100 Greatest games of all time

UK Retail giant GAME has revealed the results of their poll to find the top 100 video games of all time. Over 100,000 votes were cast with the results throwing up a mixed bag of both timeless classics and modern masterpieces. The results show the current popularity of first person shooters as they take up five of the games in the top ten. Another notable result is Shenmue coming in at number 25 showing that the series is still in many gamers minds despite SEGA's reluctance to complete the trilogy.

PlayStation 2 takes the console crown having the most games from one individual console in the list. Final Fantasy VII being the most voted for game on the system coming in at number 3.

[Intrepid]

Sorry, but...

WTF?

Ico at 100? Mario Kart Wii at 13? Gears at 10?

[riqued]

Tell should just change the title to "most popular games"....

No way mario kart wii is better then Ico

[Jinxstar]

Mario Kart Wii should actually be after all the other mario karts...

[Sexius Maximus]

the people who voted are more then likely 12 years old. The voters should have been GAMERS for at least 20 years, not just been ALIVE for 12. It's very hard to have a "Best of all time" list when most of the voters know nothing about gaming before PS2.

[iamtehpwn]

a decent game but HARDLY the best ever.
It's not even close. This list disgusts me.

[GiantHstx]

Thats the mass market for you.

[reaferfore20]

Yeah most people that can afford all the consoles and play all the games are a far cry away from being anything but stupid.

[sandip787]

this list is bulll

[reaferfore20]

Yeah COD4 is not the best game ever. I own the best game ever, it's called Metal Gear Solid 4!

And GTA4 is number 4??? Come tha F on ahahahahahahaha.

[highdro]

im sorry but did gta4 come in at number 4,...every one knows gta3 is more fun and better than gta4....then we have halo 3 at number7..wtf,..this list is pure BS..i live in north london and trust me most of us here do not like halo 3, the people who play it are 13-16 yrs old in my collage.

[highdro]

the f is GOD OF WAR 1 & 2 ,...u cannot tell me that game should not be in the top 10 at least.

[4cough]

No ps3 games in the top ten lol, Not many ps3 fanboys in the public then, They are all on N4GSaying stupid $h!t like Im from north London and no nobody plays halo 3 in north London. haaaaaaaaa.

[thekingofMA]

i didnt get your comment until i looked in the gamerzone

thats just a ps3 fan for ya

[riksweeney]

What a brilliant week! Usually we only get one "Greatest Games" list, but this week we're being treated with two!

Can life get any better?

[fork]

Wer is FFVI and CHrono Trigger

[crimsonfox]

what a joke...

it's a joke right?

[oliverasadi]

No tekken,mortal kombat and mgs4 means its wrong

[ape007]

every week we get another top 100 best games of all time

enough crappy lists

everyone likes what he like,they try to brainwash those new gamers.

stop this crap

[Scudd]

Halo 3? Come on...

This list is a load of crap

[xxBATTLECATxx]

i wonder how many younger people voted for this. it got all the right classics, just the wrong order.

[vhero]

this is gonna include what ppl think are great now so the game thats most fresh in thier heads is gonna be in there should have really not included any 2008 games

[tweaker]

Kingdom Hearts 2, FFXII, Shadow of the Colossus, Gran Turismo 3, God of War 2, and ICO in the nineties? LOL.

Why is WiiFit (#29) on there as well? That alone voids any credibility to that list. Moving on...

[Gun_Senshi]

WORSE list ever. It has so many errors.

COD1 > COD4
HL1 > HL2
Halo 1 > Halo 3
MGS4 > MGS1
FFVI > FFVII
Morrowind > Oblivion
All Other Mario Karts > Mario Kart Wii

Thats counting the games of same series which are total error.
It has a lot of mistakes like having ICO at No 100 and COD4 at No 1.

[Dpa]

Corrections.

COD4 > COD1
HL1 = HL2
[Halo 1 > Halo 3] - Both shouldnt be higher than 50
MGS1 = MGS4
FFVII > FFVI
Oblivion > Morrowind
All Other Mario Karts > Mario Kart Wii

[reaferfore20]

COD1... never played it so I'm going to assume it's not as good as the newer version.

HL1>HL2
Halo1>Halo3 and both = poop.
MGS4>EVERYTHING
FFVII > FFVI
Morrowind > Oblivion
All Other Mario Karts > Mario Kart Wii

Just my opinion, I didn't like ff6 as much as 7 but it still rocked my socks off.

[Gun_Senshi]

did ever play older game?

Morrowind and Oblivion difference is like Ninja Bread Man VS MGS4.

FFVI story is better then FFVII but you probably never played it.

[darando]

it is people voting so of course there will be suprises...

and yes im shocked to, and well everyone has there chose and say.

im supised that cod4 is number 1 it is good but come on what is so diffrent about it.

and to some1 above MGS come out like 2 days ago and this list was compiled over the last two months, so who is going to vote for a game which isnt out..

i just think it was mostly young teens who voted in this, and casuals

[JeepGamer]

This is the worst "top 100" list ever created. Greatest games of all time... Apparently time began with the PSOne.

[reaferfore20]

Yeah shouldn't pong be at number 1?

[Enigma_2099]

They never come up with one that EVERYONE agrees with, so why bother?

[flOw]

rofl!

[solar]

im still laughing at CoD4 being the best game of all time.

[G1TR4P3D]

I have literally every game on that list, just about.

My only confusion, why is Halo 3 ABOVE Halo 1? Halo 1 is the hit to go down in time forever. That's why they put MGS1 on there and not 2 or 3. The first is ALWAYS the best.

AND WHY IS GOD OF WAR NUMBER 78???

[bama]

I can't stop laughing.

[Picnico]

There are so many great 8 bit and 16 bit games that, as far as most people seem to be concerned, might as well never have existed, games that have no true equivalents, apart from ports, in the Playstation era and beyond.

You would have thought from these lists that the only good 2D platformers ever made all starred Mario and Sonic. At least Crash Bandicoot got a mention this time but I would have voted for Crash Team Racing (even better than any Mario Kart game to me).

I'm glad to see Monkey Island 2 there- I would say that they are the wittiest games ever made but I like Curse of Monkey Island too, even though Ron Gilbert wasn't involved with it.

What about Rare's AAA platformers eg- the Donkey Kong Country series, Banjo Kazooie and Tooie, Donkey Kong 64, Conker's Bad Fur Day? Did they split the vote too much? Did they get many votes at all?

[IzKyD1331]

the fact that people VOTE for their favorite games makes it invalid, there are just too many fanboys in this world.......Halo 3 should NEVER be in a top 10 video games list
they actually put mario kart wii at 13

[LJWooly]

Why the hell do these lists always fail so hard? My god, my good freaking god, this is a failure of the most epic proportions. The whole thing, it's just... ugh.

[reaferfore20]

1. Pong
2. Pacman
3. Mario
4. Zelda
5. Final Fantasy
then go from there, all 8-bit or less. Isn't that where they should start?

[ta1snake]

Failed, Failed...rubbish list.

[Tawnokoi]

1. This list.
2. This list again.
3. Did I mention this list sucks horribly?
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