13. Remember Me
For the immediate time being, Remember Me is my most anticipated game. The story looks set to be a mind twisting and insane trip into a future world, memories and the human psyche. Set in a 2084, we have the ability to upload our last personal intimacy, our memories, to a social networking site Memorize. Playing as Nilian you play as a memory hunter who has the ability to hack memories and change someones perception of an event. I have a few concerns with some of the gameplay, which looks a little loose so far, but I haven't had my hands on yet. The combo system certainly looks like something close to Arkham City but the game seems to have an interesting combo creation element that could allow the player to string together some truly brutal moves. It is rare that a game gets such an interesting concept that has the potential to say something about our world and ourselves personally. If the game can really deliver on that promise and match it with its gameplay, we could have a quiet classic on our hands.
12. Madden 25
Despite my stance on games being art, and that we should constantly be pushing the boundaries of our expressionism, I love a good sports game, the Madden series being one of my favorites. The series always had an edge of presentation about it in pregame, in game and post game that other sports simulator just haven't been able to match. The series has gone through interesting features to help tell the story of the career, from the surprisingly dynamic radio station of the Playstation 2 era, to the pre-games shows in later versions. However, I felt that had been a little culled in Madden 13, with focus instead going to Connected Career in a hope to make players rely on meeting up and playing whole seasons together. It was a feature, that for me at least, didn't work and struggled to tell that 'narrative' of a team I created that kept me playing in older games. Here's hoping that EA really pull out the stops for the games 25th anniversary and is able to keep that connectivity that lots of players love, but also appeal to the many single players who love the game.