Our 15 favorite video games in 2016

                  Our 15 favorite video games in 2016

Uncharted 4, The Last Guardian, Dishonored 2, Fifa 17 or Call of Duty and Battlefield ... 

Discover the top 15 video games recommended by Challenges editors.

1/ Uncharted 4 (Naughty Dog/Sony)

                      

Adventure, infiltration, fighting, pursuit, humor, love, derision, ascent and emotion, "Uncharted 4: a thief's End" is undoubtedly the total game on PlayStation 4 in 2016. The new opus of the famous license of the studio Naughty Dog Offers at the same time in a quivering and panting equipment between Italy, Scotland and Madagascar in search of the treasure of a legendary pirate and a disconcerting spectacle which has nothing to envy in the cinematographic format. And it works.

2/ The Last Guardian (Japan Studio/Sony)

                        

For those who still doubt that poetry and video games go hand in hand, here is the living proof. The Last Guardian is to the video game what the alexandrine is to the poem. Fumito Ueda had accustomed us to offer games of great beauty, with Ico and Shadow of the Colossus. It returns after many years with this magic title. The player embodies a young boy who is going to make friendship with an unlikely animal half-cat mi griffin, named Trico. The two adventurers will have to leave a ruined and hostile citadel.

3/ Fifa 17 (EA Sports)

                       

The new version of EA Sports brings its novelties. The game gradually abandons the arcade to devote itself to a more precise simulation of the king sport. In short: we will have to go to training before we can perfectly master the beast. To convince the hesitant, the publisher released this year the heavy artillery: new graphic engine Frosbite coming from Battlefield, a true solo adventure as in its franchise NBA 2K as well as myriads of novelties in terms of gameplay. Let's go back in detail on each of its elements to help you sort.

4/ Football Manager 2017 (SI Interactive)

                       

Released on November 4, the latest installment of SI Interactive has already made us spend many sleepless nights and weekends riveted in front of the screen while we tried it in Beta version. Yes the addiction is such that between sleeping and pushing a little to advance in championship or buy a key player during a mercato, the choice is quickly seen. Nothing new on this since the last opus that we had long kept on breath. So besides updating the gargantuan database with 1,300 scouts around the world, Football Manager is still progressing in realism and immersion proposed to the player, with a little money to spend it can still get to its ends In this virtual world. Even with the financial fair-play that watches over excesses

5/ Far Cry Primal (Ubisoft)

                         

It was a risky bet for Ubisoft. Very risky. With Far Cry Primal, the French video game publisher has dared the unthinkable: transpose his star shooter ... to the Stone Age. The new opus of the famous license makes a sacred good backwards, after Kyrat and Rook Islands, placing history 10,000 years before Jesus Christ, in full Mesolithic. From the first minutes, the player is captivated by this universe of infinite richness. To forget the intrigue and the red thread to devote itself solely to its discovery and to the learning of the art of the survival in hostile environment. Simply magical.

6/ Call of Duty: Modern Warfare remastered (Activision)

                         

It's a great Activision classic that comes out of the boxes for Christmas. The American publisher offers a remastered version of his famous Call of Duty: Modern Warfare released in 2007 in HD format. But this is more of a little more product. The icing on the cake is for all those who will buy Legacy and Digital Deluxe from Call of Duty: infinite Warfare, the new opus of the franchise coming out on November 4th. Why Modern Warfare? Because it is undoubtedly the episode star of the series and that it was incensed at the time by the critic. So this is a nine-year game that did not take a ride.

7/ Steep (Ubisoft)

                        

This video game is unlikely. The genre was believed dead and buried since SSX's Electronic Arts. The extreme sport really does not have too much odds in gaming. It was without counting on the poker of the studio of Annecy of Ubisoft. Steep is an extreme sports game that renews the genre, in an open world. With a playground part of the Alps. And with the program the impossible to circumvent snowboarding, skiing, wingsuit and paragliding. And what strikes at first, is this mountain concentrate in open world, reproduces as faithfully as possible. A big slap and a good breath of fresh air.

