Something of a revelation in first-person shooters, the multi-player hit of the year Overwatch featured a huge and diverse cast of playable characters from guerrillas to gorillas, in finely defined roles – offence, defence, tank and support – and proved so colourful and playable that it’s being cued up as the next big eSport for 2017.Īdventure hero Nathan Drake went out with a bang in his most cinematic and adrenalin-pumped outing yet. Essentially Thief with massive clockwork soldiers all over the place, stovepipes off to anyone who completed it without killing a single bad guy.Īn all-too-brief but ultra-immersive first-person adventure ranking as easily the best indie game of the year, Firewatch found Shoshone National Forest fire lookout Henry roaming stunning sunset vistas akin to living paintings, gathering clues about missing teenagers while being spied on by a malignant observer…
Whether stalking enemies as Empress Emily Kaldwin or kicking mechanised ass aplenty as the first game’s hero Corvo Attano, Dishonored 2 was a hyper-paced return to the steampunk world of Dunwall and the crumbling city of Karnaca. Among the best of a string of stealth-or-shoot releases in 2016, the fourth Deus Ex title had augmented Interpol agent Adam Jensen – imagine Neo with swords for arms and black crystal armour skin – creeping or blasting around a seedy, chaos-riven cyberpunk Prague of 2029 on a mission to bring down the shadowy Illuminati.
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