Rate the Game: Week 87

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Welcome, one and all. Let's get ready to say good-bye to November as we close out the month with this latest edition of Rate the Game. The weather may be getting cooler but these games are hot...sometimes. Take last week's Super Smash Bros. for instance. Was it hot shit amongst the good people of TPWW? Well the week is up and the votes have been cast so let's see where this bad boy ends up on the list....

Rate the Game Results

1. (TIE) The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time, Grand Theft Auto: Vice City (4.8)
3. Hitman: Codename 47 (4.75)
4. Super Mario Bros. 3 (4.7)
5. Silent Hill 2 (4.66)
6. (3-WAY TIE)Chrono Trigger, Portal, Red Dead Redemption (4.5)
9. (TIE) Mega Man 2, Donkey Kong Country (4.44)
11. Super Mario Bros. (4.41)
12. God of War (4.4)
13. (TIE) Metal Gear Solid, BioShock (4.33)
15. Perfect Dark (4.3)
16. (TIE) Shadow of the Colossus, The Last of Us (4.28)
18. Super Street Fighter 2 (4.15)
19. Sonic the Hedgehog (4.14)
20. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (4.125)
21. Super Mario 64 (4.07)
22. (TIE) Grand Theft Auto 3, The Legend of Zelda (4.06)
24. NBA Jam (4.05)
25. (8-WAY TIE) Super Mario Kart, Sonic the Hedgehog 2, Super Metroid, The Simpsons, Castlevania: Symphony of the Night, Donkey Kong Country 2, Resident Evil 4, Super Smash Bros. (4.0)
33. Final Fantasy 7 (3.94)
34. Mega Man (3.89)
35. (3-WAY TIE) Contra, Castlevania, Devil May Cry (3.86)
38. Half-Life 2 (3.85)
39. Half-Life (3.83)
40. SimCity 2000 (3.8)
41. Legacy of Kain: Soul Reaver (3.77)
42. Batman: Arkham Asylum (3.76)
43. (TIE) Double Dragon, Max Payne (3.75)
45. Tetris (3.69)
46. Mortal Kombat 2 (3.67)
47. (TIE) Diablo, F.E.A.R. (3.66)
49. Mortal Kombat (3.65)
50. Doom (3.625)
51. StarFox (3.61)
52. Resident Evil (3.58)
53. (TIE) Ninja Gaiden, Shinobi (3.5)
55. Dead Space (3.4)
56. Tony Hawk's Pro Skater (3.39)
57. Resident Evil: Nemesis (3.38)
58. (4-WAY TIE) Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare, Condemned: Criminal Origins, Crash Bandicoot, Wolfenstein 3D (3.33)
62. Gears of War (3.27)
63. (TIE) Uncharted: Drake's Fortune, Borderlands (3.22)
65. (3-WAY TIE) Quake, Duke Nukem 3D, Darkstalkers (3.2)
68. Pac-Man (3.125)
69. Killer Instinct (3.11)
70. (TIE) Virtua Fighter, Rock Band (3.09)
72. (4-WAY TIE) Time Crisis, Tekken, Earthworm Jim, Metroid (3.0)
76. Guitar Hero (2.875)
77. Streets of Rage (2.84)
78. Altered Beast (2.8)
79. Dead Rising (2.71)
80. (TIE) Silent Hill, The Sims (2.6)
82. Tomb Raider (2.55)
83. Halo: Combat Evolved (2.5)
84. Twisted Metal (2.42)
85. Gran Turismo (2.3)
86. Ghosts n' Goblins (2.14)


Well with all of the votes tallied up and scored we make the number 25 spot an even bigger clusterfuck than it already was. Super Smash Bros. joins the orgy we got going on there to create an eight-way tie with a 4.0 average. Will there be another game that will end up in that crowded spot? Could this week's game rise above that mosh pit and claim residency in the elite top ten? Or will it give Ghosts n' Goblins some company at the bottom? Let's go to the bowl!

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We take another trip to the past with that '90s arcade staple, the beat-'em-up genre. Almost every company and their mothers took a stab at the idea of walking the crime-ridden streets and clobbering every thug you meet into paste but this is Capcom's take on the matter: Final Fight! Where shall it end up on our illustrious leaderboard? Let's dive in and rate this sucker and look forward to what December has in store for us. Until next week!