The Buzz: Top 5 various games
This week, The Bee dusts off some classics
Well The Bee is now a video gaming writer as well as private industry insider, and so of course he must write the absolutely classic: a Top 5 list. So you wonder what will the subject be? Of course it will be with video games. It will be with what are five good video games that I quite like! The Bee does not do things by portions!
Some of these are video games from history, now they are retro games. That makes The Bee feel old, because he remembers them all as new in big boxes! Some of them will not make a good comparison with other games such as Assassin's Creed or Halo 3 but these games are not in the list instead. This is difficult with retro gaming. Maybe that is to debate for another day!
Today, The Bee gives you a personal list of Top 5 games that have been influential with other games. Maybe you don't know all of them already, and also they are games in my soft spot!
5. Hunter
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Hunter is a 3D sandbox game. You are thinking, "Big deal idiot The Bee!" But a surprise is coming… it came in 1991! Boom! You cannot believe it. But it is true. In Hunter you play with a soldier marauding at a hilly archipelago made from polygons. You can take different vehicles, including helicopter, car, truck, bicycle, boat, and windsurfing. The day makes a cycle, and you fire into the air at night a flare that lights the ground yellow and dies. It is ahead of its time and with atmosphere. I love Hunter!
4. Giants: Citizen Kabuto
Giants is a game first with PC and then with PS2 and it was to make it excel. One, it made The Bee laugh. That is hard to make it happen, ask anybody who is in show business. Two, it was ignored by customers. That is a shame, because it made different game styles together, with flying action, real-time strategy, shooting, and becoming a giant. The graphics were also great and it is a special game. You can still buy it for not even £4, which is less than the bus ticket to my dentist, who I hate.
3. Syndicate
Syndicate is a game about having domination across the whole world with only some cyborgs in raincoats. What is their secret? They will shoot you in the face with a shotgun! Or set fire to you! Or explode you with rockets! Or sniper! It is violent and hard. It is also a classic mix with strategy and action. You must look after every agent because all of them can die, and you make them stronger and make research into bigger guns to fire. And you can kill innocent town people. As you see, Syndicate was important to influence some great games now.
2. Grand Theft Auto: Vice City
Vice City is like the things stolen by Goldilocks. It is not too small like GTA III and it is not too big like San Andreas. It is right and a game with light hearted fun and not concentrating on being very real. Who needs real? Not The Bee – The Bee needs to be Ray Liotta to throw a grenade at a sex worker and then race radio-control airplanes to celebrate! The Bee thought he did not like the 1980s until he played Vice City. Then he played and he remembered that he liked the 1980s! It was music and cars and colour and guns! Fantastic time!
1. The Secret of Monkey Island
The Secret of Monkey Island was a revelation to The Bee that video games are not only toys for wasting time. They can also be beautiful funny stories. Guybrush Threepwood is a character in a story and a companion. Guybrush wants to be a pirate and you help him with doing it. But you want to conquer the game and Guybrush helps you to conquer it. He does most things that you tell him when you make an action with your mouse, but sometimes he says no, and he falls in love with Governor Elaine Marley. You didn't tell him to do that! What is happening!
Video games are happening, grandfather. Get used to them.
That is why The Bee has chosen these five game to say they are the best five. They are not really – there are very many others. Please let me know what your best games are and we will compare.
Next week the quality of my column will improve.
The Bee is an industry insider who has fed on the nectar of over three decades' worth of gaming. All opinions expressed are the author's own.