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Run n' Gun WebGL. Hostage Rescue 2 WebGL. We use cookies for content recommendations, traffic measurement, and personalized ads. By using this website, you agree to the Privacy Policy and Cookie Policy. While Madden is still fondly remembered, NFL 2K5 is still regarded by many to be the best football game of all time and the game that every Madden is measured up to even with the newest installments. Wii Sports Kinect Sports Sports Champions Sports game compilations showing off a system's new motion controls.
Let's face it, the real fight's between the control systems: Wii Sports demonstrated the Wii Remote, Kinect Sports is made for the Xbox 's controller-less camera system, and Sports Champions utilizes the PlayStation Move.
Wii Sports had a four-year head start, being bundled with the Wii at launch and becoming synonymous with it. The other two systems played catch-up , with their motion controls as optional add-ons to existing systems — the Kinect got most of the hype in both cases, the sports games were lost in the shuffle as only one of several showcase titles. Baseball present Licensed games for Major League Baseball.
The Show is a long-running series by Sony Interactive Entertainment, and the last man standing after EA and 2K stopped producing baseball games.
Baseball name since Tengen's R. Baseball '95 on the Sega 32X. A decisive victory for Sony's baseball sim. Tony Hawk relied mostly on name recognition with the Hawkman and several other pro skaters making appearances , while the skate series promised a different approach to trick control utilizing both analog sticks on the PS3 and Xbox controllers instead of the face buttons and D-Pad.
Skate won this battle handily. Even before RIDE and Shred ultimately scuttled what was left of the Hawk franchise's popularity, skate routinely outperformed and outsold its competition. White later even declared that anyone who signs their likeness to EA will never work for UFC which he later retracted. Both games were critically very well received though Undisputed was criticized for online mode glitches.
Undisputed was a far more successful franchise, spawning two sequels. If anyone is to be called a winner, it would be UFC the company. Stealth Game. Metal Gear Solid Syphon Filter Splinter Cell Stealth-based third-person action-adventure games in which you play as a grizzled badass soldier on covert missions, untangling complicated terrorist plots with the help or hinderance of Mission Control. Metal Gear Solid mixes stealth gameplay and technical detail with anime tropes.
Syphon Filter blended stealth and run-and-gun gameplay with its conspiracy plot. Splinter Cell was supported by techno-thriller author Tom Clancy , and was more of a pure stealth game with a slower pace than the other two, though later installments leaned into the Actionized Sequel trope.
Metal Gear Solid used an isometric perspective but later games moved to a traditional third-person camera, while Syphon Filter and Splinter Cell used traditional third-person perspectives from the start. While each series was well-received and profitable, Metal Gear Solid takes first place overall. The original Metal Gear Solid is one of the most influencial games of all time, wowing critics and players with its Hollywood-like presentation and Deconstructive plot , and spawned a massive and successful series that has sold over 50 million copies in total.
Splinter Cell wasn't quite as influencial, but consistanly receives high review scores and has sold over 31 million copies in total as of Syphon Filter became one of the best-selling action games on the Playstation 1 with three titles on the console, though its sales numbers and impact never matched the other two series.
Survival Horror. Alone in the Dark Resident Evil In both games the protagonists must fight their way through a mansion filled with puzzles and monsters to uncover its secrets and survive to tell the tale. Alone in the Dark was released way before and features a Lovecraftian style of horror.
Resident Evil has better graphics, live-action cutscenes and looks more like an interactive zombie B-movie. After spawning several multi-million-selling installments and a solid live-action movie series, Resident Evil is today one of the world's top videogame franchises. Alone in The Dark tried to follow the same path, but fell into oblivion instead after the release of two lousy Uwe Boll movies , the failure of the game and AitD: Illumination , a cheaply made, barely noticed In Name Only co-op shooter cash-in.
