Playstation 3 top 20 games

When it comes to the basics, each character has a set of simple moves as well as a bunch of special attacks. The gauge is divided into three segments, and those segments can be spent in different ways. The gameplay in Mortal Kombat will be different for those of you accustomed to the speed and fluidity of games like Super Street Fighter IV.

Landing a combo and executing special moves is more visceral here then in other games. So, with exciting combat, bloody fatalities and tons of things to unlock, Mortal Kombat sounds incredible. For every cheap slip down a chasm or tumble over the edge of a staircase that sends you plummeting hundreds of feet to your death, there are dozens upon dozens that will teach you the cold, hard truths of this world: nearly every enemy is a potential life-ender, and a proper defense and careful use of your equipped weapon are paramount in every single encounter.

Every single person that owns a PS3 should at the very least rent this game to see what all the fuss is about, and those that can remember the good old days when games taught through the highly effective use of intense punishment and a heavy price for not playing should scoop this up instantly.

It is the perfect blend of engaging gameplay and an emotionally complex and impactful story. That explains why it was met with critical praise and showered with game of the year awards. The impact of the game can still be felt in the industry as video game stories have become deeper and more complex since. You play as Joel, a man who has lost everything after society has collapsed thanks to a dangerous strain of Cordyceps that infects humans.

Now a smuggler, Joel accepts a simple job: deliver a girl named Ellie to a terrorist group known as the Fireflies. However, after things go awry and learning Ellie is immune to Cordyceps, Joel must embark on a nationwide odyssey to get Ellie to the Fireflies and develop a cure.

The two must fight through fungal-infected enemies who are basically zombies , as well as dangerous scavengers called Hunters. The violence is slow and visceral, making the game feel more real than it should be.

The slow bond that forms between the two protagonists is also natural and believable, and it all culminates into one of the most shocking and conflicting moments in video game history no spoilers here. The Last of Us is one of the swan songs of the PS3 era, and it is one of the most significant games ever made. Putting it on this list is a no-brainer. Hideo Kojima is one of the most influential and visionary creative directors in video games.

The best-selling Metal Gear Solid series is a love letter to American action movies combined with the often-times convoluted storytelling and quirky humor found in JRPGs. Trying to explain the plot of the games up to this point in the series would be a futile effort, but we will try anyway. With limited time left, he goes on a last ditch mission to assassinate Liquid Snake before he takes over a complex AI system called The Sons of the Patriots and puts the world in endless conflict.

The gameplay was also reinvented in Metal Gear Solid 4. The top-down view from the previous games is replaced with an over-the-shoulder view and there is a bigger emphasis on combat. The levels were also open-ended, leaving multiple ways to deal with situations.

The game has a lot of beloved and not-so-beloved returning characters, and it offers a satisfying conclusion to a series that is packed with twists and turns.

It was critically acclaimed and is one of the reasons the PS3 was as successful as it was. Like the PS2 before it, the PS3 had a bevy of exclusives that contributed to an impressive library. The PlayStation Store gave indie developers the chance to showcase their talent on a digital store that would be presented to millions of people.

Sony also made a habit of r-releasing some of its most iconic games in collections. The most popular example is the Final Fantasy series, of course. Like its competitor, the Xbox , there were also plenty of multiplayer games.

Call of Duty was a staple series on the console, as well as the well-received Battlefield series. Unlike Xbox games, PS3 owners could play online with no monthly or annual charge. That made it pretty appealing for gamers who wanted to mainly play multiplayer.

There were also several big-budget exclusives on the PS3. However, there were quite a few excellent exclusives like the Infamous series that assembled a loyal fan base. In terms of which PS3 to buy, there are really two options. Overall, it had a more premium feel and more sleek design, though the PS3 Slim was introduced a few years into the life cycle as the budget-conscious alternative. This is the one we largely recommend to find. While the original might look nicer, it has one major drawback: ranging storage capacity.

