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We have been blessed with some absolute scorching hot games over time, with many games proving to be true classics, and some proving to be complete rubbish, but there have definitely been at least 10 fantastic games within the last few years, here are my favourites:
10) Dungeon Keeper:
Take the evil side for a change - control a dungeon of foul beasts, some fight for you some against - it's an old game now, but a very original and exciting - highly addictive title, really impressive gameplay, looks old now, but it's worth the £5 you'll probably pick it up for.
9) Samba De Amigo:
It's a great laugh - dancing to some super duper latin tunes - La Bamba, Livin La Vie Da Loca, and loads loads more - it's a superb game that uses maracas and a dance mat - shake your stuff to the beat, following blue discs on screen - brilliant fun, hard work, but really innovative and playable.
8) FIFA 2000:
Far, far better than Fifa 2001, Fifa 2000 is one of the best football games on the PlayStation, it has superb gameplay, easy controls, nice graphics and is of course all officially licenced. Great game, it's one of my fave's. Good commentary too!
7) Track and Field:
I've always been impressed by the Konami titles, and the Track and Field games on the original PlayStation are the best around - superb graphics, pushing the PSX to the boundaries, and housing superb gameplay. Great selection of events, nice sound and presentation, it's a four player brilliant title.
6) ChuChu Rocket:
The idea of the game is to guide as many mice to your coloured rocket before the time runs out! Beware of the cats as they’ll eat the mice and deduct 30% of your total score! You have to place arrows to alter the course of these funny little creatures – sometimes guiding them into your opponents’ rocket! Loads of modes - online play, four player action and a decent one player mode too. It's a gaming marvel!! Best puzzle game on DC I feel.
5) Tekken 3:
One of the best fighting games of all time, Namco's Tekken 3 is a brilliant and addictive visual feast - I know this game has been knocking around for some time, but you won't find many games better than Tekken 3 - even Tekken Tag Tournament on the new PS2 doesn't really match the brilliance of Tekken 3! It's a truly classic Namco production and is still one of my all time favourites!
4) Gran Turismo 2:
Gran Turismo 2 is another Playstation must have! It’s like the first one, but better somehow! The graphics have been ‘slightly’ improved although nothing major has changed in terms of visual detail. I have owned both games and can tell you that the 2nd is a slightly better game, but there isn’t much in it. You can now choose which wheels you have, and there is a much wider range of cars and tracks, but both games are brilliant. Great cars, great tracks. Brilliant. Racing game of the decade.
3) Champ Man 3:
The greatest manager game of all time - loads of players, teams and incredibly huge and accurate. The game has so many brilliant features and details which all add to making this one my favourite game. I am constantly on it and I hope you will agree that this is a truely superb game. If you have not heard of this, firstly where have you been!?! Secondly, go and buy it! You won't be disappointed.
2) Metal Gear Solid:
One of the main reasons that I like this game is that it involves a lot of skill and thinking to progress in. You have to listen to clues given by characters within the game and these give you advice about what to do next e.g. At one point you are told that you have to meet up with a women and there is only one place that you can do this on the all-male base. This helps you to work out that you have to meet up with her in the female toilets. It is touches like this, which I find set this game apart from most others that I have played on the Playstation. Brilliant graphic and a gripping story - outclasses most PSX games.
1) Virtua Tennis:
Best tennis game ever, best four player game on anything - Virtua Tennis has spectacular graphics - each of the 8 Virtual real life players featured in the game resemble the actual tennis stars - the detail is amazing, everything is so impressive! It's been transported to Dreamcast from the arcades, and this Tennis smash hit, made by HitMaker (an 'in-house' Sega division) has been critically acclaimed by many for its superb game play as well as graphics. Easy controls.
Stunning.
Thanks
J
10) Dungeon Keeper:
Take the evil side for a change - control a dungeon of foul beasts, some fight for you some against - it's an old game now, but a very original and exciting - highly addictive title, really impressive gameplay, looks old now, but it's worth the £5 you'll probably pick it up for.
9) Samba De Amigo:
It's a great laugh - dancing to some super duper latin tunes - La Bamba, Livin La Vie Da Loca, and loads loads more - it's a superb game that uses maracas and a dance mat - shake your stuff to the beat, following blue discs on screen - brilliant fun, hard work, but really innovative and playable.
8) FIFA 2000:
Far, far better than Fifa 2001, Fifa 2000 is one of the best football games on the PlayStation, it has superb gameplay, easy controls, nice graphics and is of course all officially licenced. Great game, it's one of my fave's. Good commentary too!
7) Track and Field:
I've always been impressed by the Konami titles, and the Track and Field games on the original PlayStation are the best around - superb graphics, pushing the PSX to the boundaries, and housing superb gameplay. Great selection of events, nice sound and presentation, it's a four player brilliant title.