In contrast to Resident Evil 's zombie-killing frenzy, Silent Hill features more puzzles, less monsters and a more mature and psychological storyline. For a long time, both series were relatively neck-and-neck, with us reaching the consensus that Resident Evil is, generally, more "popular" while Silent Hill is, generally, more respected as a horror series. However, Resident Evil ultimately ended up the winner by default with the release of Resident Evil 7 , thanks to Konami arbitrarily cancelling Silent Hills for no reason at all and basically ceasing to give a shit about the series unless you like pachinko machines.
Alone in the Dark reboot Alan Wake An episodic game where a normal man investigates and fights against a villain that is responsible for said paranormal.
Alan Wake got a much better initial reception than Alone in the Dark , which was first released in a highly unpolished state that landed on many "worst of the year" lists. However, an Updated Re-release for PlayStation 3 , Alone in the Dark: Inferno , corrected many of these problems and received better reviews. Eternal Darkness Resident Evil remake Nintendo GameCube -exclusive note The Resident Evil remake would later get an Updated Re-release in for PC, PlayStation 3 and 4 , and Xbox and One survival horror games released in spring , set in a vacant mansion filled with grotesque monsters and idiosyncratic puzzles.
At the time, they were the only M-rated GameCube games on the market. Eternal Darkness is a psychological horror game strongly inspired by the works of H. Lovecraft , while Resident Evil aka the REmake relies more on Body Horror , science fiction elements, and jump scares. Pretty much a tie. Both were well-received by critics and players alike. However it's worth noting that the REmake has been ported and rereleased several times since it came out, while Darkness's Spiritual Successor Shadow of the Eternals has failed to hit Kickstarter targets twice and is stuck in Development Hell.
Finally, ZombiU takes place in London and is exclusive to the Wii U , making use of that console's touch screen controller. DayZ wins on account of the hype that came out of its beta, to the point where sales of its "daddy" game, ARMA II , skyrocketed, people purchasing it just to play DayZ. Its success helped spawn an entire new genre of survival games — and all this was before its full release!
Both State of Decay and ZombiU received positive reviews, though Decay takes silver on account of it being the sleeper hit of summer , selling over half a million units in two weeks despite being a downloadable title that relied almost entirely on word of mouth. ZombiU , meanwhile, lost money for Ubisoft. The big loser was Infestation: Survivor Stories , a blatant mockbuster of DayZ that is best known for the outcry that resulted when it was released with severe bugs and without a number of promised features — but hey, the microtransaction store was working perfectly!
The backlash was loud enough that Steam not only pulled the game from sale, but offered refunds to those who weren't satisfied. As a final insult, Infestation wasn't the game's original title — the developers note Whose boss is also known for Big Rigs: Over the Road Racing had to change it from The War Z due to a trademark dispute concerning the film adaptation of World War Z.
Dead by Daylight Friday the 13th: The Game Last Year: The Nightmare Asymmetric Multiplayer horror games where players take on the role of either the killer out of a Slasher Movie , or the would-be-victims trying to survive his rampage. Friday the 13th is a licensed adaptation of the film series , boasting the involvement of special effects artist Tom Savini , composer Harry Manfredini, and actor Kane Hodder , all of whom are famous for their work on the films.
Cunningham the director of the first film saw their work, he gave them his blessing to make a licensed adaptation. Last Year , meanwhile, was successfully funded through Kickstarter , but is currently on hold due to an IP dispute with New Line Cinema over similarities to the Friday films. The developers have continued working on it, however, and intend to release it in fall with the offending elements removed.
The game also notably has a more lighthearted tone, informed more by '90s teen horror movies than the '80s slasher influences of Friday or the Torture Porn of Dead by Daylight. Both games got similar review scores, but Dead by Daylight outlasted Friday the 13th , which ultimately wound up a victim of the legal battle between Victor Miller and Sean S. Cunningham over the rights to the Friday film series but had been losing for a while by then.
Currently, Dead by Daylight manages well over ten thousand players average at any given time and over 25, at peak hours, while Friday the 13th had been bleeding players even before the lawsuit forced Illfonic to cease all development; these days, it's well under a thousand players even at peak hours, and at times only a few hundred.
