Rating of computer games of all time. Cult games on PC

Is there a perfect recipe for bringing a great game to market and selling it record numbers? Judging by the best-selling games in history, no. Here we will talk about the first-person shooters Battlefield and Call of Duty, and about the Minecraft world constructor, and about the GTA V prostitute murder simulator.

And now a riddle: what was the best-selling game in history? I'm sure most of you can handle it easily. But the answer is still at the end of the article.

World of Warcraft

The World of Warcraft game was released in 2004, by 2007 the number of users reached 8 million people, and in 2010 it exceeded 13 million. This is the most popular MMORPG in the world in terms of the number of subscribers, which is confirmed by an entry in the Guinness Book of Records. Throughout its history, more than 100 million accounts have been registered in the game, and the number of players fluctuates between 7 and 10 million people.

In October 2016, the fifteenth game in the series, Battlefield 1, based on the First World War, was released. Time will tell if it will make it to the list of best-selling games in the future.

Call of Duty

The success of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 became obvious in the first day after release, November 10, 2009. During the day, the developers set a record and sold 4.7 million copies of the game, surpassing Grand Theft Auto IV in this parameter. Seven years have passed since then, but the game still evokes the warmest feelings for many.

The game, on the contrary, caused indignation among deputies of the State Duma of the Russian Federation. At the beginning of 2010, during the spring session of the meeting, they began to discuss Call of Duty, proposing to equate the games with extremist materials. We were talking about scenes of violence, namely the murder of unarmed people at the airport in the game. The “No Russian” level has been removed in the Russian version.

In November 2010, Call of Duty: Black Ops broke the record of its predecessor - it sold 5 million copies in one day. Total sales of the game exceeded 26 million copies in 2012.

On November 12, 2011, Activision announced that a Call of Duty game had set a world sales record for the third year in a row. In just one day, 6.5 million copies were bought in the USA and England. Until 2013, 28.5 million copies were sold.

This game is dedicated to the end of World War III and is a sequel to Modern Warfare 2. Personally, I think this game is the best in the series. But this is my subjective opinion, perhaps tied, among other things, to a nostalgic mood towards her. It's still nice to sometimes turn on the survival battle mode with bots.

Pokémon Red, Blue, Green and Pokémon Gold and Silver

In 1996, Nintendo released Pokémon Red, Blue and Green in Japan for the Game Boy. These were the first games in the Pokemon series on the console. The three versions sold 23.64 million copies. As we can see, the popularity of Pokemon was already affecting the sales of video games, so the success of Pokemon Go is quite logical.

Let's remember what Pokemon Red looked like on Game Boy in 1996. With such graphical capabilities then it was necessary to create excellent gameplay. Or is the main thing to choose the right characters, what do you think?

Two new versions of Pokémon Gold and Silver were released in 1999 on the Game Boy and Game Boy Color. They couldn't match the success of their predecessors, but still sold 23 million copies, making them some of the best-selling video games in history.

To the 151 types of Pokemon from previous versions, 100 more were added, bringing the total number of characters to 251. To collect all the Pokemon, it was not enough to go through one game - for example, Gold. Users needed to exchange Pokemon with players of the Silver version, as well as older games.

Some more ear balm in the form of old 8-bit music in Pokemon Silver gameplay.

Nintendogs

Long before the goat simulator, but after the Tamagotchi, Nintendo decided to make a dog simulator for the DS console. From 2005 to 2011, Nintendogs sold 23.64 million copies.

In the game you need to take care of a dog, controlled using a touchscreen and microphone. You can communicate with other users using wireless communication between consoles.

Diablo III

The famous RPG Diablo III was released in 2012. The game set a record for daily game sales for personal computers- 3.5 million per day. Sales reached 6.3 million copies in the first week, and 30 million copies were sold in total. Perhaps if Diablo III were released on several platforms at once, it would break Call of Duty's records.

Diablo III received a warm welcome, but fans who played previous versions decided that the atmosphere was not the same. The colors are too bright, not enough gothic, and so on. In this regard, they put forward a petition to Blizzard demanding to change the color scheme. The company refused.

Below is the trailer for Diablo III: Reaper of Souls.

Super Mario

Any ranking like this should have Super Mario. If we were talking about gaming franchises, this character would be at the top. Super game Mario Bros. for the Nintendo Entertainment System (in Russia read “for Dendy”) it sold 40.24 million copies.

The game was made into an anime, a strange 1993 feature film, and, of course, porn, in which Ron Jeremy took part. Nintendo had to buy the rights to two porn films in order to bury them forever. But Youtube remembers at least such a small cut without, in fact, the main action.

The list of best-selling games in history includes Mario Kart Wii, New Super Mario Bros., New Super Mario Bros. Wii. Each of these games sold at least 23 million copies. But the total sales of all games in the franchise are 528 million units.

Grand Theft Auto V

The GTA series owes much of its popularity to the ability to move freely around the world and do whatever you want. If you want, crush people, if you want, you carry out tasks, if you want, you kill prostitutes. Because of the latter, the game Grand Theft Auto V was even banned in Australia.

The game was released in September 2013 on seventh generation consoles, in 2014 on eighth generation consoles and in 2015 on personal computers.

The PC version with 60 FPS and Full HD turned out amazing.

The game's advertising campaign went off with a bang and a scandal. In the poster below you can easily recognize Lindsay Lohan; moreover, the game has a mission where you need to save a character with a biography similar to Lohan’s from the paparazzi. But on the covers of the game it’s not a famous actress, but model Shelby Welinder. The actress sued Rockstar and lost.

In total, the game sold 65 million copies.

The predecessor to GTA V, the fourth part of Grand Theft Auto, released in 2008, sold 25 million copies. It never surpassed 2004's Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas with 27.5 million sales. You can remember your childhood with San Andreas today on Android, but you will have to pay more than five hundred rubles. It’s blasphemous to profit from nostalgia like that.

Welcome to the Jungle - Guns"n"Roses are invited to GTA: San Andreas.

Wii Sports

The Wii Sports action game went on sale in November 2006 and has sold over 82 million copies. The recipe for success turned out to be simple - the game was delivered directly in the box with the Nintendo Wii console in all countries except Japan.

The game received various awards for its innovative gameplay. This collection of five sports simulators involves motion control using controllers.

Mobility in the game has become a double-edged sword. On the one hand, people began to get off the couch and spend time together exciting games. On the other hand, televisions suffered from this.

Controllers flying out of hands was not uncommon. After all, each of the sports in the set - tennis, baseball, bowling, golf and boxing - involves active swinging of the arms. You can simply forget that the bowling ball is rolling inside the game and try to knock down the pins with the plastic thing in your hand.

