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LA Noire dealt with all the crime in LA in the ’40s, so obviously you’re going to get mixed up with heroin.
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We’ll never know why Activision pulled the plug on this series after two successful outings in LA and NYC. True Crime’s “high” points were its voice actors which included the likes of Mickey Rourke and Laurence Fishburne.
When you’re the son of a criminal kingpin making a go of it as an undercover detective in the PDNY (their similarities to the NYPD are astounding) then it’s not a matter of if you’ll encounter the underground drug trade of a major metropolis, it’s a matter of when. The fact that the ultimate goal of the game was to take down a drug kingpin named Pit Bull (no relation) makes it all the better. It wasn’t the most original plot, but it was unique for its time and an interesting take back in the NES days. Originally called “Drug Czar,” the entire point of Raid 2020 was to defeat drug dealers, straight up. Max is one of the few characters who straddles the line between narcotic user and crusader… which probably explains all that slo-mo bullet time in his games. When you’ve been entrenched in the underworld, spent years of your life chasing down a designer drug syndicate and seen as much violence and tragedy as Max Payne, there’s no real surprise that our hero started popping pills. No matter how it shakes down, Tripto fucks with Norman like one of those before/after meth pictures. In many ways, Heavy Rain’s drug of choice actually sounds more like methadone, a drug to get you off harder drugs. Unlike most other games on this list, it’s Heavy Rain’s hero, Norman, who is indulging in the fictional Tripto’s habit. Or so we’re led to believe in Heavy Rain. It’s as simple game that was as addictive as the drugs we were selling in it. Highest profit after paying back the loans wins.
That means borrowing capital from loan sharks to buy up and sling as many drugs as you can in a 30-day span. (Although I suspect it’s more of a hyper-tactical RPG like Divinity: Original Sin 2, so I possibly wouldn’t include it here anyway.You may have played Dope Wars on your computer, your phone, or even your TI-83 calculator when you were pretending to learn trigonometry in middle school because it’s a text-based game that challenges you to channel your inner drug kingpin.
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Also, my lack of a Nintendo Switch prevented a full play of Mario + Rabbids, which I enjoyed in preview. You can read some reviews and decide if they’re worthy of inclusion for yourself.
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Side note: Due to professional conflicts I am unable to include Sega’s Dawn of War 3 and Total War: Warhammer 2. So here’s my top 10 for the year, bearing in mind that this was a period of subtle enhancement more than a period of bold strides forward. Good? Sure, but perhaps not the explosion of amazement that gaming at large had in 2017.
So while we didn’t see too much new and exciting to blow strategy players away, we did get a bunch of improvements and enhancements to existing games in the form of sequels, expansions, and mods. After the sensational 2016, with five major releases and some fascinating indie games, this was always likely to be a consolidation year. GamesBeat Summit 2022 returns with its largest event for leaders in gaming on April 26-28th. Reserve your spot here!Ģ017 was a strange, though good, year for strategy games.