Metacritic Reveals the Top 10 Games of 2012

<p>Metacritic&comma; the online bank of review scores which mash together scores from publications across the internet to determine an average for each and every game released&comma; have revealed the top 10 rated games of 2012 among other interesting information&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The top ten games of 2012 &lpar;in regards to any platform&rpar; all received a metascore of 91-95 and are as follows&colon;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<ol>&NewLine;<li><span style&equals;"line-height&colon; 12&period;981481552124023px&semi;">The Walking Dead&colon; The Game &lpar;Xbox 360&rpar;<&sol;span><&sol;li>&NewLine;<li>Persona 4 Golden &lpar;PS Vita&rpar;<&sol;li>&NewLine;<li>Mass Effect 3 &lpar;PS3&rpar;<&sol;li>&NewLine;<li>Mass Effect 3 &lpar;Xbox 360&rpar;<&sol;li>&NewLine;<li>Journey &lpar;PS3&rpar;<&sol;li>&NewLine;<li>Xenoblade Chronicles &lpar;Wii&rpar;<&sol;li>&NewLine;<li>Dishonored &lpar;PC&rpar;<&sol;li>&NewLine;<li>Mark of the Ninja &lpar;PC&rpar;<&sol;li>&NewLine;<li>Borderlands 2 &lpar;PS3&rpar;<&sol;li>&NewLine;<li>Far Cry 3 &lpar;PS3&rpar;<&sol;li>&NewLine;<&sol;ol>&NewLine;<p>As you may be aware&comma; some games featured twice in the top ten due to being slightly unique in their appearance&sol;gameplay features on one platform compared to the other&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>What is also interesting to note is that throughout 2012&comma; the Xbox 360 received the most &&num;8220&semi;new&&num;8221&semi; games consisting of 243 titles&comma; the PS3 received 204 titles and the Wii &lpar;including Wii U&rpar; received a measly 53 new titles&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Out of these new titles&comma; the PS3 achieved the highest average Metascore&comma; scoring 70&period;3 although the Xbox 360 wasn&&num;8217&semi;t far behind averaging out at around 69&period;5 as a Metascore&period; Considering the Wii&sol;Wii U only gained a collective of 53 new titles to its already expansive library it also did well&comma; achieving 68&period;3 as a Metascore&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Did you think that 2012 was a good year for games&quest; Will 2013 be even better&quest; Let us know in the comments below&excl;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&lbrack;Source&colon; <a href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;metacritic&period;com&sol;feature&sol;best-video-games-of-2012">Metacritic <&sol;a>via <a href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;nintendoeverything&period;com&sol;109552&sol;metacritic-the-best-rated-nintendo-platform-titles-of-2012&sol;">Nintendo Everything<&sol;a>&rsqb;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<div class&equals;"zemanta-pixie" style&equals;"margin-top&colon; 10px&semi; height&colon; 15px&semi;"><img class&equals;"zemanta-pixie-img" style&equals;"border&colon; none&semi; float&colon; right&semi;" alt&equals;"" src&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;img&period;zemanta&period;com&sol;pixy&period;gif&quest;x-id&equals;ba791ea9-8372-488f-aacb-23c26abee0c9" &sol;><&sol;div>&NewLine;