Best Games of 2013
2013
was a great year for gaming. Not only did a ton of amazing games come out but
this year also brought us new consoles.
I my self-picked up an Xbox One and I have to say it’s amazing but thats all for another review. This year brought us great games like Dead space 3,
Tomb Raider, Bioshock Infinite and GTA V. So let’s take a look of the best of
what 2013 had to offer.
Best
Adventure Game Tomb Raider
Xbox
360, PC and PS3
Released
March 4, 2013
As you
know, if you read my review, I loved this game. The story was great, the
characters were great and the game mechanics were great. This game tells the
story of Lara Croft on her first adventure.
Along the way she learns a lot about herself and realizes she is alot stronger
than she first thinks and fights for her life and lives of her friends to get
off the Island she finds herself on. I
feel like this game was great and I think it should have gotten more praise
than it did. Full Review Here
Rating 8.5 of 10 (Highly Recommended)
Best Game to Fool Around in Saints Row IV
Xbox
360, PC and PS3
Released
August 19 2013
This
game was fan frickin tastic. This game is so over the top I don’t even know
where to begin talking about it. The game takes place around your character,
The Boss, who has gone from the leader of a small street gang to the president
of the good old US of A. The world is then destroyed by aliens and its up you and the Saints to get revenge on the alien bastards. You get into a
computer simulation of Steel port and you have to fight the Aliens and save
your friends. When in the Computer you are given super powers. Saints Row 4
really shines when it comes to the powers. You are given about 10 powers
ranging from Super speed, super jumping, Shooting ice and fire out of your
hands to even the ability to light yourself on fire. This game takes what was
already over the top and great about Saints Row the Third and makes it even
better by giving your super powers. Now this game was not perfect, there are a
lot of glitches and bugs that have been fixed over the time of its release to
now, but it’s still worth noting. Another part of the game that I felt was
lacking was the plot. The story of the game was good, but it didn’t really draw
me in like the story of SR3 did. I found myself fooling around with the super
powers and killing people than more that doing actual missions. It is important
to note that this game also supports drop in drop out multiplayer that works
very well. Saints Row IV was good but
not great like I was hoping it would be.
7 of 10 (Recommended)
Best Horror Game Outlast
PC
Released
September 4, 2013
This
was one of the best games I played in 2013 by far. Outlast is a survival horror
game that takes place in an old insane asylum.
You play a reporter that has come to the asylum to see what has been
going on. This game was nice because it was a horror game that actually
delivered on the Horror aspect of the game.
Many games that come out now say they are horror games and end up being
boring and not scary what so ever. Games like Slender: The Arrival for instance
say they are horror games yet I played the entire game and was not scared once.
However Outlast did actually scare the crap out of me a few times as you can
see in my videos.
The game mechanics
were another part of the game that is truly worth noting. Many times in the
game you come across dark rooms. Whats a guy to do to see in the dark? How about
take you your super cool video camera with night vision. A lot of games have tried to use cameras in
their games and they just don’t really work all that well. The video camera in outlast works really well
and I’m glad they worked hard to get the camera to work just right. This game
is also home to one of the most disturbing scenes I have ever witnessed in
video games. I was shocked when this part of the game happened and my jaw hit
the floor. If you have played this game odds are you know what I’m talking
about, but if you haven’t then I’ll leave a video so you can watch. Don’t say I
didn’t warn you though…
9 of ten (A Must Buy)
Best Open World GTA V
PS3 and
Xbox 360 (Pc soon)
September 17 2013
September 17 2013
Coming
into 2013 GTA V was the last game I thought I was going to pick up. I have
played some of the other games in the GTA series and I’ve never really been impressed.
