16. Burnout: Paradise (2008) - Writing Off Your Car At Top Speed
In the game world, you want your reckless, white-knuckle driving, and subsequent horrifying crashes, to be rewarded. Burnout: Paradise grants you that wish, by offering points and gratuitous slow-motion replays for your acts of vehicular destruction. To this day, Burnout: Paradise offers the most satisfying car-crashing experience of any game; cars tumble, sparks fly, and trails of shrapnel and shattered street furniture get left in your wake. The fact that there are no actual drivers in Burnout: Paradise makes the whole thing feel perfectly innocent too - just a perfect sandbox to act out one of modern man's primal fantasies.