20 Best Video Games Of The Last 20 Years

4. Red Dead Redemption

If a truly great video game should make you feel something, how about the motivation to kill?

And not in like Mario jumping on a Goomba's head or wasting a few pedestrians in Grand Theft Auto. Proper, Inigo Montoya, "You killed my father. Prepare to die."-type revenge.

Red Dead instilled that in all of us, topping off Rockstar's most thoughtfully-written epic with a final confrontation that was entirely your own choice.

If you wanted to end the game with a certain person kicking the bucket, feel free. But if you knew where the killer lived, thought you could do something about it and followed through on that intention, man, the feeling of player agency meeting developer intent was - and still is - unmatched.