Minecraft

So beloved by the younger generation, Minecraft has sold 107 million copies. In 2011, Swedish programmer Markus Persson, who founded Mojang, released it on Windows, OS X and Linux. A few months later it was released on Android, iOS, and then moved to the Xbox 360 and One game consoles, PlayStation 3, 4 and Vita. In 2014, Microsoft bought the Minecraft developer for two billion dollars.

The game has become one of the most popular in the world. In total, more than 107 million copies were sold. But why did it become popular in the first place? Why do schoolchildren love her so much and constantly make videos on YouTube?

Perhaps, as in the case of GTA, the openness of the game world plays a big role. Minecraft gives room for imagination and creativity. You can hunt, you can build buildings and cities, or blow things up. And all - in a world similar to Lego. And almost everyone loves Lego.

Tetris

On June 6, 2016, Tetris turned 32 years old. This game has been on almost all gaming platforms, as well as on graphing calculators and media players. They want to make a sci-fi feature film based on it in China. Moreover, this will be done by American producer Lawrence Casanova, who is responsible for the film “True Lies”, and also took part in several animated television projects for Lego.

What about a calculator, you could play Tetris on the wall of a skyscraper

The game was created by Soviet programmer Alexey Pajitnov. The name comes from "tetromino" and "tennis". Tetraminos are geometric figures from four squares. There are seven such figures in Tetris. The pieces fall into a glass 10 squares wide and 20 squares high. The goal is to collect a horizontal row of 10 cells that then disappear.

Over the history of the game, it has not only been ported to all sorts of platforms, but also the rules have been changed, complicated, and improved. Tetris was made three-dimensional, it was colored and black and white, with a variety of musical accompaniments. They even sell “physical” Tetris. In 2009, designer Andrew Liszewski began selling his 360-degree version, in which a figure appears in the center and then falls to whichever side the player chooses by flipping the console.

Atari bought the rights to use the game in slot machines. Nintendo received the rights to port it to the NES and Game Boy. Then, in the late 1980s, the game came to Sega. And in 1996, Pajitnov founded the Tetris Company to start receiving money for his invention. In 2014, Tetris Company announced a deal to port the game to Xbox One and PlayStation 4.

As of 2014, the number of mobile installations of the game was 425 million, 35 million on Game Boy, plus about 70 million copies were sold. It is difficult to say how many unlicensed cartridges and devices with this game were sold.

So Tetris is not just a leader, but an absolute leader with a huge advantage.

Let's now talk about your favorite games. It doesn't matter how many copies of these games were sold. What did you like to play in the past, and what do you still play now?

Of course, you can’t collect all the cult games on a PC in one article, otherwise you’ll end up with a whole encyclopedia, but we’ve still compiled a list of the coolest games of all time, in our opinion.

Long gone are the days when computer games were entertainment for schoolchildren, a kind of privilege or the lot of those who, instead of reading books, preferred to degrade behind the monitor. And how many myths still hover around games! And they cause addiction, and they instill false values, and they teach cruelty, it’s just a nightmare. In fact, everything turned out to be almost the opposite. For example, some large companies even believe that a person who has managed to competently manage his own guild in WoW is able to organize the work of employees better than someone who does not have similar experience in the virtual world.

The gaming industry, like literature and cinema, does not just create new entertainment, but changes the world. And the better the product, the better the quality of these changes. Games that force us to think through our actions several moves ahead, design something new, make moral choices and empathize with characters - isn't this real art?

The Elder Scrolls

Every RPG fan is probably familiar with the TES series. The first game, The Elder Scrolls: Arena was released for DOS back in 1994, but even an avid Skyrim fan may well have never heard of it. The second part, Daggerfall, despite its commercial success, was nicknamed “Buggerfall” because of a bunch of bugs.

But with the release of Morrowind, each subsequent part invariably topped the tops of the best RPGs thanks to the concept of “be who you want, do what you want” and a leveling system based on constant use skills, and not the banal accumulation of experience.

Warcraft

It’s unlikely that Blizzard Entertainment, when releasing the first game in the Warcraft series, Orcs & Humans, in 1994, could have imagined that it would become the ancestor of one of the most popular franchises in the world. The third part, despite its venerable age, is still considered one of the best RTS and has a huge fandom. Warcraft owes this to its cool plot, interesting history of the world and characters, and, of course, to the developers who devoted a significant part of their life to their brainchild.

World of Warcraft

The story of Warcraft has ended, because the story of World of Warcraft has begun. Since 2004, this truly iconic MMORPG has been depriving millions of players around the world of free time and sleep. Blizzard has firmly hooked them on this drug, generously flavoring each addition with new races, classes, locations and other content.

In 2008, WoW was included in the Guinness Book of Records as the most popular MMORPG, and in 2014, the developers counted more than 100 million accounts created over the 10 years of the game’s existence.

Dota 2

Now Dota 2 is the most popular MOBA and eSports discipline with prize pools amounting to millions of dollars, so it’s hard to believe that it all started with a simple fan addition to Warcraft III. Dota changed developers more than once, and only in 2009 Valve took over the game. Dota 2 can be downloaded on Steam completely free of charge.

Diablo

Diablo is another Blizzard creation that is included in the Guinness Book of Records: the second part of the series received this honor for its record number of sales. To this day, the series is considered the standard of Action/RPG, and every game in the genre strives to receive the title of “Diablo killer.” But in most cases, the result is simply decent or not very good clones. And it’s unlikely that anyone will actually be able to kill Blizzard’s great and terrible creation.

StarCraft

Let's talk again about the creativity of Blizzard Entertainment. StarCraft can rightfully be considered the best real-time space strategy, although it did not become a pioneer in the genre, losing the palm to Dune 2. A cool, intriguing plot, perfectly honed balance, and a variety of tactics and missions raised StarCraft to enormous heights and helped it become a full-fledged e-sports discipline .

The Witcher

Despite its relative youth, The Witcher has already become, without exaggeration, a cult RPG. The gloomy and cruel world of Sapkowski, devoid of “black and white”, his complex characters who every now and then have to make difficult decisions and put up with their consequences - isn’t this a recipe for an ideal deep RPG?

Game designers lament that the third part of the series has set the bar too high for you to try to reach. Well, the developers can only try even harder so that their creations do not look gray and boring compared to the Witcher.

Fallout

Prince of Persia

The adventures of the Prince of Persia, who finds himself in the most dangerous adventures with enviable regularity, began back in 1989. Naturally, a lot has changed since then, but everything that made us love the series has been preserved - a well-preserved oriental atmosphere and complex acrobatics, forcing the player to always be on the alert and improve their skills.

