Kul Tiras and Zandalar on opposite sides of a faction war that starts with Teldrassil burning.
Konami drop the Pro Evolution Soccer name in 2021 and restart the series as a free season update.
RECS builds a fresh course out of a typed-in code, so the trilogy closes with a track generator.
Squads, a commander calling in artillery and 64 players on Karkand; the modern-combat Battlefield.
Liu Kang rebuilds the timeline from scratch, and a second fighter waits at the edge of the screen to tag in.
Konami bring Winning Eleven to Europe in 2001 with invented kit names and passing nobody else could match.
The Journey: Alex Hunter has a career told in cutscenes, on the Frostbite engine.
The isometric 1993 original, the year EA bought the licence and the crowd was a single looping chant.
Two Esprits on a split screen, a password between rounds and a Barry Leitch soundtrack; Magnetic Fields, 1990.
NetherRealm restart the story at the first tournament, back on a 2D plane, with an X-ray camera inside the ribs.
The hardest of the run to score in, and the version the European online leagues settled on.
A qualifying campaign for every nation on the way to France, and Blur playing Song 2 over the menu.
Variations, X-rays and the next generation of Kombatants.
The mod platform that ran online leagues for a decade because anyone could build a car for it.
Sanctuary as an open world, with seasons and Lilith.
Criterion take the wheel: Seacrest County, EMP blasts and an Autolog that posts your friends times.
The whole of Oahu at scale, with a house to buy and other drivers on the same roads.
Licensed road cars with Mario Kart weapons bolted on; Bizarre Creations firing mines out of a Ford Focus.
The kart racer with a drift boost people still practise.
A subscription, a licence class and races at fixed times with stewards who hand out penalties.
Snaking, a mission mode and the first Mario Kart people played against strangers online.
Toy cars around a breakfast table and a pool table, with eight players sharing two pads and the cartridge.
Laser-scanned circuits and a physics model the modding scene has been building on for a decade.
Mode 7 tracks, a feather to hop the wall and a ghost of your own best lap; the kart racer that started it.
Cars, hovercraft and planes in an adventure mode with a boss whale; Rare on the N64 in 1997.
The reboot: Piccadilly, the embassy and night-vision raids.
Wall-running pilots and mechs that drop from orbit; the multiplayer that made Respawn.
Two to four cooks in a kitchen that slides, splits and catches fire while the orders keep coming.
Five versus five, free to play, and the PvE that never arrived.
Act V, the Assassin and the Druid; the expansion that made Diablo II permanent.
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