What makes a good video game? Strong visuals are important. Good controls are essential. A well-crafted concept helps too. These days, most games can boast at least two-thirds of that criteria.
So, then what makes a game great? Feeling. Emotion. Surprise. Interaction. Even addiction. It's a magical feeling when a game offers all these elements.
Here are the titles L.A. Times deemed the best experiences of 2007. Admittedly, they didn't play everything (because that would probably be impossible), but of the titles that did cross their paths, these are the ones that resonated most. Their favorites in order:
Best of the Year:
• BioShock
• Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare
• Assassin's Creed
• Super Mario Galaxy
• The Orange Box
Honorable Mention:
• Halo 3
• Rock Band
• Ace Combat 6: Fires of Liberation
• Cooking Mama: Cook Off
• Lost Planet
Worst of the Year:
• Lair
Dishonorable Mention:
• Fusion Frenzy 2
• 300: March to Glory
• Tenchu Z
[ By Pete Metzger, December 21, 2007 ]
MW 2019 is five years old at this point and on previous gen hardware, but it is still the best looking Call of Duty game to date.
MW was an excellent videogame. They messed up Spec Ops big time, but aside from this it was a huge step in the right direction initially. Most notably, at launch it seemed to come from a very cohesive creative vision that was felt across gameplay, to story to art style/visual direction. It was also very notably written by prominent ex-Naughty Dog guys that quit almost immediately before release.
That COMPLETELY dissolved through post-launch content and the full pivot to a "cross-mode" narrative that completely obliterated the cohesion in overall story direction. Warzone then "became" the new face of Call of Duty and the franchise completely removed itself from anything remotely creatively "good". It is a pure money machine, so I kinda get why they're doing it....but I personally completely lost interest.
I would love to see Infinity Ward move off CoD and get to make their own product with full control. They clearly have some massive talent in their ranks but it's perverted by Activision's corporate interests.
Cultured Vultures: Put on your freshest dungarees and chow down on the ripest mushroom as we reel off the best Mario games ever made to celebrate Mar10 Day.
My top 3 are Mario 3, Mario World and Mario 64. Mario Odyssey is also excellent, and I enjoyed Sunshine but didn't care for the Galaxy series.
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And the good articles dont get accepted but you get ones like, UTIII new gears?????? pieace of sh!t
They picked Lost Planet over Ratchet and Clank and Uncharted?
Uncharted and Rachet i know LA Times knows nothing about games
anyway i didnt read it because its a joke
did anyone that played bio Shock ever see a Big Daddy get stuck in a corner. It happened to me like 3 times and he was a real easy kill
talk about buggy
This article well have been seen by more people in one day, than will have looked in on this site in a year. LA Times, NY Times, USA Today, WSJ. Thats where reviews matter in the real world. Not here, or Kotaku, or IGN.