20 Best Video Games Of The Decade

15. Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain

It might have had its story cut short thanks to Konami falling out with Hideo Kojima, but MGS V: The Phantom Pain is up there with the best-playing third-person action games of all time, with an unexpectedly addicting gameplay loop building on what Peace Walker started.

Not only are you continuing to clear out bases and fend off supernatural enemies, but you're rebuilding "Mother Base", one soldier at a time. You do this by scoping them out, reading their stats and assigning them to different wings of the facility.

Soon, TPP becomes a brilliant mesh of open-world discovery, intense stealth action, rewarding base-building and experimental gadget-fuelled mechanics.

Where else could you lay down an inflatable version of yourself, electrocute a group of guards with an exposed telephone wire, balloon-lift a tank out your way and finish by flying a detachable rocket fist into your final target?

Exactly.

Oh, and you can do all of it while listening to A-Ha's 'Take On Me'.

There's nothing quite like Metal Gear Solid, and it deserves the spotlight for one last time.