Summary:The website of RPGFan has released a ranking of E3#DY#s best RPGs. "This is a small collection of games that simply wowed us at this year#DY#s E3. Similarly to last year, we#DY#ll be offering six awards...
The website of RPGFan has released a ranking of E3#DY#s best RPGs.
"This is a small collection of games that simply wowed us at this year#DY#s E3. Similarly to last year, we#DY#ll be offering six awards, but, unfortunately no overall show impressions aside from the individual game impressions posted throughout last week. So check out below what we thought were the best RPGs of this year#DY#s Electronic Entertainment Expo."
The details are as below:
Best MMORPG of E3 2008
Champions Online (PC, Xbox 360): Cryptic Studios knows what they#DY#re doing in the realm of comic-style MMORPGs. While their first game, City of Heroes, has been popular and still has one of the most robust character creation engines of any MMORPG on the market, it now belongs to NCSoft. Crytpic has now moved on to work with publisher 2K Games on creating a new MMO based on the pen-and-paper RPG franchise Champions.
Champions Online is still fairly early in its development, we#DY#ll likely be seeing it at next year#DY#s E3, as well, as it#DY#s slated for a Spring 2009 release. Despite that, Crytpic had the base engine of the game functioning with one of the game zones. Color us impressed, as combat worked well and the two characters run by Cryptic employees were incredibly different. While most gamers probably won#DY#t have heard of the franchise it was based on, gamers will take a shine to the action-oriented battle system and great graphics in the title. Let#DY#s just hope that Cryptic has fixed some of the complaints about the depth of City of Heroes by the time Champions Online launches next year.
Runner-up: DC Universe (PC, PlayStation 3)
Best RPG of E3 2008
Fallout 3 (Multiplatform): Black Isle is never coming back, and PC RPG fans have had to come to terms with this. Their Fallout franchise, however, is far from the grave and Bethesda Softworks showed off just what they would be doing with the venerable franchise at this year#DY#s E3. For the first time, we got actual hands-on gameplay with Fallout 3, and the reaction was just like something out of a Keanu Reeves movie: Whoa.
Fallout 3 is an absolutely gorgeous look at the post-apocalyptic wastelands seen only in 2D, previously. While the combat has changed significantly, more in line with Bethesda#DY#s other series, The Elder Scrolls, they have included the VATS combat system, which allows players to pause, expend AP for additional commands, and return to the action-oriented gameplay. It#DY#s not the same style as the Van Buren project that Black Isle was working on, but we are incredibly impressed with Fallout 3.
