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Games released on November 13

11 games that still hold up, from Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty in 2001 to Hitman 2 in 2018

  1. Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty 2001

    Turns 25 this year PlayStation 2

    Terrorists have seized the Big Shell, an offshore cleanup facility, and hold the President of the United States hostage there, in a story that opens with a chapter aboard the tanker USS Discovery.

  2. Star Wars: Galactic Battlegrounds 2001

    Turns 25 this year

    Six Star Wars factions fight for resources and territory over land, sea and air with armies of up to 200 units, in a real time strategy game built on the Age of Empires engine.

  3. Empire Earth 2001

    Turns 25 this year

    A real time strategy game in which one match can carry a civilization through fourteen epochs, from the prehistoric age to the nano age, though reaching a new one never guarantees surviving it.

  4. Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon 2001

    Turns 25 this year

    A tactical shooter in which the Ghosts, an American special forces unit, are sent in against Russian ultranationalists who have marched into their neighbours, with three fireteams under your command.

    $2.99 on GOG -70% +1 store

  5. Metal Slug 5 2003

    Turns 23 this year Arcade

    Marco, Tarma, Eri and Fio fight through five missions in the last Metal Slug made for Neo Geo hardware, sliding under fire and taking a submarine, a plane and a walking robot.

  6. Crysis 2007

    Turns 19 this year

    Nomad, a special forces soldier, is sent where an ancient alien structure lies buried inside a mountain, wearing a Nanosuit with four modes.

    $29.09 on Fanatical -3%

  7. Assassin's Creed 2007

    Turns 19 this year PlayStation 3, Xbox 360

    Desmond Miles relives the memories of his ancestor Altair, an Assassin stripped of his rank during the Third Crusade, who has to kill nine targets across Jerusalem, Acre and Damascus to redeem himself.

    $4.99 on GOG -75%

  8. Scribblenauts Unlimited 2012

    Turns 14 this year Wii U, Nintendo 3DS

    Maxwell types the names of objects into his notebook to make them appear, solving people's problems to save Lily from a curse that is slowly turning her to stone.

    $1.69 on Fanatical -92%

  9. Deemo 2013

    Turns 13 this year

    A little girl named Alice falls from the sky and meets Deemo, a mysterious black being whose piano music grows a tree that may take her home, in a rhythm game for phones.

  10. Captain Toad: Treasure Tracker 2014

    Turns 12 this year Wii U

    A puzzle platformer in which Captain Toad and Toadette explore small diorama levels, and their heavy backpacks mean they cannot jump, so you turn each level around to find the paths.

  11. Hitman 2 2018

    Turns 8 this year PlayStation 4, Xbox One

    Agent 47 hunts a mysterious Shadow Client across eight sandbox missions, from Miami and Mumbai to an island off Scotland, in the second of the World of Assassination trilogy.