6) ChuChu Rocket:
The idea of the game is to guide as many mice to your coloured rocket before the time runs out! Beware of the cats as they’ll eat the mice and deduct 30% of your total score! You have to place arrows to alter the course of these funny little creatures – sometimes guiding them into your opponents’ rocket! Loads of modes - online play, four player action and a decent one player mode too. It's a gaming marvel!! Best puzzle game on DC I feel.
5) Tekken 3:
One of the best fighting games of all time, Namco's Tekken 3 is a brilliant and addictive visual feast - I know this game has been knocking around for some time, but you won't find many games better than Tekken 3 - even Tekken Tag Tournament on the new PS2 doesn't really match the brilliance of Tekken 3! It's a truly classic Namco production and is still one of my all time favourites!
4) Gran Turismo 2:
Gran Turismo 2 is another Playstation must have! It’s like the first one, but better somehow! The graphics have been ‘slightly’ improved although nothing major has changed in terms of visual detail. I have owned both games and can tell you that the 2nd is a slightly better game, but there isn’t much in it. You can now choose which wheels you have, and there is a much wider range of cars and tracks, but both games are brilliant. Great cars, great tracks. Brilliant. Racing game of the decade.
3) Champ Man 3:
The greatest manager game of all time - loads of players, teams and incredibly huge and accurate. The game has so many brilliant features and details which all add to making this one my favourite game. I am constantly on it and I hope you will agree that this is a truely superb game. If you have not heard of this, firstly where have you been!?! Secondly, go and buy it! You won't be disappointed.
2) Metal Gear Solid:
One of the main reasons that I like this game is that it involves a lot of skill and thinking to progress in. You have to listen to clues given by characters within the game and these give you advice about what to do next e.g. At one point you are told that you have to meet up with a women and there is only one place that you can do this on the all-male base. This helps you to work out that you have to meet up with her in the female toilets. It is touches like this, which I find set this game apart from most others that I have played on the Playstation. Brilliant graphic and a gripping story - outclasses most PSX games.
1) Virtua Tennis:
Best tennis game ever, best four player game on anything - Virtua Tennis has spectacular graphics - each of the 8 Virtual real life players featured in the game resemble the actual tennis stars - the detail is amazing, everything is so impressive! It's been transported to Dreamcast from the arcades, and this Tennis smash hit, made by HitMaker (an 'in-house' Sega division) has been critically acclaimed by many for its superb game play as well as graphics. Easy controls.
Stunning.
Thanks
J
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10. Zelda: Majora's mask.
Although i never finished this game, i enjoyed it while i was playing it. In fact i think that i only beat the first boss then stopped playing it for absoloutly no reason at all. Still i would recommend this game to any N64 owner.
9. Goldeneye.
I never liked first person shoot em ups until i played this game, it was the on that turned me into a fan. I think the main reason I liked goldeneye as a first person shoot em up was because you actually shot people rather than monster and demons like in the doom games.
8. Mario 64.
This was the first game that i bought for the N64 and though i no longer own it i still have fond memories from playing it. I spent loads of time on this game collecting the coins and stars and eventually it all paid off when i collected the 120th star and went onto the castle roof to talk to yoshi only moments before he would leap off of the castle roof to a tragic death, or maybe not.
7. Mario Tennis.
Not really sure if this game should be in my top 10 of all time but here it is anyway, i think the reason for it being in is because i have been playing it a lot lately. Anyway it was great to find out that when you thought you had cleared the game, you actually hadn't as three more cups became availble to play in. Nintendo sure know how to reward theit fans.
6. ISS pro evolution.
Although i also have the N64 version of the game i found the Playstation one to be far more playable and challenging to play. A main advantage that it had over the N64 version was the master league, in this option you could win points to buy players and create your dream team. The graphics were great and nice features like ronaldo's blue boots and Roberto Carlos' famous free kick run up were added into the game, nice one konami.
5. Perfect Dark.
Although on the whole i didn't play this as much as i did goldeneye i have still put it higher simply because i enjoyed completing it more. The graphics were far better than goldeneye's and the playability was amazingly slightly better. The AI of the guards was far more advanced than that of the guards in goldeneye and they had more ways to die as the would fall off rooftops when shot or hold their necks when shot their, all in all an amazing one player and multiplayer game. It was practically two games in one as the multiplayer side of the game was also huge.
4. Super Smash brothers.
All of nintendos biggest stars were put into a game to battle it out against each other and i found it to be a really addictive game. The multiplayed side of the games was far better than the one player side but it was still an excellent game, that is why i have put it into my top 10.
3. Mario Kart 64.
This has made it into my top 10 because of all the hours of fun that i had playing on it with my brother and two cousins. We would play for hours on the multiplayer battle areanas and race tracks, truly a pure golded game.
2. Final Fantasy 7.
The only game in the series that i have played but the only reason that is so is because i have never really had the cash to buy any of the sequals. This game was a giant amongst games, it is one of the best games that i have ever had the privalege to play. No matter what words i use to describe this game it simply won't do it justice, so i won't even bother trying.
