Rate the Game: Week 70

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Welcome one and all to another Tuesday morning. This certainly can only mean one thing and that one thing is kicking off another week of Rate the Game! We've actually got a couple of milestones here. The most obvious one being that this is the seventieth edition of this little party. The other is linked to the results of last week's game, Donkey Kong Country 2. Whatever could it be? Well let's take a look at the goods....

Rate the Game Results

1. The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time (4.8)
2. Hitman: Codename 47 (4.75)
3. Super Mario Bros. 3 (4.7)
4. Chrono Trigger (4.5)
5. (TIE) Mega Man 2, Donkey Kong Country (4.44)
7. Super Mario Bros. (4.41)
8. God of War (4.4)
9. Metal Gear Solid (4.33)
10. (TIE) Shadow of the Colossus, The Last of Us (4.28)
12. Super Street Fighter 2 (4.15)
13. Sonic the Hedgehog (4.14)
14. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (4.125)
15. Super Mario 64 (4.07)
16. (TIE) Grand Theft Auto 3, The Legend of Zelda (4.06)
18. NBA Jam (4.05)
19. (6-WAY TIE) Super Mario Kart, Sonic the Hedgehog 2, Super Metroid, The Simpsons, Castlevania: Symphony of the Night, Donkey Kong Country 2 (4.0)
25. Final Fantasy 7 (3.94)
26. Mega Man (3.89)
27. Half-Life (3.83)
28. (3-WAY TIE) Contra, Castlevania, Devil May Cry (3.86)
31. Legacy of Kain: Soul Reaver (3.77)
32. Batman: Arkham Asylum (3.76)
33. Tetris (3.69)
34. Mortal Kombat 2 (3.67)
35. (TIE) Diablo, F.E.A.R. (3.66)
37. Mortal Kombat (3.65)
38. StarFox (3.61)
39. Doom (3.625)
40. Resident Evil (3.58)
41. Ninja Gaiden (3.5)
42. Dead Space (3.4)
43. Tony Hawk's Pro Skater (3.39)
44. Resident Evil: Nemesis (3.38)
45. (3-WAY TIE) Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare, Condemned: Criminal Origins, Crash Bandicoot (3.33)
48. Gears of War (3.27)
49. (TIE) Uncharted: Drake's Fortune, Borderlands (3.22)
51. Quake (3.2)
52. Pac-Man (3.125)
53. Killer Instinct (3.11)
54. (TIE) Virtua Fighter, Rock Band (3.09)
56. (4-WAY TIE) Time Crisis, Tekken, Earthworm Jim, Metroid (3.0)
60. Guitar Hero (2.875)
61. Streets of Rage (2.84)
62. Dead Rising (2.71)
63. (TIE) Silent Hill, The Sims (2.6)
65. Tomb Raider (2.55)
66. Halo: Combat Evolved (2.5)
67. Twisted Metal (2.42)
68. Gran Turismo (2.3)
69. Ghosts n' Goblins (2.14)



It's a veritable orgy going on in that number 19 spot as Donkey Kong Country 2, with it's average 4.0 rating, helps create the first ever six-way tie! Good Lord, how many more games are we going to fit in that group? Is this week's game going to be one of them? Time to see what it is. Bring on the bowl....

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After a fun little detour in the platformer genre we're back to the comforting atmosphere of survival horror and gunplay. This week we tackle the title credited with changing up the franchise, Resident Evil 4! It got a lot of praise when it first came out and changed up the formula but how much love do you think it deserves? Is it a worthy installment to the Resident Evil legacy or does it earn your ire and venom? Let's all vote and rate and discuss and share as inch ever closer to the end of this ride. Until next week....