The Fifteen Greatest Games of the Last Console Generation

Spring 2007 – Gamers all across the world are putting controllers and cables in the closet, trading in their coaxial cables for an HDMI cord, and bravely moving into a new generation of video game consoles. What once was Playstation 2, Gamecube, and Xbox has become Playstation 3, Wii, and Xbox 360. The last games of the old guard have finally come out, and it’s time to declare an end to dual shock 2s and wavebirds.

It was a significant era of gaming – the first to successfully support three home consoles, the first to successfully implement online gaming, and the first to really break into the mainstream. Video games became cool, well, as long as you were a male between the ages of 5 and 30 anyways, but nevertheless, video games are more popular than ever before.

I thought it would be good time to reflect on the last generation of consoles, the games that made a splash, the games that defined the generation, and the games that will live on long after their peers have died. In that spirit I present the Fifteen Greatest Games of the Last Console Generation, chosen by me, using no criteria other than my own mind and my own gut. It’s a balance of popularity, fun, significance, and games that just stuck out to me for whatever reason. The games will be posted with comments on this blog, in reverse order, with “special mentions” in-between games 11 and 10, and games 6 and 5. This effort will go on as long as it takes me to get to game #1, and I promise to do my best not to drop the ball in the middle.

That all said, without further adieu, I bring you the best 15 of the last. Comments are strongly encouraged.