GTA's rags-to-riches stories are always compelling, and San Andreas did it better than any of them. Over the course of the epic story, our lead goes from a penniless thug to one of San Andreas' most respected citizens, ultimately becoming a wealthy mogul with a house in the game's equivalent of the Hollywood Hills. You might start out beating up thugs in a neglected Los Santos neighborhood, but by game's end you'll be hijacking VTOL jets off of aircraft carriers.
But what really drives the game's story are its characters. Carl, for all his gang-banging thuggery, is the most moral character the series has produced. Meanwhile, Tenpenny, voiced by Samuel L. Jackson, is so cartoonishly and irredeemably evil, it's impossible not to want to see him get his comeuppance in a wildly satisfying high-speed firefight at the very end.
It imagines the afterlife as a purgatory not unlike our own world. Take our debonair protagonist Manny Calavera, for instance: He's a Grim Reaper who doubles as a travel agent, arranging the journey that fresh souls will take on their way to the peaceful Ninth Underworld. Throughout your journey, you'll encounter a memorable cast of heroes and villains alike, all of whom will irrevocably impact Manny's passage through the Land of the Dead.
Classic film noir tropes are everywhere: the femme fatale, the gaudy crime lord, the fact that smoking is the national pastime. But Grim Fandango also offers an originality all its own, thanks to its inspirations from Aztec mythology and Mexican culture.
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We always aim to entertain, inform, and inspire through our mix of content - which includes news, reviews, features, tips, buying guides, and videos. Votes: 22, Ratchet and clank find their home world attacked by the infamous emperor Tachyon and must go on the run while trying to find the other lombaxes.
After being freed by the Emperor of Tamriel, the hero must prevent the gates of Oblivion from spreading throughout the Empire. Votes: 12, A cursed warrior travels to Drangleic, the forgotten land of a once-great king, hoping to find a cure before going insane. Votes: 2, E Adventure, Fantasy. Sackboy is back in a brand new adventure to save Craftworld from the Negativatron. Help Sackboy get through many levels to get prizes and save the world.
Votes: M Action, Adventure. While skydiving, Jason Brody and his friends land on an island overrun by pirates, where Jason is torn between fighting for the Rakyat resistance and rescuing his friends.
Votes: 17, The great kingdom of Boletaria has fallen into disparity. King Allant has aroused the Old One from its long slumber, and a great fog descends upon the land, bringing forth great soul-devouring demons. M Action, Adventure, Comedy. A new group of adventurers arrives on the frontier planet Pandora.
They are assassinated by Handsome Jack, the most powerful merc on the planet. One of them survives and with the help of a deranged talking robot seeks loot and revenge.
Votes: 5, After narrowly escaping a doomed fate in an asylum, an undead warrior fights his way through the desolate remains of Lordran, once a sprawling utopia lead by the gods, to seek his purpose and fulfill a centuries old prophecy.
Votes: 4, M Action, Horror, Mystery. Engineer Isaac Clarke and his crew get stranded on a large, abandoned mining ship. There, Clarke needs to repair the giant ship while battling nasty aliens and solving the mystery of what happened to the ship.
Hertzler , Iyari Limon , Peter Mensah. Clank is kidnapped by the mysterious Zoni, led by the evil mastermind Dr. M Action, Sci-Fi, War. Desmond Miles continues to travel the memories of Ezio Auditore, bringing him to turn-of-the-century Rome with Ezio rebuilding the assassin order to bring down the tyrannical Borgia rule.
M Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller. Jack Frost Member. Oct 25, 1, Maybe Diddy Kong Racing? Deleted member User requested account closure Banned. Oct 25, 7, Fox Mulder said:. No, but it should be experienced regardless. I want it backwards compatible so bad, but I assume licensing stops it. Pikma said:. How is it not a racing game?
What the hell is it then? Bishop89 What Are Ya' Selling? Oct 25, 22, Melbourne, Australia. Oct 25, Toronto Canada. Jak X is a decent story with some thrilling arcade racing mechanics. Would recommend it highly. Bio Banned. Oct 27, 3, Denver, Colorado. I think Horizon 3 strikes the perfect balance. A little bit of indulgence in the car culture, without ruining the fun by going too far the way recent Need for Speed games have.
Alex Connolly Member. Oct 27, Kagoshima, Japan. HenryEen Member. Oct 27, 5, Dreamboum Member. Oct 28, 20, Oct 26, Motorstorm Apocalypse's story was amusing, as it's less about the individual racer and more about the racing event itself. Why are people racing on an island that's falling apart from huge earthquakes?
Note that the digital version of the game omits the cutscenes with the actual story, but those can be found on YouTube pretty easily. Deleted member Banned.
Oct 27, 13, Phibes Banned. Oct 25, 3, The Socialist Hellscape of Europe. Branson said:. Beegeous Member. It's a decision deeply woven into the game's narrative, and underneath all the puns and puzzles is a story that carries out the natural consequences of your actions with emotional and horrific results. Read more The making of Undertale.
As you explore Amn and its capital city, Athkatla, you encounter all manner of bizarre characters and get tangled up in deep, complex quests with surprising outcomes and consequences that can permanently affect your party. Read more The history of Baldur's Gate. This is arguably the best interactive fiction game ever made, with sublime, evocative writing that brings its alternate history setting to life, underpinned by compelling systems that make achieving the titular feat genuinely challenging.
Read more 80 Days review. The voyage through the dying man's life is incredibly moving, and the ending will have all the but the stone-hearted quivering at the lip. It's a real emotional gutpunch. Read more To the Moon and back: A journey of connection. It's a subdued police procedural, told entirely out of order.
You piece a suspect's story together by digging through a fragmented archive of video clips, tapping keywords into an old PC to uncover clues about what her story actually is. And the order you find the clips can reshape the narrative dramatically.
Read more Her Story review. Split between crime scene investigation, interrogations, and tense courtroom battles, the trilogy's large selection of dastardly crimes are all superbly constructed—and very weird.
Spotting contradictions in a suspect's statement and exposing their lies is incredibly satisfying. Read more The secret history of LucasArts. The collapse of the coal industry has left the town in a state of steady decline, and her friends have matured in ways she hasn't. A hilarious, heartfelt coming of age story that says something about life, but manages to crack a few jokes in the process.
Read more Night in the Woods review. The story is told through postcards sent by the main character to a friend back in England. He recounts his adventures as a British agent and you decide what he writes—determining the route you take through short, but perfectly formed, stories.
Read more Over the Alps is a classy spy adventure full of twists and turns.
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