Facebook’s flooding with CityVille posts right now. If these requests were mails from owls, even Vernon Dursley wouldn’t have been able to stop Harry from getting one. Curiosity led me to check out AppData, and the stats amazed me. In a few days over ninety million users will have been actively playing CityVille. So I decided to check out what the fuss is all about.
Welcome back to the second installment of our most anticipated games of 2011 list. Today we hop through interspatial gateways in Portal 2, hack through hell’s minions in Diablo III, and join the dark side in Star Wars The Old Republic.
With the dawn of a new year, we look at the list of games to be released in 2011; it is long, with many titles being hot favorite. After an arduous debate, we narrowed down our list and came up with six games that we are looking most forward to. In Part I, we cover The Witcher 2 Assassins of Kings, Dragon Age II, and Mass Effect 3.
2010 was a good year to unleash our violent alter ego on the cyber world. To refresh your memory, we briefly review here some of the best FPS games released throughout the year. These are Singularity, Medal of Honor, Arma II: Operation Arrowhead, Battlefield: Bad Company 2, and Call of Duty: Black Ops.
Singularity: The only sci-fi shooter in our list, Singularity is shootout madness galore. Arguably this game feels very derivative, a hash of Bioshock, Half-Life 2, and Wolfenstein, but don’t let these absurdities fool you. Singularity is an extremely fun shooter, more appealing so for old schoolers. The story isn’t revolutionary, with no serious characters you will remember long after you’ve finished the game. But what makes this game stand out is the Time Manipulation Device that lets you perform crazy time powers. Remember when Max Payne introduced Bullet Time? Singularity takes it to a whole new level. You can actually “drive” your bullet to your enemies or fire off multiple shots from your sniper rifle precisely. Other effects include dropping a time bubble that slows down enemies or even freeze them. You can also grab enemy projectiles in midair and throw them back. Time manipulation is also included cleverly in some environmental puzzles. Combining all these in intense battle situations is exhilarating to say the least, and all the possible options help keep things fresh and satisfying. Overall, Singularity is a great sci-fi shooter and will keep any FPS lovers entertained.
