10 Landmark PlayStation Games That Changed Your Life

2. Metal Gear Solid

In true Solid Snake fashion, Metal Gear Solid crept up on the gaming industry and put a sneaky bullet in the head of convention.

Hideo Kojima’s opus was not only the first game with a truly cinematic feel, playing out like a cross between a John Woo film and an interactive radio drama, it also perfected stealth gameplay.

Metal Gear Solid came along during a breakthrough period for storytelling in games and emerged as a vanguard of this movement, helping the medium bridge the creative gap separating it from other forms of entertainment.

There was never a dull moment stealthing around as Solid Snake, but Metal Gear Solid’s creative gameplay twists are what really blew our minds, such as having players check the back of the CD case to figure out Meryl's frequency, or plug a controller into port two to prevent Psycho Mantis from 'reading Snake’s mind'.

Genius.