It’s been quite a year for video game lovers. The latest consoles by Microsoft and Sony arrived with a great splash, selling many millions of gaming units and making big waves in the media. Of course, anybody who actually plays video games know that software is often more important than hardware. Fortunately for them, the gaming industry has delivered on that account as well: there were better games released during the year 2013 than any one single person could reasonably play, and enough incredible games to satisfy even the crustiest of critics.
3D animation, quality graphics, and enhanced video and audio systems have allowed the various game designers to produce some of the best video games the world has seen. The best video games over the past several years have been specifically evaluated by game experts in order to analyze their gameplay, in-game environments and popularity to create an organized list of the top 10 video games the gaming industry has to offer.
10. Grand Theft Auto V
It is as irresistible to put your hands on this game as it is to admire it, a super-sized edition of the already large-sized Grand Theft Auto IV with all the good parts intact and impurities leeched out. It is probably the most refined video games that Rockstar has ever released: the driving controls are incredible and the automobile physics are practically immaculate. In addition to that, the tactical cover system and gunplay are perfected, the interface is clean, and the greatly paced missions are honed to a felonious, fine edge.
9. Cookie Clicker
Cookie Clicker may well be called Cookie Heroin, following its great addiction abilities. Cookie Clicker is an online browser click-based game in which players need to produce as many cookies as they possibly can be continually pressing the oversized cookie which is placed in the center. While the game progress, placers can trade in their own cookie for the purpose of upgrades which increase the output without any additional clicks. Once a user reaches a certain cookie milestone, the message which is on top of the page changes. The game was created by Orteil, a video game designer, and released on August 10th, 2013.
8. Atari Breakout
Created by Atari, Breakout is a popular unique arcade game. In this game, a layer of bricks line the top 1/3 of the monitor. A ball travels across the screen and bounces off the side and top walls of the screen. When a certain brick is hit, the ball is bounced away and the brick gets destroyed. The players loses his turn when his ball touches the screen’s bottom layer. To prevent such an occurrence, players have a movable paddle with which they bounce their ball upwards thereby keeping the ball in play.
7. Candy Crush
Candy Crush Saga is without a doubt the last game craze, available for Facebook, iOS, Android and online. It is based on the usual match-three puzzler, though has a theme difference which sees gems swapped with certain sweets and different delicious treats. It is deliciously addictive. Just like all other games of its genre, players match like sweets in a certain line of 3 or more in order to gain bonuses and points. The more sweets you’re able to match with every move, the more candy bombs you’ll ultimately create and the more points you’ll collect.
6. BioShock Infinite
Designer Ken Levine produces some of the top big-budget video games in the industry. The floating city of Columbia gives gamers the most visually incredible and stunning settings that no video game has yet to offer, ever, along with an atmosphere and story that are truly enthralling.BioShock Infinite is not a formulaic game. It is a game that has prompted smarter commentary than the vast majority of games will ever see. It holds a strong reputation for being that type of game – the one that you intellectually approach, despite its grisly facade of burnt bodies, smashed skulls and quite cartoonish gore.
5. Cube World
Cube World is RPG open-world video game by Picroma for Mac and Windows. In Cube World, players explore an endless, procedurally designed “voxel-like” type of world. This world has randomly made dungeons, along with over-world castles and underground caverns, as well as biomes like snowlands, grasslands, oceans, and deserts. Players make make use of items like boats and hang gliders in order to traverse their world quicker.
4. Battlefield
Battlefield 4 is quite the military blockbuster which aims for an unrivaled destruction. Battlefield 4, fueled by Frostbite 3, allows users to demolish buildings which shield their enemies. Gamers will lead a special assault from the back area of a gunboat. Battlefield gives you complete freedom to be more and do more while you play to your own strengths and carve your unique toad to victory. Aside from its hallmark multiplayer capabilities, Battlefield 4 features a dramatic, intense, character-driven campaign.
3. Neverwinter
Neverwinter is a D&D, short for Dungeons & Dragons, free online multiplayer role playing game for Windows. It was officially created by Cryptic Studios and released during June 2013. In Neverwinter, players may turn into one of 6 D&D character classes and can create groups of up to 5 player characters. The gameplay includes the use of action points and healing powers, the former of which is made possible through a unique system called dailies, which allows user to perform special ability as they accumulate an adequate sum of action points via combat.
2. SimCity
SimCity allows gamers to control a whole region which delivers a true multi-city scale. Users can play one city or up to 16 cities bilaterally with different specializations. The multiplayer option adds a new unique facet to this game as all of your decisions will have an impact on both your region and city and produces new gameplay methods by completing or collaborating in order to earn achievements.
1. Skylanders SWAP Force
Skylanders, which is technically a Spryo franchise offshoot, has evolved into an extremely popular video game on its own right. Although being a basic platformer, each character is accessed via the purchase of a certain collectable figurine which also stores the upgrade data. In the Swap Force edition, these have a new special feature: the option to detach the top from the bottom and to mix and match.Just like in previous Skylander games, the Skylanders in this edition are on a mission to stop Kaos from acting on his evil plans. In order for that to be possible, they need to travel through imaginative and colorful levels, assisting other characters to fight Kaos’s minions and collect treasure with which they may buy new abilities and items.
