The VG247 different game awards

11.12.2018

VG247 Alternative Game Awards

Competent Game of the Year: Marvel’s Spider-Man

Spider-Man, Spider-Man, does no matter an open-world game can. Can he gather all of the shit? Yes he can, it’s a success – look out, right here comes the Spider-Man.

Insomniac’s tackle Spider-Man is likely to be one of the vital unoriginal open-world games round, however in some way it manages to nonetheless be value taking part in, even with its insta-fail stealth sections and pipe puzzle minigames. It’s wonderful what good motion, fairly graphics, and an genuine illustration of established characters can do.

It’s not a bug, it’s a characteristic: Hitman 2’s homing briefcase

Hitman 2 is nice. It’s a game the place you possibly can knock individuals out with a fish, drown them in a bathroom, and gown up as a pink flamingo. You get to journey the world whereas murdering individuals in more and more ridiculous methods – it’s principally like working for the federal government.

But certainly one of Hitman 2’s greatest options was unintended. Grab a briefcase, lock onto an NPC, and launch it at their head: the factor will residence proper in – very slowly – on their melon. Even in the event that they go away the room and go round a nook, it’s going to hunt them down like a Tory on a defenseless fox. Unfortunately, this was patched out as a result of it was too pure for this world.

The most quantity of assessment codes we have been despatched for a game we didn’t play: Grip: Combat Racing

By all accounts, Grip is an effective arcade racer that you need to in all probability give an opportunity. Unfortunately, it got here out simply after Red Dead Redemption 2 and a bunch of different large games, so we by no means bought probability to test it out.

Release date apart, this isn’t the fault of the game’s advertising. In my inbox, I’ve been despatched round ten separate emails containing assessment code for Grip on numerous platforms. It’s the identical for Matt and it’s the identical for Alex. So if we ever do get round to cracking on with it, we’ll be sorted.

Worst character: Lara Croft

Lara Croft is unattainable to empathise with in Shadow of the Tomb Raider. She’s a egocentric wealthy lady who messes round with different cultures and touches issues she shouldn’t be touching. She does this so she will be able to discover extra treasure to stay in her large mansion – which she inherited, by the best way – all whereas by no means shutting up about her well-known dad. She additionally says “amazing” an excessive amount of.

Here’s a bit instance of the dangerous performances. pic.twitter.com/sP2qaaUfRM

— Kirk McKeand (@MckKirk) September 10, 2018

Actor Camilla Luddington delivers a efficiency like she works in a name centre, it’s 5:30pm, and there’s a curry ready for her at residence. She sounds as enthused as a ten yr outdated who’s simply been pressured to look at cricket for 15 hours. She has as a lot emotion as a T-1000. Shadow of the Tomb Raider makes it clear that Lara wants a niche yr off.

Worst villain: Telltale

One of probably the most miserable tales of 2018 was the closure of Telltale. The studio was all the time a giant success story, however dangerous administration led to the losses of a whole lot of jobs. To high it off, it appeared to come back out of nowhere. Video game dangerous guys don’t worsen than company greed.

Best use of ladies to boil gamer piss: Total War: Rome 2

This yr, it was a close-fought battle between Total War: Rome 2 and Battlefield 5 for one of the best use of ladies to boil gamer piss. I made a decision to go together with Rome 2 as a result of it’s been out ages and nonetheless managed to make individuals froth with righteous rage over one thing as pedestrian as together with girls generals. You must respect that.