#Best ps3 games of 2016 series

The first truly defining, AAA game of the last generation, it set standards of gameplay depth, world-building, atmosphere, and narrative ambition that many other developers spent the following seven years desperately trying to match. It took a while for PS3 to get BioShock (opens in new tab), but good Lord, was it worth the wait. The set-pieces are ripped straight out of the finest classic Westerns, and the understated soundtrack perfectly mirrors the on-screen action. Shooting angry cowboys, lassoing criminals, and charging through the scrub on a horse - it's like an interactive Sergio Leone movie. Ok, that's enough with the flowery descriptions: it's also super cool to be a Clint Eastwood-esque, outlaw badass. All your actions and interactions within its rugged landscapes just make sense, and it's the perfect backdrop for John Marsden's tough tale of injustice and loss - a narrative that climaxes in one of the boldest, most memorable endings of any game, ever. Few other games create such a glorious sense of time and place. While GTA's San Andreas is a more densely detailed world, there's a certain beauty to the concept and story of Red Dead that just tips it for us. Is Red Dead (opens in new tab) a better game than GTA 5? It's a close call. It takes days - weeks, maybe - of immersion to truly realize its nuances, but for now, just know that in terms of form, feel, and function, it's the closest games have yet come to recreating the real world. never has an open video game setting been so expansive, so richly varied, so cohesive, and so utterly, vibrantly reactive. Between naive nice-guy Franklin, aggressive family-man Michael and benevolent psychopath Trevor, suddenly all play-styles are catered for without breaking the integrity of the game's stunningly realized world.ДЄs for that world. Even better, it's now finally possible to play GTA any way you want to and have it make sense. The three-protagonist set-up does far, far more than simply mix up the characterization, building sophisticated dramatic irony as three separate storylines twist and conflict, all under the control of the player.

#Best ps3 games of 2016 series

Probably the biggest evolution Grand Theft Auto has enjoyed since it went 3D, GTA 5 (opens in new tab) takes the essence of what has always made the series great, dismantles it, and rebuilds it with a new, fresh, altogether more thoughtful, and entirely reinvigorated structure. That Arkham City also plays host to a Batman story dark, dramatic, and entirely epic enough to stand up in any medium is just the icing on the utility cake. The same mix of intelligent, creative sandbox stealth and taxing, thrilling, almost musical combat still underpins everything and is even better than it ever was before. Letting the empowering yet perfectly balanced mechanics of the first game really fly, literally and figuratively, Arkham City (opens in new tab)s structure is an equally grand victory in both gameplay and aesthetic terms.Д«ut just as importantly, it never dominates or detracts from what made Arkham Asylum great.

Smartly choosing fidelity, personality, and meaningful design over sheer scale for scale's sake, Rocksteady's quarantined chunk of Gotham is one of the most striking, affecting, and most entirely purposeful environments seen in an entire generation.

How do you make the best superhero game of all time better? You add a whole lot more of it and drop all of that into one of the best-realized open-world cities ever seen in a game.