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1 The Walking Dead: The Game Xbox 360 95
2 Persona 4 Golden PS Vita 94
3 Mass Effect 3 PS3 93
4 Mass Effect 3 Xbox 360 93
5 Journey PS3 92
6 Xenoblade Chronicles Wii 92
7 Dishonored PC 91
8 Mark of the Ninja PC 91
9 Borderlands 2 PS3 91
10 Far Cry 3 PS3 91
11 Far Cry 3 Xbox 360 90
12 Trials Evolution Xbox 360 90
13 Okami HD PS3 90
14 Mark of the Ninja Xbox 360 90
15 FIFA Soccer 13 Xbox 360 90
16 Guild Wars 2 PC 90
17 NBA 2K13 PS3 90
18 XCOM: Enemy Unknown Xbox 360 90
Metacritic:
Just 14 console games—and 18 products overall, including PC and handheld (non-iOS) titles—scored 90 or higher in 2012. Those figures represent a huge drop from the previous year, when 23 console titles (and 32 games overall) met or exceeded the 90 mark. In fact, since we started publishing these year-end reports in 2009, we have never encountered such a low total number of great games in a single year.
We also expect some grumbling about our Game of the Year award, given annually to the year's overall highest-scoring (i.e., best-reviewed) game for any platform. This year's honoree, Telltale's The Walking Dead 95 (Xbox 360), is a terrific adaptation of Robert Kirkman's comic books. But it is also a retail repackaging (with a mere 9 reviews, at press time) of a game that was previously released online in five episodic installments throughout the year—installments which, though well-reviewed, never achieved an individual score north of 89. (There's also the issue of the retail version's reported buginess.) Still, without a solid reason to exclude it from consideration, its score qualifies it for Metacritic Game of the Year honors, even if it is the lowest-scoring such game since 2003 (when the PC version of Grand Theft Auto: Vice City topped the high score chart with a 94).
http://www.metacritic.com/feature/best-video-games-of-2012
