Prey
Prey is an inventive and memorable little title; less an outright failure than a case of half-fulfilled potential.
First-Person Shooter
Perfect Dark
It’s hard to argue that this game doesn’t slightly one-up its predecessor in almost every area.
Doom
It’s a triumph of design innovation, addictive gameplay, aesthetics, and cultural integration—a watershed moment in gaming history that set the parameters of a new genre and permanently changed the landscape of the medium.
Borderlands
It’s impossible to deny that it broke new ground and that many subsequent games have built upon it, and it deserves much of the retrospective praise it gets.