This is my little blog on co-optimus, co-op gaming website, but I'm afraid my most anticipiated game of the year is not a co-op experience. In fact, it's one of the few games that I would prefer to remain a single player game.
That said, I have several other anticipated games which are co-op orientated at their core, but they aren't my MOST anticipated game.
"Shut up, and tell us the darn game..."
Yes, yes, yes...sorry, I just like to let people know where I'm at. So my most anticipated game, and has been most anticipated game for over 2 years, and that is: "Bioshock: Infinite".
I consider Bioshock (1), to be one of the greatest games ever made. It was an incredible experience and one that I will never forget to this day. Even the final fight (which was terrible imo) was not enough to taint the experience. The arrival of Bioshock 2 was exciting, but knowing that Ken Levine was not leading it got my spider sense (yes I have one of those) going. The game had some interesting ideas, improved on some aspects of the first game but was just incapable of capturing/meeting the intense experience of the first.
Which leads me nicely on to Bioshock: Infinite. I remember watching the teaser/announcement trailer with great anticipatio - Ken was sure to not let me down. The trailer started under the water... with a rapture like view... *sigh*, this was not what I wanted. Then **BOOM** we're introduced to the world of columbia - full of much needed colour, new atmopshere and great characters. The true spiritual successor to the first Bioshock, and on track to equal the first games impact.
In Ken We Trust.
Aside of Bioshock:Infinite, I have other games I'm really looking forward to on the co-op front. In fact, my most anticipated co-op game is Alien:Colonial Marines - which I have been dying to play for years and years. Alien is one of my favourite films, and I can't wait to be absorbed in a faithful interactive experience - with friends no less! I'm also looking forward to Borderlands 2, as there was so much room for improvement over Borderlands (a great game in itself) that I think the game could be a massive hit. Perhaps we should just give gearbox a co-optmus award for most anticipated co-op games?
Looking at Gearbox and Irrational games, we can see they are helmed by people who are not afraid to innovate in a stagnating creative industry...
...mmmmmmmmm, innovation.....