THE 100 GREATEST PLAYSTATION GAMES OF ALL TIME

Team PLAY argue their way into assembling the 100 best PlayStation games of all time, from PS1 to PS5. From classics to overlooked gems, come and nod in agreement and shake your fist as we count down to #1

PlayStation has been kicking around since 1994, when the original grey box of joy launched. At the time there was nothing like it. The 3D polygon gaming it delivered was revolutionary in a way that no generational leap has managed to match.

That was 28 years ago. The years since have been packed with brilliant games, so assembling a list of the 100 best is a tall order. It'd be easy to create a list twice as long, or maybe even ten times longer. Where do you even begin? You could try to look at things objectively, to quantify how well games have aged, the impact they had, or how good the visual design is. But games are basically collaborative works of art. Everyone's response to one game or another is going to be unavoidably subjective. Thankfully, Team PLAY is rife with opinions, so we made sure each of us had a say.

We limited entries to one game per series, otherwise, a quarter of the list would be every God Of War, Metal Gear Solid, and Naughty Dog hit. The exception, we decided, would be for games representing meaningful shifts in a series' make up - the difference between Assassin's Creed's RPG entries and its earlier iterations, say, rather than Uncharted adding a grappling hook to swing from PS3 to PS4. We put together a longlist, did a roundtable to make that a shortlist, voted on the top entries, then round-tabled our way through ordering the rest.