10 Best Video Games Of 2017 You Haven't Played

7. Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus

Hats off to Bethesda for doing the lord's work - resurrecting not only DOOM in 2016, but now Wolfenstein has one of the best sequels in quite some time.

The thing that'll really hit you isn't necessarily the combat (though it is visceral and immediate, backed by a thunderous industrial metal score from DOOM's Mick Gordon). Instead, it's Machinegames' chilling reimagining of America had the Nazis prevailed during World War 2.

They pull no punches, highlighting how contemporary alt-right mentalities would fit right alongside the violent segregation and iron fist brutality of the Third Reich. You'll read news clippings about how it was a nuclear bomb dropped on New York that forced the U.S. to yield, wander streets where faux-American patriotism is twisted to accommodate Nazi iconography, ending on one of the most hilariously OTT depictions of Hitler you've ever seen.

Gameplay-wise, Wolfenstein II is like a more refined DOOM. BJ Blazkowicz is played with a sobering humanity by Brian Bloom (as are the cast overall - it's a surprisingly weighty narrative), taking the fight to his Nazi oppressors one axe-swing, broken bone, face-smash and dual-wielded shotgun blast at a time.

Annoyingly, Wolfenstein II takes a hit from having some supremely unbalanced difficulty even on its middle setting, yet this isn't enough to detract from what should be known as the best acted game of the year.