gorn race seen in both the original series and in Enterprise.
A co-op mode allows two players to take on the roles of Kirk and Spock. The latest attempt to translate Disney's yeah, we said it storied franchise into a worthwhile gaming experience, Star Wars promises to be grittier and more mature than past games. The action-adventure title pits you in the role of a bounty hunter in Coruscant's seedy underbelly who knew deep below the planet's surface, where the force is absent and conventional weaponry and combat rule.
With new characters , a new classical art direction and new forms of gameplay as a result of its exclusivity to the Wii U, Nintendo made their latest console a lot more enticing.
Our most anticipated modern military shooter now that Bad Company 3 seems to have gotten the axe , we've got high hopes for Battlefield 4 now that its predecessor laid the groundwork. The game is still without a release date, but a Beta or launch is rumored and expected for November.
Crysis 2 held its place atop the list of games that can put a PC to the test, and Crysis 3 looks to do the exact same and then some. The staggering power of CryEngine 3 aside , the story is what many will be drawn to in this age of bombed-out, brown and dusty post-apocalyptic shooters.
Set among the tropical swamps and overgrown New York City of , Crytek 's visual prowess is being put into gameplay, not just polish. New weapons, new enemies and the same classic choose-your-approach strategy is all making a return, in what looks to be its best iteration to date. First impressions are really everything.
So when DmC: Devil May Cry was revealed to be somewhat of a reboot of the series, with a new-look Dante , the reaction was predictable. Now the developers at Ninja Theory claim potential players are coming around , and realizing that the gameplay is what counts - and that won't be nearly as different. The fighting looks to be just as insane and intense as in past games, and our hands-on experience with the game proved it scratches the same itch as always. The demo will hopefully convince the last holdouts, but we're giving the developers the benefit of the doubt.
We're still not convinced that Dead Space 3 won't be foregoing much of the chilling scares and psychological trauma that first set it apart from other third-person shooters, but there's no denying it will be a polished experience. The developers at Visceral first raised eyebrows by confirming that the campaign would be co-op - somewhat unusual for a game built on isolation and fear.
They maintain that co-op will add to the scares , not reduce them, and the wealth of reviewer and fan criticisms of Dead Space 2 were heard. With the addition of a new weapon crafting mechanic , suits and gameplay and more, Dead Space 3 is one game that should grace any short list.
One of the few optimistic pieces of news attached to THQ of late, Obsidian Entertainment 's work on bringing South Park to life with the help of the show's creators is looking more than a little promising.
Despite several disappointing titles bearing the show's name, South Park: The Stick of Truth is poised to succeed where others have failed. Mortal Kombat proved that NetherRealm Studios still has what it takes to make one heck of a fighting game, and adding superheroes to the mix only heightens our excitement. The mere name of Injustice: Gods Among Us piqued our curiosity, and seeing the game at E3 proved it's one with a serious possibility of delivering.
With a growing roster of DC's most beloved superheroes and villains, a promise of surprising even the most devoted fans of the genre, and some entertaining and promising mechanics , NetherRealm's follow-up now has our full attention.
A reboot for Tomb Raider was more than needed, and Crystal Dynamics has been putting plenty of time and energy into making it the success we all hope it will be. Unfortunately that meant a delay, but so far the changes seem to be worth it. The inspiration taken from games like Uncharted is clear where isn't it these days?
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