Tower Defense. Dungeon Defenders Orcs Must Die! Orcs Must Die! Both games received very good reviews, but even though Orcs came out one month earlier, Defenders won out on account of its larger scope multiplayer and multiplatform and regular content updates. Turn-Based Strategy.
Nintendo's Fire Emblem series focuses more on its story and character development, while Sega's Shining Force puts more emphasis on its combat system. Come the Turn of the Millennium , Shining Force games have remained exclusive to Japanese gamers note coinciding with the franchise's general shift to Action RPGs while Fire Emblem began to gain popularity internationally thanks to, of all things , Super Smash Bros.
It was developed by Fire Emblem creator Shouzou Kaga, and incorporates the vast majority of its game mechanics, to the extent that Nintendo attempted to sue for copyright infringement. In fact, it was originally meant to be called Emblem Saga , but the lawsuit prevented this.
Fire Emblem has far more name recognition and success, especially since its gain in international popularity and securing of an American release since Marth and Roy's cameos in Super Smash Bros.
Both games were designed by Yasumi Matsuno and were released in the same year in Japan and in North America; release order remained the same. Germans Love David Hasselhoff strikes. In Japan, Tactics Ogre was a well-remembered and beloved game that had already received an updated release on the Sega Saturn the previous year.
It sold very well and was the clear winner. Final Fantasy Tactics was seen as a Follow the Leader game and sold poorly. In North America, Tactics Ogre was being released for the first time. The cash-cow name recognition of the Final Fantasy brand fresh off the success of Final Fantasy VII meant that FFT won by a landslide to the point where most people there didn't know or remember there even was a dueling game. It also sold well enough to get a reprint before the Japanese market got one.
Both games were released around a year apart. Rebellion also known as Star Wars: Supremecy was a hybrid of turn-based and real-time elements, whereas Birth of the Federation was a more straight-up turn based game. Rebellion sold a lot more copies, but Birth of the Federation was better-reviewed and seems to have more of a fan modding community than Rebellion.
Xenonauts is more faithful to the original's mechanics, while Enemy Unknown has made some changes to the formula. On the record, both sides are fairly sporting about the competition. Enemy Unknown was released on October 9, and received widespread critical acclaim along with a similarly lauded expansion pack, Enemy Within , although the legion of They Changed It, Now It Sucks! Xenonauts came out two years later to favorable reviews, though not to the degree of XCOM.
XCOM also boasts a large and healthy mod community, which has helped significantly extend its shelf life to the point where Firaxis decided to start development on a sequel. Also, three of the four games are sequels to other turn-based fantasy games, two of whom were direct competitors Elemental and Warlock.
Age of Wonders has the pedigree and history, with this being the first entry in the series since Warlock is based off of the Majesty universe, but is considered the spiritual successor to Wonders old rival Master of Magic and was released to take advantage of Wonders fans' waiting. Elemental is marred by the abysmal failure of its first game, while Eador brings something different to the table with its "shards" of territory.
The Metacritic scores between all four games have a spread of seven points between them. Age of Wonders 3 and Fallen Enchantress both led the way with 80 each, with Eador and Warlock 2 behind with 74 and 73, respectively. Auto Chess Dota Underlords Teamfight Tactics Hearthstone Battlegrounds "Autobattler" games: players buy units, place them on a grid, and have them fight against other players' armies.
Auto Chess started off as a very popular Game Mod in Dota 2. Valve attempted to contact the mod's creators, Drodo Games, to collaborate with them in making a stand-alone version of the mod similar to Dota 2 's own history as a custom game in Warcraft 3 , but found that they had already started work on such a project, so they made Dota Underlords in response.
Dota Underlords thus started out as a nearly identical port of Auto Chess , though later patches have since caused it to become significantly different by introducing new items, heroes, alliances, and Underlord units. Teamfight Tactics is Riot's own answer to the autobattler phenomenon, featuring League of Legends characters and items.
Unlike its competitors, TFT is played on a hexagon-based grid, and it is played within the League of Legends client, rather than as its own stand-alone game; this also means it does not have a mobile version, unlike the other games mentioned here.
