Best Games for PlayStation 3 of 2012 / Page 4

June 16, 2011

Steam: 95/100

The plot of the game consists of several alternative stories, each focusing on the romantic relationships between the characters of the original game Steins;Gate...

Asura's Wrath

Action, Fighting, Third-person view, Anime / Manga

February 21, 2012

Players: 9.3/10

Metacritic: 71/100

Asura's Wrath is a fast-paced Japanese-style third-person action slasher. Long ago, in the state of Shinkoku, eight deities — the Eight Guardians &mdash...

Yakuza: Dead Souls

Role-playing game, Action, Shooter, Horror, Third-person view, Post-apocalyptic

June 9, 2011

Metacritic: 64/100

This action shooter with role-playing and horror elements takes place in Kamurocho, where a zombie outbreak turns the district into a quarantine zone sealed off by...

Sports Champions

Action, Fighting, Volleyball, First-person view, Third-person view, Sports game

September 7, 2010

Players: 9/10

Metacritic: 76/100

A sports game featuring six competitive events in which participants face off against one another. In table tennis, the motion controller acts as a racket for fast...

Derrick the Deathfin

Arcade, Adventure, Indie, Side view

October 9, 2012

Players: 5.5/10

Steam: 92/100

Metacritic: 72/100

Derrick the Deathfin is a unique side-scrolling arcade adventure game with a world made entirely of paper. You will plunge into a bizarre underwater world, where...

Skullgirls

Arcade, Fighting, Anime / Manga

April 10, 2012

Players: 9.1/10

Metacritic: 80/100

Skullgirls is an anime-style side-scrolling arcade fighting game. The game has many interesting characters, hardcore combinations of attacks, as well as nice...

SSX (2012)

Sports game, Stunts, Snowboard, Skiing

February 28, 2012

Metacritic: 82/100

This snowboarding and skiing sports game centers on racing, performing tricks and surviving descents across vast mountain ranges around the world. Players can...

Ben 10: Omniverse

Action

November 13, 2012

Players: 6/10

Metacritic: 43/100

Ben 10: Omniverse is a multiplayer game similar to Ben 10: Protector of Earth and Ben 10: Alien Force. Player 1 takes on the role of Ben Tennyson, who alternates...

FIFA Street (2012)

Football

March 13, 2012

Metacritic: 77/100

A street football game built around one-on-one duels, dribbling and trick moves. In FIFA Street, players can get past opponents with aerial skills, perform panna...

Gotham City Impostors

Online, Action, Shooter, First-person view, Comics, Free game

February 7, 2012

Players: 7.7/10

Metacritic: 69/100

Gotham City Impostors is a free-to-play multiplayer first-person shooter based on the Batman comic book series. The game is designed for teams of 4 by 4 people. You...

House of the Dead: Overkill – Extended Cut

Action, Shooter, Horror, First-person view

October 25, 2011

Metacritic: 75/100

This first-person horror shooter follows an outbreak that turns a town’s inhabitants into bloodthirsty mutants. The player uses an array of weapons to fight them...

Pid

Arcade, Platformer, Indie, Adventure

October 31, 2012

Steam: 70/100

Metacritic: 68/100

Pid is an arcade game with platformer elements from developers from the Might and Delight studio. The main publisher of the game is D3Publisher. Overall, the...

Worms Revolution

Action, Strategy, Turn-based, Tactics, Side view, Online

October 9, 2012

Players: 8.9/10

Steam: 83/100

Metacritic: 73/100

Worms Revolution is the legendary return of the side-scrolling turn-based tactical action strategy game to the Worms series. The game was created using a new game...

Family Guy: Back to the Multiverse

Action, Third-person view, Interactive movie

November 20, 2012

Players: 7.9/10

Metacritic: 40/100

Family Guy: Back to the Multiverse — Brian and Stewie are spending time at home when Bertram appears out of nowhere in a flash of light. Stewie is shocked by...

Resident Evil: The Umbrella Chronicles

Action, Shooter, Horror, First-person view

November 13, 2007

Players: 5.8/10

Metacritic: 75/100

This action shooter with horror elements explores the backstory of the fall of the Umbrella Corporation. Its locations include familiar settings from Resident Evil...

Just Dance 4

Arcade, Music game, Board / Group Game

October 2, 2012

Metacritic: 72/100

Just Dance 4 — The gameplay is very similar to previous Just Dance games, meaning players will be judged on their ability to replicate the dancer's movements...

Iron Sky: Invasion

Action, In real time, Third-person view, Futurism (Future), Combat robots, Simulation

December 12, 2012

Players: 10/10

Steam: 61/100

Metacritic: 49/100

This sci-fi space action game centers on an invasion of Earth by the Fourth Reich, launched from a lunar base in 2018. The player takes control of a pilot and...

Zuma's Revenge

Action, Strategy, Top-down view, Puzzle, Casual game

September 14, 2009

Players: 7.5/10

Steam: 94/100

Metacritic: 77/100

This overhead puzzle-action game sends a fearless frog to an island ruled by evil spirits and tiki bosses. To stop the advancing stream of balls, the hero fires...

Neverdead

Action, Shooter, Third-person view, Survival

January 31, 2012

Players: 5.5/10

Metacritic: 51/100

This third-person action shooter follows an immortal hero battling demons that have returned to plunge the world into chaos. Centuries earlier, demons made him...

Skylanders Giants

Arcade, Adventure, In real time, Platformer, Third-person view

October 19, 2012

Metacritic: 75/100

Skylanders Giants is an adventure platformer built around the existing Skylanders toys. It adds 20 characters to the roster, including eight...

