20. Red Dead Redemption (PS3)
Red Dead Redemption is many things: The most poignant video game western since Custer's Revenge. The best hunting simulator since the original Oregon Trail. The most impressive collection of bugs and glitches in a game not published by Bethesda (including the best glitch in history; see above). It also has the most beautiful sunrises and sunsets in all of gaming, almost as if Rockstar San Diego opened a window into the fevered imaginations of Gran Turismo fanboys before their god failed them. John Marston's tale is quite a memorable one, and if anyone still has a bad taste left in their mouth from Grand Theft Auto IV, it should do the trick in a pinch. But Rockstar weren't content to make an incredible single-player experience. When you've had enough of tying school marm-looking women to the train tracks and blowing slowpoke Mexicans clean off their burros for no reason at all (but who could ever have enough, really?), hop online and gank or be ganked in free roam, one of the most fun multiplayer modes ever devised (it's certainly the most fun lobby ever). There's so much value for the money here, it's not even funny, and the recently released Undead Nightmare adds even more top-notch content (it also adds zombies!). Even the clueless knobs who run the VGAs were compelled to stop fellating Call of Duty long enough to give RDR their Game of the Year award, so if you haven't yet played it... play it! Now! I implores YOU!
