43 images Shadow Warrior (2013) Flying Wild Hog and Devolver Digital revive the old-school gameplay and rich venue (minus racism and sexism) of 3D Realms' original.
17 images Shogun 2: Total War (2011) Creative Assembly's game of historical generalship pushes the PC to create battles of peerless scope and authenticity.
43 images Sonic & Allstars Racing Transformed (2011) Sumo Digital turns nostalgia into a working artistic brief for this who's who of battling Sega mascots (and unlikely guests).
29 images Space Engine (2011) With its limitless discoveries and computed terrain, Vladimir Romanyuk's ode to the cosmos invokes more wonder than a dozen scripted sci-fi games.
23 images Spec Ops: The Line (2012) A psychedelic trip (through a Dubai entombed by sand) to meet its own Colonel Kurtz, Yager's shooter is a surprise meditation on gaming's gung-ho attitude to war.
19 images STALKER: Shadow Of Chernobyl (2007) A troubled development befits the unnerving, anomalous biome of GSC's 'The Zone', a place of supernatural, radioactive terrors.
16 images Star Trek Online (2010) Cryptic crosses time and space to bring all things Star Trek together in this vibrant, long-running MMO.
99 images Street Fighter V (2016) Somewhere between famed series character artists Shinkiro and Kinu Nishimura lands the art style of Capcom's latest Fighter, made all the more compelling by a switch to Unreal Engine 4.
34 images Super Mario Galaxy (2007) Mario literally planet-hops between levels in Nintendo's restlessly inventive, critically-adored platformer.
