IGN's Most Anticipated Action Games of 2014
Posted: Mon Nov 25, 2013 6:25 pm
Next Gen is finally here! As the dust settles and gamers everywhere begin prestiging through Call of Duty multiplayer and collect those final few Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag treasure chests, it's hard not to start looking forward.
It's usually the year after consoles launch that the huge, generation-shaping games make their debut. We didn't experience Assassin's Creed's free-form freerunning until one year after the PS3 launched. We didn't chainsaw any Locust in Gears of War until the Xbox 360 had already been around a full year either. So what 2014 action games have us most hyped? Let's take a look!
Note: Some of these games are more action-oriented than others (looking at you, Lightning Returns) - but they all have enough fast-paced, action-oriented elements to qualify in our opinion. We're also not totally sure that all of these games, most notably the as-yet-unrevealed Tomb Raider 2, will actually drop in 2014. But for now we're keeping our fingers crossed that we do indeed get our hands on all these games next year, and that they all deliver on their promise.
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It's usually the year after consoles launch that the huge, generation-shaping games make their debut. We didn't experience Assassin's Creed's free-form freerunning until one year after the PS3 launched. We didn't chainsaw any Locust in Gears of War until the Xbox 360 had already been around a full year either. So what 2014 action games have us most hyped? Let's take a look!
Note: Some of these games are more action-oriented than others (looking at you, Lightning Returns) - but they all have enough fast-paced, action-oriented elements to qualify in our opinion. We're also not totally sure that all of these games, most notably the as-yet-unrevealed Tomb Raider 2, will actually drop in 2014. But for now we're keeping our fingers crossed that we do indeed get our hands on all these games next year, and that they all deliver on their promise.
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