the best video games - Top 30

After 10 years of endless nightmares and servitude to the gods of Olympus, Kratos is assigned with a final task, to kill Ares, the God of War.

After being betrayed by the gods of Olympus and annulled of his divine powers, Kratos must embark on a journey to meet the Sisters of Fate and take his revenge on Olympus.

Armed with his deadly double-chained blades, Kratos must take on Greek mythology's darkest creatures to destroy Olympus and the mighty Zeus himself.

In an earlier time, when still in service to the gods, Kratos must fight to save the land from a growing darkness.

Kratos is still haunted by the visions of his mortal past and decides to explore his origins. In Atlantis, he finds his mother Callisto, who claims that his brother Deimos is still alive.

In 1992, Carl "CJ" Johnson, a member of the Grove Street gang, comes home after a family tragedy to find the streets of Los Santos, San Andreas, overtaken by crime and corruption, which he must take back before things become worse.

Niko Bellic comes to Liberty City, America to live the good life, but ends up having to assist his dangerously indebted cousin Roman with his financial troubles, by any (mostly illegal) means necessary.

A reboot of the Mortal Kombat franchise with a retcon to the earliest periods in the series, featuring a multitude of game modes.

After the G Corporation launches a full-scale attack on Heihachi and Kazuya Mishima, Kazuya betrays his father and escapes. When the fifth King of the Iron Fist tournament is announced, both Kazuya and his son Jin enter in.

Whilst continuing vast stories of all the characters, Tekken 6 includes new modes, over 40 fighters, bigger stages with more interactivity, enhanced character customization, and introduces a new rage system.

After Heihachi Mishima is presumed dead in a mysterious explosion at Hon Maru, a new King of Iron fist tournament is announced by a powerful new threat, while Jin Kazama seeks his own destiny.

Choose amongst 35 characters and battle in teams of two. Non-canon Tekken game also featuring new modes.

A former outlaw is forced by the federal government to hunt down the members of his old gang.

After a highly-infectious undead plague spreads across the frontier, John Marston does anything he can to find a cure.

Midnight Club: Los Angeles, is a illegal street racing video game released for Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 and PlayStation Portable.

The mystical sword of the legends, the "Soul Edge", ended up in the hands of the dreaded pirate Cervantes de Leon of Spain. Play as one of the 19 characters on a mission to acquire the Soul Edge.

Four years after it was thought that the evil sword known as Soul Edge had been destroyed, warriors from all over Europe and Asia once again take up the search to locate the blade for their own personal reasons.

The search for Soul Edge continues as a mysterious new figure plots to restore its power.

Sixth installment in the Soulcalibur series with improved graphics, guest characters from the Star Wars franchise and new modes.

"Two swords, two generations.....one destiny". The dawn rises on a new era in Soulcalibur V as Patroklos and Pyrrha, heirs of Sophitia, take up arms in the eternal fight between the mighty Soul swords.

Set in the 1880s, you as a bounty hunter must stop a gang of outlaws from the Wild West. You need to also find and kill the man who murdered your parents in order to avenge them. On your path you will be aided by those willing to help you.

A man enters a machine called the Animus that lets him relive the memories of his ancestor, a 12th century assassin named Altair.

Desmond Miles is trained to become a modern-day Assassin through the resurrected memories of ancestor Ezio Auditore da Firenze, who uncovers a massive Templar conspiracy in Renaissance Italy leading to the new Pope.

The powerful but arrogant god Thor, comes from Asgard to Earth and becomes one of its finest defenders.