My favourite games of 2008...
Burnout Paradise This game is phenomenal, hard to believe it was bought out January of 2008. The developer support to the game is also fantastic, we've had bikes added to the game, day and night cycle, new cars, custom music, trophies, more online events and they planning to give a new piece of land soon too! It's more developer support than any other game I've ever played. It is the only game, apart from Motorstorm: PC, that I have played which uses all of the PS3's main features. It uses the online mode which is hugely awesome, trophies, custom soundtrack and most other features. It's a great game, I'd probably call it my game of the year 2008, but there are other games which have impressed me.
Race Driver GRID Despite what others have said, I found it a fun game to play. I didn't care that it was arcadey and not really a follow up to TOCA 3. Which admitidly it isn't. Race Driver GRID is the start of essentially a new series of games, the game has appealed to a wider audience rather than the minority who like sim based games. Race Driver GRID is a exciting game to play, most races that I did were action packed and the AI certainly put up a good fight so much so, I still haven't completed it. The range of vehicles on it is fantastic, also the whole way the game runs is impressive. You buy cars for your races, which in turn get liveried up with your team colours, you buy sponsors which pay you depending on what position you get, as an example; I have Bang & Oulsfen sponsor on my team which pay me £100,000 per race win. Race Driver GRID works as a fun game, a sim racer it is not, but it is more importantly fun.
Motorstorm: Pacific Rift Although I've had this game only 4 days, I already feel as though this game deserves a place in this list. Lets start with the basics, the graphic are phenomenal out of all the games I've mentioned this has the best graphics. The gameplay is fun too, notice a theme with this list at the moment? Every race I've been in has been exciting right down to the finish line. Online mode is something I've not ventured into yet but plan to during the next few days. Splitscreen is amazing, the graphics do not change and the racing is just as action packed with AI racers filling in the places to fill up the grid. I'm not going to drag on about this game too much, as I feel I've already done this in the
Motorstorm Pacific Rift - The Official Thread.
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You may notice that my list is a bit lacking of anything other than driving games. And you'd be right, to be honest I haven't found a FPS that I think actually deserves to be on this list apart from maybe
CoD4, as I got it February time, but that came out officially last year. Also, no
GT5P I don't think this game does deserve a place, it's a good game but due to lack of developer support and actually keeping the game fresh and intresting means that I put it down after playing it for a couple of weeks. I haven't put Burnout down properly (I keep coming back to it still) since we got it in January. Criterion seem to know how to keep people coming back to their game unlike PD.
This year was also the year where I started renting games thanks to Tesco DVD/Game rental. This means I've tried many more games, I'm yet to play LBP which is probably another game which could have appeared on this list. I've had the chance to try
Mercenaries 2, which despite what reviewers have said is actually alright. I've also rented
CoD:WAW and seen how much of a cover it is of the original CoD4. It's just got a new story line and a couple new features. It isn't a follow up its just been tweaked a little. Next year looks to be intresting, with games such as
Tom Clancy's HAWX coming out and hopefully some other good games.
Let's hope that next year will be Sony's year.
For me i have been pleasantly surprised by some and a little underwhelmed by others but the following are my picks for 08:
: Come on..that's a given.
) and it's just so damn addictive once you get into it.
) and I couldn't ask for more from a Prologue.
