10 Video Games With Unique Art Styles You Need To See

Did you ever read a comic book or graphic novel and think how cool it'd be to act out the panels in a videogame? To feel each "thwip" and "biff" as they fly off the page into your eyeballs?

Well, somebody at Ubisoft did when the set out to make a game of the Belgian graphic novel series, XIII, back in 2003. Following the story of an amnesiac XIII, the game sets a similar scene to a Bourne film: shady backstory, unreliable narrators and all sorts of double crossing and hidden agency shenanigans going on.

But what made it great was the faithful recreation into bringing the pages of a graphic novel to life in a 3D, first person shooter. Sure, it may not have been pushing for graphical excellence and top end specs, but it didn't need to. It was simple, colourful, and that's all we could ask for.

Dialogue and story play out in panels, with headers for the "reader" to follow along. But what excelled was the combat: onomatopoeic words punctuated XIII's actions. From headshots to knife kills, it all played out like a living cartoon world.

Let's hope they capture that in the upcoming remake.