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by TheeCaige • Created 3 years ago • Modified 17 hours ago
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  • Metal Gear (1987)

    1. Metal Gear

    1987EVideo Game
    7.7 (1.5K)
    After Gray Fox, FOX-HOUND's best agent, goes missing, rookie Solid Snake is sent to the South African fortress "Outer Heaven" to rescue him from terrorists armed with a nuclear-equipped bipedal tank.
    DirectorHideo KojimaStarDennis Falt
  • Metal Gear 2: Solid Snake (1990)

    2. Metal Gear 2: Solid Snake

    1990EVideo Game
    8.1 (1.3K)
    Solid Snake has retired from FOX-HOUND, but is called back to active duty to infiltrate the heavily armed nation "Zanzibar Land" and rescue a kidnapped inventor.
    DirectorHideo Kojima
  • Metal Gear Solid (1998)

    3. Metal Gear Solid

    1998MVideo Game
    9.5 (14K)
    A crack government anti-terrorist squad takes over an obscure Alaskan nuclear disposal facility. Solid Snake is up for the task to infiltrate the facility, rescue the two hostages and thwart the terrorists' plans.
    DirectorHideo KojimaStarsDavid HayterPatric ZimmermanPeter Lurie
  • Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty (2001)

    4. Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty

    2001MVideo Game
    9.0 (9.8K)
    Two years after the death of Solid Snake, a rookie FOX-HOUND agent, on his first mission, infiltrates an offshore decontamination facility to rescue the President.
    DirectorHideo KojimaStarsDavid HayterQuinton FlynnChristopher Randolph
  • Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater (2004)

    5. Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater

    2004MVideo Game
    9.5 (12K)
    In 1964, a U.S. government operative codenamed "Snake" must infiltrate mountainous Soviet territory to rescue a scientist building a weapon of terrible power.
    DirectorHideo KojimaStarsDavid HayterJodi BensonJim Piddock
  • Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker (2010)

    6. Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker

    2010TVideo Game
    8.3 (2.6K)
    In 1974, Snake (a.k.a. Big Boss) is no longer part of the US special forces and has his own merc team. While on a mission in South America, they encounter a strange hostile merc unit with far superior equipment than their latest tech.
    DirectorHideo KojimaStarsDavid HayterRobin Atkin DownesTara Strong
  • David Hayter in Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots (2008)

    7. Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots

    2008MVideo Game
    9.3 (12K)
    When the nations of the world rely upon private military companies to fight their battles for them, renegade Liquid Ocelot emerges as the head of a potent coalition of mercenary powers. Solid Snake returns to save the world once again.
    DirectorHideo KojimaStarsDavid HayterJosh KeatonPeter Lurie
  • Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance (2013)

    8. Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance

    2013MVideo Game
    7.8 (3.3K)
    In the year 2018, cybernetic soldier Raiden goes on a mission to stop a terrorist organization from starting a war for financial gain.
    DirectorsMineshi KimuraKenji SaitoHideo KojimaStarsQuinton FlynnPhilip Anthony-RodriguezMichael Beattie
  • Metal Gear Solid V: Ground Zeroes (2014)

    9. Metal Gear Solid V: Ground Zeroes

    2014MVideo Game
    7.6 (3.6K)
    Set in March 1975, a few months after the events of Peace Walker, Snake infiltrates an American black site on Cuban soil called Camp Omega to extract two prisoners.
    DirectorHideo KojimaStarsKiefer SutherlandRobin Atkin DownesTara Strong
  • Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain (2015)

    10. Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain

    2015MVideo Game
    8.7 (9.3K)
    After awakening from a nine year coma, Big Boss forms a new mercenary group called, Diamond Dogs, and teams up with his former rival, Ocelot, to track down the men responsible for the destruction of MSF.
    DirectorsHideo KojimaJunji TagoStarsKiefer SutherlandRobin Atkin DownesTroy Baker
  • Counter-Strike: Global Offensive (2012)

    11. Counter-Strike: Global Offensive

    2012MVideo Game
    7.7 (4.6K)
    A first person shooter game depicting death matches between terrorists and counter-terrorists.
    StarsAlain AouadThomas Balou MartinTony Curran
  • Apex Legends (2019)

    12. Apex Legends

    2019TVideo Game
    7.2 (4.1K)
    Master an ever-growing roster of legendary characters with powerful abilities and experience strategic squad play and innovative gameplay in the next evolution of Hero Shooter and Battle Royale.
    StarsGabe KundaIke AmadiYukiko Aruga
  • Destiny (2014)

