Clarke's famous maxim about technology and magic.

Its world - built atop the fragments of dozens of dead civilisations - is a fantastic and nigh-seamless blend of fantasy and sci-fi, embodying Arthur C. When your audience is expecting weird, as anyone who is a fan of Planescape: Torment would, then your only option is to be weird in a different way, which of course risks upsetting your fans.įortunately, Tides of Numenera succeeds in this difficult task with considerable flourish. Rick: Making a pseudo-sequel to one of the strangest games on the PC is no mean feat. There are flaws, and launching within a few days of the best adventure game to come out in years didn't help it, but this is one of the best game's released in the last year, and you had better believe Sony have the Guerilla team chained to their desks working on a follow up. In a year filled with interesting games, Horizon made a name for itself for strong world building and an incredible aesthetic. Horizon: Zero Dawn is a vibrant adventure, and while Monster Hunter and The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild are too - the latter released just a few days after Horizon, even - neither of them quite capture the thrill of the hunt in the same way Horizon does. In Guerilla's favour though, it lent so heavily into the idea that not only does the tribe that Aloy hails from feel real, but the ridiculous post-apocalyptic world and its technological mish-mash of tribes and, again, robot dinosaurs feels believable too. Jake: Horizon sounds like a game an imaginative eight-year-old came up with, with an orphaned tribal warrior fighting robotic dinosaurs with fancy gadgets and a bow and arrow. No more introductions - on with the games! It also brings the end of the year, and so it's that time again for us to give you the greatest Christmas gift of all: 11 of the finest games from this year for you to pick up in Steam's Christmas sale or in some January or Boxing Day sale that someone has cooked up to bleed you of all your cash. It's nearly Christmas! Don't worry if you didn't get us anything.Ĭhristmas brings with it minced pies, Shrek on the telly, and, with a bit of luck, 10 glorious days to play games.

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