The storage capacity varies widely on the original, whereas the slim model starts at GB, and with games being so large, it is better to lean towards a bigger hard drive. Once nice thing about the slim, too, is how easy it is to expand storage, should you need to later. Combine that with the slimmer profile and great library, and the PS3 is still a worthwhile console for all gamers.

Various factors come into play when a game makes it to the Best Of list. Red Dead Redemption was released nearly a decade ago, but the game still stands tall as a must-have for the PlayStation 3. Definitely, but not for every game. Little Big Planet proves that you need others around to make the game all the more interesting.

The reason why those games make it to the list is that friends and family will always have a fun time challenging others in a race or battle. However, as aforementioned, not every game is 2-player-friendly. The horrors are just as real, but now Isaac is more capable of fighting back.

While this does diminish the helplessness you feel, Dead Space 2 is more of a rounded game as a result. Plus, the Necromorphs in this sequel are true abominations: they set the gold standard for video game monsters, and deliver some trouser-ruining scares.

No dialogue, no overt plot, no combat, no way to die. Yet has any game ever provided a more complete experience, filled with so many agonized, terrifying lows and such jubilant, exhilarating moments of joy?

Well, yeah, but not many of them Thatgamecompany's Journey is a masterpiece of abstract storytelling, emotion through gameplay, and exquisitely beautiful world-building. Its freeform exploration and platform-puzzling are captivating in themselves, but every single element of Journey, from visuals, to sound design, to the very feel of control, is precisely designed to evoke deep and affecting meaning every step of the way. And as for its anonymous co-operative multiplayer, you simply will never have felt so attached to another player in a video game.

Not ever. One of the most economically brilliant games on the PS3, XCOM: Enemy Unknown delivers enough thrilling, edge-of-the-seat action, cerebrally satisfying gameplay, and engrossing emotional involvement to rival any AAA epic.

All without a single moment of real-time action. Its turn-based squad-shooting is immediately accessible, even to a total strategy noob, yet holds fathoms of depth once you've navigated its friendly-as-a-hug learning curve. Despite superficially playing like a board game, its skirmishes and ground wars unfold in spectacular fashion, creating the kind of emergent set-pieces and skin-of-the-teeth stand-offs that you'll remember as real-time, Hollywood blockbusters.

It takes 20 minutes to pick up, but you'll be obsessing into many a late-night for months. An absolute gem. From the moment it begins, Wolfenstein: The New Order screams with howling intensity and purpose. The series has never dabbled in subtlety, and that's no different here: you're still BJ Blazkowicz, you're still Nazi Hunter Supreme, and you're still ruthlessly efficient at your job.

But what should be a mindless shooter suddenly finds itself examining the human cost of endless war and soul-crushing fascism, and thanks to the team at MachineGames, it's pretty good at doing both. You'll come for the dual-wielding MPs and old-school action, but you'll stay for the branching narrative and fleshed-out characters. Oh, and you'll shoot Nazis on the moon.

Come on. Here's an interesting thing. Zombies are one of the most used - overused, in fact - tools in horror gaming, but very rarely are they actually scary. Lumbering, meaty target practice, that's what they usually are. The Walking Dead , however, gets back to the root of what makes zombies, and good horror in general, affecting: Real, slow-burning, emotionally powerful human drama.

With some of the best writing and acting in games, not to mention the most painful, almost impossible moral decisions, The Walking Dead drops you into a nightmare situation and forces you to try to make not the best of it, but the least-worst. You'll agonize over every choice and conversation, and in the end, you'll never have entirely the right answer. There are no heroes here. Just those still left alive.

There are a lot of things to talk about when discussing the greatness of Street Fighter 4. There's the seamless blend of endlessly explorable, opened-ended depth and immediate, pick-up-and-play accessibility. There's the immaculate balance across a roster now comprising 39 fighters. There's the wonderful sense of humor in the game's combat animations and character design, the latter tied beautifully into each world warrior's play style and flow.

