6. GTA IV The Swingset Propulsion Kit
I know its an oldie, but hot damn, you cant expect me to
not include it. Frankly, when I think weve gone the way of the Dreamcast and the dinosaurs, any archaeologist who stumbles across Grand Theft Auto IV will not see a tale of woe, the loss of innocence and the fallacy of the American Dream theyll believe it was somehow a swingset-catapult simulator. If you dont know about this yet, then good god, where have you been? Everyone loved the new physics engine in GTA IV, and most used it to throw Niko into trucks at high speed on the freeway. We applauded their imaginations, but we knew better we few, we happy few, knew about the slingshot swingset, and my god did we get our use out of it. Let me explain. If you put Niko or the vehicle Niko happened to be in on various swingsets around Liberty City, the physics engine would take an instant dislike to you and throw you across the map in various hilarious ways. Niko would rise to the firmament of the Earth, legs a-flailing, before crash-landing in a sorry heap several blocks away, simultaneously creating an awesome spectacle and giving everyone on that street an anecdote theyll remember for the rest of their lives. After all, its not every day it rains morally-conflicted Serbians, is it?