Top 5 PS3 Games 2012

Journey (by Sony Computer Entertainment)

The pioneers that brought you the award-winning PlayStation Network titles Flow & Flower are back with another title that challenges traditional gaming conventions. With Journey, thatgamecompany (TGC) continues its tradition of delivering simple gameplay and accessible controls in a rich interactive environment that invites players to explore and experience emotional chords that are still uncommon in videogames.

An exotic adventure with a more serious tone, Journey presents a unique vision of an online adventure experience. Awakening in an unknown world, the player walks, glides, and flies through a vast and awe-inspiring landscape, while discovering the history of an ancient, mysterious civilization along the way. Journey's innovative approach to online play encourages players to explore this environment with strangers who cross their path from time to time. By traveling together, they can re-shape the experience creating authentic moments they will remember and discuss with others.

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Mass Effect 3 (by Electronic Arts)

In Mass Effect 3, an ancient alien race known only as Reapers, has launched an all-out invasion of the galaxy, leaving nothing but a trail of destruction in their wake. Earth has been taken, the galaxy is on the verge of total annihilation, and you are the only one who can stop them. The price of failure is extinction. You, as Commander Shepard, must lead the counter assault to take it back. Only you can determine how events will play out, which planets you will save from annihilation and which alliances you will form or abandon as you rally the forces of the galaxy to eliminate the Reaper threat once and for all.

Battle with your comrades or even your own friends in this all-out galactic war to take Earth back. With co-op online multiplayer missions new to the Mass Effect universe , you can choose from a variety of classes and races, form an elite Special Forces squad, and combine weapons, powers and abilities to devastating effect as you all fight together to liberate key territories from enemy control in this third entry of the epic intergalactic RPG franchise.

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The Darkness 2 (by 2k Games)

The Darkness II is set two years after Jackie Estacado used the Darkness to kill the men responsible for his girlfriend's murder.

The Darkness II is set two years after Jackie Estacado used the Darkness to kill the men responsible for his girlfriend's murder. Jackie has done his best to bottle up his supernatural powers, but the Darkness wants out. Suddenly, an unprovoked attack is made on Jackie's life, which starts a full-scale mob war. The botched attempt to take his life opens the door for the Darkness to reemerge and sets Jackie on a journey to hell and worse as he tries to unravel the mystery behind the attack on him. You will be able to slash, grab, and throw objects and enemies with the four Demon Arms of the Darkness, while simultaneously firing weapons. Harness the power and solve the mystery behind the attack and motivations of the Darkness itself. You will experience a dark, twisted, and gripping story written exclusively for the game by acclaimed comic book author Paul Jenkins, whose credits also include The Incredible Hulk, Wolverine, and the original Darkness game.

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SSX (by Electronic Arts)

Redefining the franchise, SSX pits riders against both mountain and man. Players explore the story of a team who seek to be the first to descend the faces of the most treacherous mountain ranges on the planet. The team travels the world to face the worst that Mother Nature can throw at them. From the peaks of the Himalayas, where the air is so thin that riders have to descend through the death zone at breakneck speeds to keep from blacking out, to the solid ice ranges of Antarctica, where a sunlit line is the only survival option when temperatures drop 50 degrees centigrade in the shade. And the mountain isn't the only danger players will face. In SSX the first goal is to survive. The second, in true SSX fashion, is to look good doing it.

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Street Fighter X Tekken (by Capcom)

Two of the greatest fighting game franchises of all time face off in the first of two cross-over melee games that mix Street Fighter and Tekken characters.

Street Fighter x Tekken makes history as fighters from these two bastions of the fighting genre come together for the very first time. Utilizing the same 2D viewpoint and technology that powered Street Fighter IV, this game allows for Tekken characters such as Kazuya Mishima and Nina Williams to make the transition into the Street Fighter universe having been re-imagined using Capcom's much-loved art style. Their looks may be different, but these characters have retained their own unique characteristics and signature moves as they go head-to-head with classic brawlers from the Street Fighter franchise in what promises to be an explosive match up.

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