PC World - USA (2020-12)

92 PCWorld DECEMBER 2020

FEATURE BEST GAMES OF THIS GENERATION

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Thus the end of a console generation is

also the perfect time for a retrospective. We’re

feeling nostalgic about the last seven years

and the games we played along the way, and

we thought we’d celebrate those games one

last time before they fade into the depths of

our Steam libraries.

From Alien: Isolation to The Witcher 3,

here are some of our favorite games of this

generation, in no particular order.

1. ALIEN: ISOLATION
   The presence of the Alien (read: Xenomorph)
   in Alien: Isolation (go.pcworld.com/alis) is still
   my least favorite part. Don’t get me wrong,
   it’s a marvel of artificial intelligence, and a true
   hunter. Being its prey is as frustrating as it is

T

he PlayStation 4 and Xbox One

have ridden off into the sunset,

replaced by the PlayStation 5 (go.

pcworld.com/nv12) and Xbox

Series X (go.pcworld.com/10nv). But what

do we care, right? This is PCWorld, and my

graphics card will function just as well (go.

pcworld.com/gcls) next month as it does

today, new consoles be damned.

But there’s no denying that hardware

changeovers tend to drive the industry

forward. Freed from the constraints of aging

consoles, games leap ahead—not just in the

living room, but on PC as well. By this time

next year, today’s best games may well look...

well, old. Time marches on, even children get

older, consoles embrace modern SSDs (go.

pcworld.com/mssd) and Ryzen CPUs (go.

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