Sinan Kubba of TheGameReviews writes: "As budgets have gotten bigger, as the market has expanded, and as the resources have become ever more diverse, gaming's music has simply gone from strength to strength. These days we're regularly treated to a range of incredible songs in every game we play, carefully choreographed music that amplifies our experience, making each success and each failure that much more dramatic. I wanted to pay tribute to the songs from this generation's games that I've most appreciated for doing just that. I've selected songs from games that were released for PS3, 360, Wii, DS, PSP, and also from games released for PC after 2003. I've only chosen one song per game, and with only two exceptions - exceptions I hope you'll forgive - I've picked songs that were made specifically for the game. So here are my choices for the best music that has framed our games in recent years, my 21 favorite video games songs from this generation."
They don't make games like this anymore.
Too dated in my book. The AI is way too unpredictable to be acceptable today. It's definitely a game of its time.
Agreed with those sentiments. The quality of the CPU controlled characters make or break a stealth game and they are pretty poor in all the Splinter Cell games by today's standard. This is what led me to playing Spies vs Mercs all the time in later games just to get a better stealth experience from a real person. Arguably Sony are making better stealth games albeit not Tom Clancy stuff.
You should stick with fortnite or one of the countless bloodborne style games then. What a joke.
I had a good time with the game. It is a product of its time. But when it came out it was a must have game for a lot of people. I wish Ubisoft would make another game in the series or at least a reboot.
They are making a remake, I think. I loved the original game when it was released, but I tried to play it again in recent years and just couldn't get on with it. The same with the older Hitman games.
Yeah chaos theory still holds up though I gotta say. If you’re a fan of the series I highly suggest you go back to that one. Ubi has said they are remaking sc for “modern audiences”. I don’t have a lot of faith for the future of that company
Due to the lack of modern stealth games, and me constantly playing the MGS series, I've been looking for alternative stealth games to play, and went back and re-played the SC series recently. I wouldn't call SC1 or SC:PT masterpieces, there are AI issues, they're very much trial-and-error games, and that can lead to a lot of frustration. I also found the stories in this series to be boring, uninteresting, and just sloppily told. Cinematics are also of poor quality for both in-game scenes and CG cut-scenes, the soundtrack didn't leave any impression on me either.
Chaos Theory is better, but there was still a lot of room for improvement, and Double Agent (old gen ver.) was a sloppy mess that ended up a regression from CT. But still, at least they tried back then, these days Ubi-junk doesn't even try to make good games!
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Nothing. It's up to the gamers to stop consuming content from companies that they don't agree with.
How do you know if you agree with it or not unless you play it? Which without conventions forces gamers to rely on trailers. Perhaps Demos should be made more frequently. But companies need to do better as well.
But is that not what they have now? Tons of gameplay or are you talking about watching actual gamers play it versus the trailers and streams? The big issue is that some companies pay streamers and influencers and they create content but for me; that is hardly a fair, unbiased, and factual look at a game.
They usually are attached to the money sadly. It would be nice to have gamers in charge but you have so much money invested that business people are needed. Hence the issue; you need people who know business but are also gamers who know have an eye to the community. It sounds simple in theory that if you give gamers quality games that they want to play; money will be made. But that is not always so.
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Surprised not to see the Zelda theme not cheated in here somewhere, perhaps off one of the DS variants. Portal Still Alive has to be the comfortable winner though.
I really enjoyed layton. Just a great overall game.
Good call on Eternal Sonata and Mirror's Edge. That song was like the only good thing about taht game.
It might be a bit of a cheat but I do love Beyond the Sea in Bioshock. Such a brilliant song and perfect for the game.
Same with Fly Me to the Moon.
i'm glad to see that they had jesper kyd on here, but other than that they mainly put songs that were put into a game, instead of highlighting legitimate game scores, all of kyd's scores from hitman 1-4 are extremely legitimate and give some movie scores a run for thier money while defining the mood of the series. the metal gear solid series has had some very good score's over the years, as has manhunt 1, uncharted 1 and 2, and what about old school classics like streets of rage 2's "go straight" or twisted metal 2's soundtrack. and for gods sake, if you're going to highlight songs that are put into a game (songs that aren't the score) they're out of their minds to not include the vice city box set. i mean christ...