#10 - Metal Gear Solid (PS1)
At the time I bought MGS, it was literally all you could hear about when reading Playstation magazines. They kept touting 'best game ever', 'groundbreaking' and so on, and I thought "this will never live up to the hype". How wrong I was.
I had never really played a stealth action game before so MGS was my introduction, and what an introduction it was. Perfectly mixing stealth gameplay with moments of all-out action, it's the first time I actually felt like I was playing an interactive film while gaming. When you add in one of the most interesting plotlines I'd experienced at the time (never expected that twist - thought it was great when it happened though) and a fantastic cast of bad guys (never bettered in my opinion) then you have the start of a legendary series. No other game at the time had me sneaking through the snow, petrified beyond belief at being spotted and then having me take down a Hind D helicopter moments later. The atmosphere in the game was just electric, and I can see why Kojima felt the need to revisit it in MGS4.
