This
article contains a list of 10 best games ever. This list was made
by Lev
Grossman who
works for The Time Magazine. We will be discussing only for the first
five games.
#1 - Halo 3
This game was released by
"Microsoft Game Studios" in 25th of September, 2007. It is
a following series of other two successful games, Halo 2 and Halo 1.
It is designed for Xbox 360. This game was developed by Bungie as an
action game. It was very successful, even from its very first
beginnings. Only on the first week, Microsoft earned over $800
million from this game. One million people played this game on its
first twenty hours. It was ranked as U.S.A’s best-selling game for
2007.
#2 - The Orange Box
This is a set of five different
games of different genres. It contains: Half-Life 2, Half-Life
2: Episodes One and Two, Portal, and Team Fortress 2. Some of them
were already released before and some weren’t. As mentioned before,
there are three different genres: Action, Compilation (strategy game)
and puzzle. This set was released by EA (Electronic Arts) in three
different versions; the first one is for PC, the second for Xbox 360
and the third for PlayStation 3.
#3 - Rock Band
The third
game ranked by Time Magazine is "Rock Band" published by
MTV games and distributed by EA Distribution. It was released in four
different versions. The first one was for PlayStation 3 (20th of
November, 2007), the second for Xbox 360 (20th of November, 2007 as
well), the third one for PlayStation 2 (18th of December, 2007) and
the fourth one was released lately for Wii (22th of June, 2008). This
game allows playing up to 4 players. In this virtual game you can
provide music for the public by leading a rock group in the guitar,
bass, drums or in the microphone.
#4 - Super Mario Galaxy
The
fourth successful game is "Super Mario Galaxy". It is a
following episode of Mario series. It was published by Nintendo in
1st of November, 2007. It can only be played in Wii platform, but
other versions can be released in the near future. In this game,
Mario goes to the numerous galaxies and collects Power Stars.
Unlike classic Mario which is in 2D, this game is in 3D but in some
cases 2D glitches may appear.
#5 - Bioshock
The fifth game
is Bioshock, released by 2K Games. It was released in 21 of August,
2007 in two platforms; Windows and Xbox 360. But, in addition, in
this year’s October, there is going to be a PlayStation 3 version
released. In this game, the player controls Jack who fights with
weapons and plasmids.
#6 - Call of Duty 4
#7- Legend of
Zelda
#8 - Mass Effect
#9 - Ace Combat 6
#10 - Gold of War 2