VG247's Christmas reading list - the best features and reviews of 2018
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It’s been a fantastic, record-breaking year for VG247 and more people than ever have enjoyed reading the site.
Since we’re breaking for Christmas today, we thought it would be nice to leave our regular readers with some content to pick through in our absence. So we’ve collected all the best features we’ve put up over the year below.
Once you’ve read through those, see the next section for 2018 in VG247 video game reviews.
VG247 2018 - Best Features
- How Red Dead Redemption 2 subverts the usual rules to create a character that stands out in Arthur Morgan.
- What your Super Smash Bros. Ultimate main says about your personality.
- An interview with Geralt actor Doug Cockle, where we chat about the character’s emotional growth over The Witcher series.
- Video game physics arguably peaked with GTA 4 - here we talk to the experts about why that is.
- Speaking to Tony Hawk and Neversoft about the making of Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater.
- A profile on Gearbox founder and actual magician, Randy Pitchford.
- A completely serious and not at all satirical look at the best apolitical games. Do not look for the hidden messages, there are none.
- How Dark Souls trains you for the combat of Monster Hunter: World.
- In Geralt, The Witcher 3 gives us one of the best depictions of living with mental health issues in video games yet.
- Meet Hugh Herr, the bionic man creating real augmented limbs.
- The story of Thrill Kill, a PS1 fighting game that was cancelled because of its ultraviolence and sexual content.
- How Josef Fares went from living in a war zone to being a successful film director, to directing video games that comment on brotherhood.
- I keep playing Fallout 76 because I despise myself.
- Here one of our freelancers ponders the question: do we really need next-gen machines when we have Red Dead Redemption 2?
- Alex looks at one of the biggest moments in esports in 2018 - how a coin toss changed everything in a Dragon Ball FighterZ tournament.
- I wandered the halls of QuakeCon’s bring your own computer section and was met with an alien world.
- Sherif replayed Shadow of the Colossus and came to the conclusion that modern open world games are pants.
- Here’s how Square Enix worked with Pixar to put Monsters Inc. in Kingdom Hearts 3.
- An interview with CD Projekt Red on what lies beyond the boundaries of Cyberpunk 2077’s Night City.
- How a KFC emote led to a big racism row on Twitch.
- How God of War hides its big story reveals in plain sight.
- Why licensed video games used to be so terrible.
- An interview with Doom Eternal’s lead developers on how they’re pushing the evolution of the series.
- A Q&A with Rockstar on the tech powering Red Dead Redemption 2.
- How and why video game downgrades happen.
- How Metro 2033 author Dmitry Glukhovsky uses every opportunity to put politics into the Metro games.
- “That goat can really program!”: How CD Projekt and Mike Pondsmith came together for Cyberpunk 2077.
VG247 2018 - Reviews
- Assassin's Creed Odyssey review
- Super Smash Bros. Ultimate review
- Insurgency Sandstorm review
- Assassin’s Creed Odyssey: Legacy of the First Blade Episode 1 – Hunted review
- Just Cause 4 review
- Red Dead Redemption 2 review
- Battlefield 5 review
- Hitman 2 review
- Destiny 2 Forsaken review
- Fallout New California review
- SoulCalibur 6 review
- WWE 2K19 review
- Shadow of the Tomb Raider review
- FIFA 19 review
- Forza Horizon 4 review
- Neo Geo Mini review
- Dragon Ball FighterZ review
- Life is Strange 2 review
- Valkyria Chronicles 4 review
- Nvidia GeForce RTX 2080 Ti review
- Witcher Pen and Paper RPG review
- Marvel's Spider-Man review
- Rainbow Six Siege Operation Grim Sky review
- Shenmue 1 & 2 review
- World of Warcraft: Battle for Azeroth review
- Sonic Mania Plus review
- Octopath Traveler review
- Captain Toad: Treasure Tracker review
- The Crew 2 review
- Vampyr review
- Detroit: Become Human review
- Pillars of Eternity 2: Deadfire review
- Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze review
- God of War review
- Yakuza 6: The Song of Life review
- Call of Duty WW2 War Machine review
- Detective Pikachu review
- Far Cry 5 review
- Sea of Thieves review
- Tomb Raider movie review
- Burnout Paradise Remastered review
- Monster Hunter: World review
- Street Fighter 5 Arcade Edition review