Games released on October 8
Five games that still hold up, from TimeSplitters 2 in 2002 to Metroid Dread in 2021
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TimeSplitters 2 2002
Turned 24 this year GameCube, PlayStation 2, Xbox
Free Radical Design, a studio founded by former Rare staff who had worked on GoldenEye 007, made this shooter of ten levels set in different time periods. It is built for a crowd, with four players on split screen and up to ten bots.
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FIFA Soccer 2005 2004
Turned 22 this year GameCube, PlayStation 2, Xbox
Eighteen leagues, 38 national teams and a career of fifteen seasons, where a first touch system lets a player control the ball with real tricks and passes. It was the last FIFA on the first PlayStation.
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Shin Megami Tensei: Strange Journey 2009
Turned 17 this year Nintendo DS
A role playing game for the DS in which a team sent to Antarctica investigates the Schwarzwelt, a distortion that threatens the Earth, exploring its dungeons in first person.
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Trine 4: The Nightmare Prince 2019
Turned 7 this year Switch, PlayStation 4, Xbox One
A wizard, a thief and a knight chase a young prince whose nightmares are coming to life, combining boxes, ropes and a shield to solve physics puzzles alone or together.
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Metroid Dread 2021
Turned 5 this year Switch
Samus Aran explores the planet ZDR after a mysterious transmission, and in every zone she has to sneak past a robot she cannot harm at first, in the side scrolling Metroid that follows Fusion.
