Ten of the best browser arcade games released this year, right here. We’ve got everything from running a 100-metre sprint event, hitting balls out of the park, racing dinosaurs, gigantic swords and even a time-management game in this edition.
Best Freeware Arcade Games 2008
Whether you fancy rescuing the princess, assassinating the president or saving the world, we’ve got everyone’s wishes covered. We humbly present to you IndieGames.com’s special feature on some of the best action and arcade games released in the past twelve months.
From upgraded remakes with painstakingly redrawn and recolored graphics, to the most retro of demakes with blocky pixel art and noisy chiptunes, IndieGames.com has rounded up ten remakes of classic games that you should not miss the second time around.
We’ve compiled a list of twenty adventure games to proof that the genre is still very much alive, with picks such as a western-themed IF, an educational game for both adults and children, a chatroom simulator, a couple of sequels, and even a remake of a past Sierra classic in full VGA glory to satiate anyone’s desire for more questing.
High praise: 2008 was the best year for video games, ever.
As such, when game reviewers name their favorite games of 2008, they will make good cases — probably for the epics, “Grand Theft Auto IV,” “LittleBigPlanet,” “Rock Band 2” and “Fallout 3.”
But everything is personal. So here are my Top 10 games of 2008, based on: how much they made my heart race and how many hours I played them.
•“God of War: Chains of Olympus” by Sony for PSP. This is the best PSP game yet created. You play once more as Kratos, the killing muscle of mythical gods. Its cinematic sweep is breathtaking; screenshots could hang in galleries; the orchestral score hums. It’s a flawless masterpiece.
Halo 3 was the most played games on Xbox Live for the week beginning November 24, beating both Gears of War 2 and Call of Duty: World at War to number one.
Here’s the top ten.
Gamasutra’s comprehensive new U.S. sales analysis following October NPD results, we’ve extrapolated the top 5 selling video games of 2008 so far in the region, from Smash Bros through GTA IV.
YLD Top 5 Games of 2008
- Wii
- Mario Cart
- Grand Theft Auto 4
- Wii Play
- Wii Fit
