By Pedro Django

Here are five of the best games that came out this past year. Enjoy!

First, from the co-creators and developers of the Call of Duty franchise comes Titanfall. Developed by Electronic Arts and a new studio Respawn Entertainment, comes this great first person shooter game, set in a science fiction world of giant robotic fighting machines. This is a massive first person shooter with advanced combat fighting styles and of course the robotic titans, which gives this game its name. Players must fight and shoot their way through just about everything. It is wildly fun to play, especially when piloting a great big mechanized robot warrior.

The backstory of this game is not as intense as the gameplay but still worthwhile. There are two factions at war over a portion of space called the Frontier. There are many resources on the Frontier, that the Interstellar Manufacturing Corporation, or IMC, wants to increase their power and influence. However, the militia forces, which is really a civilian band of rebels, fights back against this evil corporation.

This game is currently available only for X-box and PC. However, the game is good enough that it is worth the price of getting an Xbox. The environment is stunning with great graphics and smooth controls make gameplay easy. Titanfall will surely supply the action intense gameplay that gamers crave.

Next, a recently released game, developed by Insomniac Games and published by Microsoft studios, Sunset Overdrive is available exclusively for the Xbox One. It is a comedy, open-world third person shooter. This game puts the player in a funny world that is full of crazy and terrifying fun. When Sunset City is overrun by mutants, it needs a hero to save the city. Playing as this hero means that this game lacks the multiplayer action that defines many other great games these days. However, it makes use of its unique graphics and over the top action packed adventure. Playing as an individual in this game still delivers the action rush that Sunset Overdrive brings and the comedy that flows from the mutants and the game characters means that playing this game is a rewarding experience.

Not all the best games this year are for the Xbox. Destiny is published by Activision and is a first person shooter that allows you to build your character and journey to the stars and beyond, as you play, fight, and develop in the distant future of mankind. While the gameplay of Titanfall is superb and the story is simple, in Destiny the story is much deeper, and darker, but the gameplay is not quite as intense as Titanfall.

Some of the backstory is that during the golden age of mankind, humanity colonized the solar system, and all was peaceful. But, everything took a turn for the worse after an event called the collapse, gamers play as a survivor of the great collapse, forming their own destiny. Players start with a basic character, but they then customize and upgrade him with new weapons, armor and other items. So, this is a role-playing adventure, as well as a first person shooter. Then, you can also play online, and wherever you go, Earth, the Moon, Venus, Mars and everywhere else in the Solar System, you can bump into other players having their own adventures. It is a great experience.

To be able to do all of these types of games into one game is a great technical achievement. More than that, it all works very smoothly. However, as great as this game is, as beautiful, and as technically amazing as it is, it just is not as fun as Titanfall.

A holiday season would not be complete without another installment of the Call of Duty franchise. While there have been some missed opportunities in recent installments of Call of Duty, with clunky gameplay and weird storylines, the Advanced Warfare has brought back some of the best Call of Duty strengths. This first person shooter was developed by Sledgehammer Games and published by Activision.

With Atlas’s Exo suits at your disposal it has a more futuristic view of warfare, but it is not weird or corny. To maneuver through the environments, decimating enemies is challenging but not impossible. It keeps the fun of playing these types of games. Call of Duty: Advance Warfare has something for everyone to enjoy. Put yourself in the warzone of the future as you play as Jonathan Irons through in campaign mode or absolutely dominate others in multiplayer mode.

Finally, a long awaited game that has been the source of a lot of hype is Watch Dogs. It was developed by Ubisoft, and is another open world action adventure game. Watch Dogs was supposed to represent the next generation of gaming. However, it seems as though the game has not really lived up to the hype. It is a mind blowing adventure, to say the least, but it is both a great game and a horrible one at the same time.

The story is appealing, set in the not too distant future, there is a massive computer interface that links all the electronics of the future so that they can work in harmony. Playing as Aiden, an incredibly skilled computer hacker, the player of this game can hack anything connected to the network.

This sounds great but it is sometimes difficult to use and while it is fun profiling people around the city, to see anything scandalous that they have done, it is also strange. Some of the video is excellent but some of it seems rushed.

While the game is low on this list, it is worth playing. It is both great to play, and somewhat addictive, but it is also a work in progress. Hopefully there is a second generation version of this so that all the details that detract from this game get worked out.