The game that changed it all, the one that proved the medium could hang up there with the silver screen - as well as offering you the unique proposition of being the cog that turns the entire game with you at the centre. This was a time before moral choices would spring up and further dictate how the narrative would play out (something the plot-branching of MGS V is sure to capitalise on later in 2015), instead you were Solid Snake, an specialist operative attempting to take down a group of terrorists harbouring a nuclear device - alongside the titular Gundam-rivaling Metal Gear itself. Even with that summary it'd be enough to make it stand out, but creator Hideo Kojima was not one to slack when it came to making his games thoroughly unique. As such, in the game's runtime you'd do everything from go hand-to-hand with a cyborg ninja, have the console's memory card read by a telekinetic genius - and take part in a torture scene that actually directly affected the end of the game, without your knowledge. Metal Gear's remake was sadly reconciled to the GameCube back in 2004, but considering that suffered from some ridiculously over-the-top reworked cutscenes and voice acting across the board that didn't have the passion of the original, you simply can't go wrong with this 1998 original.
