Legend of Zelda - Best Video Game Ever..

[Guest MarvinisaLunatic]

A PANEL OF WRITERS from Entertainment Weekly and gaming experts from G4, the cable TV games channel, have voted the “Zelda” series, from Japan’s Nintendo Co. Ltd. to the top of a list of the best 100 video games ever.

      The “Zelda” series is a chronicle of heroic adventures in fantasy lands; the latest game, “The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker,” features a character named Link who sails the seas searching for his sister and using a magic staff that can summon windstorms.

      The list, which appears in the new Entertainment Weekly and will be broken down in a series of nightly specials the week of May 5 on G4, encompasses all genres of games and all systems, from classic arcade machines to today’s game consoles.

      Second on the list was the 1993 PC game “Doom,” from id Software, widely hailed as a revolution in PC gaming both for its graphics and its often-gory violence.

      Rounding out the top five were the classic puzzle game “Tetris,” the criminal adventure games “Grand Theft Auto III” and “Grand Theft Auto: Vice City” from Take-Two Interactive Software Inc. and “Madden NFL 2003” from Electronic Arts Inc. 

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      Nintendo and EA combined for 20 of the 100 entries on the list, which comes just days before the annual Electronic Entertainment Expo, or E3, the video game industry’s annual trade show in Los Angeles.

 

Im actually fine with this top 5, except for #5..No way in hell Madden 2003 is better than any of the other games you can think of not in the top five..

[Guest Sakura]

I hate lists like these. They're always really inconsistent. How come the ENTIRE Zelda series is counted as one game but only GTA III and Vice City are given props in that series? Same with Madden, shouldn't it be the entire Madden series? Lists like this also will switch off and on between being about innovation and revolution or just plain greatness. Yeah, Doom changed PC gaming, but they're trying to sell to us that Doom is still better than the games that have come after it? Come on...