Saints Row: The Third has the kind of storyline dreamed up in a cloud of pot smoke by a group of dorky teenagers who chuckle every time they say the word “boner.” Yet at the same time, it’s also surprisingly self-aware, with a few genuinely hilarious lines, the best of which lambast video game culture and the over the top nature of the game itself. Maybe by Dance Central 3 I’ll be able to go for more than thirty minutes at a time.- Garrett Martin That physical rush, combined with good music and an addictive high score mentality fostered by a childhood spent in arcades, keeps me dancing on my own, through the pain, sweat and exhaustion. With Dance Central 2, Harmonix’s latest dance simulator for the Kinect, I actually feel that accomplishment. I’ll talk about how finishing or excelling at a good game makes me feel like I’ve accomplished something. When people ask why I play videogames I might mention the few good traditional stories that exist in the medium, or how vividly realized worlds like the one in Far Cry 2 can thoroughly pull my mind out of the real one. Instead of cracking skulls, Fate of the World made me crack books and pore over graphs. Swinging a sword or waving a wand won’t make all your problems go away. Turns out, those “other games” are wrong saving the world isn’t easy. It’s a strategy game that tasks the player with regulating the entire planet’s environmental policies to keep Global Warming from running rampant. This list was tabulated from ballots submitted by a number of Paste videogame reviewers, including games editor Garrett Martin and freelance contributors Richard Clark, Drew Dixon, JP Grant, Steve Haske, Rowan Kaiser, Brendan Keogh, Mitch Krpata, Luke Larsen, Jeffrey Matulef, and Brian Taylor.įate of the World doesn’t work like other games. We’ll have a separate list for mobile, social and browser-based games later this month. This list looks exclusively at games released for consoles, PCs or traditional gaming handhelds. ![]() Today we run down our twenty favorite videogames of 2011. Every day until New Year’s Eve we’ll be looking back at the best music and pop culture of 2011.
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