The PC had a strong showing, with a meaty selection of exclusive and multisystem releases last year.2011 was indeed a great year to be a gamer. Here’s buyer’s guide of the top must-own games from the calendar year. Have you played them all?
10. Deus Ex: Human Revolution
Genre : First-person shooter/ RPG
Release date : in August 2011
Developers : Eidos, Square enix
Set decades before the events of the first game, Deus Ex: Human Revolution is a prequel of 2000's Deus Ex.
2000’s Deus Ex changed the face of gaming. this latest entry in the series lives up to those impossibly high standards. Human Revolution is an intelligent, challenging and Blade Runner-beautiful vision of the future, with game-play that’s customizable to qualify as both 100% shooter and 100% stealth. The original Deus Ex was a uniquely well-judged mix of RPG and shooter. Shooting was always an option, but never the only one. Whats exciting about Human Revolution is that it genuinely does seem to have that delicate balance of hacking, stealth,combat and dialogue options open to you throughout.In other words, which genre you experience is completely up to you.
The game played out from first- person perspective, but shifted to third person as players take cover behind objects. The third person view is very fascinating and unique. You can take out enemy combatants through stealth, brute force, or even use your hacking abilities to get sentry guns and armed robots on your side and do your work. The whole point of Deus Ex is the number of different approaches you can take.
The game is a bit heavy handed on stealth as opposed to all out combat, but if you persist, you can blast your way through every level.
Also the Gameplay is long enough to keep you occupied for at least 25 hours.
Minimum System requirements :
CPU : 2 GHz Dual core CPU
RAM : 1 GB RAM (XP) / 2 GB (Vista and Windows 7)
Graphic card : NVIDIA GeForce 8 series or ATI Radeon HD 2000 series or better
HDD : 8.5 GB free hard disk space
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9. The Witcher 2 : Assassins of Kings
Genre : RPG
Release date : 17th may, 2011
developer : CD Projekt RED
It Surely is One of the best RPG's of the year.
The witcher 2 is a sequel to the 2007 video game "The Witcher".
The Good in the game:
- Morally ambiguous choices lead to game-changing consequences
- A number of exciting and memorable moments
- Phenomenal visuals with a grim tone
- Involving tale of lost memories and political allegiances
- Fun, challenging combat with a satisfying sense of impact
The Bad in the game:
- A variety of bugs
- Combat sometimes
- ventures into cheap territory
- Unsatisfying conclusion.
If you played the original Witcher, then forget what you learned from its combat mechanics. The Witcher 2 abandons that rhythmic system for a more traditional and challenging one. You still switch between silver and steel swords, depending on whether you are facing monsters or humans, but regardless of the weapon you equip, be prepared for the occasional beatdown. You initiate standard attacks with your mouse, and you block and cast signs (Geralt's magic spells) with the keyboard.
An adult narrative that’s actually for adults
Gaming has come a very long way in terms of interactive narratives and the medium has several works to be proud of. But as impressive as your Mass Effects and Dragon Ages are, the complete moral polarization of the choices presented in these games has become almost comical. In layman’s terms, choosing between Christ-like benevolence and jet-black satanic tyranny has gotten pretty old. The Witcher 2 sidesteps this cliché by creating a gray, ambiguous world that abandons right and wrong for a much more complex focus on choices and consequences. From the very first chapter, the game bombards you with a series of confrontations that will give you pause as to how to proceed.
Typically, games that attempt to introduce truly adult themes into their narrative structure usually just come across as unironically juvenile; The Witcher 2 handles its incredibly mature tone with an unflinching, unapologetic sophistication that demands you take it seriously (and no, I’m not just talking about the amazing breast textures in all of those wonderfully detailed sex scenes). You’re constantly encountering instances of racially motivated violence, rape and prostitution. Every faction and political figure is corrupt to some degree. Even your closest friends have their own agendas that don’t necessarily involve you.
Minimum system requirements :
CPU : Core 2 Duo E6750 2.66GHz
RAM : 1 GB RAM (XP) / 2 GB (Vista and Windows 7)
Graphic card : GeForce GTS 250 / Radeon HD 5670 512MB
HDD : 16 GB free hard disk space
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8. Batman : Arkham city
Genre : Action - Adventure
Release Date : November 22, 2011
Developers : Rocksteady Studios
It is the sequel to the 2009 video game Batman: Arkham Asylum.
