3. Uncharted 2: Among Thieves
Ah Uncharted 2. I remember seeing the actual trailer for this on the television, and the wait for Christmas when I'd eventually receive it was agonising. The internet was awash with praise for the game and it was easy at a glance to see why - this was a sequel that took the highly popular style of the first Uncharted, refined it further and created one of the most memorable adventures of this past generation. With new love interests popping up, a genuinely insane crime lord dogging his footsteps at every turn and one of the most ridiculously awesome hooks at the start of a game ever (you're dangling off a cliff from a crashed train), Uncharted 2 was beautifully graphically, genuinely fun to play and - of course - introduced us to the Naughty Dog trademark character interaction stuff such as boosting up to ladders. There's little other games in the world that make us like characters as much as Uncharted does; they're just so alive, incredibly well acted and all enhance the experience in their own unique ways. The only bad thing about Uncharted 2 is the ending, but you can ignore that and just be on the edge of your seat for the rest of it.