{"id":7988,"date":"2013-01-07T20:58:23","date_gmt":"2013-01-08T02:58:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thegamereviews.com\/?p=7988"},"modified":"2013-01-07T21:12:57","modified_gmt":"2013-01-08T03:12:57","slug":"3-video-games-coming-in-2013-worth-saving-up-for","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thegamereviews.com\/article-7988-3-video-games-coming-in-2013-worth-saving-up-for.html","title":{"rendered":"3 Video Games Coming In 2013 Worth Saving Up For"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You do not have to be a video game industry  insider to know that 2013 is going to be a wonderful year for video games. If  you are serious about playing the best games that will be launched in 2013 then  start saving up right now for these 3 future classics.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Tomb  Raider<\/strong><br \/>\nRebooting  a series is always a tricky affair, more so if the series is as popular and  successful as the Tomb raider franchise. Lara Croft, the protagonist of the  series, has forever been immortalized as one of the greatest video game  characters of all time, irrespective of gender. Indeed, her presence has  influenced almost every single female character to appear in video games since  the first Tomb Raider game, released in 1996. The original game was almost  single-handedly responsible for the success of Sony\u2019s PlayStation and Lara  Croft became the biggest iconic female characters in video games since Samus  Aran was revealed to be a woman at the end of the 1986 classic, Metroid. With 9  successful games (and many other spin-offs not part of the main series), the  Tomb Raider franchise has been one of the most profitable mainstays of the  video game industry, even spawning a movie series with Angelina Jolie in the  lead. However, rebooting the franchise is not being seen by industry insiders  as a massive gamble. Fans have often complained about how the series was  getting stagnant and a reboot is exactly what the doctor ordered. Square Enix  and Crystal Dynamics will use the new Tomb Raider game to show fans the new  origins of the reconstructed Lara Croft. The initial gameplay trailers for Tomb  Raider have been well received by fans and critics. The new gritty atmosphere  of the game guarantees something new that no Tomb Raider fan would have ever  experienced in any of the previous titles in the old series.<\/p>\n<p><strong>BioShock  Infinite<\/strong><br \/>\nOne  of the best things about the first BioShock game that immediately caught your  eye was the level design. The developers, Irrational Games, were able to create  an underwater dystopia that sucked the player into this new and incredible  surrounding. However, fans were not too pleased to see the same environments  again in BioShock 2 and felt that the game didn\u2019t really have anything new to  offer. 2K Games made a note of this and have ensured that the 2013 instalment  of the series, BioShock Infinite, introduces viewers to completely new  surroundings. This time, instead of roaming the corridors of Rapture, the  player is thrust into the fictional city of Columbia that floats in the sky.  The initial gameplay videos have drawn a rollicking response from the video  game community and BioShock Infinite is already being touted around as possibly  being the best fist-person shooter game of the year. A new story arc also means  that new players can jump in and quickly adapt to the gameplay.<\/p>\n<p><strong>GTA  V<\/strong><br \/>\nAs  far as video game franchises go, it doesn\u2019t get any bigger than the Grand Theft  Auto series. One of the most controversial video game franchises of all time,  GTA has given the world of video games some true classics, including GTA: Vice  City and GTA IV. Every new GTA game is looked forward to with great  anticipation and the same is true for GTA V. When the first teaser trailer for  GTA V was released, the Internet went ballistic over the prospect of new game  in the series. Just like its predecessors, GTA V has to live to up to massive  expectations and no one has any doubts that the new game will exceed any and  all expectations. No one can truly call themselves a gamer unless they have  played every single title in the GTA series and GTA V can already be called a  classic even before it is released.<\/p>\n<p>There  will be hundreds of games releasing in 2013, but these 3 games will be at the  top of every wish-list and are guaranteed to be worth every penny you spend on  them.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/118251721750574372127\/?rel=author\" target=\"_blank\">Barbara  Woodberry<\/a> is a very talented writer. She works as an editor for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.magazinesubscriptions.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">magazinesubscriptions.com<\/a>, an  online store that helps its readers in subscribing their favorite magazine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You do not have to be a video game industry insider to know that 2013 is going to be a wonderful year for video games&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16804,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1104,1105,35,1103,36],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thegamereviews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7988"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thegamereviews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thegamereviews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thegamereviews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16804"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thegamereviews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7988"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thegamereviews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7988\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thegamereviews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thegamereviews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thegamereviews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}