Jet-Set Radio

Arcade, Third-person view, Stunts

June 29, 2000

Players: 9/10

Metacritic: 74/100

Damage Inc. Pacific Squadron WWII

Shooter, Flight Simulator, Third-person view, Historical, Action, Simulation

August 28, 2012

Steam: 61/100

Metacritic: 49/100

This flight-combat game with shooter elements is set in the Pacific Theater of World War II. Players pilot fighters, dive bombers, and torpedo bombers in battles...

Anarchy Reigns

Beat them all

July 5, 2012

Players: 7.7/10

Metacritic: 72/100

This beat ’em up takes place in a harsh future populated by mutants. Characters from PlatinumGames titles fight across an open world and in arenas. Online matches...

Gal Gun

Arcade, Action, Shooter, Anime / Manga

January 27, 2011

Players: 5.5/10

Gal Gun is an arcade game with a mixture of action, shooter and anime or manga game from the developers of the studio Inti Creates Co., Ltd.. The main publishers of...

Final Fantasy II

Role-playing game, Top-down view, Anime / Manga, Fantasy / Medieval, Turn-based, Japanese role-playing game

December 17, 1988

Players: 8/10

Metacritic: 68/100

A turn-based role-playing game set in a fantasy world where an emperor summons monsters from a demonic realm to seize control. After the attacks leave them...

Mass Effect 3: From Ashes

Role-playing game, Action, Shooter, DLC, Third-person view, Futurism (Future)

March 6, 2012

Players: 7.7/10

Metacritic: 59/100

Mass Effect 3: From Ashes is an addition to the third-person role-playing action game Mass Effect 3. In addition, you will find a new mission on Eden Prime, new...

Killzone HD

October 23, 2012

Metacritic: 59/100

A first-person shooter about elite soldiers defending a besieged colony planet. The player takes the role of these fighters as they protect the planet from the...

Wonder Boy in Monster Land

Action, Platformer, Third-person view

October 30, 1987

Wonder Boy in Monster Land is a third-person action game with platforming elements from the developers of Westone Co., Ltd.. The game is published by Hudson Soft...

Retro City Rampage

Arcade, Action, Top-down view

October 9, 2012

Players: 8.6/10

Metacritic: 73/100

This top-down arcade action game takes place in the open city of Theftropolis, where the protagonist’s crime spree is interrupted by “evil” do-gooders protecting...

Vessel

Action, Platformer, Puzzle, Side view, Indie

March 1, 2012

Players: 6.3/10

Steam: 89/100

Metacritic: 81/100

Vessel is a fun puzzle platformer with action elements and a side view. The events of the game take place in the amazing world of mechanical machines that have...

Batman: Arkham City - Harley Quinn's Revenge

Action, Stealth, DLC, In real time, Third-person view, Futurism (Future), Adventure, Free game

May 29, 2012

Players: 9.2/10

Steam: 81/100

Metacritic: 72/100

An expansion to Batman: Arkham City, in which Harley Quinn leads her own gang and lures Batman back into Arkham City to take revenge on the Dark Knight. As the...

Battlefield 3: Armored Kill

Simulation, Action, Shooter, DLC

September 4, 2012

Players: 7.7/10

Metacritic: 83/100

An expansion for Battlefield 3 focused on large-scale battles fought with vehicles. Across four new maps, players can use tanks, ATVs, mobile artillery and other...

Marvel vs. Capcom: Origins

Arcade, Action, Fighting, Collection

September 25, 2012

Players: 5.5/10

Metacritic: 75/100

Marvel vs. Capcom: Origins — is a compilation game that includes two Capcom games from the 1990s, Marvel Super Heroes (1995) and Marvel vs. Capcom: Clash of...

Destrega

Action, Fighting, Third-person view

February 5, 1998

Destrega is a third-person action game with fighting game elements from developers Omega Force. The main publisher of the game is KOEI Corporation. But Destrega has...

Harvest Moon: Back to Nature

Simulation, Business / Management, Isometric, Anime / Manga

December 16, 1999

Players: 10/10

This farm simulation with role-playing elements follows a return to the grandfather’s ranch, which the protagonist visited as a child. The player restores its...

Ratchet & Clank Collection

Collection

June 27, 2012

Players: 8.5/10

Metacritic: 80/100

This collection brings together remastered versions of three games in the series: Ratchet & Clank, Ratchet & Clank: Going Commando, and Ratchet & Clank...

Cabela's Dangerous Hunts 2013

Simulation, Action, Shooter, Hunting / Fishing, First-person view

October 23, 2012

Players: 9.2/10

Cabela's Dangerous Hunts 2013 — The game begins with young brothers Jacob and Luke Marshall going hunting in Alaska with their father, a park ranger. The...

Rainbow Moon

Role-playing game, Strategy, Isometric, Anime / Manga, Fantasy / Medieval, Turn-based, Tactics, Adventure

July 4, 2012

Metacritic: 70/100

Rainbow Moon — Japanese-style tactical RPG with turn-based combat. Cursed by his nemesis, Baldren finds himself in the unknown world of Rainbow Moon. And to...

SoulCalibur 5

Arcade, Fighting

January 31, 2012

Players: 10/10

Metacritic: 79/100

SoulCalibur V is a fighting game set 17 years after the events of SoulCalibur IV, where new heroes and returning warriors clash in a conflict between good and evil...

Saint Seiya: Sanctuary Battle

Action, Slasher, Third-person view, Anime / Manga

November 23, 2011

Metacritic: 62/100

This action slasher based on Saint Seiya follows the battle for the Sanctuary, where Seiya and his companions fight the Gold Saints of the twelve palaces to protect...