1) The Art of The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
Improves what we saw in the original trilogy artbooks. It's a breathtaking weta stuff!!

2) The Art of Mass Effect Trilogy
Massive character desings & superb drawing style, simply outstanding!!

3) The Art of Halo 4: Awakening
The 343 studio concept artist have had a hard work in expanding the Halo universe
and they've done it extremely well!

I probably have choosen them because of being a fan of the franchises, but overall
it has been an amazing year for artbooks: Gears of War 3, Assassins 3, FZD, Massive
Black 2, Expose 10... really epic!!