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Final Fantasy

• japanese
• adventure
• JRPG
• RolePlaying

The eponymous first game in the series, published in 1987, was conceived by Sakaguchi as his last-ditch effort in the game industry; the title was a success and spawned sequels. Plots center on a group of heroes battling a great evil while exploring the characters' internal struggles and relationships....

Twisted Metal

• VehicularCombat
• combat
• vehicle

As of October 31, 2000 the series has sold 5 million copies. Seven of the games were re-released as part of the Sony Greatest Hits program. In concept, Twisted Metal is a demolition derby that permits the usage of ballistic projectiles, machine guns, mines, and other types of weapons . In almost all...

Grand Theft Auto

• racing
• Shooter

Grand Theft Auto is an open world action-adventure video game series created by David Jones and Mike Dailly; the later titles of which were created by brothers Dan and Sam Houser, Leslie Benzies and Aaron Garbut. The series also has elements of the earlier beat 'em up games from the 16-bit era. The third...

Gran Turismo

• racing
• Simulation

Gran Turismo is a racing game designed by Kazunori Yamauchi and is the first entry in the critically acclaimed simulator racing series bearing the same name. After five years of development time, it was well-received publicly and critically, shipping a total of 10.85 million copies worldwide as of March...

Final Fantasy Tactics

• Strategy
• RolePlaying

It is the first game of the Final Fantasy Tactics series and was released in Japan in June 1997 and in the United States in January 1998. The game's story follows Ramza Beoulve, a highborn cadet who finds himself thrust into the middle of an intricate military conflict known as The Lion War, where two...

Shin Megami Tensei

• RolePlaying

It is the third game in the Megami Tensei series and the first in the central Shin Megami Tensei series. Transported with two other supporting characters thirty years into the future, the protagonist finds the Earth ruined by a demon invasion, which is now the stage for an escalating conflict between...

Tomb Raider

• Platform
• Shooter

Adventurer Lara Croft has been hired to recover the pieces of an ancient artifact known as the Scion. With her fearless acrobatic style she runs, jumps, swims and climbs her way towards the truth of its origin and powers - leaving only a trail of empty tombs and gun-cartridges in her wake.

South Park

• FirstPerson
• Shooter

In 2013, TV Guide ranked South Park the tenth Greatest TV Cartoon of All Time. The show follows the exploits of four boys, Stan Marsh, Kyle Broflovski, Eric Cartman and Kenny McCormick. The boys live in the fictional small town of South Park, located within the real-life South Park basin in the Rocky...

Metal Gear Solid

• adventure
• Stealth
• Strategy

Metal Gear Solid follows Solid Snake, a soldier who infiltrates a nuclear weapons facility to neutralize the terrorist threat from FOXHOUND, a renegade special forces unit. Snake must liberate two hostages, the head of DARPA and the president of a major arms manufacturer, confront the terrorists, and...

Dark Forces

• FirstPerson
• Shooter

The story is set in the fictional Star Wars expanded universe and begins shortly before the original Star Wars film, before flashing forward to a year after the film's events. The game's protagonist and playable character is Kyle Katarn, a mercenary working on behalf of the Rebel Alliance who discovers...

Final Fantasy Vii

It is the seventh main installment in the Final Fantasy series. Events send Cloud and his allies in pursuit of Sephiroth, a former member of the corporation who seeks to destroy the planet. During the journey, Cloud builds close friendships with his party members, including Aerith Gainsborough, who holds...

Diablo

• RolePlaying

Road Rage

A futuristic racing game from Konami that takes place in Neo Kobe City, the setting for Snatcher.

Ghost In The Shell

• Shooter

This is a cyberpunk-themed third-person shooter video game developed by Exact and Production I.G for the PlayStation. The game plot revolves around a recruit of Public Security Section 9 as he investigates and combats the Human Liberation Front. The player controls a Fuchikoma, a robotic fighting vehicle...

Resident Evil 2

• Horror
• Horror

Developed by Capcom as the second installment in the Resident Evil series, its story takes place two months after the events of the first game, Resident Evil. The initial version of the game, commonly referred to as Resident Evil 1.5, differed drastically from the released product and was scrapped at...

Tekken

• Fighting

Beginning with the original Tekken in 1994, the series has received several sequels as well as updates and spin-off titles. After beating the game with each character, an ending cutscene is unlocked and usually one of the endings from each game becomes the continuation of the story into the following...

Guilty Gear

• adventure
• Fighting

Guilty Gear is a series of competitive fighting games by Arc System Works and designed by artist Daisuke Ishiwatari. Guilty Gear consists primarily of one-on-one competitive battles. Depleting a player's life gauge decreased their stock of souls and temporarily incapacitated them, and each remaining...

Saga Frontier 2

• RolePlaying

Shape History or Be History Select and control decisive moments during decades of royal conflict. Magic, revenge, and assassination will all play a part in determining who will obtain the country and the crown. -Create a unique history with Multi-Scenario System -Influence a variety of characters...

Dynasty Warriors

• Fighting

Dynasty Warriors is a series of tactical action video games created by Omega Force and Koei. The first game titled Dynasty Warriors, Sangokumusō in Japan, is a fighting game and different from the rest of the series. This game was released in other countries as Dynasty Warriors 2, leading to the discrepancy...

RPG Maker

• RolePlaying

RPG Maker, known in Japan as RPG Tsukūru , is the name of a series of programs for the development of role-playing games first created by the Japanese group ASCII, then succeeded by Enterbrain. Most versions include a tile set based map editor , a simple scripting language for scripting events, and...

Spider Man

Created by writer-editor Stan Lee and artist Steve Ditko, he first appeared in the anthology comic book Amazing Fantasy #15 in the Silver Age of Comic Books. Initially, Peter was depicted as a teenage high school student and an orphan raised by his Aunt May and Uncle Ben in New York City after his parents...

Tekken 2

• Fighting

Tekken 2 is the second installment in the Tekken fighting game series. There are ten playable characters in the game's arcade version and up to twenty-five fighters, including eight new ones in the console version. Distinct additions included attack reversals for some characters, back throws, chain-throws,...

Hogs Of War

• Tactical
• Artillery
• Strategy
• TurnBased

Hogs of War is a turn-based tactics video game developed by Infogrames Studios and published by Infogrames Europe, released for the PlayStation and PC in 2000 for Europe on June 6 and North America on September 5. The tune for the game is John Philip Sousa's Liberty Bell March. The gameplay of Hogs of...

Tony Hawk's Pro Skater

• Sports

Published by Activision in 1999, it is the first entry in the Tony Hawk's series of video games. It also received a Game Boy Color adaptation, and was released for Xbox in 2001 as part of the Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 2x collection. The point value of the trick is based on time maintained, degrees rotated,...