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10 best games of 2015: Fallout 4, Witcher 3, Rise of Tomb Raider and more
Open-world games with role-playing elements dominate this year’s list
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Video game critic Lou Kesten’s favourite titles of the year featured monster hunters, treasure hunters, guardian spirits and murder suspects. Here are his top 10 games of 2015.
1. The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt
This role-playing drama from Poland’s CD Projekt Red set a new standard for weirdness when it sent his hero in pursuit of a flying ghost fetus. For all its baroque touches, Witcher 3 boils down to a domestic drama about a jaded warrior and his impetuous adopted daughter – and it’s quite moving. Read our review. For Playstation 4, Xbox One and PC
2. Fallout 4
The latest epic from Bethesda Softworks crams in a bunch of genres – role-playing, first-person shooter, even a civilisation-building simulation – and veers from hilarious black comedy to heartbreaking tragedy. It’s most memorable for its haunting vision of humanity somehow surviving after nearly destroying itself. Read our review.
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For Playstation 4, Xbox One and PC
3. Super Mario Maker
Nintendo gives its fans all the tools they need to build two-dimensional challenges starring Mario and his crew. Somewhere out there, kids are learning the ropes on their way to designing the games we’ll be talking about 20 years from now.
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