Games of the Year 2011 Part 1

Every year the videogame industry sits back and surveys all it has done. This is the time when the best games rise to the top of the barrel and the not so good ones slowly sink to the bottom. Here is the first part of the top rental games of the year for me.

Best Shooter

Modern Warfare 3: Achieved what seemed impossible and improved on Modern Warfare 2 360/PS3. Pushing the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 to the limit this is the epitome of a perfectly balanced shooting game. Campaign or multiplayer, Modern Warfare 3 has it all with visuals and audio to die for.

Best Action Adventure

Batman Arkham City: Another excellent follow up to an excellent game. Arkham City 360/PS3 took the basic premise of Arkham Asylum and expanded upon it in every direction. More than this though, it is the quality and sheer joy of playing the caped crusader that makes this game stand head and shoulders above the competition.

Best Role Play Adventure

The Elder Scolls V Skyrim: In a year of follow ups it seemed that Skyrim 360/PS3 might get overlooked. However, the scale and grandeur of the world it creates, and the range of ways to play it, make this the perfectly pitched role play game. Skyrim is the archetype of open world gameplay, as the thousands of hours lost to its depths by players all over the world attests.

Best Racer

Forza 4: It was a risk incorporating Kinect functions into such a core racing title. That fact that it worked so well (whether the head tracking, steering or car investigating) is testament to Turn 10’s ability to deliver at a very high level. Forza 4 360/PS3 expands its horizons all round, and manages to finally eclipse the spectre of Gran Turismo to become the de facto racing game of 2011.

Best Strategy

Tropico 4: While other games try and recreate the minutiae of life, Tropico 4 360 excels at granting you your own island and running it how you please. This not only makes for some unusual strategy gameplay, but also creates some of the most entertaining set pieces in a sim game. It’s Tropico’s ability to turn the bizarre into the compelling that make it my best rental strategy game of 2011.

These are the games that stood out for me, and took the lion share of my rental play time. As with any list I’m sure yours will be different. Play these games through the Christmas period and you will have visited some of the best experiences to be had on the Xbox 360 and Playstation 3 in 2011. Enjoy.

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