Best Video Games of All Time
by slayerjmk95 | created - 19 Mar 2012 | updated - 13 Jun 2012 | Public- Genres
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1. Mass Effect (2007 Video Game)
M | Action, Adventure, Drama
In a technologically advanced future, an elite human soldier takes command of a prototype star ship and works to defend the galaxy from danger.
Director: Casey Hudson | Stars: Steven Barr, Kimberly Brooks, Keith David, Seth Green
Votes: 19,835
2. Mass Effect 2 (2010 Video Game)
M | Action, Adventure, Drama
After being revived from death and having to join a pro-human organization without a choice, Commander Shepard must assemble a team, battle a new threat, and make tough choices in order to save the galaxy from total annihilation once more.
Director: Casey Hudson | Stars: Shohreh Aghdashloo, Maggie Baird, Adam Baldwin, Michael Beattie
Votes: 21,499
3. Mass Effect 3 (2012 Video Game)
M | Action, Adventure, Drama
Earth is under attack by a monstrous race of gigantic living ships known as the Reapers. Even if Commander Shepard could unite all surviving species in the galaxy, only a miracle could save them. Then again, Shepard did come back from the dead.
Director: Casey Hudson | Stars: Jennifer Hale, Mark Meer, Kimberly Brooks, Raphael Sbarge
Votes: 16,904
4. Alan Wake (2010 Video Game)
T | Action, Adventure, Horror
While on vacation in the small town of Bright Falls, a struggling writer must investigate the mysterious disappearance of his wife while events from his latest manuscript, which he can't remember writing, begin to come true.
Director: Petri Järvilehto | Stars: Matthew Porretta, Lloyd Floyd, Geoffrey Cantor, James McCaffrey
Votes: 7,327
5. Doom 3 (2004 Video Game)
M | Action, Horror, Sci-Fi
A demonic invasion at Union Aerospace Corporation's Mars Research Facility has left only you and a handful of survivors with the chance to fight your way to safety.
Stars: J. Grant Albrecht, Dee Bradley Baker, Michael Bell, Steve Blum
Votes: 4,464
6. Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare (2007 Video Game)
M | Action, Thriller
The Call of Duty series returns this time into a modern day setting. The player takes control of a character nicknamed "Soap," for the majority of the campaign and will need to progress through many modern warfare scenarios.
Director: Jason West | Stars: Billy Murray, Craig Fairbrass, David Sobolov, Mark Grigsby
Votes: 24,564
7. Battlefield 3 (2011 Video Game)
M | Action, War
Step into the role of the elite U.S. Marines and experience heart-pounding single player missions and competitive multiplayer action ranging across diverse locations from around the globe.
Director: Tom Keegan | Stars: Gideon Emery, Glenn Morshower, Thor Edgell, Mark Ivanir
Votes: 9,601
8. Dead Space (2008 Video Game)
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.
Director: Michael Condrey | Stars: Tonantzin Carmelo, J.G. Hertzler, Iyari Limon, Peter Mensah
Votes: 10,556
9. Dead Space 2 (2011 Video Game)
M | Action, Horror, Sci-Fi
Set three years after the events of the first, Isaac Clarke's fight against a new Necromorph outbreak on the Sprawl, a space station above Saturn's largest moon, Titan.
Stars: Gunner Wright, Tanya Clarke, Sonita Henry, Curt Cornelius
Votes: 7,286
10. Gears of War (2006 Video Game)
M | Action, Sci-Fi, War
Mankind's desperate struggle for survival against a the Locust Horde, a nightmarish race of creatures that surface from the planet's core.
Director: Mo Davoudian | Stars: John DiMaggio, Carlos Ferro, Lester Speight, Fred Tatasciore
Votes: 9,259
11. Gears of War 2 (2008 Video Game)
M | Action, Sci-Fi, War
Marcus Fenix and his COG Delta Squad fight against the Locust army to prevent them from sinking the cities of planet Sera.
