While we already ran our Best of 2016 month-long feature last month, we’re not done with 2016 just yet! As a big year-ender thank you to our readers, we’re doing the biggest game giveaway PlayStation LifeStyle has done ever since it started.
We’re giving one lucky reader a chance to win almost every game that won in our Best of 2016 awards! Yes, you read that right! Someone will win our Game of the Year, Best Shooter, Best Adventure Game, and more! How to win? Super simple! Just enter via the widget below, and we’ll pick a winner after a week.
Curious what this amazing game giveaway bundles has included? Well, the grand prize winner will get U.S. digital PS4 codes for:
- Uncharted 4
- Final Fantasy XV
- Titanfall 2
- DiRT RallyÂ
- Inside
- Ratchet & Clank
- Until Dawn: Rush of Blood
In addition to the grand prize, two lucky 1st runner-ups will get three codes of either Uncharted 4, DiRT Rally, Final Fantasy XV, Titanfall 2 and Ratchet & Clank. How to enter? Simple! Leave a comment telling us why you should win the 1st runner-up three-game bundle (not the grand prize) and what you want to see from PlayStation LifeStyle in 2017. Don’t forget to list down which of the three games from the runner-up list you prefer (no guarantees that’s what you’ll get though since we have limited codes). Winners for the comment entries will be picked by next week Friday (January 27).
PlayStation LifeStyle would like to give a big shout out and thanks to Naughty Dog, Insomniac Games, Respawn Entertainment, Supermassive Games, Square Enix, Playdead, Tinsley PR, and FortySeven PR for the game codes and making this possible.
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Essential Reading:
- Best of 2016 Recap and Winners
- Top 5 Things Sony Needs to Do to Rule 2017
- Confirmed PS4 Games Out in Q1 2017
Best of 2016 Game Awards - Game of the Year
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Best of 2016 Game Awards - Game of the Year
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Uncharted 4: A Thief's End
Naughty Dog could beat the series into perpetuity, but they chose to close this chapter of their story at a high point and allow themselves and players to move on. In some ways it feels like I’m playing Uncharted for the first time again, living that sense of incredulity and adventure as we join Nathan Drake and his charming half-tuck for one final adventure rooted in love and sacrifice. It’s a bittersweet feeling, but they’ve gone all in to make sure that A Thief’s End is the Uncharted finale that the fans deserve. A farewell this monumental is spectacularly deserving of a nomination for Game of the Year.
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Titanfall 2
The team at Respawn Entertainment took everything they learned from the original Titanfall, and applied it perfectly to Titanfall 2. Considering this developer started with members from Infinity Ward of Call of Duty fame, their experience in crafting a masterful multiplayer experience shows throughout Titanfall 2. The campaign even kicks ass, to boot!
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World of Final Fantasy
Square Enix may have tried to write love letters to Final Fantasy fans in the past, but World of Final Fantasy is the true love letter to these fans. The hilarious dialogue, innovative gameplay, and adorable Pokemon-esque features make World of Final Fantasy one of the best FF games in years, if not one of the best Final Fantasy spin-offs.
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The Last Guardian
In an industry where every developer packs in as many new features, as many modes, options, and configurations, The Last Guardian has no upgrades, no leveling, no add-on map packs, no RPG elements – it is an almost solitary experience, between nothing more than a boy, a beast, and the big world around them, yet it outshines nearly everything else. Video games as a market might demand the Call of Duty’s of the world to move units and put a spotlight on the industry through hype and marketing buzz, but video games as a medium deserves The Last Guardian.
Beautiful. In every way.
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Battlefield 1
Though the “1” in its name may officially stand for the Great War, it could also represent the rebirth of a franchise that took a bit of a beating with Battlefield 4, went down an awkward path with Hardline, before finally rising as the Battlefield title that simply all shooter fans must buy."ÂBoasting both solid single-player and top-tier multiplayer components, Battlefield 1 is the complete package for fans of warfare on a huge scale. -
Overwatch
It’s ironic to imagine a title about a fragmented team fighting amongst itself serving as a big unifier, but that might just be what we need. At a time when the division between our hobby’s constituents seems more visible than ever, Overwatch reminds us that we’re more alike than different — if we let them, games can bring us together. I don’t know about you, but I think that’s something well worth fighting for.
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Inside
Inside is a very peculiar game in the sense it differs so much from what we’re used to seeing in games that the only thing I can compare it to is Playdead’s own Limbo. If there ever was a game that the phrase “less is more” applies to, it’s none other than this game. There’s no explosions, gunfights or anything that almost all games these days have in order to be a guaranteed seller. But it does have a lot of soul though, and a story that’ll make you ask questions and stick to your brain long after it’s over, which is rare in our medium.Â
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Ratchet and Clank
I knew that I was looking forward to revisiting Ratchet and Clank’s origins, but I didn’t know how much I’d really missed Ratchet & Clank until I got the opportunity to play it all over again for the first time, and this brand new experience is every bit as good as I remember it being 14 years ago. Sometimes you have to revisit the classics on today's terms, and Ratchet and Clank is a perfect example of a faithful rebuild on the mesh of the original.
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And the winner is...
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Winner - Uncharted 4: A Thief's End
Surprised? Yeah, most likely not -- and even that lack of shock is a testament to just how well crafted Naughty Dog's latest, and possibly last, Uncharted game is.
From the story, gameplay, and even from a technical perspective, Uncharted 4 is a masterclass of how to end things with a bang, and with class.
If there's a game that's a good showpiece as to why AAA gaming cannot -- and should not -- cease, ever, Uncharted 4 would be it.Â
Naughty Dog has once again delivered and then some. Will we see Nathan Drake again? Maybe, maybe not. Whatever Sony and Naughty Dog decides on, we hope it continues the franchise's stellar streak of awesomeness.
Congrats, Naughty Dog! Here's to us raising our glasses to Drake, Sully, Elena and the rest of the crew!