Tomb Raider

Smart, resourceful, dexterous and brave, Lara Croft is the perfect heroine for an action adventure. Since 1996, we have been watching Tomb Raider get involved in interesting stories and life-threatening alterations on television screens, monitors, the pages of books and comics. And in 2013, a complete relaunch of the cult old games in the series took place Tomb Raider.

Age of Empires

Age of Empires is one of the most successful real-time strategy series in which players became participants in real historical events, standing shoulder to shoulder with real historical characters. Although many consider the third part to be a failure compared to the previous ones, the gaming community still has hopes for Age of Empires IV, but the exact release date is still unknown.

Civilization

Heroes of Might & Magic

It just so happened that the Heroes series, originally planned as a spin-off of the RPG Might & Magic series, became more popular than its predecessor and grew into an independent franchise. The third part of Heroes remains to this day the standard of turn-based strategy in a fantasy setting.

Lineage II

Lineage II is a classic MMORPG, following the best traditions of the genre and probably killing players no less time than the great and terrible World of Warcraft. By 2014, the number of accounts in the Line exceeded 20 million. Those who are not bothered by constant grinding, farming and PvP battles are especially welcome here, so large-scale that you can easily feel like an ordinary unit from StarCraft.

Dark Souls

The Dark Souls series is quite young (the first part was released in 2011 on PS 3 and X360, in 2012 on PC), but has already gained the status of a cult game thanks to its deep combat system and high complexity of gameplay and has proven that the maximum simplification of the gameplay in Action /RPG is no longer in fashion. The lack of ability to save whenever you want, and hardcore battles will definitely tickle your nerves.

Dragon Age

Dragon Age is another cool RPG series, which takes place in a classic world for the genre, where fantasy races and magic are intertwined with the European Middle Ages. But besides the real world, there is another dimension - the Shadow, where representatives of almost all intelligent races fall in their dreams, and magicians can travel there while awake, although this threatens them with demonic possession.

Assassin's Creed

The Assassin's Creed series tells the story of the confrontation between the Assassins and the Templars, which has lasted for centuries. The legendary action-adventure film takes place in different eras, while real historical events, such as the French Revolution and the Crusades, are intertwined with alternative history and science fiction.

Mortal Kombat

Mortal Kombat is one of the most popular and successful fighting game franchises. Initially, the games in the series were developed for arcade machines, but were later transferred to other platforms. Children of the 90s practically grew up watching Mortal Kombat, despite the cruelty and rivers of blood. Many of them still remember in what order to press the buttons to cause fatality to the enemy.

Total War

Warhammer

The history of the Warhammer universe began in 1983 with books and board games, and its popularity owes to its harsh realism and thoughtful world, based on the Germanic Renaissance. The setting includes Warhammer Fantasy - games set in all the canons of fantasy worlds, and Warhammer 40,000, where fantasy and science fiction go hand in hand.

Grand Theft Auto

If you want to experience all the delights of life outside the law in your own skin, feel free to download GTA and enjoy dangerous and immoral tasks. Since the third part, the GTA series games have broken sales records and become so popular that even Hollywood stars, such as Samuel L. Jackson and James Woods, were not averse to voicing their characters.

Need for Speed

Need for Speed ​​is the most successful racing series in video game history. With each new part, the races and police pursuits became more and more spectacular, the choice of cars and tuning options became wider, and the player reviews became more and more enthusiastic. In 2014, a film adaptation of the same name was released, which was received quite warmly by the public.

S.T.A.L.K.E.R.

S.T.A.L.K.E.R. is a cult series of first-person shooters with elements of adventure action, RPG and survival horror, inspired by the Strugatskys’ story “Roadside Picnic” and the film “Stalker” by Tarkovsky. World of S.T.A.L.K.E.R. scary, cruel, dangerous and stunningly realistic - the developers traveled to the exclusion zone more than once for the sake of their creation.

Half-Life 2

HL2 is a sci-fi shooter that has collected a mind-boggling number of awards. The game brought the player’s interaction with the outside world to a new level, showed unprecedented character animation, realistic physics, and advanced AI of opponents. Its sales since its release have already exceeded 12 million copies.

Mass Effect

The original Mass Effect trilogy tells the story of the brave Captain Shepard, who, together with his loyal companions, is trying to prevent the Reapers from entering the Galaxy, who had already destroyed an ancient civilization, and then is forced to fight these killing machines. The Mass Effect universe has acquired books and comics, and in 2012 an anime based on it was released. Fans of the game series have been promised a full-length film since 2010, but so far things have not gotten off the ground.

Battlefield

This series of tactical and strategic first-person shooters became popular after the release of the first part, Battlefield 1942, in 2002. This is largely due to the multiplayer for several dozen people, with the choice of a side in the conflict, a character class with unique weapons and the ability to control ground, air and water technology.

Call of Duty

The Call of Duty shooter series, which began its triumphal march in 2003, continues to this day - the release of Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 is scheduled for October 12, 2018, and in 2019, if rumors are to be believed, Modern Warfare 4 should be released. Games in the series touches not only on real historical events of the 20th century, but also tells what the Third World War could have been like.

Doom

An entire generation spent dozens of hours of their lives playing games, despite their parents' protests, in order to play Doom, destroy hordes of demons and save the Earth. Books are written and films are made about this hardcore shooter, and for many it became the first game in their lives.

Left 4 Dead

Humanity has been struck by a virus that turns people into bloodthirsty monsters, and only a handful of survivors must confront them. Thanks to its intense gameplay and high replay value, the Left 4 Dead series firmly holds its position among the best shooters.

BioShock

Dead Space

The chilling horror game forces the player to escape from the terrible necromorphs that have infested his spaceship. Despite the not-so-high ratings of the plot and certain gameplay elements, the Dead Space series is one of the best space horror films in history.

Max Payne

The noir shooter Max Payne, released in three parts, was bought by more than 7.5 million people. The story of a fugitive policeman who lost his family and dreams of taking revenge for it, and was also unfairly accused of murder, really touched many people.

Hitman

Games are countless virtual worlds that allow us to become what we want, but cannot in real life. However, among these worlds there are those that have earned the title of the best, both from gamers and from impartial critics.

To select the best games on PC, we studied popular Russian-language resources, such as Iwantgames, Stopgame And Kanobu, and also read reviews of popular games on Metacritic. This is how a list of 20 best PC games of all time which we present to your attention. Game ratings are based on data StopGame.

Rating: 8.6.

Genre: MMORPG.

Release date: 2004-present.

Platform: Mac, PC.

One of best online games for PC offers not only an epic confrontation between two opposing alliances - the Alliance and the Horde, but also a beautiful, very Big world, interesting quests, carefully crafted history and raids.

