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<\/a>Minecraft<\/p><\/div>\n
Minecraft isn’t a complex pitch: you’re in a very big, rather retro-looking low-res world. You can walk around, you can pick up things, and you can make other things out of them. While you’re doing this, various animals try to eat you. The end.<\/em><\/p>\n 2. Portal 2<\/strong><\/p>\n Portal 2<\/p><\/div>\n Where the first Portal delivered an antagonist for the ages in bitchy AI GLaDOS, the follow-up peels back the layers of her computational psyche and shows us how she got that way.<\/em><\/p>\n 3. The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword<\/strong><\/p>\n The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword<\/p><\/div>\n Skyward Sword evolves the series’ trademark elements by letting you inject some individual style into how Link achieves his goals and by extruding more of the game’s puzzlelike environments into the larger world.<\/em><\/p>\n 4. Uncharted 3<\/strong><\/p>\n Uncharted 3<\/p><\/div>\n Off you go, then, on a wild-eyed adventure, channeling the Oscar-winning Peter O’Toole epic as well as Raiders of the Lost Ark by way of Romancing the Stone in what amounts to a lovingly crafted action-adventure that rises above all others in its celebration of the interactive cinematic experience.<\/em><\/p>\n 5. Batman: Arkham City<\/strong><\/p>\n Batman Arkham City<\/p><\/div>\n Arkham City takes place in a superprison carved out of half of Gotham that is run by a psychiatrist mastermind who knows Batman’s secret identity; it’s chock-full of ordinary thugs and dozens of supervillains.<\/em><\/p>\n 6. Bastion<\/strong><\/p>\n Bastion<\/p><\/div>\n Typical role-playing tropes like leveling up weapons and adding party members were transformed into achingly personal milestones, thanks to gravel-voiced narrations that reacted in real time to how you played.<\/em><\/p>\n 7. The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim<\/strong><\/p>\n Skyrim<\/p><\/div>\n Take one part George R.R. Martin, two parts Beowulf, mix with Grand Theft Auto’s open-world, go-anywhere angle, and out pops Skyrim, a fantasy role-playing game that’s definitely not a kite-surfing sim.<\/em><\/p>\n 8. Dark Souls<\/strong><\/p>\n Dark Souls<\/p><\/div>\n Call it gaming on tenterhooks, an improbably satisfying experience drizzled in dread \u2014 a return to form for gamers who relish playing on tightropes, net-free, wrapped in a gorgeous, alien ax-murdering otherworld.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a>