bd metronews desk || The best video game of the year ‘The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt’. Video games officially leveled up in 2015. After a few dodgy transitional years, the new consoles are finally delivering. PC gaming is thriving, and that phone in your pocket is a viable game machine. When it comes to both quantity and quality, 2015 was simply one of the best years on record.
That made picking our favorite a real nightmare, but eventually, a white-haired, demon-hunting warrior sliced through the contenders to give The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt our top honor.
A sprawling, open-world fantasy adventure fused with a tight, compelling narrative, The Witcher 3 is simultaneously epic and intimate, a truly impressive feat for a huge role-playing game. We burned countless hours searching for our protégé Ciri, battling massive beasts, playing the clever card game Gwent, and exploring every nook and cranny of developer CD Projekt Red’s gorgeous, glorious world. Suffice to say, it was time well spent.
The Runners-Up
‘Fallout 4’
Tapped as a Game of the Year contender the moment it was unveiled at the E3 conference in June, Fallout 4 had a lot to live up to. And while it came up a bit short of our admittedly overblown expectations, Bethesda’s post-apocalyptic RPG is still an amazing journey through a handcrafted wasteland bursting with enemies to fight, locations to explore, and duct tape to pilfer. More addictive than Psycho-Jet, this one.
‘Rocket League’
Bigger isn’t always better, however. Wedged between these two open-world behemoths stands a game smaller of stature but equally compelling: Rocket League, the spectacular sleeper hit of 2015. Car soccer? Really? Spend more than a half-hour playing and it will hit you like a fender to the mouth. Easy to learn but tough to master, Rocket League’s simple design belies its best-in-class performance. This was the multiplayer game of 2015 and easily the game we logged the most time with.
