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Burn out! Advance Wars! Timesplitter!

_ For the end of the 2010 years we celebrate 30 games that have defined the last 10 years. You can find all entries in the archive of Games of the Decade and read our considerations in a blog of a writer. In the meantime there is a small extra ._

It was a wonderful decade for video games and no mess. But not everyone was invited to the party. Here we take a few minutes to remember some of our most remarkable absences of the last ten years.

Timesplitters

This should have been the decade for Timesplitters. The death of this franchise goes back to a time in which the only shooter was forced on the menu to grow a beard that was the idea of ​​a suit of manpoints.

The charm of Timesplitters - his bizarre list of alien, monster and monkey characters, the personality that filled his story campaigns, and endless entertaining multiplayer modes - shows itself in the many franchises, which are added and inevitably fill the gap, she left - Fortnite, Overwatch, Apex.

It has been whispered for a long time that it could return, and a more prolonged hope that one day a revival of the fans could occur. But I wonder if it's already too long way, the strange and very British niche, which once created it has now filled with larger money - games that are all the creation of free radical design to thanks.

TOM Phillips

Advance Wars

Of course, it does not really feel like Advance Wars ever spent. The Clockwork battlefields are so tactile and beautifully designed that they feel timeless. But surprisingly it is over ten years that the last episode has passed, and spiritual successors like Wargroove really did not make it.

The tragedy has two sides. First, Advance Wars would be perfect for today's game world with asynchronous multiplayer and all the jazz. Second, Advance was filled Dual Strike with funny little innovations, including a very simple real-time mode. I would like to see where these experiments have led. Yes, Fire Emblem is wonderful, but sometimes only a medium tank is enough.

Christian Donlan

Age of mythology

I think to point out that Age of Mythology has disappeared in the last ten years - almost two in fact - I also talk about this whole family of strategy games that seems to be up and down. Age of Empires 3 was 2005, the last right Command and Conquer was 2010 and after most reports it was not great. Part of the floor has fallen under the RTS in the last 10 or 15 years, even if games like Company of Heroes have admired admirable to it.

Age of Mythology, however, stands out under all these because it is simply wonderful arcade. Bright and silly and simple, without taking care of complicated balance or obsession. If genres are eliminated, they basically lose more than just the staple foods. You also lose the quirky things on the edge, and so often a genre is best there.

CHRIS TIPSELL

burn out

Every car game in which you can not ram your enemies from the street, brings me a bit. I do a little shoveer and expect the time slowed until the magnificent, sticky tension sets. I expect that the sparks in the air stiffen and nothing happens. Burnout has been gone for a decade! This is an absolute tragedy.

Of course, it's not all bad. Three Fields Entertainment has broken burnout into its components in recent years, and I loved the resulting games. But if it would be possible to bring back the original team to provide you with a tremendous budget and find out where you should bring burnout after paradise? Well, that would be something.

Christian Donlan

Grandia

Since apparently in every other Japanese role play every few years to see continues - even in the terribly missing Breath of Fire, there was a mobile and web-based MMO - if I secretly hoped that Game Arts has long forgotten Grandia next.

Instead, it had to stay almost all the time this decade - until the surprise of switch and PC remasters at the first two games this summer.

At the time when I thought about what Grandia makes so special, from its huge combat system to the long, brilliant, often dizzying dungeons and barebones like these ports, it was a memory of some other games that emerge the same adventure spirit.

It also has proved that someone did not forget Grandia - and gives me hope that the next decade will be cheaper than the last one.

MATTHEW Reynolds

Fable

Does Fable belong to this list? Fable 3 appeared in 2010 and since then there have been countless pieces, including the tuned and much missed Fable Legends. But we have not had a fable nuclear game for a long time. A fun role-playing game, clear. A role-playing game over Great Britain, okay. But more than that, a role-playing game that says that nothing is more important than that - that the ultimate adventure is to be easy to be alive and be, who you want to be.

