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Come one and come all, boys and girls, to this week's edition of Rate the Game. We're now less than a year away from wrapping this whole party up. Well, this latest iteration at least. Who knows if this thing winds up going into the year 2023. Speaking of the year 2023, that's when Perfect Dark takes place, which was last week's game to rate. So it looks like it's time to find out where Joanna Dark's first outing ends up on our leaderboard. A lot of love and a lot of good memories but how did it do overall. Give me some of that leaderboard action....

Rate the Game Results

1. The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time (4.8)
2. Hitman: Codename 47 (4.75)
3. Super Mario Bros. 3 (4.7)
4. (TIE)Chrono Trigger, Portal (4.5)
6. (TIE) Mega Man 2, Donkey Kong Country (4.44)
8. Super Mario Bros. (4.41)
9. God of War (4.4)
10. Metal Gear Solid (4.33)
11. Perfect Dark (4.3)
12. (TIE) Shadow of the Colossus, The Last of Us (4.28)
14. Super Street Fighter 2 (4.15)
15. Sonic the Hedgehog (4.14)
16. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (4.125)
17. Super Mario 64 (4.07)
18. (TIE) Grand Theft Auto 3, The Legend of Zelda (4.06)
20. NBA Jam (4.05)
21. (7-WAY TIE) Super Mario Kart, Sonic the Hedgehog 2, Super Metroid, The Simpsons, Castlevania: Symphony of the Night, Donkey Kong Country 2, Resident Evil 4 (4.0)
28. Final Fantasy 7 (3.94)
29. Mega Man (3.89)
30. Half-Life (3.83)
31. (3-WAY TIE) Contra, Castlevania, Devil May Cry (3.86)
34. Legacy of Kain: Soul Reaver (3.77)
35. Batman: Arkham Asylum (3.76)
36. Tetris (3.69)
37. Mortal Kombat 2 (3.67)
38. (TIE) Diablo, F.E.A.R. (3.66)
40. Mortal Kombat (3.65)
41. StarFox (3.61)
42. Doom (3.625)
43. Resident Evil (3.58)
44. Ninja Gaiden (3.5)
45. Dead Space (3.4)
46. Tony Hawk's Pro Skater (3.39)
47. Resident Evil: Nemesis (3.38)
48. (4-WAY TIE) Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare, Condemned: Criminal Origins, Crash Bandicoot, Wolfenstein 3D (3.33)
52. Gears of War (3.27)
53. (TIE) Uncharted: Drake's Fortune, Borderlands (3.22)
55. Quake (3.2)
56. Pac-Man (3.125)
57. Killer Instinct (3.11)
58. (TIE) Virtua Fighter, Rock Band (3.09)
60. (4-WAY TIE) Time Crisis, Tekken, Earthworm Jim, Metroid (3.0)
64. Guitar Hero (2.875)
65. Streets of Rage (2.84)
66. Dead Rising (2.71)
67. (TIE) Silent Hill, The Sims (2.6)
69. Tomb Raider (2.55)
70. Halo: Combat Evolved (2.5)
71. Twisted Metal (2.42)
72. Gran Turismo (2.3)
73. Ghosts n' Goblins (2.14)



Oof, oh so close. Perfect Dark scrapes at the door of the top 10 but ultimately gets shut out and ends up at number 11 with a 4.3 average rating. Cracking into the elite crew is getting tougher and tougher even for a top covert agent like Joanna Dark. Nothing to be ashamed of as it's a pretty good spot to be in...but for how long? What will this week's game do the standings? Let's take a dive into the BOWL OF DOOM and find out....

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