10 Best Visceral Video Games - Ranked

10. 007: Agent Under Fire

N64 owners cite GoldenEye for the best first-person Bond-fuelled thrills, whilst all those with a PS2 knew it was Agent Under Fire all along.

Releasing in 2001 when the industry was really starting to experiment with more cinematically-focused single player campaigns and increased production budgets, Agent Under Fire might not have had any official Bond likeness, but it did have levels ranging from driving to on-rails shooting, stealth and standard FPS corridor-crawls. Gadgets and weapons abounded as Bond could go from karate chopping boilersuit'd thugs and brandishing his trademark PPK pistol, before leaping in an Aston Martin to tear off down the highway.

Best of all was the multiplayer: a truly-OTT affair where up to four players could partake in physics-abusing blends of grappling hooks and power-punches, the levels being made up of overlapping pathways ripe for ambushes and last minute kills.

It was sublimely handled, and though the FPS arena has come on in leaps and bounds, represented a furtive first step in the PS2's early multiplayer scene.