Game of the Year: 2019(so far)

Since we are already down to the other half of the year, a lot of games have been launched. And some of them have made it to the top of our list. Some names were promising and some are new in the game. So i hope these names will fulfill your expectations. And don’t forget to tell me any your favorite game, will feature my review about it in my next post. Stay Tuned! So let us begin our tour to the list of game of the year.

Resident Evil 2

This masterpiece is a part of one of the all time best franchise. Resident Evil is a ‘Third Person Shooter’ Zombie-Survival game series.

This is a remake of the infamous Resident Evil 2 from the platform “Play Station”. It has already won most users pick for Game of the Year Award that too in the first half of the year(2019) only. This game has sold over 3 million copies in the very first week of launch. But to come this far, It has already sold over 4.2 million units till date. It has been also awarded as the Publisher’s 10th best selling game of all time.

The reason I called it a Masterpiece is that it has successfully fulfilled its expectations of the classic horror thriller, improving its gaming experience and maintaining the flow of the original story the way it was before. This game is CAPCOM’s one of the all time best creations.

Sekiro : Shadows Die Twice

Sekiro is an Action-Adventure game developed by FromSoftware and published by Activision. It is a mythical story who represents the timeline of the Shinobi-Samurai Era.

Sekiro is a story of a Shinobi known as “Wolf” who attempts to take revenge on a Samurai Clan who attacked him as well as kidnapped his Lord(feudal). This game has the stealth, adventurous and combat battle game-play who is mainly focused on Boss battles with Giant snake, beasts, Full-fleshed Samurais, Yetis, etc.

It has sold more 2 million of copies in just 10 days. Till date, it had sold over 3.8 million of copies worldwide.

Sekiro is something more than deserving for the Award of game of the year.

Mortal Kombat 11

The wait is over as the 11th installment to the Mortal Kombat series has arrived. MK is a PvP (Player Vs Player) Fighting game with the appearance of traditional fighting style games(like Tekken, Street Fighter, etc).

Mortal Kombat is a blood-gore based game who has the combatants from different Regions as well as possess different fighting styles. What makes it different from others is that the fighting experience is different from others and the involvement of Blood and bones. The appearance of blood and the shattering of bones makes it exciting for some and disgusts others, But it sure is unique and what makes this game one of the best game franchise of all time.

And the icing to the cake and the specialty of this game are the finishing moves from each character known as the “Fatality” and “Brutality” who will definitely leave the players in “WT#” situation. Those are nothing but the cutting and destroying the human body in unique ways. This part is the continuation of the previous part i.e. Mortal Kombat X, So no spinoffs stories and no remakes, its a sequel.

As per the NDP report, Mortal Kombat 11 is the best selling game in United States, and the count for the others are on rapid increment.

This installment of the MK universe has the potential to be a part of game of the year award winner.

Tom Clancy’s The Division 2

One of the finest creation from the Sir Tom Clancy’s collection, The Division. It is an online role-playing game with a concept of near feature appearance of our society.

This is a second installment of the franchise with improved combat, accessories, interactions, and a lot more. The sequel here show the gimps of the near future of Washington DC in the aftermath of smallpox, pandemic and follow an agent of strategic homeland division as they are on their way to rebuild the city. this game give you the experience of survivals, strategies, struggle to live, clan wars, etc.

The game-play contains third person shooter tactics as well as military behavior. The players here will have to take care of multiple things at once as You are willing to survive the wave of extinction.

As the critics says, there is a lot to come from the future updates as their are a lot of rooms for improvement. And talking about the the sells, million is the primary milestone and The Division 2 has already hit the mark to be noticed by the Global leaders like IGN.

Like almost all of the Tom Clancy’s best franchises to the world of gamers, Division can be represented as a masterpiece and definitly a worthy entry in game of the year winner list.

Apex Legends

Another battleground game but with much more hype than any other out their. A First person shooter with lots of different accessibility, new interactions, and with unique abilities.

