8 Games That Radically Changed How You See The World

8. Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty

It's truly staggering how well Metal Gear Solid 2 has aged over the last almost quarter-century. 

Far from a merely well-oiled stealth-action sequel, Sons of Liberty is a shockingly ahead of its time slice of pop-fiction.

As a meditation on the flow of information and technology's role in making "truth" increasingly difficult to discern, Sons of Liberty basically feels like it predicted the nature of modern, algorithm-driven social media years in advance.

But on a broader level, Metal Gear Solid 2 also inspired an entire generation of young players to take a more active interest in the history and politics that define their very existence, while considering their lives through a more philosophical lens.

Sons of Liberty certainly left many confounded upon release, but it also broke new ground for a medium whose storytelling wasn't commonly held in a high regard in 2001.

For young players just starting to think about the wider world in a deep way, Sons of Liberty felt like being woken up from the Matrix.