Best Games of 2008
Ranked by our critic's grades, best first.
Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the PatriotsA maximalist send-off that spends the PS3's entire budget closing every loop Solid Snake ever opened.Read the review
Grand Theft Auto IVRockstar's heaviest, saddest crime story, set in the most convincing city the medium had ever built.
Call of Duty: World at WarThe grimmest campaign the series ever shipped, plus a throwaway zombie mode that outlived empires.
Dead SpaceStrategic dismemberment turns a haunted ship into a butchery problem, and the interface never once leaves the world.
Street Fighter IVThe game that brought fighting games back from the dead, then charged for it four more times.
Midnight Club: Los AngelesThe best open city racer of its generation, undone by a difficulty curve that reads as outright contempt.
Fallout 3A landmark leap out of the vault whose atmosphere outruns its writing.
Armored Core: For AnswerThe fastest mech game the studio ever made, hiding a genuinely bleak story under a garage full of spreadsheets.
LittleBigPlanetA landmark creation toolset wearing a merely decent platformer as its public face.
SporeA genuinely brilliant creature creator wearing five shallow games as a costume.