Stars: John DiMaggio, Carlos Ferro, Fred Tatasciore, Lester Speight
Votes: 5,928
12. Gears of War 3 (2011 Video Game)
M | Action, Sci-Fi, War
With survivors scattered and civilization in ruins, time is running out for Sergeant Marcus Fenix and his Delta Squad.
Stars: John DiMaggio, Carlos Ferro, Fred Tatasciore, Lester Speight
Votes: 5,085
13. Halo: Combat Evolved (2001 Video Game)
M | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Super-soldier John-117, Master Chief of the United Nations Space Command, must battle a genocidal alien race known as the Covenant following his violent crash-landing on Halo, an ancient and mysterious ring-world.
Director: Jason Jones | Stars: Jen Taylor, Pete Stacker, Tim Dadabo, Steve Downes
Votes: 12,180
14. Halo: Reach (2010 Video Game)
M | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
A highly-trained branch of the UNSC known as the Noble Team must defend the planet of Reach from a massive Covenant invasion.
Director: Marcus Lehto | Stars: Freddy Bosche, Alona Tal, Jamie Hector, Hakeem Kae-Kazim
Votes: 7,710
15. Left 4 Dead (2008 Video Game)
M | Action, Horror
A multi player co-op in post-apocalyptic Pennsylvania, where four immune survivors, Francis, Bill, Zoey, and Louis fight through hordes of zombies and Special Infected as they make their way to extraction zones.
Director: Mike Booth | Stars: Earl Alexander, Jim French, Jen Taylor, Vince Valenzuela
Votes: 6,603
16. Half-Life 2 (2004 Video Game)
M | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Dr. Freeman is taken out of stasis by his "employer" to help rid the planet of invading aliens forces known as the Combine that entered through the portals he helped create.
Director: David Speyrer | Stars: Robert Guillaume, Robert Culp, Louis Gossett Jr., Michelle Forbes
Votes: 17,579
17. Singularity (2010 Video Game)
M | Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
A U.S. Marine captain unravels a mysterious conspiracy while investigating a time anomaly on a remote island in former Soviet Union.
Director: Michael McCormick | Stars: Nolan North, Steve Blum, Kari Wahlgren, Graham McTavish
Votes: 946
18. Bulletstorm (2011 Video Game)
M | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Commando Grayson Hunt, his team, and their evil boss General Sarrano, whom they want dead, crash land on the planet Stygia, a former elite resort now overrun with killer plants, feral cannibal gangs and monsters with acid for blood.
Director: James D. Mortellaro | Stars: Steve Blum, Andrew Kishino, Jennifer Hale, Chris Cox
Votes: 2,225
19. Medal of Honor (2010 Video Game)
M | Action, War
A first person shooter developed with the help of Tier 1 military operators depicting violent missions in Afganistan.
Directors: Tobias Strömvall, Blade Zavier, Sam McGlynn | Stars: Jeffrey Pierce, Jon Bruno, Dustin James Leighton, Chris Fries
Votes: 2,727
20. Rage (2011 Video Game)
M | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
In the year 2135, a man known as "Ark Survivor" awakes from cryogenic preservation; he finds that 106 years ago a meteor struck the earth, killing innumerable people and mutating many others into violent abominations.
Stars: Amanda Troop, April Stewart, Brian Bloom, Claudia Black
Votes: 1,775
21. The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim (2011 Video Game)
M | Action, Adventure, Fantasy
After escaping execution, the last living Dragonborn must grow in strength and power to defeat the dragons that have once again begun to plague the land of Skyrim.
Director: Todd Howard | Stars: Max von Sydow, Christopher Plummer, Joan Allen, Michael Hogan
Votes: 33,691
22. BioShock (2007 Video Game)
M | Action, Adventure, Horror
In 1960, a lone survivor of a plane crash named Jack discovers an abandoned underwater utopia, only to find out that the mystery behind its creation is much more sinister than he first believed.
