30 Best Video Games Of All Time

3. Super Metroid

Like plucking the most macabre, darkest parts of Alien's set design and general tonality - then equipping you with a whopping great arm-cannon to explore - Super Metroid is one of those games that just looking at in motion will make you want to play it through.

One of the seldom 'mature' franchises under Nintendo's banner, this SNES sequel carried over all the suit-based upgrades and world progression of the first two games, yet made the overall progression way more propulsive and moreish. "Pick a direction and find the Metroid" is your only objective, but no matter where you head, the invisible developer's hand ensures you'll unlock new abilities, weapons and chunks of the environment at a steady clip.

Shooting feels tactile and responsive, Samus gets some brilliant moves in the second half, and Nintendo even give us a big ol' blockbuster action countdown finale, seeing Samus blast her way to freedom with the most overpowered gun in the game.

Incredible.