10.0
2011′s Best Free-to-Play Game
Free-To-Play has become a larger theme in the past few years, with more and more companies attempting to get their products out to the mass market, giving players a good experience while asking them to pay a little for an even better one. It’s a devious system, but an enjoyable one. World of Tanks, despite the funny name, gave us an incredibly well-designed multiplayer with a smart and methodical, yet still mindlessly enjoyable, way of blowing crap up. League of Legends continues to update repeatedly, improving its features and adding more and more heroes to set it further apart from the game that inspired it. However, as Steam helped the advent of free-to-play come into the spotlight this year, Valve came out with guns blazing by making one of their most beloved games, Team Fortress 2, free-to-play. Team Fortress 2 has remained the fun experience that it was in 2007, but with even more options and more ways to play with customizable item sets. Does the minimalistic cartoon world get a bit cluttered by hats of every color and weird weapons taking up every corner? Yes, that can occasionally be the case. However, the sheer amount of variety and balance from such a simple concept keeps TF2 as a premire FPS title, and one of the finest online multiplayer experiences out there. It being free is just the icing on the cake.
Honorable Mention: League of Legends and World of Tanks
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