Mortal Kombat was given a rebirth once NetherRealms rebooted it in 2011, transforming from gory fun to a genuinely excellent fighting series with heaps of content.īest-selling game: Mortal Kombat 2011 (5.9 million) Few games let us rip the spinal column out of a person before Mortal Kombat, and few have since. Long before GTA was doing its thing though, Midway was shocking parents and grossing out playgrounds with its ultra-violent fatalities.

It just needs heaps of violence, nudity and vulgarity and they'll snap it up. It doesn't have to be clever, it doesn't need to be mature. If you want your game to sell a crap ton of copies, just say that kids can't play it. The well of original ideas may have dried up a little lately but the Gears of War franchise remains one of the best, and grittiest, co-op series around.īest-selling game: Gears of War 2 (7 million) Marcus Fenix and co's gruff adventures were breakthrough third-person shooter successes, laying a blueprint for cover-based shooters that has been followed for years to come. Halo may be the more recognisable, but among the Xbox hardcore, there are few more important things than a new Gears of War. It's Gears of War v Mortal Kombat v Uncharted v Borderlands. All you've got to do is vote for your favourite game franchise to boost its chances of making it to the final. These are final games that stand a chance of being crowned the best videogame series in 2017. And here we are, at the final round of the first knock-out stages.

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