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John Carpenter's Top Six Games of 2013

The Horror Master himself lets us know what games he enjoyed most this past year.

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John Carpenter has made a number of the Giant Bomb staff's favorite movies--Big Trouble In Little China, The Thing, and They Live, just to name a few. Earlier this year, we discovered that Carpenter had taken to tweeting about video games semi-frequently, and Patrick got it in his head that he'd like to try and interview the man about his interest in the medium. The resulting interview also got us thinking that maybe, just maybe, Carpenter might like to submit his own list for this year's special guest Top 10s. Not necessarily expecting him to oblige, we reached out, and were quickly rewarded with a short, but intriguing list of the director's favorites. Below is the unedited list he was kind enough to send us.

John Carpenter's Best Video Games of 2013

1. ASSASSIN'S CREED IV: BLACK FLAG - Classic ASSASSIN'S CREED gameplay, awesome world, fabulous game.

2. FAR CRY 3 - Magnificent open world adventure

3. THE LAST OF US - Great characters make this a classic

4. DEAD SPACE 3 - Scary snow world and twitching monsters - Please dismember

5. REMEMBER ME - Unique female leading character in futuristic action game

6. BORDERLANDS 2 - I know, I know, it's from 2012, but the last add-on is this year and this is a brilliant, funny, action-blasted game! My favorite!

John Carpenter

Thanks, John.

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@hollitz: speaking of The Thing and this has got hardly anything to do with video games, but there is a The Thing short story about the event in The Thing from The Thing's point of view. it's called The Things and it's written by award winning biologist-gone-hard-scifi-author Peter Watts and it's free to read here http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/watts_01_10/. Watts would later write Crysis: Legion, which i haven't read, but if you want more by him i suggest Blindsight and the Rifters trilogy (all four books are free on his website). sorry, this was a complete tangent, but the more you know and stuff.

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Still no answer to if Kurt Russell is any good at FPSes or not.

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John Carpenter's appreciation for Assassin's Creed makes me happy.