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Top rated video games11/20/2023 A few smooth, ambitious co-op titles were content to emphasize the power of communication, which came to feel like a vital balm in the midst of an isolating pandemic. It’s even in the way that Before Your Eyes eerily uses a webcam to track your eyes and tell its story about a soul’s journey into the afterlife.īut technology is only half the story, and most of our favorite games this year aren’t beholden to 4K graphics or fancy ray-tracing abilities. Pushing the technological edge are games like IO Interactive’s Hitman 3, which surpasses its predecessors in nailing the feeling of the living sandbox and Housemarque’s Returnal, which uses the haptic DualSense controller to make you feel as if you’re actually holding alien weapons. So while we celebrate the improvements in technology that have created gaming experiences that wouldn’t have been possible a few years ago, we also appreciate the new approaches to familiar franchises. This is especially true after a year that found many people still unable to get their hands on the ninth generation of consoles (the PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X). Necessity is the mother of invention, and though many of the games on our list of the best video games of 2021 began development prior to the Covid-19 pandemic, it’s hard not to see their final forms through that transformative lens.
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