If you look on the internet there are hundreds of different #1's for the 2013 Game of the Year, and each one is different. I don't really care about that... I want to know what your 2013 Game of the Year would be.
For me, it would have to be either of the following games:
Both
Tomb Raider and
Bioshock Infinite are fantastic games that, if you haven't tried them, you should.
Tomb Raider is a game that I have argued and argued about with a friend of mine who said that the jumping and running "was stolen from
Assassin's Creed" and that "it just wasn't Lara Croft". My argument for that was that the
Tomb Raider games were around before
Assassin's Creed and that the point of the game is that it
isn't Lara Croft. It's her beginnings, when she becomes the woman we know her to be, and you see how difficult it is for her to cope with what happens throughout the game. It is a beautiful game to watch and so good to play and it infuriates me that people fob it off because it isn't the same Lara Croft we know.
Bioshock Infinite is also a beautiful game to play through and the story feels very different for me to the usual ones. You are cut off from the world in the town that is Columbia and there is lots of interesting things going on in the background to keep you watching. It is a bit difficult (or it was, for me) to get to grips with the combat but I managed it and was so happy when I did. It made the game much more enjoyable and I loved playing it very much. I haven't played either of the other
Bioshock games, but that's because I am a massive wimp. (It was hard enough playing
Bioshock Infinite with the creepy crow man right near the beginning, and
Tomb Raider with the wolves!)
So, what would your 2013 Game of the Year be?