What’s our GOTY? Effectively, as a result of the query is so subjective, we do not actually like to only choose one. What we choose to do as an alternative is have one for every of our employees, so we will have a good time extra of the 12 months’s most deserving video games over the vacation season. And in a banner 12 months for GOTY candidates reminiscent of this, even simply whittling it all the way down to a listing of eight proved to be an agonising course of.
Different web sites name this “dishonest”, however to paraphrase Tim Blake Nelson in Syriana, dishonest is how we win. So cope with it, “different web sites”.
First off it is our resident horror connoisseur Kelsey Raynor with an ode to Alan Wake 2, a recreation she preferred immediately as an present fan of Treatment’s work, and which she grew to like as a uniquely fashionable horror expertise that pushes boundaries on technical and inventive ranges. It even managed to warp actuality itself, in a thematically becoming twist. Bloody hell, no surprise it gained huge at this 12 months’s Recreation Awards.
Try the primary of our GOTY 2023 movies beneath to learn how Alan Wake 2 distinguishes itself in such a banner 12 months:
For extra on Alan Wake 2, take a look at our checklist video on issues it does higher than each different horror recreation, and tune in tomorrow to seek out out what’s subsequent in VG247’s Video games of 2023 collection! Belief us, there will be some mad twists and turns alongside the best way, a really particular visitor or two, and you will in all probability shout at us not less than as soon as.
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