Games released on March 22
11 games that still hold up, from Resident Evil in 1996 to Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice in 2019
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Resident Evil 1996
Turned 30 this year PlayStation
Chris Redfield or Jill Valentine, members of an elite task force, explore the Spencer Mansion in the Arklay mountains to find their missing comrades and a way out.
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RollerCoaster Tycoon 1999
Turned 27 this year
You build and run an amusement park through preset scenarios, laying out custom coasters one piece at a time and placing what guests need around them. Each scenario finished unlocks the next.
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Resident Evil 2002
Turned 24 this year GameCube
In Capcom's remake of the 1996 survival horror game, Chris Redfield or Jill Valentine explores a mansion where the dead do not stay down, with new areas, a rewritten script and a new subplot.
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God of War 2005
Turned 21 this year PlayStation 2
Kratos, a Spartan who serves the gods of Olympus, sets out to kill Ares, the God of War, who tricked him into killing his own family. The fights with the Blades of Chaos are broken up by puzzles and platforming.
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TimeSplitters: Future Perfect 2005
Turned 21 this year GameCube, PlayStation 2, Xbox
In the third TimeSplitters, Sergeant Cortez travels through time, from 1924 Scotland to 2243, to stop the TimeSplitters from ever being created.
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LEGO Star Wars III: The Clone Wars 2011
Turned 15 this year Wii, PlayStation 3, Xbox 360
The LEGO Star Wars of The Clone Wars, the 2008 film and the series after it, with 115 characters and battles of real time strategy in which armies are commanded across a field.
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Crysis 2 2011
Turned 15 this year PlayStation 3, Xbox 360
A first person shooter set in New York, in which the Marine Alcatraz gains the Nanosuit 2.0 from Prophet, with floors, buildings and ruins to cross, the first game on CryEngine 3.
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Kid Icarus: Uprising 2012
Turned 14 this year Nintendo 3DS
The angel Pit fights for Palutena, the Goddess of Light, against Medusa, the Goddess of Darkness, in a world loosely based on Greek myth.
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Angry Birds Space 2012
Turned 14 this year
The Angry Birds go into space, where the slingshot still sends them at the pigs but the gravity of small planets bends every shot, and a bird can be swung round one toward its target.
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TrackMania Turbo 2016
Turned 10 this year PlayStation 4, Xbox One
Over two hundred tracks of loops, jumps and stunts built around shaving time off every lap, with a track editor and a Double Driver mode where two players steer one car.
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Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice 2019
Turned 7 this year PlayStation 4, Xbox One
In a fictionalized Japan of the Sengoku period, steeped in Buddhist myth, the shinobi Wolf sets out to rescue his lord and is pulled into the fight over the fate of Ashina.