In them you will be able to fully demonstrate your talent as a healer, melee or ranged fighter, or a powerful defender. Or just kiss squirrels in the nearest forest, if your soul lies only in peaceful pursuits.

The game is quite old by today's standards, but additions are regularly released to it. Next up – Battle for Azeroth will be released on August 14th.

19. Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Siege

Rating: 8.8.

Genre: Shooter, addon.

Release date: 2015

Platform: PC, PS4, XONE.

According to many players, this is the most realistic and intense tactical first-person shooter. The game does not have a solo campaign, but there is exciting team play. The task of the attacking side is to take the opponents by storm, and the team playing on defense must strengthen its positions as much as possible and set cunning traps for the enemy.

The plot is based on real events that took place during counter-terrorism operations.

Rating: 8.8.

Genre: Shooter.

Release date: 2011

Platform: PC, PS3, X360

As bullets whiz overhead and explosions hurl you to the ground, the battlefield feels more realistic than ever before. In Battlefield 3, players will temporarily transform into elite US Marines. Dangerous missions await them, both solo and cooperative.

Excellent graphics, a wide variety of vehicles, a well-designed environment and pleasant rewards for good team play - this is what even very picky gaming publications praise Battlefield 3 for.

Rating: 8.8.

Genre: Arcade.

Release date: 2015

Platform: PC, X360, XONE

This is perhaps the most beautiful platform arcade game in our game rating. From the very first minutes, its unusual graphics attract attention and do not let go until the game is completed. atmospheric world, a pleasant and unobtrusive soundtrack, RPG elements, a cute hero who will appeal to both young and adult gamers - what else is needed to while away a couple of evenings in front of the computer?

Rating: 8.9.

Genre: Strategy.

Release date: 2017

Platform: Mac, PC.

For many people, the sci-fi strategy game StarCraft represents one of the greatest computer games of all times. And StarCraft: Remastered lives up to the high bar set by its predecessor. With stunning new Ultra HD visuals, re-recorded audio and updated online support, this game comes highly recommended.

15. Assassin's Creed 2

Rating: 8.9.

Genre: Action

Release date: 2009.

Platform: PC, PS3, X360.

The product of more than two years of intensive work and part of the popular Assassin's Creed franchise. In a vast open world environment, the game invites you to play as Ezio, a young nobleman living during the Renaissance. An interesting story of revenge and retribution is successfully complemented by a variety of missions, unusual gameplay elements, a wide selection of weapons and character development, which fans of the original Assassin’s Creed love so much.

Rating: 9.0.

Genre: Shooter.

Release date: 2007

Platform: Mac, PC, PS3, WII, X360.

This game was amazing for its time, thanks to the atmosphere of a real war, a clear plot, an exciting multiplayer mode, hundreds of beautiful scenes and a meticulous design of the game environment. Even now, the military blockbuster Modern Warfare can provide several hours of exciting gameplay.

Rating: 9.0.

Genre: Action

Release date: 2012

Platform: PC, PS3, PS4, X360, XONE

The main character of the game is Jason Brody, a man stuck on a mysterious tropical island. In this wild paradise, where lawlessness and violence reign supreme, Brody will determine the outcome of the war between rebels and pirates for control of the island.

Rating: 9.1.

Genre: RPG.

Release date: 2017

Platform: PC, PS4, XONE

Twenty hours into this RPG, you'll still be discovering new mechanics you never knew about. In this regard, Original Sin 2 is not very friendly to beginners, and requires some persistence and patience from them.

At the same time, the huge number of quests and secrets, the non-linearity of the game, and its world, which is almost unparalleled in terms of scale and detail, are an experience that should not be missed.

Rating: 9.2.

Genre: Action, RPG.

Release date: 2010

Platform: PC, PS3, X360.

This exciting space saga takes players to unknown alien civilizations and battles with aliens, mercenaries and sentient robots. Additionally, it offers one of the most interesting and well-designed characters in RPG games.

Rating: 9.2.

Genre: RPG.

Release date: 2011.

Platform: PC, PS3, X360.

Bethesda Game Studios' open-world adventure doesn't boast the best combat or magic systems, or even better graphics, than the competition. Instead, it offers something much more - one of the biggest, richest and most immersive worlds you've ever seen.

Traveling through locations in Skyrim will take so much time that you can lose sleep, take time off from work, and test the patience of family and friends while playing.

Rating: 9.2.

Genre: Action, racing

Release date: 2013

Platform: PC, PS3, PS4, X360, XONE

The best games of all time would not be complete without this superbly optimized, atmospheric game. Its action takes place in the sunny city of Los Santos, in which a criminal trio operates:

• Franklin, a young thief looking for an opportunity to get his hands on some serious money.
• Michael, former burglar banks whose retirement wasn't as rosy as he thought.
• Trevor, a violent guy suffering from a mental disorder.

Players can switch between characters at any time, and it's definitely worth doing. After all, each character has his own set of quests, as well as primary and secondary skills that help him survive and get the most out of the world of GTA5.

Rating: 9.3.

Genre: Strategy.

Release date: 1999

Platform: PC.

This legendary game has become the most popular title in the Heroes of Might and Magic series. Compared to previous parts, it offered new types of cities, seven small story campaigns for each faction, and at the same time ran even on low-power computers. Thanks to good localization, The Restoration of Erathia was a huge success in Russia.

Rating: 9.3.

Genre: RPG.

Release date: 2009

Platform: Mac, PC, PS3, X360.

As the spiritual successor to Baldur's Gate, one of the most successful role-playing games in the industry, Dragon Age: Origins combines the best elements of fantasy with stunning visuals. It cannot be called a revolution in the RPG genre, but rather an evolution.

The story of Dragon Age: Origins is exciting and action-packed, the characters are unforgettable, and the journey through the game world inhabited by people, dwarves and elves is something that will captivate you and will not let you go until the very end.

Rating: 9.3.

Genre: Puzzle.

Release date: 2011

Platform: Mac, PC, PS3, X360.

Valve has created a fun puzzle game with excellent gameplay mechanics. It offers players not only a single-player game for main character Chelsea, who will have to escape from the Aperture laboratory, but also a co-op mode for two players. The main thing in it actors there will be robots Atlas and P-Body. The storyline of the co-op mode does not intersect with the plot of the single-player mode, which leads to unexpected endings.

Rating: 9.3.

Genre: Action, racing.

