Saber combat good enough that people still duel in it twenty years later.
A linear thirty-hour corridor into Gran Pulse, with the fastest battle system the series has had.
One city, two alien factions and a real-time mode; the last X-COM the original team made.
Kyle Katarn steals the Death Star plans in a Doom-era shooter with levels you can look up and down in.
A galactic map of real-time land and space battles, with the Death Star able to remove a planet from it.
The first game to hand you a lightsaber and Force powers, with live-action cutscenes between missions.
Rotoscoped animation, a rifle and a memory-wiped agent on Titan; the French answer to Another World.
Baird and Cole on trial for the mission the game is telling in flashback, with a star rating on every fight.
The expansion that ends the Tiberian Sun story, with CABAL turning on both sides.
The Alpha Centauri idea again: colonise an alien planet, then choose whether to stay human.
Isaac on the ice planet Tau Volantis with a co-op partner and a bench that builds any gun you can imagine.
The far-future one: mechs, an airship called the Titan and a squad system built around it.
JD Fenix, twenty-five years on, against windflares and a swarm that turns out to be old news.
Kait’s game, and the first with open areas, a skiff on the ice and a choice at the end you cannot undo.
The Third Tiberium War, the Scrin arriving mid-story, and full-motion video with a real cast again.
Emergence Day itself: Marcus and Dom on the first day of the Locust war, fourteen years before the original.
Besson’s orange-haired future: a cab driver, a diva’s aria and Gary Oldman with a plastic haircut.
Alien ships over every capital city, and a July 4th counterattack flown by a marine and a cable guy.
Gilliam's time-loop plague film, with Pitt twitching his way to an Oscar nomination.
Philip K. Dick rotoscoped: an undercover narcotics officer assigned to watch himself.
The last man in an empty Manhattan, talking to shop mannequins and hunting deer on Fifth Avenue.
Two agents in black suits neuralyse New York; the alien comedy that defined a summer.
The last humans circle a frozen Earth on a train, and the tail carriage fights its way forward.
A Korean girl goes to New York to get her superpig back from the company that bred it.
A first-person Metroid on the DS, aimed with the stylus, with six rival hunters chasing the same relics.
Team Ninja give Samus a voice and a chain of command; the entry the series argues about.
Samus sent to exterminate the Metroids on their home planet, on a Game Boy screen with no map.
Samus stranded on Viewros with a psychic link to her ship; Retro Studios after an eight-year restart.
MercurySteam rebuild Metroid II on the 3DS, with a melee counter that changes every encounter.
Four marines in mechs instead of Samus; the co-op spin-off announced to an audibly unhappy room.
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