20 PlayStation Games You Must Play Before You Die

15. Yakuza 5

Talk about your underrated and completely overlooked franchises. Yakuza remains one of the most consistently high-selling gangster-fuelled crime epics over in Japan, yet over here it's more likely to be outsold in preorders for Knack 2. Y5 puts you in the shoes of five different characters across five separate photo-realistic cities.

The story itself has more twists and turns than a Dark Souls boss falling down the stairs, but it's in the phenomenal arcade brawler gameplay that sees you going from lobbing gangsters into lampposts one minute, to solving murders and learning new finishers the next. Combined, it excels this into one of the finest PlayStation games of all time - and one that more than deserves a spot on your digital shelf.

Gaming Editor
Gaming Editor

WhatCulture's Head of Gaming.