The All-Time Best Games on Every Platform
Below, find a collection of the highest-scoring games exclusive* to every platform, ranging from current-gen consoles all the way back to the Sega Genesis system. (Note that for the oldest consoles not available on Metacritic, games are ranked by scores assigned by our sister site GameRankings.)
* In the year of their original release. (Some of these games may have been reissued for other platforms at a later date.)
GameCube
Nintendo, 2002
Arriving eight years after SNES platformer Super Metroid, Prime originally attracted controversy for tinkering with the popular franchise's formula by switching to a first-person perspective and adopting 3D graphics. Then people started playing it, and the rest is history. It's the best game in the Metroid series, the highest-scoring GameCube title, and one of the best games ever made.
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| #2 | 96 | 2003 | |
| #3 | 92 | 2002 | |
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