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Top 10 Games of 2008
| Author | Stuart Andrews |
| Published | 28th Dec 2008 |
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TrustedReviews Newsletters5. Left4Dead
"For pete's sake don't disturb the freaking witch, melon-farmer!" Well, at least I think that's what my comrades were shouting at me through the headphones. Four survivors, three scenarios and one shedload of undead made this an unbelievably tense and exciting zombie blaster, with the ingenious AI 'director' constantly analysing your progress and working out how to hit you hard where and when you least expected it. Teams that worked together made it to the end, but the games we remember best are the ones where things fell apart with grisly but hilarious consequences.
Valve delivered on its promise to produce the Counter-Strike of co-op games, with some brilliant mechanics that pushed players to cover and heal each other, even when they didn't know each other from Adam. Sure, Resistance 2 put more players in the game and Battlefield: Bad Company had scale and vehicles on its side, but Left4Dead felt like a more genuinely team experience. In fact, the title refers just as well to Valve's rivals.
Read the full review of Left4Dead.
4. Grand Theft Auto IV
If we were going to award the Game of the Year gong to 2008's most ambitious, dramatic and all-round important title, GTAIV would take away the prize. For all the backlash - for all the people who say Vice City was more fun or who found the cartoon tomfoolery of Saints Row 2 more entertaining - there's just no denying that Liberty City is one of the richest, most incredibly realised settings in video games history, or that Niko and his story pushed gaming as a narrative art to places and emotions it had rarely, if ever, touched before.
A few gameplay and technical issues held GTAIV back from a perfect 10 rating and so a shot at our top slot, but Rockstar's masterpiece gave us some of the most shocking, surprising and downright incredible experiences of any video game in this, or any other, year. Don't believe the doubters, the grumblers and the gripers - GTAIV deserved every plaudit it received.
Read the full review of Grand Theft Auto IV.
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haim said on 30th December 2008
Greg said on 30th December 2008
People panning games they haven't bought, and praising the ones they have...
The horror.
AJ said on 6th January 2009
Seems odd that there's no mention of Wrath of the Lich King here.
I'll bet that more people have spent more hours playing that game than all the rest of th... more
ACW1i said on 10th April 2009
no way mario kart!!
thats all im going to say.
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I'm a little bit suspicious that the whingers here are all harping on about the games they bought and played, and panning those they never did just read some reviews on which ... more