10 Video Games You Just Had To Play Through In One Sitting

9. Max Payne

When it was first released back in 2001, there was no game on the market quite like Max Payne. Just as The Matrix did for movies, Remedy's third-person shooter helped make slow-motion (aka "bullet time") a staple of video games forever more, though few games have managed to match its ingenious use here. Gamers had never seen anything like it before: the ability to slow down time, perform an awesome dive and still aim in real time, giving you a huge advantage over the countless enemies firing bullets at you. The ludicrous amount of fun this resulted in made it an instant critical and commercial success. No doubt aiding its addictive appeal was the fact that the game is both rather short (even inexperienced players can clock it in around 6-7 hours) and quite easy, with bullet time allowing players to wriggle out of even the most desperate of situations. Once we'd seen Max leap through the air, manically firing dual-Uzis at a fleet of gangsters, gaming was never the same, and we couldn't stop playing.