Top 10 Games: Action
The highest-graded action games we have reviewed, best first.
Dragon Ball Z: Budokai Tenkaichi 3A hundred and sixty one fighters, every saga, and a camera that finally sits where the show puts it.Read the review
Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 2The manual turned a list of tricks into a sentence, and every skateboarding game since has been borrowing that grammar.
Super Mario Bros.Nintendo puts a plumber in front of a pit and writes the grammar every platformer has used since.
Ace Combat 8: Wings of TheveThe best aerial combat Ace Combat has ever had, wrapped around a war story about a hero who was invented.
Hi-Fi RushEverything in the world moves on the beat, so you are keeping time whether or not you realise you are.
Dead Space 2Visceral trades the Ishimura's slow dread for a louder, faster nightmare on Titan, and its set pieces make it one of the great horror sequels
Diablo II: Resurrected (2021 Remaster)A remaster with the confidence to leave the game alone, right down to the inventory tetris everyone claims to hate.
Dead SpaceStrategic dismemberment turns a haunted ship into a butchery problem, and the interface never once leaves the world.
Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Chaos TheoryThe stealth genre's cleanest statement of intent, where light, sound and a knife are the entire toolkit.
Garou: Mark of the WolvesSNK's last great fighter, and the most beautiful sprite work the Neo Geo ever pushed out of its cartridges.