8/ Battlefield 1 (Dice/Electronic Arts)

                         

It is very easy to die quickly in the trenches. On this point Battlefield 1 seems in agreement with the First World War which inspires the new opus of Dice and Electronic Arts. You are landed in the desert in the footsteps of Lawrence of Arabia, a tanker in the trenches or a biplane pilot or an Italian machine gunner in the Alps. So many mini-chronicles of war intended to show the player that the war is not just a fun support. The atmosphere of a dirty war without real meaning. Death spares no one. And it will have to start several missions several times as it pulls in all directions.

9/ PES 2017 (Konami)

                         

Football fans are witnessing a real rebirth. The one of Pro Evolution Soccer, or PES. Konami's license, which dominated the football market on home consoles, ended up falling into the dustbin of sports simulators, completely erased by the big competitor of Electronic Arts: FIFA. The last opus responds and provides the amateur with sensations close to those of FIFA, with always this difficult alchemy to find between the arcade game and pure simulation. For the 2017 version, we still need to adjust passes that are more realistic than ever. But a 9-year-old will do very well when in the past he could still have some difficulties. Enthusiasts will not be frustrated.

10/ Watch Dogs 2 (Ubisoft)

                       

Dive into the skin of a hacker. This is the contract proposed by Ubisoft that muscle its franchise by offering a game environment, in an exceptional open world: San Francisco. DedSec, Marcus Holloway, a young urban hacker, will have to drop a new ctOS 2.0 that takes advantage of the advent of connected objects to control everything. Watch Dogs 2 corrects certain defects of the first opus and gives access to a field of play for fans of technos extremely rich.

11/ Forza Horizon 3 (Playground Games/Turn 10/Microsoft)

                        

The third opus of the franchise is undoubtedly a piece of bravery for all enthusiasts of the cars launched at 300 km / h on the country roads. After making us discover the laces of Southern Europe in the previous episode, the racing game sends us this time in the heart of Australia, in a breathtaking road-trip. Not so much for the scenario as for the beauty of the landscapes and the faithful restitution of the automobiles.

12/ Skylanders Imaginators (Activision)

                       

If Imaginators remains in line with the previous episodes, the adventure is always as rhythmic and abounding in a playful and acidulous universe. Players can create their heroes in their own image by choosing their physique, abilities, powers, characteristics, and even music. Of course, all this is done again and again via figurines, which this time are small cylinders called Crystals of creation and which come alive on the plate. There are still 31 Skylanders Sensei to collect. These are large-format warriors that come from the 10 combat classes (fire, land, magic, air, water ...) and that will train the Skylanders created by the player. And two distinguished guests make their appearance: Crash Bandicoot, a 20-year-old hero created on PlayStation and his Nemesis, Dr. Neo Cortex.

13/ Tom Clancy's The Division (Ubisoft)

                      

New York is going bad. An epidemic has affected the entire population. The bad scientists trapped the dollars on Black Friday. Result of the races, the big apple is curly. Chaos reigns inside. And you have to put a little order back after the apocalypse. The player is part of the Division, a secret unit defending autonomous tactical agents, whose mission is to intervene to restore order. You are not finished sleeping apocalyptic nights.

14/ Dishonored 2 (Arkane Studios/Bethesda)

                      

In Dishonored, the player embodied an assassin with supernatural powers in a retrofuturistic city with steampunk atmosphere. For the second installment, this time you can embody 2 assassins with different powers in two different cities: the Empress Emily Kaldwin or the Royal Protector Corvo Attano. Again, the designers wanted to leave the player a great deal of freedom: he can progress if he wants it in a very violent way or then finish the game "by being peaceful". An intense game.

15/ Final Fantasy XV (Square Enix)

                     

The game of Square Enix, awaited for so many years, will delight fans of heroes with frozen hair, to the abdos chocolate bar and to the very big swords that make a wreck. The whole plunged for an improbable road trip in the heart of a universe worthy of the great west in pseudo open world. FFXV wants to delight the lovers of the license, even to jostle them, and all the others. They will have to cling to discover this universe to say the least surprising.