User blog comment:Magma-Man/Game of the Year Awards! - 2013/@comment-1263839-20131204082155

Well, you're right, I was expecting Infinite.

I don't think I could fill in all those categories, but let's go then.

DLC Pack of the Year: DLC was something I barely bought this year, what with the massive amounts of games from previous years and the PlayStation 2 to keep me occupied I just had no time for it. Regardless here we go.


 * Call of Duty: Black Ops II: Uprising
 * Treyarch
 * Activision
 * £10 (or near enough)
 * Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, PC

Well done Uprising, bring in possibly the best Zombies map ever with a surprisingly engaging story and cast. The multiplayer maps were quite good, too, and I thoroughly enjoyed the era.

Multiplayer of the Year:

Right I'm just going to give this to Gears of War: Judgment by Epic Games and People Can Fly. Despite becoming more of an MMS gameplay wise and variety was removed by making it just "Blue Humans" vs "Red Humans" rather than Locust vs Humans as it was in the past. Still, however I'd say Gears Judgment still holds up the very high standard of shooty action and flow that the series can boast well enough.

Assassin's Creed IV would have won if it had actually bothered being much different to it's predecessors. World of Warcraft: Mists of Pandaria comes in last place, PvP has been an abomination for every 2013 patch they've released.

Most Anticipated of 2014:

World of Warcraft: Warlords of Draenor by Activision Blizzard would win by default, perhaps just because they're finally updating the character models. Titanfall for the Xbox 360, Xbox One and PC should warrant a mention.

Game of the Year:

Out of the 7 2013 games I've played this year the one which brought me the most entertain, the one that made me scratch my head and think, the one which made me want to go over it again with glee was Capcom and Dontnod Entertainment's Remember Me. Though admittedly the combat's a bit frustrating and the story mishandles the characters, Remember Me was a blast of fun, excitement and wonder. With an art style that's like Mirror's Edge without too much bloom, gameplay taking from the likes of God Hand, a few nice memory mixing missions and possibly one of the best female characters to come out of AAA gaming this year, Remember Me deservedly wins my praise and GOTY 'award'. Just a shame that it sold so poorly that there's been no sales figures released.

The runner up was Ubisoft's Rayman Legends for the Xbox 360, Wii U and PlayStation 3. A fun little platformer which I can't really judge because like it's predecessor Rayman Origins it has so little flaws (or none at all). While Rayman playing an electric guitar solo while fire chases after you was certainly entertaining, it just didn't entertain me as much as Remember Me did.

Since I only played 8 games (I also tried Forza 5 but didn't play it at all), I may as well list them.
 * 1st: Remember Me
 * 2nd: Rayman Legends
 * 3rd: Dead Rising 3
 * 4th: Gears of War: Judgment (after this call it the bottom four)
 * 5th: Lost Planet 3
 * 6th: Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag
 * 7th: Grand Theft Auto V
 * 8th: BioShock: Infinite.

Now for the record I'm not calling Infinite the worst game of the year, it's just a game that I played and it brought me the least enjoyment of the 8.

Really this year's been about playing the old games, I could list all the games from previous years which even I was surprised to see I'd only played this year.