#177 – Starcraft (PC)
Starcraft along with Age of Empires remains a landmark in the history of real-time strategy games on the PC. I personally found Starcraft to be more engrossing than Age of Empires and multiplayer Starcraft on a LAN was simply fantastic. The Expansion of Broodwar is also well worth the while as it adds to the campaign which was already really good. As far as I remember I used to play as Zergs most of the time over Terrans. Starcraft brings innovation to a new level thus giving birth to many great RTS games over the years but few could leave a legacy behind like it did.
#176 – Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas (PS2)
I didn’t really think the GTA series could improve upon Vice City, at least not with the PS2 engine. I was wrong but since I’ve never been huge on GTA, I was probably one of the few gamers who actually thought SA wouldn’t be all that good. My initial impression was the same as Vice City. I didn’t think the plot would be all that great but it turned out to be quite decent and the characters in SA appealed to me much more than either Vice City or GTAIII (CJ >Vercetti >Mute MC). Vice City improved on GTAIII by quite a margin but it still failed to make me fall in love with such an acclaimed series. I didn’t think San Andreas could improve by as much of a difference between Vice City and GTAIII but the game surprised me and was actually entertaining. GTA:SA deserves to be placed this high just because it was and still is the height of its genre (Better than GTAIV). I’ll never to this day know what the craze is over the series but I can’t deny the fact that the GTA series has left its landmark on the gaming industries. San Andreas is a quality game but like all its predecessors (GTAIII, Vice City) and its successor (GTAIV) it is one of the most overrated games of all time.
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