Arkham City is an open world action video game that incorporates elements of stealth and predator tactics. The gadgets previously obtained in the first game are present at the start of Arkham City, while others are available later in the game. Most of these gadgets have improved or boast new capabilities.
The game incorporates more puzzle elements; the use of Batman's "Detective Mode", which highlights elements such as enemy skeletons and clues on-screen, is used to perform forensic activities such as tracing the origin of a sniper round.
Asylum can be called as one of the greatest detective game of all time , but Arkham city is the greatest batman game. It has tone and music that are similar to the recent movies. The voice actors from batman: The animated series, and a storyline inspired by the No Mans Land comic series. But more to its credit, throwing allof Batman's villains into a less linear, open-world game forced players to make tough decisions, to think like batman. "Do i rescue that hostage, or finish this fight.....think, Bruce !THINK !"
Minimum System requirements :
CPU : Intel Core 2 Duo 2.4 GHz or AMD Athlon X2 4800+
RAM : 2 GB ram
Graphic card : NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GT 512 MB or ATi Radeon HD 3850 512 MB
HDD : 17GB free hard disk space
Network : Online play requires login to Games for Windows Live
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4. battlefield 3
Genre : FPS
Release Date : October, 2011
Developers : EA DICE
BF3 is a FPS video game developed by EA DICE. It is a direct sequel to 2005's Battlefield 2, and the eleventh game in the Battlefield series.
If you're a fan of modern day military shooters, Battlefield 3 is your best bet this year. Even if you don't like to play military games, the graphics and game effect will attract you. The single player campaign may have been a tad dull andpredictable, but DICE more than made up for that with very addictive multiplayer we're playing till date. Unlike other online Shooters that penalize players for lacking razor sharp reflexes, Battlefield 3 allows newcomers to ease into the game by offering them support roles as well. If running around the battlefield dishing out ammunition or health doesn't seem like an exciting prospect, grab a chopper and rain down hell fire on ground targets or command a jet and become a force to reckoned with.
Battlefield 3 also gets our unanimous approval for being the most technical sound shooter out there. DICE's Frostbite 2 engines brings fire fights to life in a very gorgeous way with some phenomenal lighting effects and texture work while the game's sound simply put, is the best in business.
Campaign:
The game's campaign takes place in the year 2014. The initial sections of the campaign are set near the Iraq-Iran border, where the US Marine Corps are fighting the People's Liberation and Resistance (PLR). The game later moves into northern Iran, continuing the fight against the PLR. There is a mission set in the streets of Paris, and another set in the sewers and subways of New York.
Minimum System requirements :
CPU : Intel Core 2 Duo 2.4 GHz or AMD Athlon X2 4800+
RAM : 2 GB ram
Graphic card : NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GT 512 MB or ATi Radeon HD 3850 512 MB
HDD : 25 GB free hard disk space
Network : 1 Mbit/s broadband internet connection for Online play and Online registration and Activation
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3. PORTAL 2
Genre : First person puzzle
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Like its predecessor, Portal 2 challenges players to use portals to traverse rooms in unusual manners. A player-character executing the "flinging" maneuver gains speed by falling into the blue portal to shoot across a wide gap upon exiting the orange portal.
Portal 2 may have played out from a first person perspective, but that doesn't make it a shooter. It is a puzzle game at heart, just like its predecessor "Portal", only it added in more mind-bending puzzles and new story in gameplay. The best part about Portal 2 puzzles is that they never felt too tough or too cheap. If you could'nt figure a way out, it may be because you aren't thinking out of the box. Rest assured , when the answer finally hit you, the sense of satisfaction was palpable.
The game even added standalone co-operative missions into the mix and they were the best implementations of co-op play we've seen in a game till date. They weren't just copy- paste variants of single player missions; these were brand new ones designed from the ground up to facilitate and encourage co-operative play.
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2.Dead Space 2
Genre : FPS
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1.Skyrim
Genre : FPS
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