1. The legend of Zelda: Ocerina of time.
My favourite game of all time. The game was brilliant from start to finish and was packed full of great boss video sequences and interaction with other people. This game was eagerly anticipated by almost all N64 owners and lived up to everyones expectations, or at least mine anyway.
So then, there is my top 10. I can't be sure whether that would actually be the order they should go in but i guess that it will do. As you can see from the games i have chosen that my taste changes as technology gets better, you can tell this from the fact that all the games in the top 10 are fairly new. : )
Stick
Although i never finished this game, i enjoyed it while i was playing it. In fact i think that i only beat the first boss then stopped playing it for absoloutly no reason at all. Still i would recommend this game to any N64 owner.
9. Goldeneye.
I never liked first person shoot em ups until i played this game, it was the on that turned me into a fan. I think the main reason I liked goldeneye as a first person shoot em up was because you actually shot people rather than monster and demons like in the doom games.
8. Mario 64.
This was the first game that i bought for the N64 and though i no longer own it i still have fond memories from playing it. I spent loads of time on this game collecting the coins and stars and eventually it all paid off when i collected the 120th star and went onto the castle roof to talk to yoshi only moments before he would leap off of the castle roof to a tragic death, or maybe not.
7. Mario Tennis.
Not really sure if this game should be in my top 10 of all time but here it is anyway, i think the reason for it being in is because i have been playing it a lot lately. Anyway it was great to find out that when you thought you had cleared the game, you actually hadn't as three more cups became availble to play in. Nintendo sure know how to reward theit fans.
6. ISS pro evolution.
Although i also have the N64 version of the game i found the Playstation one to be far more playable and challenging to play. A main advantage that it had over the N64 version was the master league, in this option you could win points to buy players and create your dream team. The graphics were great and nice features like ronaldo's blue boots and Roberto Carlos' famous free kick run up were added into the game, nice one konami.
5. Perfect Dark.
Although on the whole i didn't play this as much as i did goldeneye i have still put it higher simply because i enjoyed completing it more. The graphics were far better than goldeneye's and the playability was amazingly slightly better. The AI of the guards was far more advanced than that of the guards in goldeneye and they had more ways to die as the would fall off rooftops when shot or hold their necks when shot their, all in all an amazing one player and multiplayer game. It was practically two games in one as the multiplayer side of the game was also huge.
4. Super Smash brothers.
All of nintendos biggest stars were put into a game to battle it out against each other and i found it to be a really addictive game. The multiplayed side of the games was far better than the one player side but it was still an excellent game, that is why i have put it into my top 10.
3. Mario Kart 64.
This has made it into my top 10 because of all the hours of fun that i had playing on it with my brother and two cousins. We would play for hours on the multiplayer battle areanas and race tracks, truly a pure golded game.
2. Final Fantasy 7.
The only game in the series that i have played but the only reason that is so is because i have never really had the cash to buy any of the sequals. This game was a giant amongst games, it is one of the best games that i have ever had the privalege to play. No matter what words i use to describe this game it simply won't do it justice, so i won't even bother trying.
1. The legend of Zelda: Ocerina of time.
My favourite game of all time. The game was brilliant from start to finish and was packed full of great boss video sequences and interaction with other people. This game was eagerly anticipated by almost all N64 owners and lived up to everyones expectations, or at least mine anyway.
So then, there is my top 10. I can't be sure whether that would actually be the order they should go in but i guess that it will do. As you can see from the games i have chosen that my taste changes as technology gets better, you can tell this from the fact that all the games in the top 10 are fairly new. : )
Stick
couldn't fit into 10
cannon fodder
Resident Evil (whole series)
another world
desert strike
Tekken Tag
super mario all stars
time crises
Gran Turismo 3
Blood
ignition
Mega man 2+3
MGS
Wipeout SE
Rick Dangerous
can't think of any others at the mo
cannon fodder
Resident Evil (whole series)
another world
desert strike
Tekken Tag
super mario all stars
time crises
Gran Turismo 3
Blood
ignition
Mega man 2+3
MGS
Wipeout SE
Rick Dangerous
can't think of any others at the mo
Seifer wrote:
Try Aqua Aqua on the PS2, love it!
I got that game for free and I still feel ripped off!
What a Crock!
Try Aqua Aqua on the PS2, love it!
I got that game for free and I still feel ripped off!
What a Crock!
FantasyMeister wrote:
> Me either.
*Picks up Empire State Building, throws it over his
> shoulder, and runs off*
Heh.
> Me either.
*Picks up Empire State Building, throws it over his
> shoulder, and runs off*
Heh.
Me either.
*Picks up Empire State Building, throws it over his shoulder, and runs off*
*Picks up Empire State Building, throws it over his shoulder, and runs off*
Turbonutter wrote:
Everyone here is
> off the rails.
I'm not!
*Jumps off empire state building, lands on his feet and walks away*
:-)
Everyone here is
> off the rails.
I'm not!
*Jumps off empire state building, lands on his feet and walks away*
:-)
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