Top 5 Games to Play in December

It’s all over, folks. With December’s scant few releases, we’ve reached the end of one of the most bountiful years in gaming history. By now, your Black Friday bruises should be healing nicely and what better way to mend the scars and wounds suffered while trying to buy $2 flash drives than picking up a few new games before the New Year? While this month is light, one of the games has been in development for nearly a decade, and Nintendo fans have two big releases to look forward too, although of course neither are coming to the Wii U. Check out the top five games releasing this month!

 

Super Mario Maker

This isn’t your father’s Super Mario Maker, as the slimmed-down 3DS version is built for speed and mobility. The game packs in 100 levels out of the gate, and of course includes the ability to download courses from the internet. You can build awesome new levels as well, but if sharing those levels with a larger community is how you got your jollies on the Wii U version, then maybe hold off. While the 3DS has a functional internet browser, levels can only be shared locally with your friends. So you better hope that your friends want to play your levels and are good at making them as well!

 

Steep

HEY BRO, YOU LIKE DOING SICK TRICKS!?! Sorry, sorry, we spent a little too much time on the mountain and now we have too much Red Bull running through our veins. This is all thanks to Steep, Ubisoft’s big bet on people’s fascination with all things snow sports. You can snowboard, ski, and wingsuit through the Alps and Alaska, with beautifully modeled mountains and trees in the back and foregrounds, providing a gorgeous landscape and visceral danger. If you love GoPro videos of people doing insane stunts, this might be the game for you, but we haven’t seen how deep the game is beyond online multiplayer and time trials.

 

Dead Rising 4

While Halloween seems like the time for a Dead Rising game, it makes sense for this obvious follow-up to grace us with its presence. Consider this an almost greatest hits of the series, as we have Frank West back in Willamette, the original scene of the zombie crime from the first Dead Rising. But this time you get to leave the mall and explore the larger Colorado town, but with way more insane weaponry and vehicles than ever before. The biggest change is the control scheme, and in a fundamentally better way, giving each of the top three face buttons a dedicated weapon (range, melee, and throwable), instead of having to scroll through a cumbersome weapon wheel mid-combat. Dead Rising 3 showed that the new consoles can handle hundreds of enemies on screen, so DR4 is simply piling on the tech and gore and looks amazing while doing so.

 

The Last Guardian

It seems fitting that after Final Fantasy XV finally came out last month after 10 years of development, The Last Guardian will actually be a real thing you can buy after being worked on for nine years. First announced in 2009 to the joy and wonder of all that watched the first trailer, Team Ico’s story about a young boy and his catbird friend is coming to PS4. It’s a puzzle and adventure game at heart, continuing the tradition put forth by Ico and Shadow of the Colossus. But little has been revealed as far as the depth of the puzzles, what combat looks like, and if it’s as historically short as the team’s prior output. Still, this game is one of the industry’s most anticipated relics from a prior generation and it’s mere existence is cause for celebration.

 

Super Mario Run

They finally did it. Nintendo has finally caved in and accepted the inevitable mobile future by bringing their most prized icon to Apple’s iPhones and iPads. Mario will grace your tiny screens on December 10 in a somewhat endless runner, where our titular hero runs right and you tap to make him jump on the heads of Goombas, collecting coins and racking up a high score along the way. It’s free to play, but $10 to own if you want unlimited access to the game and it’s various modes. You can also race against ghost Marios to beat the record times of your friends, as well as a kingdom building mode that lets you spend those hard-earned coins. Android folks have to wait 'til next year to get their hands on it, but wait and see how much $10 gets you by letting the Apple people test drive it first.

 

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