I prefer Saints Row to GTA series any day. But then GTA V was coming out in
just a few weeks and there were commercials for it on T.V all the time. I saw
these commercials and thought to myself that it at least looked ok, maybe I
would try it in 2014 when it’s like 15 bucks at GameStop or something. Then the game came out and I thought I’d
watch some YouTube videos of it, and I got to say I was blown away. I went out
a picked up the game late October and I am super glad that I picked this game
up. Right out of the gates this game
starts up with one of the coolest missions I have ever played. This is the kind
of game that when you play it you can’t help but feel like a total badass. This game also features one of my favorite
characters of 2013. No, not Trevor like many of you are thinking, But Michel
DeSanta. Michel is one of the coolest characters I have ever had the joy to
play as in all of my gaming history (I’ve Played a lot of games). Anyway Michel
is such a cool guy all around and he has the best story in the game by far. Back to the game its self, GTA V’s story of
also one of the best I have played this year, and it’s a really long story
(Been playing about 15 hours and still haven’t beat it. I have been fooling
around a lot though). GTA V’s story is all about Michel and Trevor meeting back
up after many years and doing one last big score with their new friend
Franklin. I’m not going to give anything away but there are some many twists
and turns that this story gets especially good towards the end because you have
no idea what could possibly happen. Another great factor of this game is its
graphics and all the little things the developers put into this game that makes
it a masterpiece. The graphics are beautiful and are amazing to look at. Even
down to the wrinkles on the characters faces and little cuts when the character
gets hurt. Some of the little things the developers put into this game that
really make it shine are things like, when you get out of a car that you have
been driving you can actually hear the engine ticking as it cools down,
characters react differentially to you based on how your dressed and even when
you get hurt you get cuts and blood on your cloths that stay there until you
die the next time. All of these things combined into what is one of my favorite
games of 2013 and one of the best games I have ever played.
10 of 10 (An Absolute Must Buy of The Year)
Best PS3 Game The Last of Us
PS3
Released
June 14 2013
I am
one of the few people I know that were not 100% happy with this game. Don’t get me wrong the game was good, I just
fell that it was not as good as I was hoping it was going to be. This game
takes place in a Post Apocalypse America that has been taken over by clickers
(Kind of like zombies). The story follows Joel and Ellie as the fight to bring
Ellie to Colorado because Ellie is immune to the virus and she can help create
a vaccine. This game was shown at E3 and when I saw it I fell in love with it
right off the bat. The game looked great and the story sounded amazing. One of
the big points of this game was that Ellie (an AI) was supposed to be able to
think for herself and be able to do things that other AI’S don’t usually do. In
the E3 footage it shows Ellie pick up a brick and throw it at an enemy to stun
him so Joel can swoop in and kill him. However during my entire play though of
the game Ellie picked up a brick all of once and she didn’t even throw it, she
carried it around for a bit and then later dropped it. Ellie did do some new
and innovative things however, she and Jowl would sometimes make plans and she
would actually follow through with her part of what she said she would do.
Whether it be distracting an enemy by Yelling or getting an Enemy to chase her so that he chases her towards where I am hiding, she did some cool things. Another problem I had
with the game was that I was given way too many weapons for what they made the
game seem like in the E3 footage. In the footage they made it out to seem like
a game where you would usually have to find ways around enemies because you
would always have very little ammo and healing supplies. However when I played
this game I had a pistol, a rifle, a shot gun, a flame thrower a 2X4, Molotov
cocktails, nail bombs, smoke bombs, a bow and arrow and shivs and there are
even more weapons that you can pick up and throw or that only have limited
uses. With all this at my disposal I felt like a walking tank that nobody could
touch. Even when I used guns I would usually get my ammo right back. For
instance if I killed a guy with a hand gun and it took three shots, nine out of
ten times when I searched the guy he would have three hand gun bullets on him.
Its things like this that made the game feel nothing like what I was expecting.
The game was good just not amazing like what I was expecting.
7 of 10 (Recommended)
Best Next gen Game Dead Rising 3
XBOX
One
November
22 2013
Now
this is the only next gen game I have so it’s kind of the only one I can pick
but, I feel that the game deserves it. Dead Rising 3 is a zombie killing game
about a mechanic named Nick and his journey to try and escape the city before
the city is bombed by the government. As
Nick fights his way to escape the city he just not one fight zombies but people
as well. Nick is a mechanic and he uses this to his advantage. He is able to
take many different things from his environment such as street lights and
hammers and is able to make crazy things out of them. He is also able to make
new cars. Nick can take a motorcycle and a tractor and make a steam roller bike
that can plow down enemies. Now as for
graphics they didn’t really shine. The game is next gen yet the graphics still
kind of look like 360 graphics but that is the games art style.The cut scenes look amazing and truley look next gen. The shadows in the game really are something
amazing as well. The shadows looked very real and they moved like they would in
real life. All in all Dead Rising 3 was a great game
8.5 of 10 (Highly Recommend)
And last but not least My Top 5 Games of The Year
5- The Last of Us. (Review Above)
4- The Walking Dead Game Season Two (Review soon to come)
3- Dead Rising 3 (Review Above)
2- GTA V (Review Above)
1-Bioshock Infinite (Review Soon to come)