Battlegrounds , Blizzard's take, uses a simplified format with two rows on the field instead of a grid and combat using a fully turn-based attack order. It is also directly built into Hearthstone's client, and is available on both PC and mobile. The Auto Chess mobile app currently has many more downloads than Dota Underlords , in part thanks to its earlier release and less resource-intensive graphics, but its PC version is not yet available.
Teamfight Tactics lacks a mobile version, but has the advantage of being integrated into the League of Legends client, making it easily accessible to that game's extremely large player base, but also making it hard to determine how popular it actually is on its own.
Battlegrounds brought a lot of attention back to Hearthstone and remains a very popular gamemode among players and streamers. However, since it is built into the base game, it's also hard to know the exact numbers.
Reader Rabbit The ClueFinders Jump Start Edutainment Game series, in which games up to second grade only involve Funny Animals while games from third to sixth grade are about mystery-solving humans. None; both series sold very well. Mario Paint Art Alive Console painting programs.
Even though Sega released Art Alive first in , Mario Paint 's SNES Mouse made painting easier and had more things to do with its custom stamp maker and music composer, and the flyswatter game made Mario Paint more recognizable. Neither sold well in their heyday, although Mario Paint has gotten a new life fan-interest-wise through YouTube and before YouTube's existence, it also had the fly-swatting minigame.
Both got decnt review scores at the time. As a result, each new Dream C game got more and more Fanservicey while iM S remains fairly innocent in comparison. Wii Fit uses the pack-in Balance Board for its exercises, while EA Sports Active uses its own motion sensor and resistance band, allowing for more varied exercises.
Obviously, Wii Fit has Nintendo's brandname behind it, so in terms of sales, there's no contest. However, many regard EA Sports Active as the better program.
Both games had improved second installments , but the slight critical edge goes to ASCS. Skyrim is the fifth game in the long-running Elder Scrolls series, while Dragon's Dogma was created by Japanese developer Capcom. Dragon's Dogma , however, has much in common with Western RPGs, particularly from an aesthetic standpoint. Skyrim is the very clear winner. From a critical standpoint, it's no contest: while both games were well received, Skyrim has absolutely dominated in review scores.
Skyrim has also enjoyed far greater longevity in the gaming zeitgeist, receiving ports, Updated Re-release s, and ports of updated re-releases to practically every console released since the game first came out with continued support. Dragon's Dogma , meanwhile, received an online multiplayer follow-up in , which ran for four years and never officially launched outside of Japan , along with an upscaled port for contemporary consoles.
Katawa Shoujo Everlasting Summer Animesque freeware visual novels with romance and erotic elements, both made in the West and originated on Image Boards 4chan and the Russian iichan roughly at the same time. Both have An Aesop : "the disabled are people too" and "don't waste your life". Summer was originally conceived as a horror game and so is more fantastical than Katawa , including elements of time travel, alternate dimensions and such.
Also Summer wears its imageboard origins on its sleeve, with lots of references to Russian anon culture and in-jokes. Katawa Shoujo is way more well-known, critically acclaimed and originated several failed imitators. However Everlasting Summer is still very highly regarded among its smaller audience, and unlike Katawa was released on Steam.
Since both games are completely free to play, questions of "winners" or "losers" are entirely academic anyway. Because of this, the FGO NA players actually are given insight on what to come next in order to prepare their savings.
A very tight tie for a long time. Both Aniplex and Nintendo gave these games heavy attention, whereas Aniplex caused the game to become a Gateway Series for the Nasuverse. By , however, FGO has steadily won awards even in the Global version, while FEH hasn't seen a great increase in players and introduced a subscription system FEH Pass that enraged a lot of fans, thus FGO currently has the advantage, despite the battle still going on.
Ensemble Stars! The majority of these games are spinoff of some sort; Enstars is a spinoff of the female idol training game Ensemble Girls!
Enstars by a huge margin. By no means are any of these series suffering, but as far as merchandise, mobile revenue and fan reception go, Enstars gets the lion's share of love. And all this before it even got an anime, something the other three franchises can't say for themselves.
