This is the best time of the year, which can only mean one thing: in the land of movies, people have spent many years immersed in complete nonsense about whether Die Hard is a Christmas movie. . (No, but it’s a great movie with Christmas as the background-so you can watch it at Christmas. Okay?) But what is the equivalent of a video game?
We started thinking about this problem and couldn’t stop, because we like to think about things that are completely stupid and meaningless. So as we enter the holiday season, here are some of the best Christmas video games we have selected-that is, games that feature or have a holiday background. This is not an exhaustive list, just our favorites-please feel free to express your thoughts in the comments.
Rise of death 4
Although it is undoubtedly the worst game in the series, Rise of the Dead 4 is still an absolutely good video game-it may be one of the best games that uses the energy and decorations of Christmas to enhance its background. one. Although technically it happened some time after Christmas, after the Black Friday during the DR4 event, before Christmas, the town of Wilamette was frozen, and the zombie outbreak happened in the middle of the holiday.
Dressed up for Christmas everywhere, the game has a diehard approach to its season, often using traditional Christmas tunes. What is more festive than defeating a zombie with a candy cane to the second death?
Spider-Man: Miles Morales
The newest game on this list, the Miles Morales game and the main Insomniac Spider-Man one of the main ways to distinguish it is to set it at Christmas-giving designers an excuse to mix the look of New York. It may be the same map, but now it has all the holiday decorations!
Holidays have only the slightest impact on the theme of the game, but swing on the brightly lit streets, because Miles must have a festive atmosphere. If you haven’t played this yet, the holidays may be the ideal time.
Batman Arkham Origins
What can make people spend Christmas more than having a challenging night, where many old acquaintances come out of the wooden products and cause you a lot of trouble? This is Christmas Eve for every bar in the entire land, and another night for Batman in Gotham. This is the content of almost all Batman Arkham games, but the prequel title, origin, is actually set on Christmas Eve.
Gotham City is not the most festive city even when it is snowy and set up for the holidays, but, you know, it’s actually Christmas. So it entered the list.
If you want more Batman, by the way, the movie collocation of Batman Returns is also set at Christmas, just like its movie of the same name. However, to play it, you must dig out SNES, Mega Drive, or other game consoles of that era.
Killer 2016
Well, this is just a level, it is not even an all-original level-but it is a good level. The “Hitman” restarted in 2016 features “holiday hoarders”, which is a free additional level with the task of letting Agent 47 eliminate two professional thieves. The whole mission refers to Home Alone, which is a classic movie in itself.
This special Christmas stage is set on one of the current cards of Killer 2016, but the map has been adjusted and adjusted to give it a festive atmosphere. In addition to being able to play in Hitman 2016 itself, you can of course also use the compatibility of the trilogy to play it in newer games.
Elf Bowling
Does anyone else remember this? I mentioned this on the iGamesNews podcast a few months ago, and Tom mocked me mercilessly for it. Elf Bowling, released in 1998, is a low-rent PC game in which Santa Claus forces his elves to act as living bowling pins and performs terrible abuses on his employees. Man, those people should unite! (Should we not all be?)
Wikipedia told me that the DS and GBA ports of Elf Bowling received “overwhelmingly negative reviews”, but my main memory of this game is that it took over my school’s computer; for a while everyone was playing Elf bowling is addictive because it is stupid, and because elves do rude things, such as swearing to Santa Claus or showing off their ass.
While playing, maybe you can watch movie derivatives? Elf Bowling Movie: The Great Arctic Elf Strikes. Its average IMDB review score is 1.9/10!
Bayonet 2
Although we are all patiently waiting for the release of Bayonetta 3, it is important to remember that Bayonetta 2 is not only good, but also a Christmas game-at least as Die Hard is a Christmas movie, the decorations used this season are very light , Because it is set up a period of time before Christmas, until around the New Year.
If you want, you can also put some beautiful Christm as costumes into it.
Christmas Eve is a dream
hear. The fact is, I actually think NiGHTS is a bit rubbish. I think this is the first game where you really start to see the cracks in Sonic Team, and in our Lord’s Year in 2021, it’s hard not to compare certain aspects of the game introduction with this year’s disastrous Balan Wonderland. Of course it was created and directed by the same person. But I digress. Some people really like NiGHTS, so it’s just like that.
Although I am not very satisfied with the overall quality of NiGHTS, the Christmas version of the game released as a free bonus is quite good. At its core is Christmas, where you work hard to unlock “gifts” and even have to place a star on the top of the tree. One of the gifts is that the playable Sonic the Hedgehog enters the stage of dreams, which on Saturn is like a divine appearance of what 3D Sonic might look like.
Christmas NiGHTS is included in the Xbox 360 port of the main NiGHTS, and it happens to be backward compatible with all modern Xbox consoles.
Parasite Eve
If you want to extend the feeling of Halloween a little bit to Christmas, consider studying the classic PS1 type mix and match Parasite Eve. Part horror game, part action role-playing game, it is actually adapted from a Japanese horror novel, and tracks the protagonist Aya Brea through a complete hell on Christmas Eve.
Don’t bother with the latest game in this series, the third birthday-although it is also set during the holidays, it is a real turkey, not a good way to holiday. But the original “Parasite Eve” is very exciting, it is characterized by hundreds of spontaneous openings. Christmas Eve arrived, and hundreds of people were burned to death from nowhere! happy Holidays!
Bully
Rockstar’s Bully takes place throughout the school year, including Christmas of course. Obviously, there are many games that do this, and it’s usually just a verbal service in the background-but in Bully, Christmas is actually important and is one of the pillars of the game chapter.
Bullworth is a boarding school, so most children don’t go home for Christmas. The school and the surrounding towns are fully furnished for Christmas. It does have a pretty good holiday atmosphere, even if you are not good at it.
Shenmue
Following what we said to Bully, another advance calendar game featuring Christmas is Shenmue. Although having a murdered father and desire for revenge does not make people feel very happy, but in this game, there is a man with a bad voice walking around as Santa Claus on Christmas Eve. That must count.
Donkey Kong 3: King Kong’s Double Trouble
There isn’t much Christmas about monkeys and tropical islands, but if you’ve played this game during Christmas, there’s a neat little Easter egg in this game-it’s still an excellent platform game. Well supported, so it’s worth your time.
On the file selection screen, enter “Merry” as the file name. Start the game. It will play as usual, but every time you enter the reward phase, it will now have Christmas themed music, and the collectibles you are after become bells and gifts. Festive! This applies to GBA and SNES versions.
Die Hard Trilogy
If you really want to go to Yuan, how about this one? Dig out the PS1 and play this one. This is one of the best movie-based video games of all time-basically three games in one. The original “Dead Hard” had a third-person shooter, “Dead Hard 2” is a railroad shooting game, and “Dead Hard 3” is a driving game. Of course, only the first two of them are set for Christmas, so for the purposes of this article, forget the latter.
The fact is, these games are less like Christmas than movies. I’m pretty sure the developers have completely forgotten that the background of the first two “Dead Hard” movies is Christmas; you work on many floors of Nakatomi Plaza and hardly mention holidays. But it does have a voice actor imitating Bruce Willis, it is called “die hard”-so play it, and then yell to anyone who listens to its “Christmas game” on Twitter Yelling, isn’t it?
Table of Contents
