Working on any franchise for nearly a decade would have to be taxing, which makes it all the more impressive that the developers managed to save the best for last. And with Uncharted 3, it felt like Naughty Dog was finally getting as tired of Nathan Drake as I was. Uncharted 2 improved on the formula significantly, but never drew me in the way many of the best story-driven games have in the past. Uncharted was, in my humble and flawed opinion, a disappointing follow-up to Jak 3. What’s so confounding about Uncharted 4 being my game of the year is that I’m not sure any of the other three Uncharted games would have made my top ten in their respective years. Want to know more? Read my review of Titanfall 2 from November.
Sadly, it’s never going to receive the same recognition, but it’s easily my favorite shooter of 2016. Titanfall 2 is about as big a leap forward for Respawn Entertainment as Modern Warfare was for Infinity Ward in 2007. All the things that made Titanfall great the first time around? Check. A multiplayer progression system that keeps players coming back? Check. They weren’t going to make the same mistakes twice, and the result of their labor is the most complete shooter of 2016. Immediately after the game launched, the developers at Respawn Entertainment went back to the drawing board. I should be dying to jump into another match, but I just wasn’t. That’s not the mark of a successful FPS in the 2010s. I wanted to place it higher up on my list, but I couldn’t, because I’d stopped playing it just a few short weeks after it launched. Pokémon Sun and MoonĪ couple of years ago, I was writing the 2014 edition of this post and lamenting the fact that Titanfall didn’t have “the same hooks” as other modern first-person shooters. More than just a game, Hitman is platform on top of which Io-Interactive can build indefinitely, as long as fans are willing to keep paying. Needless to say, the studio succeeded, and Hitman serves as a valuable reminder that even the method by which a publisher delivers its games can be fresh and innovative. Personally, I prefer dropping a chandelier on their head. In fact, that’s half the fun: finding new and creative ways to take out a mark in the most elaborate and ridiculous ways possible. No matter how many times you complete a mission or assassinate a target, it’ll never happen quite the same way. The spaces that the developers have created for Agent 47 to play around in are massive, with dozens of interactive objects around every corner. The only games that had successfully leveraged the model that I could think of were Telltale’s adventure games, but Hitman was going to be a full-fledged action title.Įach chapter feels like it could have been pulled from its own game. When Io-Interactive revealed that Hitman would be split into chapters, each of which could be bought separately, I didn’t know what to think.
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