Release date: 2002

Platform: PC

One of the best games in history still evokes warm and nostalgic feelings among those who played it. And those who did not pass can do so for three main reasons:

1. The huge map of Lost Haven is filled with diverse and magnificent places. Each area has a unique appearance, has its own unique atmosphere and even musical accompaniment.
2. The core gameplay can be summarized by simply saying that it consists of shooting and driving from a third-person perspective. However, in reality it offers much more: from a variety of missions to dialogues and interactions with many NPCs that inhabit the streets of The City of Lost Heaven.
3. An unusual and very beautiful main musical theme, created under the direction of the Czech composer Vladimir Simunek, and with the participation of the Bohemian Symphony Orchestra.

The only weak thing in the game is the imperfect AI of the heroes' enemies and companions. On the other hand, the fact that Los Have Haven's police officers are not geniuses further enhances the realism.

Rating: 9.3.

Genre: Shooter.

Release date: 2004

Platform: PC.

This game was very loved, and fans of the series are still waiting for the release of the third part. Half-Life 2's graphics engine was so realistic that players felt like they were in the movie. Excellent character animation, an original way of presenting the plot, a variety of environments and ways to interact with them, and most importantly, a charismatic protagonist made the first-person shooter Half-Life 2 what it is to this day. Namely, one of the most popular games in history.

Rating: 9.4.

Genre: RPG.

Release date: 1998

Platform: PC.

An amazing atmosphere, great music, and an exciting story make Fallout 2 a diamond of the RPG genre. This is a real non-linear game that allows you to do whatever you want in a world full of mutants, radiation, and hundreds of other dangers.

Rating: 9.5.

Genre: RPG.

Release date: 2015

Platform: Mac, PC, PS4, XONE.

The game about the adventures of Geralt of Rivia set a new standard for quality in open-world RPG games. Diverse and exciting locations, full of important decisions, interesting characters, and cruel enemies, excellent graphics and music, a thoughtful plot, funny and dramatic moments - all this gave players more than 100 exciting hours of gameplay.

For anyone who doesn't know the magical universe created by Andrzej Sapkowski, The Witcher 3 explains the history of all the important characters and what connects them to Geralt. This way, even beginners quickly get up to speed.

Rating: 9.6.

Genre: Addon, RPG.

Release date: 2016

Platform: PC, PS4, XONE.

The Witcher 3 is one of the highest rated games on PC. And its Blood and Wine addon is better made than most games released in 2016. Even players who have spent hundreds of hours in The Witcher greeted the new addition with an interesting storyline with surprise and delight. It is an excellent ending to the story about the White Wolf.

The quantity and quality of content in this addon is simply stunning, making it a full-fledged game. Many quests, dialogues and, of course, monsters await you in the new Toussaint location.

29.08.2016

Time magazine has compiled its list of the 50 best video games of all time. And in the first place in it is the Russian game.

Let’s immediately make a reservation that, like all the tops that claim to be “the best of all time,” the Time list raises many questions and looks very contradictory.

Time, of course, is an authoritative publication, but they selected the 50 best games from only 150 candidates, and for the top of all time they need to be sorted through about a thousand. It would be better if they tried to compile several separate tops by genre, era or platform - then the chance of objectivity would be much higher.

But all this will not stop us from being proud that Tetris, created by Russian programmer Alexei Pajitnov, came in first place. This is a game that everyone has truly played.

So, here are the 50 best video games of all time, according to Time magazine.

50. King's Quest III: To Heir Is Human (1986)

The game was released in 1986 for the DOS operating system. According to the plot, Prince Alexander was kidnapped from his cradle by the evil sorcerer Mannanan, who calls him Gwydion. He has to escape from the sorcerer, understand who he really is and save his sister by fighting the dragon. You can see what the game looked like in this video:

Video: trailer for the game “King’s Quest III: To Heir Is Human”

Player review: “The whole game is ruined by the timer; if you don’t have time to complete the preparations before the wizard returns, it’s the end. When I was passing there was no Internet, no Fido, everything was found out at random, I looked up every word in the dictionary, it took a very long time, but it was a joy to finally escape from the clutches of the wizard and go explore the world.”

In 2006 and 2011, remakes of the game were released in VGA versions.

49. Dota 2 (2013)

A multiplayer team game of the Multiplayer online battle arena genre, an implementation of the famous DotA map for the game Warcraft III in a separate client.

48. Angry Birds (2009)

A series of computer games developed by the Finnish company Rovio, in which (in the main line) the player must use a slingshot to shoot birds at green pigs placed on various structures.

The game was first released for the Apple iOS platform on December 10, 2009 in the App Store, after which it gained wild popularity. In less than two years since its release, the game was downloaded more than 500 million times, and by July 2015, the number of downloads reached 3 billion. The game received a crazy number of sequels, spin-offs and various special editions.

In April 2012, the Angry Birds Land amusement park opened in Finland. In March 2013, Rovio released the animated series Angry Birds Toons, and in 2016, the full-length animated film Angry Birds at the Movies.

47. Guitar Hero (2005)

A musical game for the PlayStation 2 game console. The main task of the player is to press the keys on the neck of a special guitar-shaped controller at the right moment and hit the “string” key.

The game became a hit, received good reviews from critics and won many awards from various world publishers. The game marked the beginning of the Guitar Hero media franchise; all games in the series were sold for a total value of more than $1 billion.

46.Resident Evil 4 (2005)

Multiplatform computer game in the genres of third-person action and survival horror, the sixth game in the main Resident Evil series. In the story, government agent Leon Scott Kennedy goes on a mission to Europe. He must save Ashley Graham, the daughter of the President of the United States, who has been kidnapped by a mysterious cult. A trip to a rural village in Spain turns into a meeting with its bloodthirsty inhabitants.

45: Gran Turismo 3: A-Spec (2001)

A racing simulator with short competitions for beginners, multi-hour races and rally competitions with rivals. The main goal of the game is to win all races, championships, pass all driver's license tests and get 100% completion of the game.

As of 2009, 14.89 million copies of the game were purchased worldwide.

44. Super Smash Bros. (1999)

A fighting game with characters from various Nintendo game series - Mario, Pikachu, Donkey Kong, Link from The Legend of Zelda and others. At first, the game was supposed to be released on a CD drive for the Nintendo 64 CD, but due to the commercial failure of the device and competition, the game had to be published on a 128-megabit cartridge. Therefore, Princess Peach, Bowser, Princess Zelda, Ganondorf, Mewtwo, Pete and King Dedede and many levels had to be cut.

However, Super Smash Bros. became a successful game and spawned three sequels: Super Smash Bros. Melee on Nintendo GameCube, Super Smash Bros. Brawl on Wii and Super Smash Bros. 4 for 3DS and Wii U.