However, IDOLiSH is not far behind; it follows just behind Enstars as the second most popular male idol game on mobile and scored its own very successful anime adaptation. While SideM and Shining Live are lagging behind quite a bit, with Live on Stage being a contentious game, both are still well loved; SideM has had two well received adaptations and a handful of manga, while Shining Live has been trucking along.
But even with all these factors, one cannot deny just how big each series is. Dreams Game Builder Garage Console exclusive Game Maker games that uses built-in programming nodes to program game logic. Dreams is a Spiritual Successor to the LittleBigPlanet games, allowing players to design detailed environments, characters, and even sounds and music. Game Builder Garage is a stand-alone expansion of the "Toy-Con Garage" editor from Nintendo Labo and is simpler to use than Dreams , but is more limited in that only built-in models, characters and environments can be used, outside of a limited sprite editor.
Last but not least, Dreams has an in-game online portal allowing players to easily find new content while Game Builder Garage content can only be shared through codes on other online platforms. Alternative Title s : Dueling Games. Show Spoilers. Samurai Warriors Sengoku Basara Onechanbara Lollipop Chainsaw God of War Spartan: Total Warrior Rise of the Argonauts Hack and Slash games set in the time of ancient Greece, drawing upon its mythology.
Dante's Inferno Hack and Slash games with blades attached to chains, centering on mid range combat but also using close quarters and magic. Stubbs the Zombie Games set in a satirical s America where you play as a monster - a a grey alien in Destroy All Humans and a zombie in Stubbs - running around wreaking havok with powers.
Titan Quest No More Heroes MadWorld Both are action games with a fairly agile protagonist who dispatches hoards of intercity thugs using wrestling, Good Old Fisticuffs , and battery-powered weapons that glide through people like a hot knife through butter. Diablo III Torchlight II Top-down Hack and Slash games released in The Torchlight games are Spiritual Successors to classic Diablo , and made by the original Diablo devs. I Am Alive The Last of Us A grizzled survivor climbs and scavenges his way through ruins of a modern city after a disaster, fighting off other scavengers.
DmC: Devil May Cry Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance Hack and Slash games released in early Hyrule Warriors Fire Emblem Warriors Two most notable franchises of Nintendo getting a Dynasty Warriors spin-off.
Hyrule Warriors was universally considered the superior game even among the Fire Emblem fandom. Tomb Raider Uncharted Marvel Ultimate Alliance Justice League Heroes Superhero games with RPG mechanics where the heroes band together in groups of four to battle a group of well-known supervillains operating under a world-threatening overarching plot.
The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess Lord of Arcana God Eater Burst Both games take cues from the Monster Hunter series, but God Eater 's inspiration seems to show much more clearly. The Last Guardian Scalebound The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild Horizon Zero Dawn Both are post-apocalyptic open world games marketed with protagonists using archery, released in the same week of Breath of the Wild was the latest entry in the long running The Legend of Zelda series, being both a launch title on the Nintendo Switch and the final first-party game on the Wii U.
Monster Hunter: World God Eater 3 Both are the latest installments of hit multiplayer "hunting" games coming out to PC and modern consoles. Leisure Suit Larry Les Manley PC adventure games from the early 90s starring a Casanova Wannabe who's out to get laid. Leisure Suit Larry by far. The 7th Guest Myst Police Quest: Open Season Law enforcement-themed Adventure Games with an emphasis on proper police procedual.
D Phantasmagoria Controversial FMV horror adventure games released in starring a young woman exploring a haunted mansion to discover the truth of why one of her loved ones have suddenly become violent and murderous. Final Fight Arabian Magic Arabian Fight Golden Axe Knights of the Round Sword-themed Beat 'em Up with ridable mounts released for the arcade in the early '90 era.
Guardian Heroes Die Hard Arcade Beat Down: Fists of Vengeance Urban Reign Dark and gritty Beat Em Ups. Wing Commander Sci-fi themed "simulations" of space fighter craft featuring both Old School Dogfighting and complex interfaces and missions.
