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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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Here goes,

*puts on tin foiled hat*

Naturally GS hates Sony which is why there's not a single Sony exclusive and 3 Xbox One console exclusives (one of which is a kinect game).

*takes hat off*

My personal favorite was Infamous Second Son, but then again i'm a huge infamous fan.

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@Slim_Lyrics Only one of those is an xbox one exclusive: Forza.

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@mellow09 @Slim_Lyrics which is why i specified "CONSOLE" exclusive.

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@Slim_Lyrics They are MS exclusives, as I believe that both are going to be on x1, 360 and pc.

And did you read the previous Gamespot articles? There was no love for the MS segment and much love for the sony segment........

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@mellow09 @Slim_Lyrics Last i checked Titan Fall and Fantasia are currently Xbox exclusive with no release on the consoles of any of the other two console makers. PC's don't count as consoles.

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@Slim_Lyrics @mellow09 Okay? Only one of those is an xbox one console exclusive.

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Destiny , Titanfall , The Division and Watch Dogs too close to choose one

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I like Bayonetta 2 for the art style and gameplay.

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The Division and Destiny looked very good and are my choices. Also liked Forza 5 and Watch Dogs.

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Definitely Destiny, with a very close second in The Division.

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The Division was my favorite of the show followed by Destiny and Witcher 3.

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Pretty good list if I do say so myself. My top 5 would be: The Division, The Witcher 3, Watch Dogs, The Crew & Thief. All in all a great show and I can't wait for all these killer games!

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Where is Blacklist, Destiny, Thief. Those fit the parameters. What I saw presented blew me away. And that ghost story 'Daylight' was also pretty amazing.

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@Lawrencevanrijn Destiny's on there, you know. I agree about Thief, though, looking forward to that one.

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@hastati4 @Lawrencevanrijn ooops shocks! missed that one. Amazed that AC4 is not on the list. interesting fact.

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@Lawrencevanrijn Eh. The AC4 live demo didn't do anything we haven't seen in previous Assassin's Creeds, apart from firing four pistols in one go... which was actually possible in AC3 if you had the right pair of pistols.


Ha, and it also froze entirely, which can't have been a plus for it, even if it wasn't the game's fault.

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shocked that Fantasia would be on this list... absolutely shocked....

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@DJKrayz_basic Yeah, pretty odd.

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No PS exclusives? Or were they just not playable on the floor?

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"Games up for nomination had to be playable in some form..."

Funny. I had heard the WiiU tablet controls make Bayonetta 2 virtually unplayable. :|

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If Metal Gear had been playable, it would have won for me. That said, The Witcher 3 will probably win.

However, in reality I will most likely play Destiny more than anything shown at E3 for the same reasons I've played Borderlands 2 more than anything else since it came out: Loot, co-op, and perfectly tuned gameplay.

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what.. no MGS5?

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@Super_Tramp it wasn't playable

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@MateykoSlam @Super_Tramp i stand by what i say! :P

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I was definitely most excited about The Division and Watch Dogs! =)

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How about Tom Clancy's Division? You have to be impressed by the visual and how the environment reacts to player actions.

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@jyml8582 The Division is up there...

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i like the new xbox 1 controller it look nice but!!! I preorded my ps4 !!!!!

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The Division, Watch Dogs, MGS5, Transistor, Titanfall, The Crew and Destiny are my faves, Can't really get excited for Witcher 3 because I couldn't get into the last one and never played the first one, Battlefield is old news, same crap different day, I'm not buying Wii-U or XBO so their racing games mean nothing no matter how great they look....

The Crew, The Division and MGS5 really deserve top honors, The Crew and Division for being new IP's and MGS5 for doing something new with the franchise......

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Shame that there are no indie titles on here.

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@cjlebron Completely agree.

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The Witcher 3 and MGS5.

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This has to actually be between Mario Kart, Destiny and Watchdogs. They not only nailed what their genre does, but had so much more going for them.

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The witcher 3 had a gameplay video? Anyways, for me it was between Watch Dogs and inFAMOUS: Second Son

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Where the hell is MGS5? Is this a joke?

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@Fakeblob Look at the paragraph just before the list.

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@DaN_WiL @Fakeblob ahhhh okay okay

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The Witcher 3, followed by The Division and Destiny.

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Witcher 3 is hands down the best game; it has a huge open world, great combat system, great story that is actually non-linear where the choices you make huge differences, super awesome graphics, tons of hours of gameplay and way more. The only problem with it, was that we didn't see any actual game play (well the lucky journalists did).

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@games_are_fun71 wait, so if you didn't see any gameplay, how do you know it has a great combat system, and tons of hours of gameplay. It's all speculation then. I never really liked the Witcher's combat. I always thought that was the weakest part of such a great game.

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@SergioMX @games_are_fun71 I have read a bunch of articles on how they are changing the combat system (which in my opinion was great in the witcher 2) to make a lot better. As well they are adding a bunch of other really cool stuff that adds to combat.

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@SergioMX @games_are_fun71 I never played the first Witcher but I thought the combat in the second one could've been far better. The Division on the other hand looks orgasmic


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The Division is going to win i remember a gs staff saying so on the stream

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The Division was the biggest surprise and most welcome game at E3 imo

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Although not typically a game that appeals to me, Destiny looks incredible.

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I gotta say Destiny and Watch Dogs were my favorites. But The Division isn't far behind. That was a welcome surprise.

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To me, MGS5 blew my mind and thought it had the best showing.

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@marcheegsr open world stealth just sounds incredible. Definitely going to have to get the HD collection to get into the story.

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Prepare yourself for a deep and enriching storyline, but only if you embrace it and attempt to understand it.

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@marcheegsr Thank You, someone with some sense.


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