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GameSpot's Best of Show Winners for E3 2013

SITE NEWS: Staff-curated list features 12 games including Battlefield 4, The Crew, Fantasia: Music Evolved, and Destiny, among others.

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Now that the show has ended, what were the best games of E3 2013?

GameSpot editors have chosen our favorite games from this year's show, finalizing a list of 12 titles highlighted below.

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Games up for nomination had to be playable in some form, whether by GameSpot or during a live presentation.

Battlefield 4
Bayonetta 2
Destiny
Fantasia: Music Evolved
Forza Motorsport 5
Mario Kart 8
Rayman Legends
The Crew
The Division
The Witcher 3
Titanfall
Watch Dogs

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titanfall

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@Clownbabby No playable demo, I guess.

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Watchdogs or Destiny.

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So the "top" gaming experiences have been reduced to a bunch of over hyped Counter Strikes huh... I'll go WiiU all the way...

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3 are FPS with one of them being an RPG FPS. 1 sim racer, 1 arcade racer, 1 cartoon kart racer. An open world game ala GTA. An RPG akin to Skirim with more depth. A music game. A action slash game. Ones a massive open world third person shooter with RPG elements.

Sounds like a varied list to me.

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@12thArcane I actually thought they picked a pretty diverse list. It also includes several Wii U games. I totally agree with it.

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The Division or Infamous

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DEADFALL ADVENTURES - Indiana Jones -like FPS, traps, puzzles, archaeology. / From the offered list, Destiny. / Best F2P - Warframe, really great lore, wish there was a movie about it.

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A sold list Gamespot

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I like Watch Dogs but the game I'm looking for is The Walking Dead: 400 Days.

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where's ffxv?

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@kaiserdisco Did they play it? No? Then that explains why.

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I agree totally with that list. Wish that 'X' game on Wii U was playable though.

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Gamespot only enjoyed the big budged AAA games huh?

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@lumbergoose they were the only ones probably playable... which was a requirement..

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no indie games , transistor maybe

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@bledsoe45sbc Keeping an eye on Transistor myself.

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@derceto @bledsoe45sbc bastion was so damn good

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@bledsoe45sbc @derceto Absolutely. I think Transistor will be an automatic for me. Will look more into it over the coming while, but, I don't expect to be let down. Looking forward to it.

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Myself. Bayonetta 2 and Witcher 3 on that list. Everything else.... meh. Sadly, I'll have to skip Bayo 2. :/ Witcher 3 though. Wow. Looking pretty awesome.

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I think Tom Clancy's The Division is the surprise in the E3 this year too!!!

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Also MGS V if David Hayter and all the original VA's return. If not than I'm not buying MGs V.

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The 12 games don't interest me. All I'm buying is FF XV and Kingdom Hearts 3. Besides I'm not buying a PS4 for like 1 1/2. PS3 still has life left.

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@BryanParksSuper I'll be late to the PS3 party for TLOU so I'm glad it's still got some life left. Wish the PS4 was backwards compatible. That was the main reason I held out so long on the PS3.

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what? the witcher 3 was playable?

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I loved dark Souls 2 (I'm Waiting)

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I think top3 games we saw were all from Ubisoft, The Crew, Watch Dogs and The Division. Those were the most interesting of all imo. The Crew has whole of USA to drive around, Watch Dogs looks just awesome and The Division was intriguing. Ubisoft really knows how to give a lot of variety in their games, there's stealth, open world, racing, shooting, multiplayer, coop, mmo, platforming, serious and fun, character driven stories and some focused on mayhem. They're not just making the same games over and over again.

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@Stebsis Do you get your Ubisoft paycheck this Friday or next?

There's lauding, and then there's hilarious lists of talking points like what you wrote.

Side note-- The Crew doesn't have "whole of USA". It has roads that represent various areas across the US.

Their overall showing of games was good, though, of course. But it wasn't the Second Coming.

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@Stebsis I'd bring up Assassin's Creed, but on the whole I agree with you. Ubisoft's stolen the show two years in a row, in my opinion.

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The Crew really surprised me, looking forward to that game

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@The_Last_Ride Agreed. It's very rare that a racing/car game piques my interest, but The Crew definitely did it. Interesting ideas.

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@hastati4 @The_Last_Ride Well i am a huge racing fan, but this looks like something new and fresh

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Ubisoft ... GameSpot ... buying Rayman Legends used .... just saying :)

Hope it doesn't sell well either at launch price.

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company of heroes 2

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ok, what no love for the angry video game nerd?

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I honestly don't see what's up with Battlefield 4... I was bored to tears during its showing... Sure, it's pretty. But pretty much everything by this point is... I just don't see the appeal.

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@ivan_osorio 32 on 32 on next gen consoles gets me excited. Greater destructibility, re-balanced classes, and basically just more massive battles that are made all the better when you can into a squad with your friends. Basically what I wanted BF3 to be. Not sure if it'll be enough for me to pick it up, with the competition and all.

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@hastati4 After how bad BF3 was, I'm going to wait for a BF4 discount.

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@derceto @mlcarter815 @hastati4 Everyone at work convinced me to get BF3 for PC. I enjoyed playing Bad Company 2 at a friend's house on PS3 so I thought 'sure'. I love shooters too so I can't put my finger on what's missing but it just doesn't feel 'right'.

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@mlcarter815 @hastati4 Sadly, I can't argue that. I had high hopes for BF 3 and it just didn't deliver. BF4 will likely be skipped over for me this outing. Lots of other great stuff coming to bother with that.

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@mlcarter815 @hastati4 agreed

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b attlefield 4

let the trolling begin

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TO EVERYONE WHO IS WONDERING WHY MGS IS NOT ON THIS LIST:


It was not playable in any form at the show, either by GameSpot or live presentation, therefore is ineligible to receive a Best of E3 Award. Thank you.

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It's gotta be Titanfall. Looks intense.

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Where the hell is Metal Gear Solid, whoever wrote this should be smacked

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@Axile11 Not playable, does not apply.

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@Slim_Lyrics @Axile11 Still though, honorable mention or something

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@Axile11 @Slim_Lyrics it's time will come... lol, or problably not if Kojima think Graound Zeros is "too shocking"

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