Best & Worst Games of 2011

Best

5. Gears of War 3

The series came to an end in a fitting fashion, by cramming as much action in as possible and finally giving me good reason to play multiplayer.

4. Crysis 2

Few shooters give you the freedom to play however you like, but Crysis 2 has some of the most satisfying gameplay of the year as you stealth, punch, and blast your way through invading forces.

3. Driver Sanfrancisco

Driver has not been this fun since the second game and it's in no small part due to the shift mechanic that allows you to take over any car at any time. Let it be known that sometimes the silliest ideas can end up being the most fun.

2. Portal 2

Just like Valves first effort, Portal 2 oozes with charm, humour and cracking puzzles. Now with even more toys to play with and co-op mode, this is further proof that you don't need violence to make a good first person game.

1. Batman Arkham City

What's better than a Portal game? How about the sequel to the much loved Arkham Asylsum. I may be able to pick faults with the plot but when it comes to sheer fun and time well spent, there is no equal. I could not put this game down until I was 100% done, and even then I still found myself flying around the city beating up thugs, it's just that good.

Worst

 

5. Duke Nukem Forever

Though I only spent a few hours with this game, I could already sense that it was a massvie waste of time, not just mine, but everyone who was involved in creating it.

4. Fable 3

The fable series is no stranger to dissapointment but where I found much to like in number 2, I found almost nothing to like here. The whole design of the game is just lazy, removing many elements that made the other games fun and replacing them with broken gameplay and poorly written characters.

3. De Blob 2

Never has a platformer bored and infuriated me so much. The dated time limits and lives system from 20 years ago is still present and sucks all the fun out of the proceedings as you make a mad dash to each objective. Couple that with the fact that the levels are excrutiatingly long and repetitive and you have a game that is a chore to finish.

2. Battlefield 3 - Xbox 360 version

I miss the days of open battlefields, soaring across the sky in a fighter jet, or travelling along the ground in a tank trying to hold control points. Now we have one of the worst single player campaigns ever, and a multiplayer so trimmed down from it's PC counterpart that it takes away everything that makes Battlefield fun.

1. Child of Eden

This is the reason I packed my Kinect away. With a story mode that only lasts 2 hours, and still manages to be boring, Child of Eden is the exact reason why Kinect is a terrible peripheral. The controls are painfully unresponsive and the lack of options in how you play it makes every level feel exactly the same. Not to mention the fack that the music is awful and the visuals are ugly as hell. This feels like a downloadable game from top to bottom and should never have been sold for full retail price.