Metal Gear Solid

Release Date: 1998 Platform: PC, PS1 Developer: Konami Genre: Stealth When designer Hideo Kojima brought his Metal Gear series to PlayStation, he did more than just kick-start the most popular stealth franchise in gaming history. He began a conversation that continues today, sharing his fears of nuclear holocaust, his distrust of the industrial-military complex, his love...

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The Legend Of Zelda: Oracle of Seasons/Ages

Release Date: 2001 Platform: Game Boy Colour Developer: Capcom Genre: Action / Adventure The follow-up to the Game Boy's brilliant The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening was always going to have its work cut out, even before you consider that, for the first time, third-party developers were handling the most delicate of Nintendo's children. And although Capcom can't compete...

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Jak and Daxter: The Precursor Legacy

Release Date: 2001 Platform: PlayStation 2 Developer: Naughty Dog Genre: Platformer Jak and Daxter's own precursor was Crash Bandicoot, a character who became something of a mascot for the original PlayStation and an example of Naughty Dog's technical skills. Jak and Daxter: The Precursor Legacy is similarly demonstrative of the developer's talents when it comes to character...

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Super Mario 64

Release Date: 1996 Platform: N64 Developer: Nintendo Genre: Platform Mario would seem to have come to the end of his natural life as games embraced the third dimension. Nintendo's mascot was getting on a bit, and he was so emphatically linked to the suddenly rather tired world of two-dimensional scrolling that many fans suspected either retirement or, worse, irrelevance...

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Battlefield 1942

Release Date: 2002 Platform: PC, Mac Developer: Digital Illusions CE Genre: First-Person Shooter Battlefield 1942 puts intelligence into multiplayer team-based shooters. PC players had been ganging up since Half-Life Team Fortress, and limited coordination was hinted at as early as Starsiege: Tribes. But by placing multiclassed team combatants within cunningly designed...

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Age Of Mythology

Release Date: 2002 Platform: PC, Mac Developer: Ensemble Studios Genre: Strategy Ensemble didn't take risks. It didn't have to. From the moment the historical strategy game Age Of Empires launched in 1997, its course was set: It would be king of real-time strategy, absurdly successful, regardless of whatever naysayers might claim about the PC and Mac platforms. The studios...

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The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind

Release Date: 2002 Platform: PC, Xbox Developer: Bethesda Game Studios Genre: Action/Role-Playing The Elder Scrolls games are best known for the fourth chapter in the series, Oblivion, released in 2006. In comparison,The Elder Scroll's Morrowind is altogether more of a curate's egg, neither as commercially successful nor critically applauded as it's successor....

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