43. Call of Duty 2 (2005)

A first-person shooter where the player takes on the role of one of the soldiers of the Soviet, American and British armies leading fighting against German troops. Call of Duty 2 has become the most popular game at the launch of the Xbox 360, selling 250,000 copies in its first week. As of July 2006, the Xbox 360 had sold 1.4 million copies.

42. BioShock

First-person shooter with RPG and science fiction elements.

Bioshock takes place in 1960. The main character, a young man named Jack, as a result of a plane crash ends up in the underwater city of Rapture, hidden at the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean. Rapture was created by millionaire Andrew Ryan as his ideal society. However, the discovery of a substance called adam, which gives people superhuman powers, split Rapture society and ultimately led to the fall of the utopia.

In addition to visual scenes, the plot is presented through found audio recordings, as well as radio conversations with a few friendly characters.

41. ESPN NFL 2K5 (2004)

An American football simulator with multiplayer and pretty decent physics and graphics for that time.

40. Pong (1972)

One of the earliest arcade video games and the first commercially successful game in history. Pong is a tennis sports game using simple 2D graphics. Programmer Allan Alcorn created it as a skill training tool.

39. Castlevania (1986)

A typical representative of the platformer genre of the 8-bit era. The game takes place in the fictional world of the game series and tells the story of the confrontation between vampire hunters from the Belmont clan and the vampire lord Dracula.

The game consists of six levels with a boss at the end, which are completed in the only possible way, without plot branches or alternative levels. The game character is Simon Belmont, who is armed with a Vampire Killer whip.

38. Portal 2 (2010)

First-person puzzle game, sequel to the game Portal (2007). The core gameplay remains the use of a portable portal-creating device, allowing the player to create two interconnected portals - rifts in space - through which he can instantly move from one place to another and carry various objects. This is the basis for completing the game and solving game puzzles.

At GDC 2010, Valve director Gabe Newell said that Portal 2 is the best game in the company's history.

37. Braid (2008)

A puzzle platformer in which the main character tries to save a princess from a monster. The clues given in the plot allow us to give the story different metaphorical interpretations: from a simple separation from a lover to the development of a nuclear bomb.

In search of the princess, the main character travels through six fantasy worlds, each of which corresponds to a room in his house.

36. Fallout 3 (2008)

Action/RPG, the third canonical game in the Fallout series. The action takes place in a world slowly being reborn after nuclear war 2077. The game takes place in 2277, its events take place 36 years after the events Fallout games 2.

The main character of the game is a Lone Wanderer, who from an early age lived in one of the underground shelters. Although in his mind the shelter has never been opened since the nuclear war, his father goes outside one day. A lonely wanderer goes in search of him to find out the reasons for his departure.

35. Galaga (1981)

A classic fixed shooter in the form of an arcade slot machine. Player controls spaceship located at the bottom of the screen. It can only move along a horizontal axis.

At the beginning of each level, the space around is empty, but over time, enemy ships arrive, lining up in formations and also moving along a horizontal axis. The player's task is to destroy all enemy ships. After this, the player moves to the next level.

34. Red Dead Redemption (2010)

An action-adventure Western from a third person with an open world and RPG elements. The action takes place in America in 1911. The game's protagonist, John Marston, a former thug who left the bloody trade, is forced to work for government agents to kill or capture alive his former accomplices, including his "old friend" Bill Williamson.

33. Super Mario Kart (1992)

Racing arcade game with characters from the Super Mario Bros. universe. By running over images with question marks on the track, it is possible to collect various upgrades for the kart and build traps for your opponents. Each of the computer-controlled characters also has their own unique abilities that they can use to gain an advantage in the race.

32. Wolfenstein 3D

First-person shooter developed for DOS. Mistakenly considered the founder of the genre. The player controls a soldier trying to escape from the Nazi fortress of the same name; He is confronted by many armed guards and guard dogs.

Due to the use of Nazi symbols and music by Horst Wessel, the PC and Atari versions were banned from sale in Germany in 1994. The ban was only lifted in September 2011.

31. The Sims (1999)

A life simulator in which the player controls one or more Sims, takes care of their well-being, develops their skills, strengthens bonds with other characters, advances their careers and furnishes their apartment building. Not in game story line, and theoretically the game can be played “forever.”

30. Pokemon Red & Blue (1996)

The player travels as a Pokémon trainer throughout the fictional region of Kanto, interacting with and battling other trainers. The goal of the game is to become the greatest Pokémon trainer in the region by defeating the region's other top trainers, the Elite Four. Another goal is to catch all 151 Pokémon and fill the Pokédex, an electronic encyclopedia about Pokémon, with information about them.

29. Myst (1993)

A graphic quest about traveling through an interactive world with a first-person view. Unlike most computer games, it is impossible to die here at the hands of enemies or unforced circumstances; The only problem for the player is the difficult puzzles.
To complete the journey, the player must visit all the worlds presented in the game, moving into them with the help of books.

Myst, along with its sequels, sold about 12 million copies worldwide and was the best-selling game for a long time.

28. Donkey Kong (1981)

One of the first platform games to be developed for an arcade machine. The main character of the game is a character named Jumper - a carpenter who must save his girlfriend (unnamed in the original, simply “Lady”, later - Pauline) from the villain, played by Donkey Kong.

This was the first use in video games of the established "rescue the damsel in distress" scenario, which later became a template and was featured in many other computer games. Jumper, already in "Donkey Kong Jr." dubbed "Mario", he was featured in later Mario games and became Nintendo's mascot.

27. Mortal Kombat (1992)

The developers originally had the idea of ​​making a video game starring Jean-Claude Van Damme, but Mortal Kombat was created and released in 1992 instead. The original game was continued in subsequent games in the series and other adaptations, including films, cartoons, TV series, comics, card games, and a tour with a costume show was also organized. Along with Street Fighter, Mortal Kombat is one of the most successful and influential fighting game franchises in video game history.

26. StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty (2010)

Real-time strategy, sequel to StarCraft. The game takes place in the 26th century in a remote part of the Milky Way galaxy. The plot of the game is based on the interaction of three races: Terrans (descendants of exiled criminals who do not maintain contact with Earth), Zergs (a race of creatures whose warriors are mutated mammals or insect-like or reptile creatures of various planets, controlled first by the Overmind, and then by the Queen of Blades) and the Protoss (a high-tech race with pronounced psionic abilities).

25. Halo: Combat Evolved

A first-person shooter, the plot of which tells the story of a war between people represented by the forces of the United Nations Space Command (UNSC) and the religious union of several alien races - the Covenant.

People are struggling to survive, but still losing ground on all fronts. Last hope humanity became the SPARTAN-II project - a program to create biologically improved super-soldiers who became the most effective weapon in the fight against aliens.

