This game looks great in 4K on any screen, especially the big screen.
While there’s of course press to sink tough shots, save par and hold your position on the leaderboard, there’s something so tranquil about 2K Sports’ golf sim PGA Tour 2K21. Platform: Stadia | Review scores: Metacric 74%, OpenCritic 76% PGA Tour 2k21 PGA Tour 2K21| image courtesy of 2k Sports Codemaster’s Nemesis system programs the AI to seek wreckless vengeance if you hit a drive too often.Īlso, consider bringing a racing wheel along for this one, though veterans of racing games are likely to find gamepads more than adequate for this racer. The AI is better in GRID than in some of the previous games, but you really want to avoid angering your AI rivals.
The series mainstay Flashback feature gives you a few chances to rewind after a significant mistake and course correct. GRID is yet another racing game that shines in 4K on Stadia, but this racing simulator with lots of little arcady safety nets to keep you on the road and in the action. Review scores: Metacritic 63%, OpenCritic 65% GRID (Stadia) GRID | Image Courtesy of Codemastersĭon’t get caught staring.
While it’s not a “tock” year graphically for the cloud and PC ports, the in-game cinematics of Madden 21 looks phenomenal in 4K on Stadia. The headlining feature this year is the expansion of superstar and X-Factor abilities, the latter of which is more disruptive and only unleashed after hitting certain on-the-field objectives. It’s an annualized franchise with “tick” and “tock” years. Yet, it’s one of the essential sports titles that needed to come to the cloud in order to have any chance of getting a certain segment of gamers to make the cloud their platform of choice. It can be a divisive game, even among its core community.
Madden NFL 21 (Stadia) Madden NFL 21 | Image courtesy of EA Sports Here’s a list of eight of the best sports games in cloud gaming. Yes, FIFA still hasn’t made it to the cloud, but there are a lot of good sports games already on Google Stadia and NVidia Geforce Now. It’s also one more reason for potential or existing cloud gaming convert to make the cloud their primary gaming platform. 2021, it was yet another indicator that cloud gaming is here to stay. With EA’s longstanding Madden franchise finally launching on Google Stadia in Jan.