The Jordan Challenges lovingly recreate ten of his Airness’s best performances and you as the player must match Jordan’s statline to complete the challenge. It also shows a healthy appreciation for the history of the sport by paying homage to the legacy of its greatest player. For a complete strategy game that is sure to have years of value, you can’t get much better than StarCraft II.īasketball is my one non-dorky pastime and having recently gotten back into watching the NBA with the rise of my old team, the Boston Celtics, I was impressed with how well NBA 2K11 translated the game of professional basketball. And thanks to the excellent matchmaking system, my Protoss ass doesn’t get cremated every time I search for an opponent online. The huge multiplayer community and the addictive achievement system allows almost endless replay. The missions of the campaign are all well-designed and disparate enough to challenge different parts of the brain. Juggling the sometimes competing responsibilities of mining resources and collecting vespene gas all while trying to fend off the pesky Zerg, Protoss and sometimes even fellow humans held all of the strategy and tactics that I could have wanted.
Then there’s the gameplay, which perfectly nailed the classic RTS feel for which its predecessor was known. Some people didn’t like the script, but I was swept up in the space opera feel and the cheesiness seemed somehow appropriate. I enjoyed the branching storylines and I found the voice-acting in the cinematics to be entertaining, especially the Southern drawl of Tychus Findlay. Playing the multiplayer beta this spring with my fellow Escapists was fun and all, but I was honestly more excited for the singleplayer campaign. Like Susan Arendt said, these are the five games of 2010 that I would tell people to play because they are just amazingly well-made. Then, if it was good, I played it to hell. I got a recommendation from a friend, or read a review from someone I trusted, went to the store (or digital marketplace) and bought it. Some of the games that made my favorites list were games that I reviewed for work, but the ones that I played the most I found just like you did. Sentimentality aside, I also played a crapload of games in 2010, probably more than in any year of my life because, hey, it was my job. I am nothing but thankful for my time here at The Escapist and I’m looking forward to more in 2011. 2010 was a pretty good year (Yes, I write letters and burn my CDs.) It was my first 12 month span as a full-time games journalist and I was able to meet some great people and attend some amazing events like GDC, San Diego Comic Con and PAX East.
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