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The Lords of Midnight – “Do you want dawn?”

In 1982, Veronica Megler and Philip Mitchell (with help from Alfred Milgrom and Stuart Ritchie) made adventure game The Hobbit, and it wowed players with its cast of…

“Fateless One” – Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning

Reckoning with when a new game being a decent take on a genre stopped being enough…

“They still die when you shoot ’em” – Mass Effect 2

When Bioware struck out from Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic with their own space opera RPG setting in Mass Effect, they planned for it to be…

“Radio Free Wasteland” – Fallout 3

Fallout 3 eases you into its world particularly gently. Your initial exposure to its post-apocalyptic nuclear future is through the filter of a prologue within a sealed shelter,…

“Bard to the bone” – Fable II

When it comes to pivotal moments in British video game history, Populous is one of the more significant games overlooked by Super Chart Island (Robocop’s half-year run at…

“Toutius Sextius, do you know him?” – The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion

I had saved the town of Kvatch from falling completely to the demons of Doom-world (alright, ‘Oblivion’), but it wasn’t that simple. Death and damage had already been…

“The exercise will do us good” – Final Fantasy X-2

Square Enix, PlayStation 2, #1 in UK combined formats chart for week ending 21 February 2004

I’d go anywhere – Pokémon Gold

Game Freak/Nintendo, Game Boy Color, #1 in UK combined formats chart for week ending 7 April 2001

Not to forget our past, but to learn from it – Final Fantasy IX

Square, PlayStation, #1 in UK combined formats chart for week ending 17 February 2001

It said so on TV – Pokémon Yellow

Game Freak/Nintendo, Game Boy, #1 in UK combined formats chart for week ending 17 June 2000