User blog comment:Inkie Twig/A Year in Gaming - A Review/@comment-1263839-20141230131906/@comment-1263839-20141230184926

I'm actually quite liking Alien: Isolation right now, though a lot of it is filled with arbitrary bullshit which irritates me. Still it's nice to see a survival horror game in the AAA space not called Silent Hill to be good imo (especially since the next one is looking rather lackluster so far).

GTA V walked away with the highest acclaim of the year, but to be honest I don't see why any of the three deserved the praise they got. The Last of Us was good but horrendously predictable and with characterisation that's admirable but not really special. GTA V was a buggy mess built around a story that was more of a soap opera than an actual single plot. The less said about BioShock Infinite's existence the better.

True about AW, but even critics just seem a bit "meh" towards it and the Call of Duty games are usually recognised on the critical level as being above all the crappy knock-offs that come out each year. Oh well, the campaign makes up for the just-as-bad-as-MW3 survival mode and the MW3 level of multiplayer in that it's enjoyable because of how broken and unbalanced it is.