24. Final Fantasy VII (1997)

A Japanese role-playing game set in a dystopian fictional world set in a science fiction setting with fantasy elements. The plot of the game tells how the group of eco-terrorists "AVALANCHE", which includes the main character Cloud Strife, fights the mega-corporation "Shin-Ra", whose activities are leading to the depletion of the source of planetary energy. In the future, the heroes face a greater danger to the planet and themselves - the main villain of the game, Sephiroth.

23. Microsoft Flight Simulator X (2006)

Flight simulator, including hundreds of existing airports in the world and hundreds of existing aircraft civil aviation of various types, from small single-seat gliders without an engine to giants like the Boeing 747.

22. GoldenEye 007 (1997)

A first-person shooter based on the seventeenth Bond film, GoldenEye. The player controls James Bond and must complete the mission's objectives. The game has earned high marks from many publications. The multiplayer mode was especially praised.

21. Diablo II (2000)

The legendary Action/RPG, which was awarded an entry in the Guinness Book of Records (in the “2000 edition”) as the fastest selling game. It sold more than 1 million copies in the first two weeks, and by January 2001 it had sold 2.75 million copies worldwide.

20. Zork (1978)

A series of text (later graphic-text) adventure computer games from Infocom.

19. Space Invaders (1978)

Originally created for arcade slot machines, the game in many ways became the founder modern games and helped grow the gaming industry into one of the largest in the world. During its initial release, the game was very successful and popular, causing a temporary shortage of 100 yen coins. Space Invaders is the best arcade game according to the Guinness Book of Records.

18. Rise of the Tomb Raider (2015)

An RPG/platformer in which Lara Croft sets out to find the city of Kitezh, also known as the “Russian Atlantis.” She goes to snowy Siberia with a partner named Jonah Maiava, known from the previous part of the series. Having discovered her thirst for adventure, Lara intends to discover the secret of endless life and eternal youth in the mythical city.

17. Half-Life 2 (2004)

A sci-fi first-person shooter in which Gordon Freeman finds himself on a train arriving in City 17, unarmed and without his protective power suit, which served as his faithful assistant and saved his life several times in the first part of the game.

Soon the situation begins to clear up: City 17 is under the rule of a totalitarian government, the head of which is Wallace Breen, as it turns out later, a former administrator of the Black Mesa research center. But Brin, in turn, is himself a pawn in the hands of the leaders of a powerful union - the Alliance.

By the way, waiting for the third part of the game has long become a meme.

16. Grand Theft Auto III (2001)

The first 3D game in the Grand Theft Auto series. The events take place in the fictional American city of Liberty City, based on New York. The protagonist of the game is an unnamed criminal who has become a victim of a criminal conspiracy between his girlfriend Catalina and Miguel, a member of a Colombian drug cartel.

The game contains elements of a car simulator and a 3rd person shooter.

15. Counter-Strike (2000)

A mega-popular team-based first-person shooter that originally appeared as a modification of the game Half-Life. The main idea of ​​the game is a confrontation between two teams - terrorists and counter-terrorists. Each player, when entering the game, selects the team for which he wants to play, or the opportunity to be an observer, if this is provided for by the game server settings.

14. Quake (1996)

A first-person shooter that made a breakthrough in 3D technology, implementing a fully three-dimensional world instead of a two-dimensional map with height information (as was the case in Doom).

With the advent of the first Quake, the concept of “e-sports” was born, a large community arose, major championships began to be held, and the concept of tricking in relation to computer games arose: the use of some game bugs in character movement to achieve superpowers by professional players, specially regulated in professional mods.

13. SimCity 2000 (1993)

A game that has become a classic example for city planning simulators. In total, it sold about 4.23 million copies.

12. Final Fantasy VI (1994)

This Japanese role-playing game takes place in a fictional fantasy world with well-developed technology, the setting is reminiscent of the period of the second industrial revolution. The plot describes the journey of a group of heroes opposing an aggressive, tyrannical empire.

11. Sid Meier's Civilization IV (2005)

Continuation of one of the most popular and successful series of global turn-based strategies. Total circulation of the series in this moment has more than 6 million copies. The player is given the opportunity to control one of the empires. You start the game in 4000 BC. e. with a settler and one warrior, and gradually develop into a superpower.

10. World of Warcraft (2004)

A massively multiplayer online role-playing game developed and published by Blizzard Entertainment. According to the Guinness Book of Records, it is the most popular MMORPG in the world. In January 2014, it was announced that over 100 million accounts had been created throughout the game's life.

By controlling the game character, the player can explore the area, wander through famous places, fight monsters, and also carry out various orders given by computer-controlled characters. In addition, fights with other players are possible.

9. The Oregon Trail (1971)

An educational computer game about the life of American pioneers, widely used in schools in North America. The name of the game is associated with the Oregon Trail, which actually existed in the 19th century.

The player controls a group of immigrants with a specific profession and traveling in a conestoga. The success of the game led to several sequels.

8. Super Mario Bros. (1985)

Listed in the Guinness Book of Records as the best-selling game in history. The main characters of the game are the plumber Mario and his brother Luigi (as a playable character for the second player). The goal of the game is to travel through the Mushroom Kingdom, eluding or destroying the soldiers of the turtle King Koopa (also known as Bowser) in order to rescue the Princess he has captured.

7. The Legend of Zelda (1986)

The game takes place in the fictional kingdom of Hyrule. The army of the powerful Prince of Darkness Ganon, who invaded Hyrule, plunged the kingdom into chaos; Ganon himself captured the Triforce of Power, a magical artifact that grants its owner great power. Princess Zelda of Hyrule, who owned another artifact, the Triforce of Wisdom, divided it into eight fragments and hid them from Ganon in the kingdom's secret dungeons.

The main character of the game, Link, decided to save Zelda. But in order to fight Ganon, he must first find and collect together the fragments of the Triforce of Wisdom scattered throughout the country.

The game became a bestseller on the Nintendo platform, selling 6.5 million copies.

6. Minecraft (2011)

An indie sandbox game with elements of a survival simulator and an open world. Minecraft provides the player with a three-dimensional procedurally generated world made entirely of cubic blocks, and gives the player the opportunity to freely rebuild it, creating complex structures from the blocks - this feature of the game makes Minecraft similar to the LEGO constructor.

The game does not set any clear goals for the player, but offers him many opportunities and activities: for example, the player can explore the world, create a variety of structures and objects, and fight with various opponents.

Video: 5 best games of all time according to Time magazine

5.Ms. Pac-Man (1982)

Arcade game published by Midway Manufacturing (Illinois). Ms. Pac-Man was released a year after Pac-Man and became one of the most popular computer games of all time, leading Namco (the owner of the rights to Pac-Man) to recognize it as part of the official line.

