Curated playlist
Xbox games
- Capcom Fighting EvolutionCapcom Fighting Evolution was built from a cancelled 3D fighting game. It salvaged Capcom Fighting All-Stars.
- Hyper Street Fighter IIHyper Street Fighter II, released by Capcom in 2003 for the PlayStation 2, contains only 17 unique characters. Yet those fighters appear in 65 different versions, each one carried over from an earlier arcade game. That number turns a…
- SNK vs. Capcom: SVC ChaosTwo fighters born in SNK vs. Capcom: SVC Chaos later joined other games. Violent Ken and Serious Mr. Karate outlived it.
- Capcom Classics CollectionCapcom Classics Collection Vol. 2 chose the Breakout-style Block Block over Super Street Fighter II.
- Grand Theft Auto: San AndreasGrand Theft Auto: San Andreas, a 2004 action-adventure game from Rockstar North, gave players one of the most repeated lines in gaming. Early in the story, a mission called "Wrong Side of the Tracks" goes badly, and Big Smoke shouts, "All…
- Grand Theft Auto: Vice CityGrand Theft Auto: Vice City, a 2002 action-adventure game from Rockstar North, sold more than 500,000 copies within 24 hours of its release. Within two days it had reached 1.4 million, which made it the fastest-selling game in history at…
- Capcom vs. SNK 2Capcom vs. SNK 2 may be the first game with online play between rival consoles. This worked only in Japan.
- Half-Life 2Half-Life 2 is a 2004 first-person shooter from Valve Corporation, and it cost 40 million US dollars to make. Development lasted five years. By 2011 it had sold 12 million copies worldwide. In November 2024, twenty years after its release,…
- Grand Theft Auto IIIGrand Theft Auto III began with an art director's complaint about the games of his day. Aaron Garbut felt that most of them were "a thing you played". He wanted this one to be "a place you lived in". The core team behind that ambition was…
- Silent Hill 2In Silent Hill 2, James Sunderland gets a letter from his wife, who died three years ago.
- Street Fighter III: 3rd StrikeStreet Fighter III: 3rd Strike sold modestly in 1999, yet IGN later named it the greatest fighting game ever made.
- Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of LibertyEvery trailer for Metal Gear Solid 2 showed Solid Snake in fights that Raiden had. Players had never heard of him.
- Silent Hill 4: The RoomIn Silent Hill 4: The Room, the safest place becomes the deadliest. Henry's apartment first heals him, then hurts him.
- Halo: Combat EvolvedHalo: Combat Evolved reached shops on the 15th of November 2001, the same day as Microsoft's first game console, the Xbox. Bungie built it, and Microsoft Game Studios published it. A reviewer at Edge magazine called it "the most important…