{"id":10573,"date":"2023-07-03T11:37:25","date_gmt":"2023-07-03T09:37:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/07\/03\/you-can-play-it-for-five-minutes-or-play-it-for-five-hours-guardian-readers-best-games-of-2023-so-far\/"},"modified":"2023-07-03T11:37:25","modified_gmt":"2023-07-03T09:37:25","slug":"you-can-play-it-for-five-minutes-or-play-it-for-five-hours-guardian-readers-best-games-of-2023-so-far","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/07\/03\/you-can-play-it-for-five-minutes-or-play-it-for-five-hours-guardian-readers-best-games-of-2023-so-far\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018You can play it for five minutes or play it for five hours\u2019: Guardian readers\u2019 best games of 2023 so far"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From new iterations of Street Fighter, Diablo and Zelda to modern takes on 80s arcades and an evil pizza atop a pizza tower, readers share their picks<\/p>\n<p>This is a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/games\/2023\/mar\/17\/resident-evil-4-remake-review-beautiful-tense-camp-gory-all-thats-best-about-the-series\">2023 remake<\/a> of the game that got me into action games in 2005. Third-person over the shoulder shooters were new then and the action genre started appealing to me for the first time. It now has a modern polish and atmosphere steeped in dread along with, at last, controls that don\u2019t make you feel like you\u2019re stuck in a tank. Leon is as goofy and dashing as ever and the blood and gore is dialled up to 11. It is smooth, slick, sick and just a fantastic experience. I haven\u2019t enjoyed a shooter this much since Resident Evil 4. <strong>Leslie, 37, Manchester<\/strong><\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/games\/2023\/jul\/03\/guardian-readers-best-games-of-2023-street-fighter-diablo-zelda\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/ea5f1b2e997e617eccb5965d46bbe4adc3fc2e67\/120_0_1800_1080\/master\/1800.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=689c0d24b02439c2d61b8457221fa82b\" title=\"\u2018You can play it for five minutes or play it for five hours\u2019: Guardian readers\u2019 best games of 2023 so far\" \/>From new iterations of Street Fighter, Diablo and Zelda to modern takes on 80s arcades and an evil pizza atop a pizza tower, readers share their picks<br \/>\nThis is a 2023 remake of the game that got me into action games in 2005. Third-person over the shoulder shooters were new then and the action genre started appealing to me for the first time. It now has a modern polish and atmosphere steeped in dread along with, at last, controls that don\u2019t make you feel like you\u2019re stuck in a tank. Leon is as goofy and dashing as ever and the blood and gore is dialled up to 11. It is smooth, slick, sick and just a fantastic experience. I haven\u2019t enjoyed a shooter this much since Resident Evil 4. Leslie, 37, Manchester Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From new iterations of Street Fighter, Diablo and Zelda to modern takes on 80s arcades and an evil pizza atop a pizza tower, readers share their picks This is a 2023 remake of the game that got me into action games in 2005. Third-person over the shoulder shooters were new then and the action genre &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/07\/03\/you-can-play-it-for-five-minutes-or-play-it-for-five-hours-guardian-readers-best-games-of-2023-so-far\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">\u2018You can play it for five minutes or play it for five hours\u2019: Guardian readers\u2019 best games of 2023 so far<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":10574,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10573"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10573"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10573\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10574"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}