BATTLEFIELD 3
Prepare for full-scale war with Battlefield 3, the third major evolution of the long-running online battle franchise. Using the power of Frostbite 2 game engine technology, Battlefield 3 delivers superior visual quality, a grand sense of scale, massive destruction, dynamic audio and incredibly lifelike character animations. As bullets whiz by, walls crumble, and explosions throw you to the ground, the battlefield feels more alive and interactive than ever before. InBattlefield 3, players step into the role of the elite U.S. Marines where they will experience heart-pounding single player missions and competitive multiplayer actions ranging across diverse locations from around the globe including Europe, Middle-East and North America.
Prepare for full-scale war with Battlefield 3, the third major evolution of the long-running online battle franchise. Using the power of Frostbite 2 game engine technology, Battlefield 3 delivers superior visual quality, a grand sense of scale, massive destruction, dynamic audio and incredibly lifelike character animations. As bullets whiz by, walls crumble, and explosions throw you to the ground, the battlefield feels more alive and interactive than ever before. InBattlefield 3, players step into the role of the elite U.S. Marines where they will experience heart-pounding single player missions and competitive multiplayer actions ranging across diverse locations from around the globe including Europe, Middle-East and North America.
Publisher: Electronic Arts; Developer: Digital Illusions CE (DICE)
STAR WARS: THE OLD REPUBLIC
In Star Wars: The Old Republic, players will explore an age thousands of years before the rise of Darth Vader when war between the Old Republic and the Sith Empire divides the galaxy. Players can choose to play as Jedi, Sith, or a variety of other classic Star Wars roles, defining their personal story and determining their path down the light or dark side of the Force. Along the way, players will befriend courageous companions who will fight at their side or possibly betray them, based on the players' actions. Players can also choose to team up with friends to battle enemies and overcome incredible challenges.
Developer: BioWare| Publisher: Electronic Arts
THE ELDER SCROLLS V: SKYRIM
Skyrim may sound like a weird name, but it actually makes sense within the world of Elder Scrolls. It's the name of the region just north of Cyrodiil, where The Elder Scrolls IV was set, within the fictional world of Tamriel. If that description was a little too nerdy for you, then so be it, but that's where it came from. It was the same deal with the third Elder Scrolls game, called Morrowind, which sits just to the east of both Skyrim and Cyrodiil. Since Oblivion, there has certainly been a lot of progress within the world of video games, including with what Bethesda Game Studios did with Fallout 3.
Developer: Bethesda | Publisher: Bethesda
MASS EFECT 3
The Mass Effect series is arguably the best sci-fi experience in the last few years. While the first certainly had technical issues, Mass Efect 2 is in every sense the pinnacle of modern role-playing game design. A vivid cast of characters, accessible and fun gameplay, and an epic scale combine to create one of the most enthralling journeys of the times With Mass Effect 3 the story continues, and hopefully in a way that tops even the masterpiece that is Mass Effect 2. This time the war is back on Earth, and while a lot of questions still remain about how the game will work, what BioWare's keeping the same, and what will change, we still consider Mass Effect 3 to be the new Return of the Jedi.
With Portal 2, the hilariously maniacal robot GlaDOS is back and part of a much more fully-featured single-player game.
While it's exciting to think about all the insane puzzles Valve is putting together that take advantage of all the new mechanics in Portal 2, what's especially interesting is the co-operative mode. Instead of Chell, the two-player mode stars two robots, each with their own portal guns. That means four portals total with which to overcome obstacles. This game is going to be crazy.
Developer: Valve | Publisher: Valve
DRAGON AGE II
BioWare's been on an incredible roll within the last few years. Granted, it has a huge number of employees spread across multiple studios working on new products to its advantage, but it also has three of the hottest role-playing properties in existence right now. One of them is Dragon Age.
The game will still import certain elements from previous save files and some familiar faces will appear, but this time around you're playing as a human named Hawke. Class and gender can be modified, but not race. The game will also feature a dramatically different art style.
Developer: BioWare | Publisher: Electronic Arts
DEUS EX: HUMAN REVOLUTION
It's about time this franchise was brought back into the spotlight. The original still stands as one of the best games, well, ever. While the follow-up, Invisible War, was a bit of a disappointment, there's no denying the potential of what Eidos Montreal is cooking up for 2011. Lots of ways to approach each encounter, a flexible character development system, and of course a sweeping story of conspiracy and betrayal. Though this is the third game in the franchise, the story is set before the events of the first two. It's a time before the proliferation of nanotech. Instead of tiny machines, people rely on obvious metallic implants to augment their abilities, hence protagonist Adam Jensen's arms and super strength.
Developer: Eidos Montreal | Publisher: Square Enix
THE WITCHER 2: ASSASSINS OF KINGS
2011 is going to be an incredible year for role-playing game fans. And even though some higher profile titles might be on the release schedule, The Witcher 2 could very well be in contention of the best. CD Projekt RED's original was a great surprise. It was a huge and dynamic role-playing experience based on the fiction of Andrzej Sapkowski that wasn't without flaws, but it was solid to the core. After an insane amount of patching with the Enhanced Edition, the original Witcher stands as one of the best RPGs available to PC gamers. The technology is also being totally reworked for a much more visually impressive experience and character interactions, from what's been shown off so far, being made to look and feel a lot more natural.
Developer: CD Projekt RED | Publisher: Atari
SHOGUN 2: TOTAL WAR
Rather than continue to build on previous versions of the revered strategy series and make bigger and more complex games with each release, Shogun 2: Total War is being slimmed down. It'll be a more manageable, focused game with some cool mechanics for progression on the battlefield. So far The Creative Assembly has been saying all the right things. This doesn't seem like an impossibly ambitious and all-encompassing project like Empire. Instead, it sounds like a welcomed back-to-basics approach that focuses on what's made the Total War series one of the best in video games. Coupling Civilization-style turn-based empire management with large-scale real-time tactical battles, Total War has always been a strategy fan's dream game.
Developer: The Creative Assembly | Publisher: SEGA
CRYSIS 2
Crytek's been at the forefront of graphical achievement for years now. Crysis is still one of the first games people install when they get new hardware, even though the game came out in 2007. Now the company is finally developing something multiplatform. Not surprisingly, it's a shooter. That being said, we should have faith in Crytek. Far Cry, Crysis and Warhead are all excellent shooters, and with Crysis 2 the company is getting more exposure than ever outside of the core PC gaming community. Having refined its shooting mechanics, presentation, and artificial intelligence over the years, Crytek's shooter sequel could be the best thing the studio has ever made. At the very least, you know it's going to be a visual spectacle bound to be obsessively tested on every gaming machine on the planet. Developer: Crytek | Publisher: Electronic Arts
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