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The 12 most incredible games of the decade

(TECH RADAR) - It’s not only the traditional time of year for us to compile our lists of favourite things, it is the time of the decade for definitive lists of favourite things.

Add this to the fact that geeks, tech-heads and gamers just love to compile definitive lists, and you will understand what a job it has been trying to identify a list of only 12 games that could genuinely be described as ‘definitive’ of that strange decade we are just leaving which we (always slightly uncomfortably) called the noughties.

The last ten years has seen gaming become the number one mainstream entertainment medium of choice for millions worldwide, with Sony’s market dominance with the PlayStation 2 earlier in the decade gradually giving way to the new dominance of Nintendo’s Wii, the latest rising (and glowing) star in the most recent round of what we all now call ‘the console war‘.

And throughout it all, the humble PC has retained its foothold as many true hardcore gamers’ format of choice, particularly if you happen to be a fan of strategy-gaming or massively multiplayer online games such as Blizzard’s mighty World of Warcraft.

On which note, we debated long and hard about WoW’s worthiness for inclusion in the following list, on the back of its sales, its 11 million-plus regular subscribers, its overall scope and its developers sense of ambition for what is possible… but we eventually knocked it off the bottom of the list.

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