Top 10 Games: Multiplayer
The highest-graded multiplayer games we have reviewed, best first.
Grand Theft Auto VThree protagonists, one satirical state, and a heist structure so good it carried three console generations.Read the review
Call of Duty: Modern WarfareThe reboot that rebuilt the engine, the tone, and the franchise's relevance in one shot.
Halo 2The game that invented online console multiplayer as we know it, with a campaign twice as bold as its predecessor.
GoldenEye 007The console shooter that proved the genre belonged in the living room.
Call of Duty: World at WarThe grimmest campaign the series ever shipped, plus a throwaway zombie mode that outlived empires.
Dragon Ball Z: Budokai Tenkaichi 3A hundred and sixty one fighters, every saga, and a camera that finally sits where the show puts it.
Super Smash Bros. UltimateEvery fighter from every game in the series, which should have been impossible, and it runs beautifully.
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2The multiplayer peak the series has chased ever since, attached to a campaign running on pure adrenaline.
Wii SportsFive minigames that put a controller in more hands than any game before or since.
Gears of War: E-DayThe best-feeling combat Gears has had, in a prequel campaign that runs a few hours longer than its ideas.