4. Doom (1993)

A first-person shooter that is one of the most significant and influential computer games in the history of the industry. Its popularity largely determined the further development and spread of the genre.

The game "Doom" takes place in a sci-fi setting using horror film techniques. The player takes on the role of an unnamed space special forces soldier. The plot is simple and is revealed only in the user manual, and in the game itself there are only short messages for the player between episodes.

3. The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time (1998)

The next part of the popular The Legend of Zelda series. Link goes on a journey to stop Ganondorf (the main enemy of the princess and the main antagonist of the games in the series, in the first games he was called Ganon).

Ganondorf, in an attempt to take over Hyrule, seeks to acquire an artifact known as the Triforce, which has the power to grant the wishes of those who wield it. To stop him, Link travels through time using musical instrument, The Ocarina of Time.

2. Super Mario 64 (1996)

Technically, the first "3D" game in the Mario series was the platformer Mario Clash on the Virtual Boy, in which the player could move Mario between the foreground and background. But Super Mario 64 introduced true 3D for the first time, with free-direction movement, 3D polygonal models instead of 2D sprites, and large open spaces to explore.

1. Tetris (1984)

Tetris was first written by Soviet programmer Alexei Pajitnov on the Elektronika-60 computer. While working at the Computing Center of the USSR Academy of Sciences, Pajitnov worked on problems of artificial intelligence and speech recognition, and used puzzles, including the classic pentomino, to test ideas.

Pajitnov tried to automate the placement of pentominoes into given figures. However, the computing power of the then equipment for rotating pentominoes was not enough; it had to be debugged on tetrominoes, which determined the name of the game. In those experiments, the main idea of ​​​​Tetris was born - for the figures to fall and the filled rows to disappear.

Is there a perfect recipe for releasing a great game and selling it in record numbers? Judging by the best-selling games in history, no. Here we will talk about the first-person shooters Battlefield and Call of Duty, and about the Minecraft world constructor, and about the GTA V prostitute murder simulator.

And now a riddle: what was the best-selling game in history? I'm sure most of you can handle it easily. But the answer is still at the end of the article.

World of Warcraft

In October 2016, the fifteenth game in the series, Battlefield 1 based on the First World War, will be released. Time will tell if it will make it to the list of best-selling games in the future.

Call of Duty

The game, on the contrary, caused indignation among deputies of the State Duma of the Russian Federation. At the beginning of 2010, during the spring session of the meeting, they began to discuss Call of Duty, proposing to equate the games with extremist materials. We were talking about scenes of violence, namely the murder of unarmed people at the airport in the game. The “No Russian” level has been removed in the Russian version.

This game is dedicated to the end of World War III and is a sequel to Modern Warfare 2. Personally, I think this game is the best in the series. But this is my subjective opinion, perhaps tied, among other things, to a nostalgic mood towards her. It's still nice to sometimes turn on the survival battle mode with bots.

Pokémon Red, Blue, Green and Pokémon Gold and Silver

Let's remember what Pokemon Red looked like on Game Boy in 1996. With such graphical capabilities then it was necessary to create excellent gameplay. Or is the main thing to choose the right characters, what do you think?

To the 151 types of Pokemon from previous versions, 100 more were added, bringing the total number of characters to 251. To collect all the Pokemon, it was not enough to go through one game - for example, Gold. Users needed to exchange Pokemon with players of the Silver version, as well as older games.

Some more ear balm in the form of old 8-bit music in Pokemon Silver gameplay.

Nintendogs

In the game you need to take care of a dog, controlled using a touchscreen and microphone. You can communicate with other users using wireless communication between consoles.

Diablo III

Diablo III received a warm welcome, but fans who played previous versions decided that the atmosphere was not the same. The colors are too bright, not enough gothic, and so on. In this regard, they put forward a petition to Blizzard demanding to change the color scheme. The company refused.

Below is the trailer for Diablo III: Reaper of Souls.

Super Mario

The game was made into an anime, a strange 1993 feature film, and, of course, porn, in which Ron Jeremy took part. Nintendo had to buy the rights to two porn films in order to bury them forever. But Youtube remembers at least such a small cut without, in fact, the main action.

Grand Theft Auto V

The game was released in September 2013 on seventh generation consoles, in 2014 on eighth generation consoles and in 2015 on personal computers.

In total, the game sold 65 million copies.

The predecessor to GTA V, the fourth part of Grand Theft Auto, released in 2008, sold 25 million copies. It never surpassed 2004's Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas with 27.5 million sales. You can remember your childhood with San Andreas today on Android, but you will have to pay more than five hundred rubles. It’s blasphemous to profit from nostalgia like that.

Welcome to the Jungle - Guns"n"Roses are invited to GTA: San Andreas.

Wii Sports

The game received various awards for its innovative gameplay. This collection of five sports simulators involves motion control using controllers.

Minecraft

The game has become one of the most popular in the world. In total, more than 107 million copies were sold. But why did it become popular in the first place? Why do schoolchildren love her so much and constantly make videos on YouTube?

Perhaps, as in the case of GTA, the openness of the game world plays a big role. Minecraft gives room for imagination and creativity. You can hunt, you can build buildings and cities, or blow things up. And all - in a world similar to Lego. And almost everyone loves Lego.

Tetris

What about a calculator, you could play Tetris on the wall of a skyscraper

The game was created by Soviet programmer Alexey Pajitnov. The name comes from "tetromino" and "tennis". "Tetraminoes" are geometric figures of four squares. There are seven such figures in Tetris. The pieces fall into a glass 10 squares wide and 20 squares high. The goal is to collect a horizontal row of 10 cells that then disappear.

Over the history of the game, it has not only been ported to all sorts of platforms, but also the rules have been changed, complicated, and improved. Tetris was made three-dimensional, it was colored and black and white, with a variety of musical accompaniments. They even sell “physical” Tetris. In 2009, designer Andrew Liszewski began selling his 360-degree version, in which a figure appears in the center and then falls to whichever side the player chooses by flipping the console.

Atari bought the rights to use the game in slot machines. Nintendo received the rights to port it to the NES and Game Boy. Then, in the late 1980s, the game came to Sega. And in 1996, Pajitnov founded the Tetris Company to start receiving money for his invention. In 2014, Tetris Company announced a deal to port the game to XboX One and PlayStation 4.

As of 2014, the number of mobile installations of the game was 425 million, 35 million on Game Boy, plus about 70 million copies were sold. It is difficult to say how many unlicensed cartridges and devices with this game were sold.

So Tetris is not just a leader, but an absolute leader with a huge advantage.

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