Best Games of 1999
Ranked by our critic's grades, best first.
System Shock 2The Von Braun is still the best haunted house in games, and SHODAN is still the best reason to be aboard it.Read the review
Age of Empires II: The Age of KingsHistory's greatest hits, playable: the RTS that never really left.
Garou: Mark of the WolvesSNK's last great fighter, and the most beautiful sprite work the Neo Geo ever pushed out of its cartridges.
Spyro 2: Ripto's Rage!The sequel that gave the collecting a reason, and the series its only genuinely good writing.
Pokémon Gold and SilverTwo regions on one cartridge, and a post game nobody has managed to match since.
Silent HillFog invented to hide a draw distance became the most influential atmosphere in horror.
Planescape: TormentThe finest writing ever put in a role playing game, bolted to combat you should avoid whenever the game allows it.
Chrono CrossForty five recruitable characters, two parallel worlds, and the most beautiful soundtrack on the PlayStation.
Final Fantasy VIIIThe most beautiful and most broken system Square ever built, attached to a story that goes somewhere very strange.
Grand Theft Auto 2A stranger, meaner sequel with warring gangs and a near future setting the series then abandoned entirely.