But there's something much simpler at play in Street Fighter 4 that isn't talked about half enough, and that's the fact that it's just immense fun, pure and simple. The fighting game of a generation, no two ways about it. Probably the biggest evolution Grand Theft Auto has enjoyed since it went 3D, GTA 5 takes the essence of what has always made the series great, dismantles it, and rebuilds it with a new, fresh, altogether more thoughtful, and entirely reinvigorated structure.

The three-protagonist set-up does far, far more than simply mix up the characterization, building sophisticated dramatic irony as three separate storylines twist and conflict, all under the control of the player. Even better, it's now finally possible to play GTA any way you want to and have it make sense. Between naive nice-guy Franklin, aggressive family-man Michael and benevolent psychopath Trevor, suddenly all play-styles are catered for without breaking the integrity of the game's stunningly realized world.

As for that world It takes days - weeks, maybe - of immersion to truly realize its nuances, but for now, just know that in terms of form, feel, and function, it's the closest games have yet come to recreating the real world.

It's a close call. While GTA's San Andreas is a more densely detailed world, there's a certain beauty to the concept and story of Red Dead that just tips it for us. New content will be available every week. Metallica has signed on to offer several tracks as digitally-distributed game levels for Rock Band as well as "Enter Sandman" for the Rock Band ship disc.

Create your own rock avatar! Mold a unique rocker using Rock Band's character creator. Chose from gender, body shape, face, hair, clothes, tattoos and signature moves. Drumming in the spotlight! Showcase a real drum solo with Rock Band's freestyle drum fill windows featured in each song.

Break out your own rhythm and style as anything goes! Ad-lib your own words or shout to the crowd to raise the rock intensity of the performance. Band mates can fail out of a song for poor performance, but the band still plays on. Rescue your failing mate by busting out signature moves and blistering solos to wow the crowd with showmanship. Enter the world of Journey, the third game from indie developers thatgamecompany creators of "flOw" and "Flower".

You wake alone and surrounded by miles of burning, sprawling desert, and soon discover the looming mountaintop which is your goal. Faced with rolling sand dunes, age-old ruins, caves and howling winds, your passage will not be an easy one.

The goal is to get to the mountaintop, but the experience is discovering who you are, what this place is, and what is your purpose. Travel and explore this ancient, mysterious world alone, or with a stranger you meet along the way. Soar above ruins and glide across sands as you discover the secrets of a forgotten civilization. Several new modes will also be available to test a player's pellet-munching aptitude.

In Time Attack Mode, players will vie for the quickest clear time. Fulfill a series of objectives in Mission Mode or compete to devour the most number of ghosts gobbled in Ghost Mode. Rock Band 2 builds upon its foundation as the first music game to introduce co-operative band gameplay, multiple instruments, a robust online multiplayer experience, an unrivaled offering of downloadable content and raises the bar by delivering an entirely new level of depth, connectivity, authenticity and features including: Backwards compatibility with Rock Band downloadable music content.

All previously purchased tracks immediately load into your Rock Band 2 song list. No need to re-purchase or re-download. The biggest and most diverse soundtrack ever featuring some of rock's most prolific acts, comprised entirely of master recordings. Major new and dynamic online modes that connect the entire Rock Band community in more ways than ever before both locally and globally.

More variety of instrument choices than ever before with new and improved drum and guitar peripherals, enhanced functionality and innovative new designs - all fully compatible with the original Rock Band instruments. Media Molecule and Sony Europe are already working on a follow-up to their critically acclaimed platformer.

Rock Band returns with another iteration of the popular music game featuring new songs and instruments. On the pitch, critical gameplay fundamentals have been enhanced to ensure that FIFA Soccer 10 mirrors real-world soccer, providing more sophisticated ball control, and physical interaction between players. In addition, players now move, behave and position themselves more realistically. On attack, players analyze space more effectively, curve their runs in an attempt to stay onside, create passing lanes naturally, and drive for more variety in attacking options.

On defense, new concepts like position priority enable defenders to multitask so dangerous spaces left open by teammates out of position are covered. Plus, slide tackle targeting, press marking, and better-urgency clearance logic provide new options that make defending a tactical skill in FIFA Soccer In goal, a myriad of improvements and refinements to goalkeeper intelligence result in a more responsive and powerful rushing system and ultra-realistic saves.

