Game Informer February 2014-USA, Tygodniki, prasa, magazyny, Tygodniki, prasa, magazyny
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The Top 50
T
en years ago, Game Informer first
introduced its Top 50 Games format
for our year-end awards. Our previous
formats had worked for over a decade, but
we wanted to shake things up. To this
day I feel it’s one of the best decisions we
ever made, and is far and away my favorite
annualized feature that we do.
The concept is simple, but I wanted to
explain the method behind the madness.
Whenever we looked at the top tens or other
award formats from around the games indus-
try, it seemed like all the usual suspects were
a part of everyone’s list (including our own at
the time). In essence, with some slight varia-
tion, most video game awards from around the
globe endorsed the same 10 or 12 games.
This still holds true today (for the most part),
be it in games or movies. For one, it’s easy
to market to gamers. Companies, journalists,
and gamers like the simplicity of nominations
and a clear-cut winner.
We do too. This is why we give individual
awards for genres, platform exclusives, reader
awards and the like, but I still feel the most
important part of our issue is the Top 50.
It’s not just about knighting games that we
already know are great; it’s about expanding
your gaming experiences and finding those
gems that you may have missed.
The Top 50 gives us the chance to be that
friend who introduces you to something you
may have never heard before, or missed when
it released. It’s part checklist, part recommen-
dations, and of course, all celebration of the
great year in gaming that was 2013.
Believe it or not, it was hard to get it down
to 50 games, as it has been every year for the
last 10 years (and yes, you are not alone in
your anger that a game you love didn’t make
the list – that’s how lists work). And if our
cover story on Evolve this month is any sign
of things to come in 2014, picking the Top 50
next year will be just as difficult.
Enjoy the issue.
ANDY McNAMARA
EDITOR-IN-CHIEF
andy@gameinformer.com
Read my column or
comment on this letter at
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follow @GI_AndyMc
Cheers,
Evolve
The team behind Left 4 Dead is abandoning the undead, but
continues to embrace its innovative multiplayer focus with
a brand-new game pitting a team of humans against one
imposing monster.
by Jeff Marchiafava
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games index
Alien: Isolation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74
Banner Saga, The . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83
Diablo III: Reaper Of Souls . . . . . . 86
Division, The . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78
Doki-Doki Universe . . . . . . . . . . . . 94
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Evolve . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
Fighter Within . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94
Gran Turismo 6 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91
Icycle: On Thin Ice . . . . . . . . . . . . 94
Infinite Crisis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85
Legend of Zelda:
A Link Between Worlds, The . . . . 20
Lego The Hobbit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82
Lightning Returns:
Final Fantasy XIII . . . . . . . . . . . . 76
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Fall Of The Empire
Max: The Curse of Brotherhood . . . 86
Mighty No. 9 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79
NASCAR ‘14 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81
No Man’s Sky . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
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Novelist, The . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94
Peggle 2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94
Pokémon X & Y . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
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Room Two, The . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94
Spacebase DF-9 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
SteamWorld Dig . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92
Super Mario 3D World . . . . . . . . . 25
Tiny Brains . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94
UFC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80
Walking Dead, The: Season Two –
Episode 1: All That Remains . . . . 90
Wasteland 2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84
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Top 25 Wii Games
Ys: Memories of Celceta . . . . . . . . 93
regulars
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Feedback
This month readers tell us
we were spot on with our
Zelda review, way off on
our Sonic review, and thank
us for calling out some
cult games that they may
have missed.
»
10
Connect
To the dismay of fans,
LucasArts collapsed last
year. We dive in to see what
happened and what could
have been changed. We
also chat with a man who
played Defender for 32
hours straight to try and set
a world record.
»
74
Previews
The developers behind
Total War are taking a break
from its strategy series to
take on the classic franchise
with Alien: Isolation. We
also check in on Mega Man
creator Keiji Inafune’s spiri-
tual successor, Mighty No. 9.
»
90
Reviews
The Walking Dead makes
a return as we review the
first episode of the second
season. We also take a
look at Gran Turismo 6,
one of the PlayStation 3’s
last hurrahs.
»
100
Game Over
2013 saw the end of a
generation, and the release
of many games that will
be discussed and highly
regarded for years to come.
We’ve put together a series
of charts and graphs visual-
izing the breakdown of the
year’s best.
CORRECTION:
In issue 248’s Holiday Buyer’s Guide, we incorrectly displayed an image of the HTC One X when talking about the HTC One.
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