Wolfenstein: The New Order
Continuation – and passing rethinking – Wolfenstein became perhaps the most important purebred shooter of recent years. Reincarnated Doom , Of course, damn good, but besides shooting demons he has nothing to offer – he consists of 100% meat with blood. The new “Wulf” dips us with the head not only in hurricane shootings, but also in the frightening world of the victorious Nazism. With a terrible, brutal history, quite original weapons and an incredibly worked out environment – after Richy Fish Casino all, the victorious Germany perverted literally everything that hands could reach. Singing on German Beatles, robotic dogs, the lunar base of the Nazis – we have not seen such an alternative reality in shooters yet. And cutting the Nazis right-toleous Blaskovits-exactly the hero whom this world deserves.
Divinity: Original Sin
One of the most creative classic RPG recent years, in which each problem can really be solved in several ways. Not on paper, but in reality. From Original Sin pleasantly blows table roles. In it, as in D&D, you need to know the rules. And if you know them, then no one can prohibit the use of legal loopholes and approach problems from different angles.
Valiant Hearts: The Great War
There are at least two ways to find out the truth about the First World War, which in the West is called just a great war: to read a remark or pass Valiant Hearts. And it does not matter that cartoon heroes act in the pseudo -core adventure, and explosions block the path to them unscrupulous from the exhibition of children's creativity. The farther the game leads us away from the cartoon-bitter tie, the deeper the poisoned gas of IPRA, the damp of mine vokua and the cold of Vobekur. And the heroes, who will not breed a single word throughout the game, are forever sinking into the soul and even years later they turn there and now and then, scratching it from the inside. Valiant Hearts: The Great War is not without flaws. But this is a worthy game about the Great War.
Middle-Earth: Shadow of Mordor
One of the few successful games based on the works of Tolkien, which fills the plot gaps between "Hobbit" And "Lord of the rings". Developers from Monolith took mechanics as a basis Assassin’s Creed , A fight from the series Batman: Arkham And the visual style of Peter Jackson's films. And it would be another project for a license, albeit pretty good, if not for one detail – the Nemesis system. The main character, the risen ranger Talion, changed the world around not only his actions, but also his death. It was worth some particularly lucky or thick-skinned orc to cut you down, he immediately became even stronger, was overgrown with a set of additional characteristics and advanced up the orchid hierarchy. Thus, the Private Bolvanchik turned into a sworn enemy, whom you are looking for all over the Mordora to wind up a muzzle on his guts on his sword and erase the arrogant muzzle. Not every game can cause such a sincere hatred of a virtual being.
Tales from the borderlands
Perhaps the best creation Telltale. The corporate insanity of the series Borderlands , characters who now and then want to give five (and old acquaintances here too are!), black humor, a divinely selected soundtrack and, of course, the plot, after which you follow with an open mouth.
Moreover, watching the showdowns with bandits, survival races and shameless lies of the main characters will be extremely funny even to those who generally hear about Borderlands for the first time. It is completely impossible to find fault with this game – you can only enjoy it.
Dark Souls II
The main ideologist of the series – Hidetak Miyazaki almost did not take part in the development of the second part. So it is not surprising that, according to many fans, Dark Souls 2 came out the weakest game of the franchise. Somewhere Sikvel lacked difficulty, somewhere he was too repeated the previous projects From Software , And some bosses and levels lacked diversity and depth. But even so the game was incredibly exciting, and the path to the final credits turned into a real test. Dark Souls 2 is definitely not the best in the Souls series, but still one of the best games on this planet.
South Park: The Stick of Truth
Different games gathered in our top: stupid and serious, funny and sad, cute and brutal, and also … completely disgusting! Yes, yes, it is this word that comes to mind when you remember South Park: The Stick of Truth. After all, everything is to match the animated series! The game is not afraid to offend anyone, there are simply no forbidden topics for jokes: religion, racism, abortion and kakahi (where without them!) – this is the recipe for a hellish cocktail called "South Park". For this we love him! One could also note the RPG-component, customization and fighter … But all this is not so important when you can collect ChinPocomons in the company of Princess Kenny!
Titanfall
A dynamic militant who combined the speed of an arena-shutters with progression Call of Duty and huge humanoid furs. One another, as it turned out, does not interfere at all.
Watch Dogs
If you discard all the problems with Dawngraid graphics and marketing Ubisoft , That Watch Dogs -A good GTA CLEL in an interesting setting with unique gameplay finds. All sins can be forgiven at him, if only for the fact that he settled the path of the magnificent second part.
Hearthstone
Every time Blizzard debuts in a new genre for itself, it changes it forever, dividing the story into "before" and "after". The only famous exception is Heroes of the Storm. When the creators Warcraft And Starcraft released Hearthstone , KKI got out of the highly specialized genre for geeks and became a mass enthusiasm. Over time, the game developed, and rather controversial decisions were made that upset many players – but even after all this, Hearthstone remains the king of the mountain.
P.T.
Short demo, or rather a “playable teaser”, to Silent Hills From Hideo Kojima and Guillermo del Toro turned out to be so rich and terrible that she took the title of best horror 2014 without problems. And we can only grieve about a masterpiece that we will never see.
The Banner Saga
Cold and gloomy role -playing step -by -step tactics fell in love with many players not only excellent gameplay, but also a wonderful Nordic visual style. And, of course, its unusual harsh history, which significantly depends on the decisions you make.
Far Cry 4
From successful Far Cry 3 All gameplay elements moved here – except that the tropical island was replaced by snow -covered Himalayas. For the second time, the game no longer caused a splash, and the new villain was not as impressed as Vaas, but otherwise the project did not drop the quality bar.
Sunset Overdrive
A rare game where the heroes demolish the fourth wall continuously jokes (above themselves and society), and each level is the flight of creativity and madness. Well, yes, shooting and parking here is also interesting.
Alien: ISOLATION
Among the horseman horror, work Creative Assembly stood out not only by a large budget, but also an innovative approach to the creation of AI opponents. In fact, he was there alone – a title alien. But damn how this creature acted on the nerves! In fact, she did not obey the script and literally did everything she wants.
Transistor
Minimalistic anti -utopia, combining the mechanics of Japanese rolens and a western approach to the narrative. Beautiful both in appearance and content.
This War of Mine
The most atypical and true game about the war in the history of industry. This War of Mine shows that any armed conflict is not a cool technique, beautiful explosions and adventures, but hunger, cold, fear and hundreds of broken fate of innocent people.
Goat Simulator
Goat Simulator , Probably a key parody project of our time. We looked over the game on April 1 and gave it 10.5 out of 10. Since then, the project has been actively developing and good, distinguished by wool, horns and capabilities. Maeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee's earnings!
History reasoned
The winner of 2014 became Alien: ISOLATION. Perhaps the victory was provided to her by the factor of surprise – after Aliens: Colonial Marines We no longer expected anything good, and the developers from The Creative Assembly It seemed not a very suitable team for the implementation of such a project. But time passed, a pleasant surprise was dispersed, and now the “alien” only in the “Second League”.
To be continued…
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