These games are big, brash and popular. They have big budgets which means the visual and interactive quality is particularly high. They also have strong and wide ranging player communities.
This list includes 14 games from the last 28 years, with 171 likes. They come from a range of different genres and play-styles and are all good games if you want to play popular blockbuster games.
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The Legend of Zelda: Breath Of The Wild
Rating: PEGI 12+, ESRB TEEN
Release Date: 03/03/2017
Platforms: Nintendo Switch and Nintendo Wii U
Genres: Action, Adventure, Fighting, Narrative, Open World and Simulation
Developer: @Nintendo
Players: This is a single player game
This game departs from the previous Zelda formula with the scale and depth of its world. You walk, fly, ride and climb your way through a landscape that varies in climate, terrain, inhabitants and vegetation. Weather and the passage of the sun and moon...
Super Smash Bros. Ultimate
Rating: PEGI 12+, ESRB EVERYONE 10+
Release Date: 21/01/1999, updated in 2018
Platforms: GameCube, Nintendo DS, Nintendo Switch and Nintendo Wii U
Genres: Action and Fighting
Players: You can play with 8 players in the same room and up to 8 players online
Super Smash Bros. in its various versions offers real-time brawling battles. The tens of characters are drawn from other video games and each has bespoke moves to learn and perfect.
Hyrule Warriors: Age of Calamity
Release Date: 14/08/2014, updated in 2020
Platforms: Nintendo 2DS|3DS, Nintendo Switch and Nintendo Wii U
Developer: @KoeiTecmoUS
The Hyrule Warriors series of games are hack and slash action games, set in the Legend of Zelda Universe and focussed primarily on close combat against large groups of enemies. The latest in the series Hyrule Warriors: Age of Calamity, merges the...
The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword
Release Date: 23/11/2011
Platforms: Nintendo Switch, Nintendo Wii and Nintendo Wii U
Genres: Action, Adventure, Narrative, Open World, Physically Active and Role-Playing
The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword is an adventure game in the Zelda series. You play Link and navigate the floating island of Skyloft before diving down to the land below it. While the island locations and flight drew from Wind Waker, the combat and...
The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker
Rating: PEGI 7+, ESRB EVERYONE 10+
Release Date: 24/03/2003, updated in 2013
Platforms: GameCube and Nintendo Wii U
Genres: Action, Adventure, Fighting, Narrative, Open World and Puzzle
The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker is an adventure game in the Zelda series. This one is set on a group of islands in a vast sea, and follows Link as he attempts to save his sister from the sorcerer Ganon. This soon develops into a struggle to find the...
New Super Mario Bros. U
Rating: PEGI 3+, ESRB EVERYONE
Release Date: 18/11/2012, updated in 2019
Genres: Action, Creative, Platform and Puzzle
Players: You can play with 5 players in the same room
New Super Mario Bros. U is platform game where you play with 4 main players (and an optional assistant player) to traverse from one side of the level to the other. Along with the usual running, jumping, stomping and collecting you are racing other...
Batman: Arkham City
Rating: PEGI 16+, ESRB TEEN
Release Date: 18/10/2011
Platforms: Mac, Nintendo Wii U, PC, PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, Xbox 360 and Xbox One
Genres: Action, Adventure, Fighting and Open World
Developer: @RocksteadyGames
Batman: Arkham City is an open world adventure, the second instalment in the Arkham series taking place one year after the events of Batman: Arkham Asylum. You play Batman fighting crime, and a dwindling reputation,...
Assassin's Creed Black Flag
Rating: PEGI 18+, ESRB MATURE 17+
Release Date: 29/10/2013
Platforms: Nintendo Switch, Nintendo Wii U, PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, Xbox 360 and Xbox One
Developer: @UbisoftMTL
Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag is an action-adventure game set in a fictional telling of real-world events around the 18th Century Caribbean during the Golden Age of Piracy. You run, jump, climb, explore and fight as a notorious Welsh pirate Edward...
The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess
Release Date: 19/11/2006, updated in 2016
Platforms: GameCube, Nintendo Wii and Nintendo Wii U
Genres: Action, Adventure, Narrative, Open World, Puzzle and Role-Playing
The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess is an adventure game in the Zelda series. As with the other games, you play Link, who must prevent Hyrule from being engulfed by corruption from a parallel dimension. Unlike other Zelda games, you can take the form...
Batman: Arkham Origins
Release Date: 25/10/2013
Platforms: Nintendo Wii U, PC, PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360
Genres: Action, Adventure and Open World
Batman: Arkham Origins is an open-world adventure game. It's the prequel game to the Batman: Arkham series, taking place about five years before the first game, in the early years of Batman's career as a crime-fighter. You explore Gotham, collect items,...
FIFA 21
Release Date: 15/12/1993, updated in 2020
Platforms: Android, Mac, Nintendo 2DS|3DS, Nintendo DS, Nintendo Switch, Nintendo Wii, Nintendo Wii U, PlayStation 2, PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, PlayStation Vita, Xbox, Xbox 360, Xbox One and iOS
Genres: Action, Simulation and Sports
Developer: @EA
Players: You can play with 4 players in the same room and up to 4 players online
FIFA is one of the two main football video games (the other being Pro Evolution). Each year it's released with improved visuals, more realistic physics and enhanced competitive play. For those that follow the game closely and play it a lot, it offers a...
Super Mario 3D World
Release Date: 21/11/2013, updated in 2013
Genres: Action, Adventure and Platform
Super Mario 3D World is a platform game you can play with up to 4-players in the same place. While all Mario games are good for families, this co-operative and competitive play makes it great for families and friends to play together.
Yoshi's Wooly World
Release Date: 25/06/2015, updated in 0017
Platforms: Nintendo 2DS|3DS and Nintendo Wii U
Developer: @Gbit_goodfeel
Players: You can play with 2 players in the same room
Yoshi's Woolly World is a platform game made of knitting. You explore, jump and run your way around, solving puzzles and collecting items to complete each stage.
Watch Dogs
Release Date: 27/05/2014
Platforms: Nintendo Wii U, PC, PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 and Xbox One
Genres: Action, Narrative, Open World and Role-Playing
Developer: @Ubisoft
Players: You can play this with 8 players online
Watch Dogs an open world adventure. It's the first instalment in the Watch Dogs series. You navigate and explore the world on foot or in a variety of vehicles. The novelty is the futuristic setting that highlights the use (and misuse) of social media to...
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