Why, damnit?: Over 1,000 licensed roadsters - enough to make the Hamster roar. Now features car damage and driving physics.
Likely terrible boxquote: "Gran Tur-ific."
Why, damnit?: Imagine a playable version of David Fincher's unsettling thriller Se7en.
Likely terrible boxquote: "Don't be afraid to get wet."
Why, damnit?: 256 players at once. Basically, it's the nearest you'll get to fullscale war without signing up.
Likely terrible boxquote: "MAGnificent."
Why, damnit?: Same fantastically intricate far-future galaxy, high-tech gunfights and many a plot twist.
Likely terrible boxquote: "Massively effective."
Why, damnit?: Tons of bizarre pop culture in-jokes and references, both Eastern and Western in origin. Lightsabers.
Likely terrible boxquote: "More please."
Why, damnit?: A living room version of the long-running courtroom spoof series. Brilliant.
Likely terrible boxquote: "No OBJECTIONS, your honour."
Why, damnit?: Grand Theft Auto time-warps back to the Wild West, as memorialised by Clint Eastwood's Unforgiven.
Likely terrible boxquote: "Better Red Dead than red or dead."
Why, damnit?: Disillusioned super-spy goes renegade in grizzled hostage adventure.
Likely terrible boxquote: "Definitely has the courage of its convictions."
Why, damnit?: It's Modern Warfare but you can blow walls, floors and roofs to bits with grenades.
Likely terrible boxquote: "Two's company, three... hasn't been announced yet."
Why, damnit?: Players return to the underwater dystopia of Rapture as a powerful, vat-bred "Big Daddy" in a diving suit.
Likely terrible boxquote: "Who's the Daddy now?"