Christian Donlan

Billy Hatcher

In Billy Hatcher and The Giant Egg, you help the chickens of Morning Land to defeat the evil crow army that wants to cover the world in an eternal night. You do this by finding eggs whose size you can increase by rolling over a fruit. These eggs can be hatched to reveal a variety of objects and helpful animal friends. You can also use the eggs to cross the landscape, hop pyramids or lava and plinose every crow that trusts to cross their way.

This is a game that is not afraid of his own stallness, but simply trusts that they accept the existence of pirate chickens. The graphics spray a certain charm and help each new area to a distinctive feel. (Expect a particular level in Circus Park, over which I will not speak.)

Billy Hatcher has always felt that it deserves a sequel and not only because I miss the cute seal hedgehog hybrid richie. It has at this Saturday morning cartoon atmosphere in which she can jump from a bizarre adventure to the next. There are also so many other strange places where chickens can live, such as a swamp or the moon. In addition, the theme of melody is fantastic.

Lottie Lynn

Beyond Good and Evil

Beyond good and evil, of course, comes back. I hope that the insights into something wasteful and galaxies, which we get here and there, sometime become reality. But on a funny way I miss the beyond of good and evil 2, which we will never get - the continuation, which followed the first, who shared the same reason and the dreamy feeling of a single place.

This was a game that suited into a world - okay and a bit nearby. In it it had something very special, I think. From the lighthouse to the channels and door arches this was a European adventure, but also an adventure in the region. It was about saving a world instead of discovering a new one.

I look forward to hunting in a game after the stars, which looks too confusing great. But I like how homely and domestic the first game was. For science fiction, Skala often means a sense of width, but for beyond good and evil there is a beautiful scale in pocket size, which you do not look often.

Christian Donlan

left 4 Dead

In this phase, Valve is best known for nicht games are published, but the return of Half-Life suggests that the magic may remain. If so, we hope that it will be applied to the youngest and wrongly discontinued franchise - which is honestly, that's the easiest way to expand. The playing field could not be easier: they are four, there are virtually infinitely many zombies and there are not enough weapons. The output is over there. Go. And do not think you can do anything outside of the group.

The first game was a somewhat unpleasant co-hit masterpiece. The continuation has eliminated the bugs and improves multiplayer mode. Both made of their occupation of brave survivors, based exclusively on audio barks, Internet heroes. Both games can be repeated far, wide often than the relatively short list of the levels suggest. The director behind the scenes sets the zombie hordes so that each level contains several stressful, comedic showdowns, while their team goes through to the next control point, with slip-up, shots or spotted frying pans the only ones bought is successful or failure.

The rise of Service Games and Survival has led that both zombies and online coach have become one of the determining experiences of the last decade, but almost none creates the mixture of tension, frustration and laughter, which Left 4 Dead supplies every time . After Valve had set up a success formula that could be applied to each zombie situation, he left them on the shelf for a decade - even though they are blessed free from the tradition mills, which are undoubtedly semif-Life: Alyx. We hope that in the coming years another four-headed group collect, collect improvised weapons and recall the horde again.

Jon Hicks

jet set radio

Pleeeeeeeeease?

Christian Donlan

Golden Sun

Golden Sun, a huge old-fashioned, world-stringing role-playing game of Camelot, the studio behind Shining Force, was so great that it was published in two parts on Game Boy Advance in the following years. The excellent original and his entertaining aftermath The Lost Age told two halves of a saga full of magic and heroes who had promised the creators and who were only a prologue for larger events in future games.

But as the first - and until today last - these later games arrived (Dark Dawn, for DS), a large part of the charm had not survived an unpleasant platform change. It was nowhere to find in Dark Dawn's more 3D-enabled visuals, the amazing next generation of heroes and the noticeably smaller world. Since then, Camelot has recovered back to the production of Mario sports games, with the focus on Golden Sun behind the horizon.

TOM Phillips