Dynamic events that fire whether anyone is there to see them, and world versus world fought across three servers at once.
Onslaught adds vehicles and power nodes to maps built for them, on top of the 1999 bot ladder.
The last game EA shipped under the FIFA name before the licence lapsed and the series was renamed.
Four zones underground beneath Khaz Algar, and warbands that share progress across every character on the account.
An alternate Draenor before it broke apart, and a personal garrison that quietly replaced the world outside it.
A character creator people spend an evening in, combat built out of directional combos, and a trade network that runs while you are away.
Pandaria opens after ten thousand years, with the monk class, a farm at Halfhill and a war the Horde loses to itself.
Middle-earth from the Shire to Mordor, with instruments that play real notes so players can hold concerts in Bree.
Free to play and paid for with cosmetics, built around a passive tree of more than a thousand nodes and a new league every few months.
Deathwing rips the old world apart, so every zone from 2004 is rebuilt around the damage.
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.
The whole of Oahu at scale, with a house to buy and other drivers on the same roads.
Criterion take the wheel: Seacrest County, EMP blasts and an Autolog that posts your friends times.
Snaking, a mission mode and the first Mario Kart people played against strangers online.
A subscription, a licence class and races at fixed times with stewards who hand out penalties.
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.
Mode 7 tracks, a feather to hop the wall and a ghost of your own best lap; the kart racer that started it.
Laser-scanned circuits and a physics model the modding scene has been building on for a decade.
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