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Best Games In 15 Genres

Right off the top of my head so some will be forgotten.
11st Person Shooter

Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare- I was never a big 1st person shooter fan but this beginning of the end of 1st person shooters was an amazing experience both on and offline
23rd Person Shooter

Vanquish- The most fluid, frantic,and......fun 3rd person shooter in existence
3Western RPG

Elder Scrolls 3: Morrowind- I'm not gonna sit here and say Elder Scrolls 4 and 5 sucked, cuz they didn't, but this game was and is just too awesome and I don't see something surpassing its scale until virtual reality is introduced to the public a day after I die.
4JRPG

Tales of Symphonia- This is in my top 5 games of all time, the one that started the cult following for this series and for good reason. BTW Pokemon would rank 1.5 this based on nostalgia
5Shmups

Ikaruga- Beautiful and expertly designed I let out a shriek of glee when I read this was going to be on XBLA.
6Real-Time Strategy

Command and Conquer Red Alert 2- I remember buying Red Alert and Tiberium Sun for a catalog given to me by my middle school and thinking, they should make a game like this with funky units, it would be awesome. Then this came out. (3 is even more weird)
7Turn Based Strategy

Civilization 5- We got a computer in my house when I was in 8th grade and it sucked, I had a computer able to do Civ-level calculations was 3 years ago (I'm 23). Meaning I've only played Civ 3,4,5 with the tweaks made to 5 making it the best in the series. The Disgaea and series deserves honorable mention here.
8Sandbox

Grand Theft Auto San Andreas- This gets my nod above 4 just barely. Also this is one of maybe like 6 games I've beaten twice since 2004. Assassin's Creed would prolly be second place here.
9Survivial Horror

Dead Space 2- Actually never played the first one but this game scared the shit outta me. I loved the early Resident Evils but the setting of this game made it way Richard Scarier.
10Platformer

Super Mario 3- I'm not gonna say anything people shouldn't already know about this masterpiece. But all those things, that's why this is the best.
11Side Scrolling Shooters

Super Contra- People who say Contra ruled and this game sucked are fuking stupid people who like older things for the sake of them being older. They both were awesome but this one looked better, and had better bosses.
12Racing

F-Zero GX- No other racing game ever has come close to the sense of speed captured in this one. If I could give it a rating it'd be a 10. This is the perfect racing game
13Fighting

Soul Calibur V- The stupid juggling mechanic of Tekken is why this is way better. Soul Calibur also just clicked with me in every way. The fluid fighting, easy to enter difficult to master. One thing Tekken does do better is their absence of cheap characters. (Ahem, Nightmare and Kilik). Anyway Super Smash Bros Melee is second place not Tekken.
14Beat Em' Ups

Ninja Gaiden 2- Supremely fun and addictive wtf happened between this and the 3rd one is actually just funny. Bayonetta and God of War are close seconds
15Action-Adventure

Red Dead Redemption- There was too many to choose for this one and consequently will prolly get me the most grief but I didn't wanna put Legend of Zelda OoT so i didn't.
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