My #49 is Plants Vs Zombies. It is fun, easy to pick up game with a lot of personality. Everyone young and old can enjoy the simple gameplay which is full of humour. Simply puts a smile on your face.  

ClayFighter? de Blob (though this is a very new one)? Blob the video game?

Posted #50 and #49;


50 - The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past, a classic in every regard. One of the gems on the SNES and a staple in the Zelda series starting a lot of the franchise's main elements and lore. It took the concept of the original game and perfected it in every way imaginable.


49 - The Operative: No One Lives Forever, probably the most fun first person shooter out there as it doesn't really take itself seriously. The goal isn't to have the highest kill-count in this game, it is to use the strangest 'James Bond-like' gadgets to sneak and spy past traps and puzzles while overthrowing an evil organisation. All in an extremely stereotypical 1970's setting.

48- ?...
This entry will be a very old sports game of which it's name is the name of the sport itself, in some regions of the world at least.

#49. Odama (gamecube, 2006)

As I was constantly buting cheap used games for my last gen collection (that only gets longer and longer) I bought this game new  since it was very cheap and and since I don't trust a used microphone since I don't know where its been. I got this game and was thinking of just adding it to the pile of get to it eventually, but on my used game thread list Ryan told me that I should play this game and that I would either love it or hate it, and well.... here's the review I made for it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8I-ihr5or8w         (Can't seem to post videos with this new youtube layout system.)

It's a game that I should hate by all acounts but I love it because of how strange, weird, and unique it is. It is a game that needs more recognition as Nintendo's hidden gems of the Gamecube.

#48. Hint: Just look at my pic and you have a 1 in 2 chance of getting it right.

Description shamelessly copy-pasted from last year.

#49. Max Payne (PlayStation 2)

Gritty, moody, dark, that's what Max Payne is about. The story begins with Max's wive and kid being murdered (told ya!) , it is told through graphic novels panels and voice over as you play. You immediately get pulled in that world of drug addicts, corruption and vengence. So much in fact, that for a few weeks my brother and I kept narrating our lives Max Payne style ("He opened the fridge and took out a carton of milk that was older both of us" , you get the idea).

There was more than a good story in Max Payne, there was also some incredible gamplay to be found. The game's bullet-time feature allowed you to slow time for a little while and shoot bad guys while jumping to the side like in a Matrix movie. You also got to beat up drug addicts, that's always fun. The game is not perfect, the allucination levels where you walk in a dark room, hearing your baby cry and where you fall down every three steps you take are beyond frustrating but there's not much of those and then it's back to killing bad guys and drugs addicts!!!

KylieDog said: My 49: Sod the difficulty though. Some levels are complete bullshit. My 48 is the second best video game based on a comic book character.

Spiderman 2?

Number 49: Luigi's Mansion (GC)

Another game that a lot of people seemed to hate. I think is really fun with a nice and cartoony atmosphere. The only real problem I have with the game it's that it's too short.

Number 48: Rayman 2: The Great Escape (PS1)

Really fun 3D platformer, this game was practically my childhood in terms of the PS1. 

Hint: "it's quiet...too quiet"

Mischief Makers?

49. Final Fantasy VIII (1999)

Dropping from 44 two years ago; I'm surprised I never quite latched onto the story because I enjoy tracking multiple storylines in books, but it did not work for me in the more interactive medium.  There was still enough of an attachment to the story for me to care about it and the battle system is different enough that the game is a nice change of pace from the usual JRPG.  If I could get just to the heart of the story without jumping around I could have to say it was a fantastic plot to think about.  I had no major quarrels with the level system or battle mechanics.  You could turn magic drawing into a grind, but without doing so the battles become an interesting resource management puzzle.  Simplifying the level system to a base amount of experience for each level smoothed out the annoyance of having to wait forever to gain the next level as you progressed later in the game.  The connection between the characters' stats and the GFs using the junction system allowed for plenty of flexibility in your plans for each battle.  Any time a game gives ample reason to care about its main mechanic, instead of glossing over that mechanic, gives it the ability to provide deep levels of strategic choice.