20 Years Of PlayStation: 20 Best Video Games So Far

18. The Getaway

The cinematic ball that Metal Gear Solid first truly set in motion was thusly picked up by various studios; but nothing looked as completely jaw-droppingly incredible as The Getaway back in 2002. Putting you in the shoes of one Mark Hammond and letting you deep-dive into a very Snatch/Lock-Stock & Two Smoking Barrels-style London crime thriller, it had a sense of realism and grit nothing else has ever come close to. By modelling a staggering amount of London's streets, vehicles, landmarks and more through a really innovate combination of photography and rendering, the result was a game that we all thought looked genuinely real. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SZTb08xtvO0 Gunplay was visceral and bloody, meaning for firefights you'd have to slump against a wall for a few minutes to recover - and with twin protagonists pairing Mark's revenge-filled tale with the surrounding police investigating the aftermath, it propped everything up with a killer story to boot.