The Nominee's are:
Rise of The Tomb Raider
If you were to think Fallout 4 was the best game that came out on November 13th you would be very wrong. It is this. Granted not many people played it due to some foolishness on Square Enix and Microsoft's part for making it an Xbox exclusive and releasing it on the same day as the aforementioned Fallout 4. On to the game itself though. If you played the first game in the rebooted Tomb Raider series (which is more likely) you'll know what the deal is here, this is just better. It's an action game that involves a bit of everything, sneaking, hunting, shooting, platforming and probably the best action cut scene moments I've ever played (suck it Tomb Raider copycat Uncharted). Everything works so well though, there's not a bad part in the game, it all runs great, it's so much fun to play. There's plenty more to do as well, such as the returning Challenge tombs from the first game as well as repayable challenge runs outside of the story if you want to play more. Yet again it's beautiful and Lara is a fantastic character and brilliantly acted/ mo capped. My only issue with the game would have to be the open area sections of the game, I really didn't want them there. Can't we just have 8-14 hour story driven games that don't make you do extra stuff. I don't need it.
I would probably say this is my favourite action game of all time, beating the likes of Uncharted 2, Assassins Creed 2 and the other games I've probably forgotten. On the unlikelihood you have an Xbox One, you have to get this game, if not, wait a year, It'll come to Playstation eventually.
Rocket League
Car football. The 8 year old version of me playing a version of Subbuteo with toy cars by myself would have lost his shit, and frankly, I have. A game that I might not have played had it not been free on PS plus, but it was and it's probably the most addictive game I've ever played (granted I've said that hundreds of times before (I imagine)). It's as simple as it sounds, 2 teams of cars, from 1 v 1 up to 4 v 4, 1 Ball, 2 goals. There's boosts to pick up and jumps and flips, it's simple to pick up but difficult to master (like many good games). It does have a single player season mode but it's true home is online multiplayer. If this game had come out 5 years ago when me and my friends spent hundreds of hours playing Call of Duty and Fifa online it would have taken over my world, but those days have passed, We've all grown up (though that mostly applies to everyone else and not me) and we can rarely get together at the same time to play online (plus we don't all have the same systems).
Playing online can be a mixed bag at times, oftentimes someone in the game has lag, plus without communicating with your team it's hard to put moves together, but many players seem to figure it out. Of course, the game does suffer from the same issue that every online game suffers from, some people online are arseholes, unfortunately there's not much anyone can do about that, but as long as you chill out there's no need to worry, ignore them, just like always. I'm making this sound pants now but rest assured it's anything but. What's greater than putting in a great performance and leaving your team to victory whilst the losers moan about each other? Quality.
Chroma Squad
Keeping on the indie front, I'll move on to a not very well known game. Chroma Squad is a turn based strategy game (Xcom style) based on a Power Rangers style. The story is brilliantly crazy. You start as the director of the Chroma Squad TV show, picking your cast, character names and uniforms. You begin to film the shows but over the course of 6 seasons (#nomovie) shit becomes real and you have to save the Earth. I don't want to go in to details because the story really is great (plus it involves story changing decisions so we probably won't have the same story anyway).
My only real issue with the game is that I couldn't finish it. I hit a bug on the final boss and could not complete the game. I was going to restart it over but just watched the ending on Youtube instead. I should say the gamely is good too, it's strategic without being too complicated as the story is the most important thing going on here. Extra abilities and moves are slowly put in throughout the game but give you every change to master them and it's got some neet little RPG elements mixed in too. It's only on Steam but only costs £6.79 as of writing. Buy it now!
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt
I've not put as many hours in to any story game since Fallout 3 (I recon) as I did in this. Sure, there aren't as many things to discover and the area isn't so big as there is in an Elder scrolls game but the story is so deep and engaging that it doesn't matter. That's not to say there isn't anything else to do, there are plenty of random events to encounter and of course Witcher contracts to complete, and Gwent of course, which is even more addictive than Pokemon cards, and I actually understand Gwent too.
There is a nicely varied world to travel, and for such a big game it really does look fantastic. There's a wealth of different types of enemies to fight and it's fun to change the fighting style against different types of enemies you encounter rather than them all being samey. This is the only game on this list I already reviewed so there's more there.
And the Winner is...
It's a tough one, there has been a lot of great games, including ones not making the shortlist (metal gear 5 springs to mind), with two all time greats (in my eyes anyway). But for me the winner has to be Rocket League, it's sucked me back in for a second time and I'm obsessed again. Congratulations.
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