16 images Forza Horizon 4 (2018) British weather for once becomes cause to celebrate, Playground’s sandbox racer bypassing the usual landmarks to explore the gardens and seasons of England and Scotland.
9 images Fuel (2009) Tornado alleys, volcanic basins and cities reclaimed by nature are just some of the settings for Asobo Studio's vast open-world racer.
20 images Gears Of War 3 (2011) Epic's mastery of its own Unreal Engine means a more spirited, light-footed adventure for its growing brotherhood of space marines.
38 images Grand Theft Auto IV (2007) Towering over Rockstar's cheeky satire is a simulated Liberty City few would have imagined during the equally groundbreaking GTA III.
179 images Grand Theft Auto IV (Walkabout Series) (2008) A stylised tour of Rockstar's Liberty City designed to evoke classic portraits of its real-world counterpart, New York.
12 images Grand Theft Auto V (2013) Returning to Hollywood’s backyard, Rockstar tightens the lens on San Andreas, achieving the kind of human and natural minutiae that test the limits of games and their development.
38 images Guilty Gear Xrd (2014) A difficult step into modern 3D becomes a statement against off-the-peg art direction, and a thoroughly convincing faux-anime look.
19 images Half-Life 2 (2004) The characters provide the warmth - and the fear - in Valve's masterfully architectured FPS set in alien-occupied Eastern Europe.
19 images HAWKEN (2012) Indie Adhesive Games punches far above its weight thanks to a kit-bashing approach to its futuristic maps and mechs.
49 images Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice (2017) Ninja Theory’s bewildering, hallucinatory, but above all earnest take on psychosis visits a Norse hellscape via the eyes and thoughts of a mo-capped protagonist, Senua.
