I agree that those are the top 10 games on metacritic based on your parameters.
As for what's best. I really don't think video game criticism is at such a level where one could constitute a "Best 10" list."
A "top 10 favorites" list sure.
As it is however, there doesn't seem to be a very good standard for criticism like you see with movies, and art and the like.
Really I think you can only do a thumbs up or a thumbs down, then the rest is pure opinion.
Though even a thumbs up or thumbs down system seems very hard for most reviewers to do, unable to judge a game for how it is in it's genre a lot of the time, and instead judging it for not being a completely different style and kind of game.
To be fair videogame critics due have it relatively hard. They are trying to establish credibility and an a critical frame of reference when the reality is... other such references like art are actually degrading and becoming meaningless... relying less on critical theory and structure and more on simply evocation of reaction... making an art critic really no better qualified to judge art then a regular joe.
