I really enjoyed the recently released game Bioshock: Infinite. It's a pretty linear FPS but it has a fun and fairly original story (or at least a story that combines familiar tropes in an original way), powerfully presented (if somewhat heavy-handed) themes, beautiful graphics, a fun companion character, and often exhilarating battles.
It's occasionally a bit inconsistent, perhaps symptomatic of a troubled development process (apparently they threw away a lot of material and rewrote some parts of the story considerably), but overall I'd say it's one of the best story-driven games I've played.
I enjoyed the game, but it is rather violent (meet interesting people and kill them!) and I didn't like the ending. (Basically, the more you understand about physics and causality and so on, the less you'll like the ending. No joy in the merely real here.)
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