Psychedelic puzzler Small Radios, Big Televisions isn’t anti-technology, although its ultimate message touches on the dangers mankind poses to the environment, and it holds a certain skepticism towards virtual reality. This aesthetic matches its creative and quirky take on grand strategy gameplay, making it easily digestible and perfectly suited for mobile gamers.- AJ Moser As you might expect from that description, the basic interface is rather minimalist. One simple swipe of your finger would decide who lives, who dies, what gets built, and when to go to war. Now imagine yourself as a medieval ruler in charge of the prosperity of thousands of other people. Everything you did in a day would be left to a simple swipe left for no, swipe right for yes. Imagine your only tool for decision-making was the dating app Tinder.
I came into this game hoping it wouldn’t be “just another Dark Souls game.” But I’m glad that’s what I got.- Suriel Vazquez It doesn’t make sweeping changes to the series’ structure or rhythms, but just this one time, it can get away with tugging at familiar heart strings. And by sprucing up those moments, it gives new players a chance to finally understand why these games matter. As a comprehensive second draft of the best moments from the series, it left me with fond memories of everything I love about these games. I enjoyed almost all of my time with it, but I’m not sure if I’d want another game like this to come by for a long time. If the alien invasion genre is really all about humanity and how it gets tested, then this game mobilizes that genre in order to frame the individual player being put to the test at all times.- Cameron Kunzelmanĭark Souls III would be a fitting end to a videogame series, and we don’t get many of those. That final factor is the core strength of XCOM 2, and it is what elevates it beyond yet another tactical game in an ever-growing genre. XCOM 2 is the most extreme opposite from base management to isometric choice, requiring that you take risks, move quickly and generally understand that you’re always going to be between a rock and a hard place when it comes to making decisions that get the job done and minimize risk to your soldiers. XCOM: Enemy Unknown is a boring game in the sense that to solve it means to operate it like the most undependable machine. Some of these 25 games come closer to that goal than others, but they’re all winners in their own ways.
2016 reminded us once again that, even as technology lets games become increasingly cinematic in their storytelling and photorealistic in their visuals, that precision is still the key-that the most important facets of a successful game are the confidence and focus necessary to explore its mechanics, story and aesthetic as deeply yet succinctly as possible.
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(And now I sound like an Oscar presenter.) Together they illustrate the breadth and scope of what game artists can accomplish today, both on our TV sets and in our VR faceboxes. The best games of 2016 took us to the Shoshone National Forest, a magic-filled pseudo-Victorian society, a stark dystopia where children are hunted by faceless adults, countless barren planets with awesome music, a future Earth still dealing with fallout from the Omnic Crisis, the Commonwealth of Kentucky, the throbbing depths of rhythm hell, and a multitude of other destinations both real and imagined.
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