Apex Legends is just like PUBG and fortnite, what makes it different is its ability to let players choose a special characters who have unique ability of its own, like ‘Wraith’ who uses portal to move across distances just like that, ‘Lifeline’ who is a healer and can call supply packages as her Ultimate ability, ‘Pathfinder’ who can spawn zip-lines to travel considerable distances.

The game Launches as a 3-man cell where one of then is chosen to be the drop-master so that the remaining two will follow him, the motive is that you have to find equipment, weapons, healing accessories, and the most important, SURVIVE till the end to become the Champion.

What makes it favorite is that its completely free to play with a download of around 20 GB data. Apex Legends had over 10 million players in the record 3 days time. And over 50 million players in the very first month of launch.

In the growing genre of battleground games, Apex Legends has definitely made a mark on the universe. It is a worthy edition to the game of the year winning roster.

Days Gone

With an excellent story, direction, build, days gone should have been the most selling game of the year, but a minor mistake can ruin an entire build like it was worthless.

Days Gone is a zombie survival game comes under category of Action-adventure-horror-survival game. The story goes like the Lead character John gets the intel of his wife being alive, even more like a fluke, John desides to find his wife Sarah and the quest begins.

It is an open world game-play experience where you just might face a horde of zombies and trust me when i tell you, these zombies are nothing like the ones from Left 4 dead zombies, the zombies from days gone are not easy to kill and the horde can be the last thing you want while having low ammunition and equipment.

Not a high rank or number to display about the popularity of this game but still it managed to make its way to this list, cause its that good(change my mind).

Void Bastards

Well what do we have here, Another first person shooter game but with the build and graphical representation of a comic book.

Void Bastards is based on a galactic environment where players get to have a more exploration and interactive things. it has its own specific play style where the player faces the play style of stealth and hacking and all out gunfights. The special thing about this game is that it is randomized.

Every small space station that the player will explore will have its own size, shape or variables. One may have a room full of smoke, other may consist of Army of robots,etc. Event the player characters are also randomized. It truly gives that sci-fi comic book experience and that can be the key feature for this game to make it shine.

Void Bastards has a more than positive rating of 9/10 from steam and around 81% from meta-critics. Hope it will make impact ASAP.

Devil May Cry 5

Last but not the least, My personal favorite ‘Devil May Cry 5’ is finally here. Thei hack and slash game is so fan favorite that the world was overjoyed when they saw Dante in the very end of the trailer with that sick smile of his, DAMN..

DMC 5 comes under the category of action-adventure-hack and slash video game. It is a sequel part of the the iconic Devil May Cry series. And not to forget about the all time best characters of this series like Dante, Virgil, Nero, Trish, and the most others. And that symbolized sword ‘Rebellion’ and the guns ‘Ebony’ and ‘Ivory’ makes everything just perfect.

DMC 5 is the continuation of the original story where the reboot failed to make the impact needed. Of-course the players wanted the original Dante back and here he is better than ever. As we already know that Dante is here, so is Nero but with Meta-Arm, not the demonic one.

And the introduction of a new character V who is also a protagonist just like Dante and Nero but with a slight difference. V creates Shadow like energy to create animals or so-called weapons to defeat he’s enemies. All the Protagonists are on their way to face the antagonist Urizen who is a Demon king. And yes this ‘V’ has some connection with Urizen that will unveil in the end of-course.

With the unique fighting style of everyone, the game is already way more fun to play that too just by thinking about it XD. And the Stylish Dante will be their to give some more entertainment to the players. So hot yet so Cool. The World is already taking about it and I’m sure as hell it wi;; make the remarkable impact on the gaming universe.

The Common Sense Media gave it 5/5, Meta-critics gave it 89% and IGN gave it 9.5/10.

Others

check out the list of all game of the year awards here.

And yes my pick is Devil May Cry 5 for all the reasons in the world. See you next time with some new content. Till then, Stay tuned.

Also take a look at Rainbow Six Siege.