Today we continue to list like we have never listed before, lists being the lifeblood of bountiful internet traffic of course. Moving on to games #90 to #81 and boy are there some big hitters here from my own personal history of video gaming. Whilst the previous entry may have had the odd eyebrow raising selection, I feel like it may start to happen with greater frequency now as we delve down ever closer towards the all-timers. Enough vamping for time though, on to the games... #90: The House of the Dead: Overkill (2009) A guilty pleasure this one, an on-rails shooter that reimagined The House of the Dead as a grindhouse inspired horror action comedy experience. The tone is a bit more self-aware and knowing than the original games that preceded it and the dialogue is a lot more, what the word? Tarantino-esque I think some would say. Shlocky, let's say shlocky. In any case I feel these were all changes for the better whilst keeping the general b-movie horro...
Time to start this thing properly and by properly I mean incrementally of course. Just a touch over six months after my pre-amble to the whole thing and I realise I neglected the minor detail of actually starting the actual list. You know, minor details like that. So with as little ado as possible let's start what will be my absolutely definitive, unquestionably final and irrevocably vital ranking of my all time favourite video games. A long time in the thinking and not a short time in the making, Entries #100 to #91 let's go... #100: Black (2006) The starting point for this list might not be the heaviest of decisions I've ever had to make but nonetheless it took me a while to figure out what did and didn't make the cut at the very top. Black was a gritty PS2-era first person shooter from Criterion Games , the guys who brought us the Burnout series. Both at the time and in retrospect it's not the kind of game you would necessarily expect f...