With each new gen of lean, mean, gaming machines comes the good stuff: Masses of games. Some of those games go on to become legend, thus spawning franchises.








Here are some of the best emerging franchises in the biz. 

 

Irrational Games

A spiritual successor to the creepy System Shock efforts from way back, BioShock continues the trend of trapping you in an unsettling space and surrounded by touchy-feely weirdos. It could almost be some kind of crawlspace simulator if it weren’t for the fact that you’re armed to the teeth and can pump yourself full of awesomely destructive power. BioShock: Infinite is shaping up to the game of the century, taking the action out of the Rapture’s undersea sideshow to the carnival of chaos Irrational have put together above ground

 

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