Better balance on lofted through balls, improved goalkeeper intelligence, more realistic shooting mechanics with less shots hitting the goal posts, a practice arena to perfect skills, and a more immersive soccer experience through continuous play and quick free kicks are just a few of the issues raised by fans and addressed in FIFA Soccer Three new innovations revealed today at E3 have been developed to change the player control experience in FIFA Soccer The first-ever true degree dribbling system gives players finer control of the ball, enabling them to find spaces between defenders that previously were not possible.

Using an all-new animation technology, skilled dribblers now have the ability to face the defender and use highly responsive lateral dribbling to skip past him.

An innovative concept called Freedom in Physical Play enables players to perform wider dribble touches and new collision sharing creates a varied, less predictable, and extended fight for possession between the dribbler and a defender. FIFA Soccer 10 also features a deeper iteration of the ever-popular Manager Mode with more than 50 major improvements, including new match realism, realistic player transfers based on multiple decision points, and true-to-life player growth curves.

Assassin's Creed II is the product of over two years of intensive development by the original creative team behind the Assassin's Creed brand. In a vast open world environment, the game invites players to incarnate Ezio, a privileged young noble in Renaissance Italy who's been betrayed by the rival ruling families of Italy.

Ezio's subsequent quest for vengeance plunges players into an epic story that offers more variety in missions, surprising and engaging new gameplay elements, diverse weapons and a profound character progression that appeal to fans of the original Assassin's Creed as well as entice players new to the brand. For non-stop competitive action, players can choose from two multiplayer options: two-player Duel mode, or Peg Party mode, where up to four players can compete against one another simultaneously.

Play as one of four new vault hunters facing off against a massive new world of creatures, psychos and the evil mastermind, Handsome Jack. Make new friends, arm them with a bazillion weapons and fight alongside them in 4 player co-op or split-screen on a relentless quest for revenge and redemption across the undiscovered and unpredictable living planet.

Online Gameplay Improved — This year the online gameplay experience has been vastly improved and will detect and respond better to adverse network conditions along with reduced bandwidth to help the speed and flow of online gameplay. User Controlled Pick-Offs — Surprise a base runner with a quick move or lull him to sleep with our new pick-off mechanism. Custom Music, Fan Yells, and Chants — Assign music or a recording to an entire team, edit tracks to assign batter walk-up music, or record your own voice and assign it to play for the team or player during the situation of your choice.

In God of War: Collection, players will experience the dark world of Ancient Greece through Kratos, a brutal warrior determined to murder the God of War and alter what no mortal has ever changed Assuming the role of Sev, a battle-hardened veteran and a member of the special forces unit known as the Legion, players lead a group of highly trained soldiers on a mission to take out the Helghast threat. For Sev and his squad, the invasion of Helghan is just the beginning.

Tasked with securing Pyrrhus, the Capital City, the team quickly discovers that the Helghast are a formidable enemy on their home planet.

Not only have they adjusted to the planet's hostile conditions, they have also harnessed a source of power they can now use against the ISA. Sev discovers his squad isn't just fighting enemy forces — their fiercest opponent may be the planet itself.

There, the imprisoned super-villains have set a trap and an immersive combat gaming experience unfolds. With an original script penned by Emmy Award-winning Batman writer Paul Dini, the game brings the universe of DC Comics' detective to life with stunning graphics. Batman: Arkham Asylum offers players the chance to battle Gotham's worst villains with Batman's physical and psychological strength in a graphically distinct and story-driven game.

Rayman Legends is the follow-up to Rayman Origins and brings multiplayer interactions for you to employ. The Glade of Dreams is in trouble again. During a year nap, the nightmares multiplied and spread, creating new monsters even scarier than before. These creatures are the stuff of legend… Dragons, giant toads, sea monsters, and even evil luchadores. With the help of Murfy, Rayman and Globox awake and must now help fight these nightmares and save the Teensies. Prepare to die Dare yourself to engage against intense gameplay in a vast world powered by a new engine.

