GTA 3 gets my vote here as well. I'm quite shocked it's currently losing 10-5...maybe I should go initiate another vote-rigging, eh Lee?
Don't get me wrong, I
LOVE Metal Gear Solid, and it was a game that really opened my eyes to the possibilities of video games as an art form when I was a kid. Snake? Come on man, is there anyone more badass in gaming history?
But GTA 3 is simply a better game. There's a reason it revolutionized the business and everyone and their mother had a copy; it was a whole new kind of game. There had been non-linear sandbox styled games before this (Shenmue comes to mind), but none really captured the feeling of
real life that GTA 3 did. It was so fun just to go around and do whatever you wanted; explore territory, snipe cops, do car stunts, throw molotov cocktails at the homeless people inside the tunnel! Oh man, no game has ever taken up more of my time then GTA 3. I
still play the game a few times per year and try to run through it once a year. It's not my favorite in the franchise (that honor belongs to San Andreas), but my god if it isn't a
great fucking game.
I'm sure there will be a ton of people voting against it though because they consider themselves too intelligent and sophisticated for a game like GTA 3. These are the same people that have no problem murdering people in MGS, just not police officers and hookers please! Fuck off. *****es.
Vote GTA 3. Immediately.