Top 10 Playstation 3 Games of the Year

According to PC Magazine:

1. Batman: Arkham Asylum
   Bruce Wayne’s true face returns to action in Batman: Arkham City, the smart, action-packed follow up to Batman: Arkham Asylum. This Game of The Year candidate builds on Arkham Asylum’s solid foundation by adding new hard-hitting melee attacks, more Bat-gadgets, stealth, detective work, and an expansive playground—an open-air penitentiary in Gotham’s slums—where the city’s worst minds run wild. These criminal minds include the familiar (Catwoman, The Joker, Two-Face), and the more obscure (Calendar Man, Hugo Strange, Solomon Grundy). Developer Rocksteady Studios has proven that comic book licenses need not be trapped in the usual murk of suspect gameplay and mediocre movie tie-ins.
2. Battlefield 3
   Battlefield 3, the latest wartime first-person shooter title from DICE, launched the opening salvo in this fall’s FPS conflict. Battlefield 3 puts gamers in the role of U.S. Marines who battle opposing forces (The People’s Liberation and Resistance) in New York, Paris, and Tehran—the perfect settings for making things go boom. The military combat title is powered by DICE’s proprietary Frostbite 2 engine, which enabled the developer to build massive, destructible environments, dynamic audio, and incredible animation (utilizing ANT technology) that its rival, Activision’s mega-popular Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3, simply can’t match. The FPS features a variety of controllable vehicles (sonic boom producing fighter jets, helicopters, tanks, APCs, and transport vehicles), co-op split screen play, and a competitive multiplayer mode that supports up to 64 combatants.
3. The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim
   The fifth installment in Bethesda Softworks’ long-running fantasy action-RPG series is easily one of the most anticipated games of 2011. Set two centuries after the events in The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion, Skyrim sees gamers trekking through the open-ended Skyrim world during the midst of a civil war—all under the looming shadow of a prophesized apocalypse at the hands of a dragon god. Players can “roll” a character based on human, elf, and other races, each of which come with their own specific attributes that you can tweak over the course of the adventure by adding new abilities, magic, gear, and weapons.
4. Everybody Dance
   The PlayStation Move has suffered a severe lack of quality titles, but Sony’s Everybody Dance may make your motion control investment easier to swallow. The dance title features 40 chart-topping tracks (including Usher’s “OMG,” LMFAO’s “Party Rock Anthem,” and Duck Sauce’s “Barbra Streisand”) that feature the original artists’ music videos. Everybody Dance allows players to boogey alone, engage in co-op team up (Partner Routine), competitive head-to-head (Dance Battle), or mix it up in a 20 player dance-off (Party Play). The Dance Class feature lets gamers improve their steps using routine breakdowns, and even create new ones using the Dance Creator feature.
5. The Ico & Shadow of the Colossus Collection
   Whenever talk turns to tired and beat debate about video games as art, two games are inevitably presented to represent the hobby’s artistic merits: The PlayStation 2’s ICO and Shadow of the Colossus. These two Team ICO-developed games—the former a platformer, the latter a monster-scaling action title—featured subtle, emotional storytelling that made them two of the most beloved titles of that console generation. ICO and Shadow of the Colossus return to action in a PS3 combo pack that features HD visuals, full stereoscopic 3D support, and 7.1 surround sound. The package also includes exclusive behind the scenes “making of” videos featuring the making of ICO and Shadow of the Colossus and a sneak peek at the upcoming Team Ico release, The Last Guardian.
6. Rocksmith
   Guitar Hero and Rock Band let you fulfill your rock star dreams by jamming on simple plastic instruments. Fun diversions, yes, but you’re still jamming on, well, simple plastic instruments. If you’re ready to graduate to something that will make you truly feel like Hendrix or Clapton, check out Ubisoft’s Rocksmith. This isn’t so much a game, but a training exercise that uses a real guitar (no colored fret-buttons here) and a dynamic difficulty that scales base on your ability to cover Cream, Lenny Kravitz, Radiohead, Soundgarden, The Strokes, and other guitar-grinding music acts.
7. Saints Row: The Third
   While Rockstar Games’ Grand Theft Auto franchise has shifted away from absurd sandbox crime capers to ones that are more serious, Volition’s Saints Row keeps the wackiness alive with a game so over the top, you can beat foes with an oversized sex toy. Unlike previous Saints Row games, Saints Row: The Third uses an open-ended, inter-connected story structure where your gang’s interactions with the two rival gangs affects how outcome. The game has plenty of customization options: Respect points now act as RPG experience points that are used to improve melee combat, firearms skill, and other attributes as you run wild in the fictional city of Steelport. Plus, Saints Row: The Third boasts a Burt Reynolds cameo, complete with cowboy hat.
8. Sonic Generations
   Sonic the Hedgehog began life as SEGA’s “extreme” rival mascot to Nintendo’s Mario, but the speedster has become so much more than a product of the knock-down-drag-out 16-bit console war; the Blue Blur stands as one of the most recognizable figures in video-game history. Sonic Generations celebrates the hedgehog’s two decades of stardom by bringing together everything that made the Sonic franchise a success (bright, colorful graphics, insane speed, and simple controls) and eliminates everything that’s tarnished it in recent years (oddball playable characters, lycanthropy, and guns). Sporting 2D and 3D gameplay that stars classic “pudgy” Sonic and sleek, modern Sonic trying to solve a time anomaly, Sonic Generations is a wonderfully and lovingly crafted “thank-you” gift for those who have followed the Hedgehog’s adventures over the past two decades.
9. Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3
   Capcom and Marvel Entertainment double dip on the red-hot Marvel vs. Capcom 3 with a follow up: Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3. The manic 2D fighting game, available for the PS3, Xbox 360, and upcoming PS Vita handheld, adds new gameplay modes and 12 new fighters. New to the Marvel side are Doctor Strange, Ghost Rider, Hawkeye, Iron Fist, Nova, and the obscure Rocket Raccoon. Team Capcom sees Firebrand, Frank West, Nemesis Type-T, Phoenix Wright, Strider, and Vergil. In addition to new characters, Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3 features a host of enhancements and new features to improve the game’s balance and online functionality. Two of the biggest additions to Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3 are the fan-requested Spectator Mode (which allows fighters to watch live online matches together) and Heroes and Heralds mode (a single- and multiplayer, team-based contest in which gamers earn new abilities with upgrade cards by battling Galactus’ heralds).
10. Uncharted 3: Drake’s Deception
    Nathan Drake returns to modern-day swashbuckling action in Uncharted 3: Drake’s Deception, a cinematic action title serves as the follow up to Naughty Dog’s classic Uncharted 2: Among Thieves. The third game in the Uncharted franchise sees adventurer Nathan Drake in search of the fabled “Atlantis of the Sands.” The gun-toting protagonist’s trek into the heart of the Arabian Desert features Hollywood-caliber interactive cinematic experience, online multiplayer support, and stereoscopic 3D visuals. Uncharted 3: Drake’s Deception is a must-have PS3 exclusive.