The games that made it memorable: Love Star Wars? Then the summer of 2003 took you on a roller coaster ride of giddy highs and depressed lows that was impossible to forget – Star Wars Galaxies, perhaps the most disappointing MMO in history, and Knights of the Old Republic, an RPG that was better than all three prequels combined, released less than a month apart (June 26 and July 15). With the exception of those feverishly anticipated titles and July 1's Warcraft III: The Frozen Throne, however, the real summer didn't begin until August. Then, in rapid-fire succession, came Konami's last great survival horror (Silent Hill 3, August 6), an enhanced and discounted version of a PS2 Greatest Hit (Virtua Fighter 4: Evolution, August 13), the return of a classic Nintendo franchise on GameCube (F-Zero GX, August 25) and what many at the time declared the best fighting game yet (SoulCalibur II, August 27). Whew! Did k✱ids ev☂en bother returning to school that fall?
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The games that made it memorable: The summer of 2010 has been so boring, especially compared to those from our nostalgia-soaked '80s and '90s childhoods, that it's tempting to act the elderly curmudgeon and declare that gaming "just ain't what it used to be!" Untrue – go back only a single year and you'll find that we were actually spoiled for choice. For example, we received not one, but two huge, open-world, positively reviewed superhero games in Prototype and Infamous. The perpetual promise of fully destructible environments was finally, and spectacularly, realized through Red Faction: Guerrilla. The Western genre was reborn before Red Dead Redemption with Call of Juarez: Bound in Blood, and the Wii hardcore were revitalized before Super Mario Galaxy 2 by the surprisingly deep and difficult Punch-Out!! The real shock, though, was the string of successful movie and comic adaptations. X-Men Origins: Wolverine was good, Ghostbusters: The Video Game was better and Batman: Arkham Asylum was the best… ever. On the other hand, if you bought The Sims 3 and its infinไite world of customization, you probably didn't need any other games last summer. Or this 𝓰summer. Or next.
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Aug 23, 2010
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