Best Games by Popularity
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Twisted Metal
- Release Date: Nov 5, 1995
- Genre: Car Combat
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Final Fantasy VII
- GameSpot Score
- 9.5
- Editors' Choice
- Release Date: Sep 3, 1997
Never before have technology, playability, and narrative combined as well as in Final Fantasy VII.
- Genre: Role-Playing
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Final Fantasy VIII
- GameSpot Score
- 9.5
- Editors' Choice
- Release Date: Sep 7, 1999
Cast all fears aside: the latest Final Fantasy is the greatest game ever to bear the name.
- Genre: Role-Playing
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Final Fantasy IX
- GameSpot Score
- 8.5
- great
- Release Date: Nov 13, 2000
Final Fantasy IX serves as a coda to the series as you know it - it's a summation of everything that players have enjoyed about the past ten years of Final Fantasy games.
- Genre: Role-Playing
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Chrono Cross
- GameSpot Score
- 10
- Editors' Choice
- Release Date: Aug 15, 2000
Chrono Cross may not have had the largest budget, but it has the largest heart.
- Genre: Role-Playing
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Twisted Metal 2
- GameSpot Score
- 8.8
- great
- Release Date: Oct 31, 1996
Twisted Metal 2 crushes the competition.
- Genre: Car Combat
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Twisted Metal 4
- GameSpot Score
- 7.1
- good
- Release Date: Oct 31, 1999
Twisted Metal 4 is as huge a leap ahead of Twisted Metal III as the second was to the original.
- Genre: Car Combat
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Twisted Metal III
- GameSpot Score
- 4.7
- poor
- Release Date: Oct 31, 1998
Take a look at Activision's Vigilante 8 or GT Interactive's Rogue Trip instead.
- Genre: Car Combat
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Metal Gear Solid
- GameSpot Score
- 8.5
- great
- Release Date: Oct 21, 1998
You are Snake, a government agent on a mission to regain control of a secret nuclear weapons base from terrorist hands.
- Genre: Modern Action Adventure
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Xenogears
- GameSpot Score
- 9.0
- Editors' Choice
- Release Date: Oct 20, 1998
Xenogears' reliance on story, subtlety, and mood make it Square's most anime-like RPG thus far, in many ways making the game one of its best.
- Genre: Role-Playing
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Digimon World
- GameSpot Score
- 5.1
- mediocre
- Release Date: May 23, 2000
Digimon World isn't for everyone - only dedicated Digimon fans or fans of the monster-raising genre need apply.
- Genre: Strategy
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The Legend of Dragoon
- GameSpot Score
- 6.4
- fair
- Release Date: Jun 11, 2000
While it's a good first try, Sony's inexperience with the genre shows through, resulting in a highly generic RPG with some out-of-this-world FMV.
- Genre: Role-Playing
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Final Fantasy Tactics
- GameSpot Score
- 8.9
- great
- Release Date: Jan 28, 1998
Role-playing games don't get a whole lot better than Final Fantasy Tactics.
- Genre: Fantasy Turn-Based Strategy
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Castlevania: Symphony of the Night
- GameSpot Score
- 8.9
- great
- Release Date: Oct 2, 1997
Quite possibly the best 2D action side scroller ever.
- Genre: 2D Platformer
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Digimon World 3
- GameSpot Score
- 4.9
- poor
- Release Date: Jun 5, 2002
Even with its budget-minded pricing, Digimon World 3 is at best an average role-playing game that will appeal only to fans of the greater Digimon franchise.
- Genre: Role-Playing
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