Ace Combat series Star Fox Sci-fi themed shooting games with primitive polygonal graphics. Modern combat flight sim franchises. Air Combat Warhawk Arcade-style flight combat games released in for the PlayStation. Aces High War Thunder Massively Multiplayer online air-combat simulators.
IL-2 Sturmovik : Birds of Prey WWII-themed flight games released within one week of each other. Elite Dangerous Star Citizen , No Man's Sky Laser Ghost Sega Three of the first light gun arcade cabinets to allow up to three players simultaneously, against hordes of horror creatures, released at around the same time. Lethal Enforcers Konami House of the Dead Sega CarnEvil Midway Horror-themed Light Gun Games that hit arcades in the late s.
Silent Scope Light Gun games where the player takes the role of a sniper or assassin. Time Crisis Namco Action-themed Light Gun Games that hit arcades in the early s with similar gameplay.
Second Life Virtual words inspired by The Metaverse from Snow Crash. Active Worlds uses a subscription model. Everquest 2 World of Warcraft The first Everquest was the first successful 3D MMO, but its unforgiving game mechanics were beginning to show their age. Champions Online Both games were developed by the same studio, Cryptic. Final Fantasy XIV A Hotbar-based MMO that runs on monthly subscriptions and puts out constant content updates.
Pet Society Pet Ville Multiplayer Facebook games based around raising Funny Animals. Star Wars: The Old Republic Guild Wars 2 World of Tanks Armored Warfare Vehicular Combat MMO. World of Warships City of Titans Phantasy Star Online 2 Mario Party Party Game series featuring video game mascots including Super Mario Bros.
Sonic Shuffle Two games involving the then-new party game genre, and both were developed by Hudson Soft. Boulder Dash Repton The founders of the rocks-and-diamonds genre, with Boulder Dash having comparatively more focus on dexterity, Repton more on logical puzzle-solving. Tetris Game Boy Columns Simple to play but highly addictive games based on Falling Blocks. Magical Drop F Lumines Meteos Stylish Falling Blocks games, developed by Q Entertainment and released in for portable systems.
Angry Birds Physics-based games that involve you firing things into objects to make them crash and kill the opponent. Crush the Castle is a free browser title and is more violent than Angry Birds. Crush the Castle only had two installments, three if you count the "Player Pack".
Pirates vs. Pandas Physics-based strategy games that revolve around firing characters to destroy structures in a quest for revenge. Flappy Bird Professor Layton and the Last Specter Doctor Lautrec and the Forgotten Knights A Victorian-era puzzle game where you're a European archaeologist with a top hat and a younger sidekick, for a Nintendo handheld.
Professor Layton and the Miracle Mask More Victorian-era puzzling with snappily dressed protagonists, this time on the Nintendo 3DS.
Tetris Effect Tetris 99 The PlayStation 4 gets a console-exclusive Tetris game. Starcraft series Total Annihilation Starcraft Futuristic RTS released in a close timeframe in Age of Empires Empire Earth Rise of Nations Three Real-Time Strategy games with a Civilization motif to it Meaning you are building a city rather than a base.
Star Trek: Armada Pikmin Overlord Defense of the Ancients Multiplayer Online Battle Arena games. Ultima I Wizardry Ultima focused on a single slightly customizable hero ine while Wizardry featured an entire party of characters created from scratch. Might and Magic The Magic Candle Top-down Western RPGs in which a diverse party of adventurers sets out to accomplish an epic quest; exploration and puzzle-solving ultimately turn out to be more important to resolving the main plot than simply facing the Big Bad in a straight-up fight.
The Ultima series by far had a much wider following and is still relatively well-known today, although the Magic Candle series had quite a cult following back in the day, nowadays it's really only known amongst the older, more hardcore Western RPG enthusiasts that and possibly the abandonware scene. Baldur's Gate Dungeon Crawl Dungeons of Dredmor Tales of Maj'Eyal Roguelikes typically played with tileset graphics as opposed to the traditional ASCII graphics, with a focus on polishing the genre for a modern audience.
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