Abunai said: "Sales wise, sims clearly.Multiplayer wise, Counterstrike?Singleplayer, Deus Ex (NOT deus ex 2)" They might be good games, but can you say that Counter-Strike and Deus Ex are good franchises? Lets be honest, there's really only one Counter-Strike game. Source, 1.6, and CZ are all the exact same. The one attempt to do anything different with CS, the single-player part of CZ, was terrible. With Deus Ex, you have ...

I'd nominate WarCraft and Civilization immediately; I really don't think I'd need to explain the reason for either. Total War would be in there as well, although it doesn't seem to have the high-profile as other games. Fallout of course could be a contender, or even the greatest depending on how Fallout 3 turns out. And we can't forget Half-Life either. Gordon Freeman is probably the closest thing that the ...

Probably StarCraft.I'd put Battlefield 1942 and TIE Fighter up near the top also.