The Guardian : les jeux originaux attendus en 2012

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you're in a desert kingdom trying to reach a distant mountain, and you can team up with another player to get there

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a boy trying to rescue a giant feathered creature named Trico from a looming citadel

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a US high school that's suddenly overrun with zombies and featuring a sexy cheerleader as its lead character

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a ragtag group of mercenaries, thieves and scientists must prevent a global terrorist group from destroying mankind

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bloody third-person hyper-violence

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another epic universe to sidle in and wave its morning star about

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a conspiracy-fuelled adventure in which players join one of three arcane societies – the Illuminati, the Dragon or the Templars – and then battle their enemies across a modern day setting splattered with mythological and religious elements

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help two weird characters named Lil and Laarg escape from a labyrinth filled with fiendish traps

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help an everyman survivor track down his family in a post-apocalyptic America, in the immediate aftermath of some kind of massive global disaster

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a gorgeous 2D/3D platformer, which uses Escher-esque optical illusions and perspective shifts to create new pathways for the player

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an ancient warrior, re-animated after 12,000 years and out for revenge on those who betrayed him

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a group of surreal woodland creatures as they attempt to save their enormous tree habitat from a dark force

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a sort of emergent ambient soundtrack

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a gladitorial threatre run by a demonic civilisation of intelligent cats

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immortal demon hunter Bryce Boltzmann who has a novel way of dealing with potentially disabling combat injuries

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statuesque treasure hunter Ayumi finds herself stranded on a dangerous island with bizarre physical properties, allowing her to rewind time and engage the help of her past selves

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an online multiplayer brawler set in a series of near-future arenas

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futuristic blaster, pitching up to six players against each other in tactical galactic war

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young mercenary Zael who must navigate the dangerous island of Lazulis and its vast medieval city on a quest to become a worthy knight

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Diablo-style dungeon crawler

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a deadly assassin framed for the murder of an empress and now out for revenge

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a mission-based open-world crime shooter, re-visualised as an 8-bit era home console game, then filled with daft jokes and cunning jabs at the gangsta genre

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leap between foreground and background platforms adding some depth to the pixelated action

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build a spaceship then command your crew on a voyage of discovery and combat, all in chunky isometric visuals

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a post-apocalyptic survival horror adventure, pitting two survivors – 14-year-old Ellie and bearded, wizened hard nut, Joel – against the zombie-like victims of a nightmarish fungal plague

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groups of players scavenging for equipment and fortifications during the day, before defending their compound against enemies at night

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one player takes on the role of a spy attempting to carry out covert missions while attending an important diplomat's party; the other player is an assassin, watching the party from another building and waiting for the spy to reveal him or herself before shooting them

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a mysterious puzzler set on a richly detailed island

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'70s-based espionage thriller