Immerse yourself into mind-bending environments filled with new twisted monsters and deadly bosses. More intricate customization options provide weapons and armor tailoring to player style. With Far Cry 3, players step into the shoes of Jason Brody, a man alone at the edge of the world, stranded on a mysterious tropical island.

In this savage paradise where lawlessness and violence are the only sure thing, players dictate how the story unfolds, from the battles they choose to fight to the allies or enemies they make along the way. As Jason Brody, players will slash, sneak, detonate and shoot their way across the island in a world that has lost all sense of right and wrong.

FIFA Soccer 12 brings a new physics engine into the soccer gameplay. Vault-Tec engineers have worked around the clock on an interactive reproduction of Wasteland life for you to enjoy from the comfort of your own vault. Included is an expansive world, unique combat, shockingly realistic visuals, tons of player choice, and an incredible cast of dynamic characters.

Every minute is a fight for survival against the terrors of the outside world — radiation, Super Mutants, and hostile mutated creatures.

Vault - Jewel of the Wastes. For years, Vault has faithfully served the surviving residents of Washington DC and its environs, now known as the Capital Wasteland. Though the global atomic war of left the US all but destroyed, the residents of Vault enjoy a life free from the constant stress of the outside world. Yet one fateful morning, you awake to find that your father has defied the Overseer and left the comfort and security afforded by Vault for reasons unknown.

Leaving the only home you've ever known, you emerge from the Vault into the harsh Wasteland sun to search for your father, and the truth. Road to the Show 3. Franchise Mode 2. Improvements include the long awaited man roster! The drills will be of various concentrations of the game. These drills are a perfect way to polish and improve your baseball skills in The Show. Details and subtleties play a huge role in legitimizing a game and helping you lose yourself in the suspension of disbelief.

MLB 09 The Show sinks it's teeth into the details with realistic stadiums and signage, wear and tear on field, dusk to night lighting transitions, stadium Jumbotron animations and even crowd atmosphere - reaching up for foul balls out of play and home runs in addition to crowd rivalries and weather appropriate clothing. The critically acclaimed single-player experience of Assassin's Creed is back and better than ever as Ezio returns in an epic struggle against the powerful Templar Order.

Now a legendary Master Assassin, he must journey into Italy's greatest city, Rome, center of power, greed and corruption to strike at the heart of the enemy. Defeating the corrupt tyrants entrenched there will require not only strength, but leadership, as Ezio commands an entire Brotherhood that will rally to his side.

Only by working together can the Assassins defeat their mortal enemies. In Okami, the legendary monster Orochi has come back to life and turned the world into a veritable wasteland. Players must assume the role of a wolf, an embodiment of the sun god Amaterasu, which is capable of wielding unimaginable power.

The state of the world lies in gamer's hands as they must fight ominous beings and reclaim the earth from a curse that plagues it. It is crucial to help Amaterasu make the world a place where all living creatures can dwell once again.

LIMBO, a black and white puzzle-platforming adventure, puts players in the role of a young boy traveling through an eerie and treacherous world in an attempt to discover the fate of his sister.

For the first time ever, all dribble moves have been mapped to the right analog stick, as well as shooting, passing, and post moves. String together devastating crossovers and clutch shots for maximum control and effectiveness.

Shots are now dynamically created on the fly, with all-new collision physics created in real-time. Each player has individualized abilities that can alter the course of a game. Improved fast break passing gives players more control. The Eliminator game mode allows you to release all that pent-up aggression as you use the full arsenal of Wipeout weaponry to destroy your opponents.

Forget those racing lines; this is all about destruction, with the victor being the first to reach the target score. Zone Battle is about risk and reward.

Acceleration is automatic as you swoop over zone pads to fill your zone bar. Your choice is whether to use the bar to increase your speed and boost your ship ever closer to the target zone or absorb it to replenish vital lost energy. Detonator mode introduces a brand new ship model to the game that tests both your piloting skills and your shooting accuracy as you accelerate through as many as 14 stages.

