The gaming public on the whole knew very little about Pure before its release this year but after 20 minutes alone with it in Leipzig in August, we knew we had a great game on our hands.

Lost Odyssey was a game next to little or no hype. Sure, it was on a few radars because of the whole Hironobu Sakaguchi factor, but it was never built up in the slightest. In hindsight, if it would have been, Microsoft would have had an impressive impressive new RPG and some decent sales figures to match, yet on the whole, it failed to make much of an impact.

Mirror’s Edge may not have hit home on the sales front and actually sold quite poorly despite a more than positive response from most reviewers, yet it still ranks quite highly as one of our new IPs of the year.

The parkour, action-adventure title from Swedish veterans DICE, was a fresh and innovative title that was liberating and gave the player a sense of freedom as they scaled the rooftops of a totalitarian society as a “runner”. Lush, bright environments with a great story meant that Mirror’s Edge is a great addition to EA and DICE’s catalogue.

Who’d have thought EA would have had two of their titles sitting in a Top 5 original IP feature ... 2 years ago, we would have said, April Fools or something to that effect, but truth be told ... EA are a changing company and Mirror’s Edge and Dead Space are their two indications of that.

The premise of Left 4 Dead isn’t really that original; survive the zombie apocalypse, but quite simply put; it is original because no one else hasn’t tried it. You’ve got to ask yourself why though, and the most probable answer is more than likely going to be that it’s incredibly hard to pull off something that isn’t scripted, offering a worthwhile experience.