Top 10 PC Games of 2010

2010 was a nice year for PC gamers. It could have been better, but still it was great. Strategy and adventure fans got to play a lot of quality PC exclusives, from Starcraft 2 and Civilization V to Gray Matter and The Whispered World. The indie devs once again proved that they can really surprise us and deliver some amazing games. Titles like Sleep Is Death, Amnesia: The Dark Descent, Minecraft and Super Meat Boy are some of the best indie games we got this year.

Sports and racing fans were left behind but thankfully, EA managed to deliver a great PC version of Fifa11 and NBA2K11 from 2K Games is astounding. WRC 2010 was the perfect blend of arcade/sim rally racing and would have made it in our Top10, if only it had more stages and better menus/presentation. Split Second was a hell of a game, Blur was a fan arcade racing and even though F1 2010 was not as sim as we'd hoped to, it was overall a nice game. RPG fans got to play Mass Effect 2, Two Worlds II, Fallout: New Vegas and Alpha Protocol, whereas the action fans enjoyed games like Bad Company 2, STALKER: Call Of Pripyat, Metro 2033, Just Cause 2 and Splinter Cell: Conviction.

Fifa11 PC Demo, Performance & High Resolution Screenshots

EA released their demo of Fifa11 and for the first time, PC gamers have the chance to experience the next-generation gameplay and graphics of the Fifa franchise. Although the PC version is not the same as the console one (Personality is missing and the online mode supports only 5vs5 instead of 11vs11), the game is remarkable. As with PES2011, we won't discuss the gameplay but how it performs. The demo is 1.17GB and you can download it from here.

As with PES2011, we can clearly see that the new game engine of Fifa11 is multithreaded. The game takes utilizes all the cores of our Q6600, although as we can see it doesn't tax them. The overall CPU usage was 50-60%, which is exactly the same with the one of PES2011. This means that both games will run fine in most PC systems, even if they aren't high-end. This is great news to say the least.