    13. Destiny

    2014TVideo Game
    7.7 (5.5K)
    Years in the future, a group of space-born humans fight to remove the Earth of alien invaders.
    DirectorJason JonesStarsPeter DinklageBill NighyLauren Cohan
  • Destiny 2 (2017)

    14. Destiny 2

    2017TVideo Game
    7.5 (4K)
    Humanity's last safe city has fallen to an overwhelming invasion force, led by Ghaul, the imposing commander of the brutal Red Legion. He has stripped the city's Guardians of their power, and forced the survivors to flee.
    DirectorsChristopher BarrettLuke SmithRyan EllisStarsNathan FillionLance ReddickGina Torres
  • Sea of Thieves (2018)

    15. Sea of Thieves

    2018TVideo Game
    6.7 (1.4K)
    Four-player session open-world MMO based on a sea pirates theme, that let's players and their crew go on a journey to find treasure.
    DirectorGregg MaylesStarsAlastair ParkerAlex NortonAmelia Tyler
  • PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds (2017)

    16. PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds

    2017TVideo Game
    6.4 (2.6K)
    A Battle Royale begins when one hundred players parachute onto an island.
    DirectorBrendan GreeneStarsOrion AcabaAlan Kelly
  • Grand Theft Auto (1997)

    17. Grand Theft Auto

    1997MVideo Game
    7.7 (4.5K)
    The game's narrative follows a criminal who climbs in status within the criminal underworld, as you explore the free worlds of Liberty City, Vice City and San Andreas while doing jobs and assignments.
    StarsRhys DavisCallum JonesSpike Robinson
  • Grand Theft Auto 2 (1999)

    18. Grand Theft Auto 2

    1999MVideo Game
    7.5 (4.3K)
    Set within a retrofuturistic metropolis known as "Anywhere City", the game focuses on players taking the role of a criminal as they roam an open world, conducting jobs for various crime syndicates.
    DirectorsAlex De RakoffJamie KingStarsGary PennIan FultonInnes Ricard
  • Grand Theft Auto III (2001)

    19. Grand Theft Auto III

    2001MVideo Game
    8.6 (18K)
    A young bank robber escapes from police custody and works his way up through the mafia ladder of Liberty City.
    StarsFrank VincentJoe PantolianoMichael Madsen
  • Fairuza Balk, Ray Liotta, Tom Sizemore, Luis Guzmán, and Philip Michael Thomas in Grand Theft Auto: Vice City (2002)

    20. Grand Theft Auto: Vice City

    2002MVideo Game
    9.2 (32K)
    In 1986, after doing 15 years in prison in Liberty City, gangster Tommy Vercetti is sent away to Vice City to take over the town and rise to the top of the criminal empire.
    StarsRay LiottaWilliam FichtnerTom Sizemore
  • Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas (2004)

    21. Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas

    2004MVideo Game
    9.4 (49K)
    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 overtaken by crime and corruption, which he must take back before things become worse.
    StarsYoung MaylayFaizon LoveYolanda 'Yo-Yo' Whittaker
  • Grand Theft Auto IV (2008)

    22. Grand Theft Auto IV

    2008MVideo Game
    8.9 (41K)
    Niko Bellic comes to Liberty City in 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.
    StarsMichael HollickJason ZumwaltTimothy Adams
  • Ned Luke, Shawn Fonteno, and Steven Ogg in Grand Theft Auto V (2013)

    23. Grand Theft Auto V

    2013MVideo Game
    9.4 (80K)
    Three very different criminals team up for a series of heists and walk into some of the most thrilling experiences in the corrupt city of Los Santos in the sate of Southern San Andreas.
    StarsShawn FontenoNed LukeSteven Ogg
  • Rainbow Six (1998)

    24. Rainbow Six

    1998TVideo Game
    7.5 (478)
    John Clark is recruited along with Rainbow, the most elite counter-terror team in the world, to rescue hostages from terrorists, but as they go on, they discover there are bigger things at stake - such as the entire world.
    StarsDouglas RyeRobert SampsonMichelle Collins
  • Rainbow Six: Rogue Spear (1999)

    25. Rainbow Six: Rogue Spear

    1999TVideo Game
    7.9 (247)
    Your team is back saving the world again. This time from a group known as "Rogue Spear". Their forces are powerful and you must strike quick and hard if you wish to win.
    StarsCarole RuggierDouglas RyeCynthia Martells

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