25 Best Sega Games Of All Time - RANKED

23. Jet Set Radio

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Was there anything cooler in 2000 than Jet Set Radio (or Jet Grind Radio, if you're from North America!).

This Dreamcast classic about a member of a gang of awesome, grafitti-dropping inline skaters is more than worth of a top spot on any list about Sega games, and still to this day is a game that people are always clamouring for a return of.

With its incredibly stylish, cell-shaded aesthetics, awesome soundtrack and satisfying, silky-smooth inline skating action, its not hard to see why so many people love Jet Set Radio. It's also one of the first games to utilise an open world as we know it, a fact which proved very difficult for the games' developers when they were creating it.

Just goes to show how amazingly before its time the Dreamcast actually was. The games' developers, Smilebit, have even went on record saying they wanted to really push the Dreamcast's hardware with this one, making it impossible to copy the game on the PS2, which was less powerful overall than the Dreamcast.

Even if you were to grab a copy of this today and play it through, you'd still find that this game looks and feels absolutely phenomenal. That's a mark of a stone cold classic right there.

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Dan Curtis is approximately one-half videogame knowledge, and the other half inexplicable Geordie accent. He's also one quarter of the Factory Sealed Retro Gaming podcast.