Director: Ken Levine | Stars: John Ahlin, Greg Baldwin, Jane Beller, Susanne Blakeslee
Votes: 22,027
23. Super Mario Bros. (1985 Video Game)
Action, Adventure, Fantasy
A plumber named Mario and his brother Luigi travel through the Mushroom Kingdom to save the princess from the evil Bowser.
Director: Shigeru Miyamoto
Votes: 7,159
24. Super Mario 64 (1996 Video Game)
K-A | Action, Adventure, Comedy
When the evil Bowser steals 120 power stars and traps Princess Peach within the walls of her own castle, it's up to Mario to save her once again.
Director: Shigeru Miyamoto | Stars: Charles Martinet, Leslie Swan
Votes: 7,070
25. Epic Mickey (2010 Video Game)
E | Action, Adventure, Comedy
You play Mickey Mouse who must undo the damage he did to another world with the aid of his estranged half-brother, Oswald the Lucky Rabbit.
Director: Warren Spector | Stars: Benoît Allemane, Tony Anselmo, Jeff Bennett, Susanne Blakeslee
Votes: 435
26. Crysis (2007 Video Game)
M | Action, Adventure, Mystery
Sent in to investigate an alien meteor crash, Nomad must fight through the North Korean Army which has also arrived, only to discover North Korea is the least of their worries.
Director: Cevat Yerli | Stars: Claudia Black, André Sogliuzzo, Kristy Swanson, Lahmard J. Tate
Votes: 5,792
27. Crysis 2 (2011 Video Game)
M | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Set 3 years after the original game. Fight the aliens, following the protagonist in a new type of jungle; New York, the urban jungle.
Directors: Cevat Yerli, Steven Bender | Stars: Janis Ahern, Joey Ansah, Paul Birchard, Peter Brooke
Votes: 5,371
28. F.E.A.R. First Encounter Assault Recon (2005 Video Game)
M | Action, Horror, Mystery
You play an elite commando for a unique covert operations unit hunting for a mysterious fugitive who commands a clone army while mysterious things occur around you.
Director: Craig Hubbard | Stars: Greg Baldwin, Jock Blaney, Susanna Burney, Colby Chester
Votes: 3,181
29. L.A. Noire (2011 Video Game)
M | Action, Crime, Drama
Cole Phelps, a war hero and rookie cop, moves up the ranks and solves dark cases in 1940s Los Angeles.
Director: Brendan McNamara | Stars: Aaron Staton, Michael McGrady, Adam J. Harrington, Sean McGowan
Votes: 16,640
30. Fable III (2010 Video Game)
M | Action, Adventure, Fantasy
Your journey to rule the throne of Albion begins fifty years after the events of the last chapter, and you play as the child of your hero from Fable II (2008).
Stars: John Cleese, Michael Fassbender, Stephen Fry, Naomie Harris
Votes: 2,952
31. Borderlands (2009 Video Game)
M | Action, Adventure, Comedy
Four courageous adventurers land on the planet of Pandora, a barren wasteland filled with dangerous creatures, in search of The Vault, a mysterious relic that contains untold technology, and only opens every 200 years.
Director: Matthew Armstrong | Stars: Julio Cesar Cedillo, Colleen Clinkenbeard, Rene Coronado, David Eddings
Votes: 5,370
32. Red Faction: Guerrilla (2009 Video Game)
M | Action, Sci-Fi
Play as Alec Mason as he assists the rebellious Red Faction to overthrow the oppressive Earth Defense Force (EDF) on Mars.
Directors: Keith Arem, Colin J. Hodges, Michael McCormick, Robert Taylor | Stars: Troy Baker, Kari Wahlgren, Michael McConnohie, Tom Virtue
Votes: 1,069
33. Red Faction (2001 Video Game)
M | Action, Sci-Fi
Rebels band together to bring down a power-hungry corporation controlling the world government with a violent iron-fist.
Stars: Dale Inghram, Loredo Sheperd, Susan Messing, Ilyssa Fradin
Votes: 791
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