Score points by destroying the mines that have been strewn along the track and take out the bomb on each stage to earn additional points. The more accurate you are the more points and bonuses you will score. Lead your troops in fierce battles to defeat the alien front, and rescue civilians in crowded cities and remote outlands around the world. Construct and expand your XCOM headquarters, recruit and coach up unique soldiers to thrust into battle, and research alien tech to enhance and multiply your weapons and capabilities.

Mix and match aliens and soldiers and synthesize abilities to outwit and overpower your alien opponents. Demon's Souls promises to be the hardcore action RPG experience PS3 owners have been waiting for since the platform's launch.

Revolutionary online features support your adventure like never before, presenting seamless interconnectivity that serves in every instance to enhance the single-player game. Team up with two other players in simultaneous cooperative play, working together to topple some of the game's colossal bosses, or force your way into the games of skilled players and challenge them to PvP battle. Leave hints and clues for those who will follow in your footsteps; either intentionally or through your own inadvertent demise, your bloodstains will allow your successors to view a replay of your death, hinting at how to avoid your gruesome fate.

Need for Speed Hot Pursuit players will experience the thrill of the chase and the rush of the escape as they play through full careers as both a cop and a racer — solo or connected. The blistering speeds, brutal busts and heart-stopping getaways are all connected via Need for Speed Autolog. This network not only connects friends for epic head-to head pursuits and races, but also enables players to compare performances and stats, thereby setting the stage for the ultimate in friendly competition.

EA returns to the field with another installment in its long-running soccer series. In Deus Ex: Human Revolution you play Adam Jensen, a security specialist, handpicked to oversee the defense of one of America's most experimental biotechnology firms. But when a black ops team breaks in and kills the scientists you were hired to protect, everything you thought you knew about your job changes. At a time when scientific advancements are routinely turning athletes, soldiers and spies into super-enhanced beings, someone is working very hard to ensure mankind's evolution follows a particular path.

You need to discover why - because the decisions you take and the choices you make will be the only things that can determine mankind's future. Votes: 33, After being asleep for a century, Rayman and friends are awakened by Murfy who tells them that the 10 princesses of the land and the Teensies have been captured, and so they set out to defeat the new threats.

Votes: 1, Treasure hunter Nathan Drake embarks on a quest in search of the Atlantis of the Sands while battling an ancient, sinister organization. Votes: 20, M Action, Adventure, History.

Desmond Miles is trained to become a modern-day Assassin through the resurrected memories of ancestor Ezio Auditore da Firenze, who uncovers a massive Templar conspiracy in Renaissance Italy leading to the new Pope. Votes: 22, Ratchet and clank find their home world attacked by the infamous emperor Tachyon and must go on the run while trying to find the other lombaxes. After being freed by the Emperor of Tamriel, the hero must prevent the gates of Oblivion from spreading throughout the Empire.

Votes: 12, A cursed warrior travels to Drangleic, the forgotten land of a once-great king, hoping to find a cure before going insane. Votes: 2, E Adventure, Fantasy.

Sackboy is back in a brand new adventure to save Craftworld from the Negativatron. Help Sackboy get through many levels to get prizes and save the world. Votes: M Action, Adventure. While skydiving, Jason Brody and his friends land on an island overrun by pirates, where Jason is torn between fighting for the Rakyat resistance and rescuing his friends. Votes: 17, The great kingdom of Boletaria has fallen into disparity. King Allant has aroused the Old One from its long slumber, and a great fog descends upon the land, bringing forth great soul-devouring demons.

M Action, Adventure, Comedy. A new group of adventurers arrives on the frontier planet Pandora. They are assassinated by Handsome Jack, the most powerful merc on the planet. One of them survives and with the help of a deranged talking robot seeks loot and revenge. Votes: 5, After narrowly escaping a doomed fate in an asylum, an undead warrior fights his way through the desolate remains of Lordran, once a sprawling utopia lead by the gods, to seek his purpose and fulfill a centuries old prophecy.

Votes: 4, M Action, Horror, Mystery.