Most anticipated games for 2010
Although 2009 certainly wasn't a shabby round for gamers loads of hugely anticipated titles were delayed to next year. Stack these on the stuff that was only ever coming out in 2010 anyway, and you've probably got yourself a second mortgage waiting. Here, in no particular order, are ten games you should be getting all irresponsible about.
BioShock 2
Everybody secretly wants to be a Big Daddy. The antique diving gear, the big drill, the girls. What's not to love? It may or may not live up to its predecessor's extravagantly high standards, but you'll still get your chance to stomp around Rapture and eat Little Sisters. That's worth the price of admission.
God of War III
When you're not secretly wanting to be a Big Daddy, chances are you're secretly wishing you were Kratos. Who wouldn't want to be a cursed albino with a bunch of swords on chains and a divinely-ordained imperative to rip limbs off people? Sounds like the best holiday in Greece ever.
Splinter Cell: Conviction
Look out world, Sam Fisher's gone rogue. If there's one thing more deadly than Sam Fisher, it's Sam Fisher gone rogue. Borrowing from the old Rainbow Six titles, Sam's also packing a new “Mark and Execute” feature, allowing him to designate targets under doors and through windows before actually busting through and doing his business. It's not cheating when you've gone rogue.
Red Dead Redemption
Cowboys are so criminally under-represented in gaming, aren't they? Rockstar's fixing that with this wild, wild west open world action adventure. Yes, it's just Grand Theft Auto on the 19th century American frontier, but that sounds awesome.
Mass Effect 2
Commander Shepard vs the Reavers, Round 2, FIGHT. If you've still got your old saved game from Mass Effect, you'll also be able to bank on the decisions you made the first time around. Which means the relentlessly irritating Ashley Williams will stay dead forever. Cake for everyone!
Dead Space 2
In space, no one can hear you scream. Or strategically dismember an army of grotesquely reanimated corpses hellbent on stopping you from repairing the damned tram. It's never a dull moment on the Concordance Extraction Corporation's engineer detail.
Alan Wake
This one sort of looks a bit like Alone in the Dark, but actually good. Alan Wake's a struggling author who relocates with his wife to some “idyllic” town in the middle of the woods somewhere because he's obviously never watched any horror films from the 80s. Hilarity promptly ensues, where “hilarity” means “Alan's wife vanishes and the whole place turns into a waking nightmare”.
Halo: Reach
Because it's Halo. It's not that Halo is especially amazing or anything, mind you, but... it's Halo.
Super Mario Galaxy 2
The sadly beleaguered Wii needs something to salvage it from becoming a total shovelware dump, and it looks like Super Mario Galaxy 2 might be just the thing. It's up against the almost inconceivably high standards of the first one, but Nintendo knows that. Nintendo also knows the Wii's becoming a total shovelware dump. There's a pretty clear course of action here.
Diablo III
Oh, it's not coming out in 2010. Or 2011, probably. Or even 2012. That's not going to stop the Blizzard Fanboy Army from speculating its imminent release all year, though.
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Subscribe to comments feedHow you put Diablo III and not Starcraft II is beyond me.
Oh, it's not coming out in 2010. Or 2011, probably. Or even 2012. That's not going to stop the Blizzard Fanboy Army from speculating its imminent release all year, though. >>
LMAO!!
Don't forget Guildwars 2!
Why not swap out Diablo III with Starcraft II? We already know D3 isn't coming out 2010, SC2 is much more likely.
Battlefield Bad Company 2
Starcraft 2