Still probably the game I enjoy playing the most. Fails not to put a smile on my face every time. Rare outpaced Nintendo with the Bear and Bird and filled their world with British humour and pathos.

The funniest, warmest and most brilliantly written game of the past 30 years. It even has a controversial ending.

Chris Sawyer's masterpiece took the best bits of Sim City (transportation) and built a game around competition and planning. I just love it.

An astonishing game in every way. Bleak, dark and foreboding Rapture just oozes atmosphere. The story, characters and rich narrative bring video games to a whole new level of digital entertainment.

The best racing game of all time, bar none. Perfect balance, beautiful city locations, and the series' best tracks.

A marriage of a brilliant story, clever puzzles and a whacky assortment of characters. Simply wonderful.

Truly memorable vistas and genuinely emotional experiences in this great homage to classic Sam Peckepah and Sergio Leone westerns. The best open world game.

The pinnacle of space combat games, and all the better for being able to destroy those whining rebels. My divorce from all things StarWars doesn't extend to this masterpiece.

Quite simply the best open-world racer, and a genre defining game.

A wonderfully dark and black humoured game. A few strange design choices are offset by the brilliant locations, characters and DLC.

Pips Ocarina of Time with its dramatic shift into dark foreboding and dread. The time-lapse puzzles are often works of genius.

Wonderfully written and produced with a much more adult theme than many of its ilk. My favourite JRPG experience but a controversial choice for some.

The 3DS version is now the definitive one to have, but OoT is simply a masterpiece whether you play the N64 original or not.

Mass Effect 2 tips the scales in thanks to the combination of characters, action and fantastic DLC. Mass Effect 1 had the best story and soundtrack of the trilogy, and arguably the most ambition, whilst Mass Effect 3 the best narrative and emotion.

May appear slightly dated compared to the modern take on the console first-person-shooter, but for me its still just as good. Perfect controls, competitive multiplayer and expert level-design.

The Bear and Bird back for maybe their last putting in this clever 'techno-lego' style build-em-up and play it. Cracking fun, especially racing your contraptions online.

Morrowind fans be damned. I'd take the visual splendour and freedom of Oblivion's realm every time. A modern classic.

Controversial choice maybe, but I feel the streamlined gameplay and wonderful animation and graphics edge out the mighty Civ IV as the best in series.

Perfects the dungeon crawler by making it a fun co-op experience with a decent tale that you can replay time and time again.

Improves on the original in every way, and includes a mature, witty and well crafted script - a rarity for video games. Only the end-game level design lets it down.

My favourite fighting game bar none. This blew me away on the Dreamcast and the various game modes keep me playing for weeks and months

An often forgotten Cinamatique game from pre-Flashback Delphine. The science fiction story and design of this point and click adventure are still unsurpassed.

Split/Second is a breathtaking alternative to the Burnout series. Stunning audio and visuals combined with seat of the pants action.

The benchmark for point and click adventures, and genuinely funny. It was better by a perfect sequel.

Not quite up there with the original for atmosphere and storytelling, but in [DLC] Minerva's Den it has the series best single moment.

Edges out Head over Heals as the best Isometric 8-bit adventure game for me. Wonderful theme, time-lapse based puzzles and that iconic theme tune.

The highlight of the plastic instrument revolution. Rock Band may have the upper hand technically but this blended the charm and gameplay perfectly with the best set lists.

The best Mario outing for my money. Revolutionary on release, but the Bird and Bear took it to the next level.

Rockstar's finest two games don't involve motor theft. Bully is smarter and more consistent with its story telling and characters.

A unique and highly original game. Stunningly beautiful and mechanically innovate for the FPS genre; incredible free-running gameplay with that memorable soundtrack.

Wonderful 2D side scrolling shooter on the Spectrum and others.

One of the best of the GTA series, as GTA travels to the world of Scarface and Miami Vice corruption and excess

Sequel to Transport Tycoon; it is mechanically superior but maybe a bit too fiddly.

Turn off the lights and soak up the oppressive, dark and terrifying atmosphere. Survival horror done right. Dead Space 2 was "Aliens" to the original's "Alien", but DS2 ups the tension, strategy and action, delivering a subtly different but equally entertaining experience.

Another classic from the Rare stable, and often overlooked. A brilliant blend of mechs, puzzles and tension.

The closest GTA has come to a proper adult story with humour and wit. Sadly badly let down by some irritating gameplay choices and an inconsistent and incoherent final act.

The game that launched the HD generation. Visually stunning, action packed and entertaining both solo, co-op and online.

Reinvention and revelations. Perfection.

Flawless version of ANNO for the Wii with innovative controls and stunning audio and graphics.

Shouldn't work, but it just does. Lots of ideas and great musical mash-ups.

Defined the God game genre and remains a wonderfully simple and rewarding strategy game. Many hours spent playing VS a friend with a null-modem cable.

Inconsistent in places, and with some balancing issues for the ranged characters, it's still a cracking yarn and deep RPG. Awakenings [DLC] possibly better than its sibling.

The genre changing game that launch a 1000 1st Person Shooters on the Xbox. Halo is far superior to its awkward, ponderous and overrated sequels.

Rare's second entry is a flawless mash-up of creativity and strategy. Looks and sounds beautiful too. Buy the soundtrack!

Bettered by its PGR sequels, but in many ways the Dreamcast original has more charm.

The only Forza game to make my top 100.

Worthy sequel in Mario Kart 7

Better tables than the superb Pinball Dreams

The definitive version of Wipeout

Worthy sequel to the impressive Super Tennis {SNES)

Subversive and satisfying casual game that makes fun of casual games.