10 Most Anticipated Games of 2008

Let's face it: 2007 was a bumper year for gamers, no matter what platform or genre you're into. But the New Year is a time to look forward, and all signs indicate that this year's going to be even better. Here are the 10 games we're most anticipating in 2008, from Grand Theft Auto to Fallout 3, complete with the hottest video clips for each one. By the time you reach the end, expect to make your New Year's resolution the same as ours: play more games.

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Grand Theft Auto IV

Yeah, so we all thought we'd be playing it by now. But Rockstar had other ideas, delaying the release of the latest in their smash hit series until...well, sometime in 2008. Best guesses right now put it hitting streets sometime in March, but the notoriously secretive dev studio isn't telling. Regardless of when it comes out, it'll take place in a redesigned Liberty City, which bears a startling resemblance to New York, and will do something with multiplayer, but nobody knows what. Check out the trailers and our previews, and you'll pretty much know about as much as anyone does about this upcoming headline-maker.

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Smash Bros Brawl

Another title that we were expecting to have been playing by now, Nintendo's flagship beat-'em-up Smash Bros. Brawl is easily at the top of the 08 list for Wii owners. It features a bewildering assortment of playable characters from just about any Nintendo franchise you care to mention - and, for the first time in the series, some favorites from other developers. Set for release on February 10, it's bound to be one of the biggest debuts of the year.

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Gran Turismo 5 Prologue

Coming February 19, Prologue brings the spectacularly successful Gran Turismo series to the PlayStation 3. Depending on your perspective, it's either a very long demo or a very short game; featuring a comparatively miserly 37 cars and 10 tracks, it will be followed (eventually) by a full version of Gran Turismo 5 with way, way more content. Still, if you're looking for a decent driving game for your PS3 - and who isn't? - Prologue is bound to deliver, and thanks to its curbed nature we're expecting it to sell via download from the PlayStation Store at a suitably trimmed price.

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Metal Gear Solid 4

Bringing Hideo Kojima's inimitable brand of madness to the PlayStation 3, Metal Gear Solid 4 is guaranteed to be a huge hit. This installment is said to be the last one to feature traditional lead Solid Snake, and the last to be directed by Kojima himself, but we've heard that one before. Either way, the game is set in 2014, and sees Snake traveling to a variety of locations around the world to take on a series of increasingly unlikely-named foes. All your favorite characters return, Snake's kitted out with a tantalizing range of new toys, and the graphical polish is delicious. Watch for it around the spring.

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Halo Wars

Halo 3 marked the end of the Master Chief's saga, but Microsoft's not one to let a good idea alone. Ensemble Studios, developer of the acclaimed Age of Empires series, is hard at work bringing the Halo universe to the real-time strategy world, and has chosen the time period before the original Halo game as the setting for its new Xbox 360 game. Despite plenty of commendable attempts, real-time strategy games on consoles have never quite had enough momentum to make the big time, but the Halo name could well give this one the extra push it needs.

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