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41. Call of Duty: World at War
Original Release: 2008
Developer: Treyarch
Platform: XB360

Also known as Call of Duty 5, the follow up to the amazing Modern Warfare wasn't as good, but it still kept me occupied. I didn't care much for most of the multiplayer modes here and I certainly didn't care much for the single player campaign which was a step back from CoD4's amazing and intense story mode. So why is this ranked so high?

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That's why.

Simply put, Nazi Zombies was the most fun I've ever had co-op in a long, long, looooooong time. I mean, this is clearly way better than any sort of multiplayer I played before 2008. I even attempted Left 4 Dead and couldn't get into it. Nazi Zombies and CoD5 was revolutionary. It is overly simple but it's damned addicting, and playing with three others in the same room is the most fun I've had playing a video game during that time period. I remember staying up for hours protecting my teammates and looking for new guns each round in the Der Riese map. Oh man, I miss those times. To make things even better, this was done BEFORE the zombie craze took off with TWD and pretty much everything else. Too bad I don't have friends to play with anymore (I am NOT touching online).

40. Final Fantasy Tactics A2
Original Release: 2008
Developer: Square Enix
Platform: DS

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The original FFTA was a good game but I wasn't blown away by it. I mainly enjoyed it because of the amount of content and the fact that I could play it on handheld. Naturally, they needed to make a sequel and set it in Ivalice around the time of the whole Ivalice Alliance thing. FFTA2 manages to have a main storyline that is even less eventful and interesting than its predecessor. So basically there's very little of it and it moves at a snail's pace. The game is more concerned with the battle system. And the pacing is completely off-- seriously, towards the end when shit starts to hit the fan I'm still tasked with going to do some picnic mission or something. At least FFTA had a story that hit some emotional highs-- this game doesn't have that anything of the sort.

But damned if I didn't have fun with it. Even if the main storyline was bad, the rest of the content is just peachy. There are a TON of side missions and a TON of maps. The battle system is also easy enough to learn and improves upon the original's battles. I can't remember if judges still exist here to annoy you and if they don't, that's another plus. It's mainly a large and very detailed world and I wish there was a more epic, Ivalice-like main plot here because it had so much potential to be a good plot. On the positive side, there are a few side stories that are actually very good. One involves going around and defeating some mafia-like crew trying to take over the country, and all of the leaders of that gang have their own backstory and motivations. It was really interesting and much better than the main plot, and sometimes I feel that is should've been mandatory.

Oh, and Sakimoto is back here with an amazing ost. Some of my favorite tracks from FFXII also returned and some of them actually sounded better and more fitting here! Lastly, if you were to pick between this and Revenant Wings, this is clearly the much better game.