Science Fiction Video Games Bucket List

The crew of the Unity land on Chiron and split into seven ideologies; the best writing in any strategy game.

Isaac on the ice planet Tau Volantis with a co-op partner and a bench that builds any gun you can imagine.

The Third Tiberium War, the Scrin arriving mid-story, and full-motion video with a real cast again.

Baird and Cole on trial for the mission the game is telling in flashback, with a star rating on every fight.

Emergence Day itself: Marcus and Dom on the first day of the Locust war, fourteen years before the original.

Kait’s game, and the first with open areas, a skiff on the ice and a choice at the end you cannot undo.

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.

MercurySteam rebuild Metroid II on the 3DS, with a melee counter that changes every encounter.

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.

Four marines in mechs instead of Samus; the co-op spin-off announced to an audibly unhappy room.

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.

A prison ship crashes on Na Pali and the Skaarj hunt you out of it; the 1998 engine that ran for twenty years.

Four players from four countries in one Dreamcast lobby in 2000, talking past the language barrier with a symbol chat.

Xatrix drop a second marine on Stroggos with an Ion Ripper and a Phalanx cannon.

Marshal John Dalton collects artefacts across seven colony worlds; the single-player sequel Legend Entertainment made in 2003.

The Protoss retake Aiur and the trilogy closes, with a Spear of Adun to refit between missions.

A new campaign written for the 2023 Quake II remaster, again by MachineGames.

The Boss is President of the United States, then a prisoner in a simulated Steelport with superpowers.

Kane is captured and turned into a Strogg halfway through, and keeps fighting; Raven Software continue Quake II.

Kerrigan back as the Queen of Blades, with Zerg strains you mutate between missions.

Rogue add turrets, tesla mines and a gravity well; the harder of the two Quake II packs.

Seven races fight over a map of Kronus province by province, with a commander who keeps his kit between battles.

Eight class stories, every line of them voiced, in the era Knights of the Old Republic left behind.