Game Informer's Top 25 Sci-Fi Games

1. Mass Effect 2
2. Half-Life 2
3. Portal
4. Super Metroid
5. Halo: Combat Evolved
6. Deus Ex
7. Fallout 3
8. Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic
9. StarCraft
10. System Shock 2
11. Alpha Centauri
12. Xenosaga Episode 1: Der Willie zur Macht
13. Eve Online
14. Star Wars: X-Wing
15. X-COM: Enemy Unknown
16. Chrono Trigger
17. Dead Space
18. Shadowrun
19. Wing Commander II: Vengeance of the Kilrathi
20. BioShock Infinite
21. Master of Orion
22. Mega Man X
23. Ratchet and Clank: Up Your Arsenal
24. The Chronicles of Riddick: Escape from Butcher Bay
25. Homeworld

Your thoughts?

meh

Looks like a good list.

Joke list? That mag is a high school newspaper.

Why is Ratchet on the list?

How is ME2 above KOTOR?

I personally wouldn't consider BioShock Infinite a Sc-Fi game. I think it has a better fit under steampunk...

HAHAHHAHAHAHA

BIOSHOCK SHITFINITE

HAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAH OH MY GOD

X-Wing, but not Tie Fighter? I don't even...

Any list that doesn't have Tie Fighter at or near the top isn't worth looking through.

Great list and a deserved win . Homeworld should've been ranked higher but you can't have everything. Freelancer got to be the most overlooked gem ever made .

Why is ME2 above anything ?

No.

Mass Effect is terrible sci-fi.. It is a barrage of cliche's.

Simply a selection of "what is most popular" per usual. Obviously Homeworld should be higher; the young console gamers wont have heard of it let alone played it, so... barely on the list.

**** off gameinformer. Take your barely 20 year old reviewers with shitty hipster memes on there shirt and move to ISAS held territory. Ya bastards.

Decent list but there's games that shouldn't be on there like Bioshock Infinite, Ratchet and Clank, Chrono Trigger (good game but it's sci-fi was weak as hell), Fallout 3 (NV was better), Xenosaga ep 1.

Also it's missing games like Alien Isolation, Doom 3, Star Wars Republic Commando, Star Wars JK: Jedi Academy, Warhammer 40k DoW 2, Starcraft 2.

That multiuniverse thingy made it into a scifi game.

Actually chrono trigger gets most of its time traveling things accurately.

there's a few titles in there I'm like "why is that on the damn list", but overall there's some good picks in there

they were in the ballpark on some so I won't hold it against them, though I'd of chose Homeworld 2 over Homeworld, Portal 2 over Portal, Tie Figher over X-Wing

sad to see Alien Isolation didn't make the cut, there's a few games I'd of liked to have made the list but if I were ever so certain one of them deserved to be on there it's that

Still pretty bland

No Metroid Prime.

lol

Why do people shit on Gameinformer?

Why is everyone hateful?

I think they might limit it to 1 game per franchise.

EDIT: Err, series, I guess, since I see two Star Wars games up there.

Because it's not very good. Being not very good; leads to criticism.

.... which is technically a subgenre of sci-fi.

@charizard1605: why would they put the worst metroid game on there?

But how exactly is it not good?

In that case, Metroid Prime is a separate series than regular Metroid

Why is Mass Effect 2 on that list at all let alone number 1?

Mass Effect 2 at number 1 is what makes this list valid. Game Informer know their business.

Xenosaga should be higher but overall great list.

@uninspiredcup is def one of the better posters around here.

There's a few good games on there, but pretty predictable for a shitty mainstream list.

ME2 #1 and Fallout 3, but no other Fallout games ? Derp

(goes back to playing Buck Rogers: Countdown to Doomsday and Star Control 2)

ME2 for me is the best ...

Good list!

Mass Effect 1 > Mass Effect 2, in my opinion.

Not a bad list, though.

Pretty safe list although a lot of video games can be labeled as sci fi.

Man I really wish more people had played Freelancer. Much better than lot of games on that list including Bioshock. But overall it's pretty good list.

This.

Where is Colony Wars? Syndicate Wars? So many great games have been forgotten...........

Has most of my favourites in the list... just don't agree with the order.

Not a bad list in all honesty. Sure the ordering is debatable and a game or two should be swapped out, but there are a lot of good titles.

Bit surprise that Up Your Arsenal is on there, which was pretty cool, so it nice that it was placed in there. Guess not a bad list overall, through I would probably put Deus Ex and Half Life 2 lower compare to say System Shock 2 and Portal.

infinite disappointment

I don't think Bioshock Infinite is sci if, but the game is my all time favorite!

Nice list.

No Mechwarrior?

@jun_aka_pekto: You know you ain't worth your salt when you put Half-Life 2 over the original Half-Life.

But I'm going to take an educated stab and say the person(s) that made this list forgot all about Half-Life 1.

Top five is stupid.

Eh? Wha? ;)

I can appreciate that no game franchise is on their more than once. But since they did that it should have been top franchises instead of top games. No Metroid Primes, or other Mass Effects or Halos or Star Wars

Other than Mass Effect 2, Dead Space and Bioshocke: Infinite, that's a fairly good list.

Bookmarked. Love me some Sci Fi.

Tenuous argument.

Almost anything written in the last century, novels, movies...whatever, is a "cliche", or at least recycled concepts.

People have been writing stories for 5000 years. There are no "new topics" or ideas left. Just re-skinned and updated versions of the same old archetypes.

Even the most "unique and ground-breaking" stories written today heavily incorporate the same concepts, story arcs and literary devices that have been used countless times before.

I dare you. Try to name a "original" story written in the last decade.

Originality is simply a measure of how well you can spin age-old subjects. There wasn't any point in history where there was more originality for people to exploit than there is today, and that's because we keep telling the same stories over and over again.

Nevermind rubbish video game stories for a second. We see this in game design. People point to Super Mario Bros. and Mario 64 as pinnacles of originality, and they would be right. Both of them, however, are spinning concepts that had come before. Ditto for S.T.A.L.K.E.R, or Half-Life, Ninja Gaiden, or Devil May Cry.

A perceived lack of originality occurs when whatever is being judged does not appear to be inspired beyond having the tropes of a genre. Mass Effect 2 and Destiny would have this issue in terms of story and lore, for example.

These are two completely different things. Re-using idea's is not inherently bad. However an obvious cliche (unless parody) generally is. Media can re-use idea's and concepts while still very much making them feel there own.

Mass Effect doesn't do this. It is pure, obvious, cliche. Without an ounce of creativity.

Same fucking character.

Same shit.

Star wars re-uses tons of concepts from Japanese cinema to old King Arther tales. However, it is not cliche. It uses the idea's and makes them it's own: creating cliches.

My friend; it appears what the word "cliche" hasn't been fully understood properly. Rather than take it as the correct definition "overused" you appear have taken the word as "re-used". As well as attempt to confine it purely to story.