Nintendo

Games

The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim

More than a successful role-playing game. It became a place people kept moving back.

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Games

Super Smash Bros. Ultimate

Super Smash Bros. Ultimate succeeds by feeling enormous without losing its basic clarity. At a glance it is a celebration game, a crossover built to astonish

UX: 92 MP: 93 Legacy: 91
Games

Super Smash Bros.

The original Super Smash Bros. on Nintendo 64 deserves to be remembered as one of the most important fighting games ever made because it reimagined what

UX: 93 MP: 97 Legacy: 97
Games

Rocket League

Rocket League can be explained in a sentence. Cars play soccer. That pitch is part of its brilliance because it invites almost anyone to understand the

UX: 93 MP: 96 Legacy: 94
Games

Perfect Dark

Perfect Dark deserves to be remembered as one of the richest multiplayer games of the Nintendo 64 era because it refined the console’s competitive promise without

UX: 92 MP: 97 Legacy: 96
Games

Overwatch 2

Overwatch 2 is often described through its most visible surface features: colorful heroes, dramatic ultimates, fast teamfights, and constant ability interactions.

UX: 87 MP: 92 Legacy: 84
Platforms

Nintendo 64

Nintendo 64 turned local multiplayer into a lasting culture The Nintendo 64 occupies a special place in gaming history because it made competitive play feel immediate,

UX: 90 MP: 99 Legacy: 98
Games

Mortal Kombat 1

Mortal Kombat 1 lives in a space that only Mortal Kombat can really occupy.

UX: 86 MP: 84 Legacy: 82
Games

Minecraft

Minecraft has one of the strongest legacy cases in all of gaming because its core idea is both simple and endlessly generative.

UX: 94 MP: 92 Legacy: 100
Franchises and Series

Mario Kart Series

Why the series works The Mario Kart series matters because it solved a problem many multiplayer games never fully solve: how to let competition stay lively,

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