20 Years Of PlayStation: 20 Best Video Games So Far

6. Shadow Of The Colossus

Team ICO's namesake was born from the mystical game of the same moniker, but it's this second masterwork that really resonated with gamers the world over. Playing as the adventurous Wander, you're in a world filled with towering, multi screen-high Colossi - the objective being to take them down, as is per the norm for essentially every game. However, the way Shadow plays with this expectation by slowly making you question exactly why we tend to approach these NPC creatures in games with murderous intent, is its greatest asset. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=who4_BF3Cck Before long you start feeling sorry for the hulking behemoths, but it's how everything converges into one of the greatest game endings of all time that establishes Shadow of the Colossus as something with an unmatched sense of scale, alongside one hell of an ethereal feel only this developer seem to be able to pull off.