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The third game in Nintendo’s acclaimed Zelda series, A Link to the Past ranks near Ocarina of Time as one of the greatest titles for a Nintendo platform. The game combines elements from its predecessors and spruces up the experience with updated visuals. Link must battle through a huge quest spanning two worlds, several complex dungeons and through opposition that includes huge monsters and an evil wizard. The game’s wonderfully conceived exploration elements, environmental puzzles, colorful graphics and inspired soundtrack help it to stand out above the cream of the Zelda crop. A collector’s item and a classic for any Zelda fan.
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While many credit the Final Fantasy series for bringing role-playing games to the masses, Chrono Trigger is considered by many to be the best console RPG of all time. It has all the requirements of a great Japanese RPG — time travel, animal morphing and a brilliant soundtrack. With character designs by Akira Toriyama and a score by Yasunori Mitsuda and Nobuo Uematsu, this dynamic adventure has the perfect pedigree. Featuring more than a dozen unique endings, vivid characterization and great gameplay, it’s no surprise Chrono Trigger is our highest-ranked RPG.
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There have been few games which provide as many hours of fun as Super Mario Kart. It offered fast and challenging single-player gaming and furious competitive play thanks to the tight skill-based system of driving that let the real masters show their stuff. While the other games in the series have their own appeal, they simply don’t have courses as tight, fast, and perfect as the original Kart masterpiece. When shaving a hundredth of a second off of a track time becomes an obsession, you know it’s a good game. Plus, given the right crowd, it makes a brilliant drinking game!
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Redefining speed for modern racing games, Burnout 3 is the fastest, craziest and most beautiful racing game on the current generation of consoles. Players are rewarded for driving into oncoming traffic, bumping opponents into buses and causing as much asphalt mayhem as possible. Every daring move earns more points and more speed. But sooner or later you’re going to crash and that’s where Burnout 3’s true beauty shines. It’s like the opening of every C.H.i.P.s episode compressed into a single slow-motion moment. The game’s only downfall is the inclusion of easily one of the worst soundtracks ever put on a disc; fortunately the horrific sounds of a high-speed collision overwhelm the whiny pop-punk tunes.
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Believe it or not, there was a time when PC RPGs had an unbelievable amount of content, fat manuals, and a sense of artistry that’s become harder to shoehorn in the face of an increasingly profit-oriented industry. BGII could be played for several days solid, and you’d barely ahve scratched the surface. It made Dungeons & Dragons not only accessible to the uninitiated, but darn-near delightful. On a truly epic scale, it gave us an engrossing story, colorful characters, exciting encounters, and the timeless joy of being a world-saving badass. And a branching story and varied character creation options made it possible to jump right back in after the first unbelievable run.
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Game publishers have always used movie licenses to make videogames, usually to the games’ demise. But Rare’s slow patience and talented studio brought the excitement, control, and multiplayer component from the PC to the consoles and created one of the best-selling N64 titles of all time. Despite an occasionally shaky framerate, GoldenEye 007 had everything: stealth levels, the ability to dual-wield, different missions for different difficulty levels, stellar level design, and the best multiplayer component for a console in its day. The two- to four-player split-screen deathmatches featured a huge assortment of play options, tons of secret paths and chambers, and past Bond enemies such as Jaws, Baron Samedi, and more.
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The sequel to the decent arcade game Soul Edge, Namco’s Soul Calibur helped launch the hardcore-friendly but ultimately doomed Dreamcast with a superb sword-based fighting game that remains one of the best fighters to date. Adding new characters, offering a better-than-average single-player campaign, and churning out some of the best graphics in its day, Soul Calibur was also remarkably well balanced and tightly tuned. Yes, you could lay down some button mashing combos, but the depth of each character allowed for subtle techniques and skill-dependent play that ultimately rewarded the hardcore over the noob. To be honest, we’re far more fond of Soul Calibur than its slightly inferior sequel, Soul Calibur 2.
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Nintendo released Yoshi’s Island at a time when 2D platformers were competing against snazzy 3D offerings from new 32-bit systems like Sony’s Playstation. But you won’t find many of those 3D action games sharing space with Yoshi’s Island on this list. Even with the competition, Nintendo’s latest Mario adventure offered some of the best platforming around. Using the FX2 graphics chip, Yoshi’s Island married spectacular control and level design with captivating visuals, such as wicked rotation effects and a slew of other special effects. Truly one of the best examples of platforming action done right.
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If anything, and specifically for us IGN editors, Battlefield 1942 has at least contributed to more lost work than any other game in all of existence. We often found ourselves playing for upwards of 15 hours straight. Fifteen hours without meal or rest. That’s insanity — insanity we happily volunteered for. DICE’s Battlefield 1942 may have launched with a hefty collection of its own nasty quirks and bugs, but the brilliantly approachable first-person shooting it proposed to PC gamers was just too much to deny. The solidity of Quake with the comprehensiveness of Operation Flashpoint, only arcadey and unpredictable? We’re sold! Tanks, planes, battleships, 64 players in a map… It took online action to a whole new level of craziness.
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Nintendo needed Super Mario World to sell its all-new system, the SNES. As a result, Shigeru Miyamoto and crew designed one of the best platformers in existence. With its dazzling array of detail-rich worlds and character design (not to mention awesome sound and music) Super Mario World helped usher in the 16-bit era. But it wasn’t just eye candy. Fans of the series welcomed Super Mario World’s intricate design and finely tuned game mechanics every bit as much as the juicy visuals. Nintendo produced a classic title with Super Mario World, one as every bit engrossing as previous efforts.
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