God Eater

God Eater On paper, God Eater sounds like little more than a quick and dirty Monster Hunter clone. You team up with a few buddies, head out into the world, take on some enormous beasties, and pocket the loot for later. But God Eater’s ostentatious gun-wielding action play is far faster than Monster Hunter’s lumbering progress. And its dramatic, futuristic sci-fi tale of human survival is a lot more interesting than Capcom’s loose fantasy drivel. In fact, alongside a fully featured four-player online game, God Eater promises to be just as fun alone, with non player characters complemented by full voice acting. God Eater came out yonks ago in Japan, hitting the east to critical - but not so much commercial - acclaim in February of 2010. But it’s taken all year to find a publisher willing to try the game on American and European audiences, after Japan’s wildly successful Monster Hunter games flopped so hard abroad. D3 Publisher has taken the helm, and will release God Eater in March. The PSP is on its way out. The powerful little handheld had a good run, proving that jaw dropping visuals and immersive console-like experiences still get thumbs twitching on lengthy train journeys and brain numbing camping trips. But it’s on its last legs. In 2011, the portable will likely slink into retirement as Sony announces the console’s successor, the heavily rumoured PSP 2, which might just have two analogue sticks, ten touchscreens, PS3 quality graphics, and a petting zoo under its memory card flap. Couple that with the fabled PlayStation Phone, an Android blower with high quality games, and the PSP is dead. But the little handheld that could has had a good last year, pumping out some impressive games that will help define the platform when the history books swing around to Sony’s foray into the handheld space. Here are just ten games that set the PSP on fire this year, probably the last year of the PSP’s heyday.