With the current cycle of consoles winding down and the gaming industry in some turmoil, now might be a good time to appreciate what we already have. So we’ve come up with our pick of the 30 greatest video games ever made. Any time you spend with them is time well spent.
A racing sim with a focus on physics-based realism, Gran Turismo became a somewhat unlikely flagship series for Sony. The original was a cultural sensation, a game unlike anything anyone had seen at the time. In 1998 we were living in the future.
The lighter tone of Final Fantasy IX felt like a breath of fresh air after the po-faced seriousness of its predecessor. Following a ragtag group of bandits caught between two nations at war, it is a whimsical, medieval delight.
With the whole of Arkham City to explore, the Batmobile on call and every gadget under the sun at your disposal, this is the ultimate superhero fantasy. And how is it possible that a title released 15 years ago looks better than most games today?
Is it acceptable to let children play a game where you punch, stab, kick and headbutt wave after wave of punk drug dealers through the seedy streets of a lawless city? In the 1990s it was.
