Top 10 PC games at E3

3. Dead Island

Dead Island rather popped out of nowhere last month, but looks to be a whole heap of fun. Better still, with a launch date later this year you won’t have to wait ages to play it yourself, and there should be plenty to see at E3. It’s a knock-about open world game, kind of Grand Theft Auto meets Far Cry meets Dead Rising. Despite the first person perspective, there looks to be a lot of melee combat involved, though that may be because the big guns only come out later. The zombies have a multi-layered damage model, so you can literally tears chunks off them.

The game also features up to four player co-operative gameplay, which should prove a hoot. We’re hoping that it will run across a local network, without any of that annoying Steam log-in nonsense, but then that might just be because we love our lunchtime LAN games. There’s also vehicles to drive and some semblance of a plot to help push the mayhem along. Developed by the ever-improving Techland studio (behind Call of Juarez: Bound in Blood), this could the developers’ big breakthrough.

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4. Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim

This is the biggy for us, as we’re all huge fans of The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion, having put countless hours into exploring the world, killing bandits and pleasing the locals. As per usual, this new iteration of the first-person fantasy RPG is set in another region of the same world, but two hundred years later, and this time there are huge dragons to fight and even talk to.

There’s nothing here to surprise Elder Scrolls veterans yet, with the game looking like a natural development and refinement of previous titles. The open world returns and you can tackle a lot of the content in any order you like. But it’ll be the sheer breadth, depth and quality of that content that should enthral us. If the developers can come up with more in-game gems, like becoming a Vampire, that are both great plots and gameplay changers, then we’ll be pleased.

Our main hope is that the monster levelling system is taken care of, so that your enemies don’t level up so aggressively to keep pace with your own powers. It took a lot of the fun out of the first game, as upon returning to areas with far better abilities, you’d simply find that the enemies had also beefed-up in the meantime. New features confirmed do include weapon forging, dual-wielding of weapons and special finishing moves.

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