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#5 Baseketball - [ Xbox 360 ]

Given EA's shopping spree on exclusive sports licenses, publishers have had to get creative with fictional players, stadiums, and entire leagues- take Midway's Blitz: the League, for example. Before long, they'll have to make up entire sports. Why not let the demented minds of Matt Stone and Trey Parker do it for you? Along with recently-divorced fleshbot Jenny McCarthy, Baseketball features a fully-imagined league, with teams like the New Jersey Informants and the San Francisco Ferries. A sim based on the lazy-man's baseball/basketball hybrid would have to include a worthy franchise mode, complete with ridiculously long playoffs and play-by-play from Bob Costas. Throw in 3-on-3 multiplay, and you've got the rowdiest dorm room time killer since Goldeneye.

KEY MOMENT: punching in the most complex button sequence this side of a Fatality just before your buddy takes a shot, successfully ripping off a completely disgusting psyche-out. Clang!

#5 Baseketball
57% average
critic
score

#4 Out Cold - [ PS2 ]

While the SSX franchise has always been solid, it's left the drifting stoner/snowboarder type dreadfully underserved. Let's face it, Elise wouldn't be caught dead on any mountain that would punch your lift ticket. Just as the movie presented winter sports and shenanigans for the common man, Out Cold could bring snowboarding to the people (or into the gutter) with awesome game modes like King of the Mountain, create-a-character mode, and a flash/moon maneuver.

KEY MOMENT: Balancing your 'boarder as you fly down the mountain, so you finish with a full glass of ice-cold beer.

#4 Out Cold
86% average
critic
score

#3 Killer Klowns From Outer Space - [ Dreamcast ]

One of the truly great awful movies, the Chiodo brothers' campy sci-fi masterpiece would do well as an equally campy FPS. Players could hoist the service revolver of small-town good cop Officer Dave Hanson, and keep the teenagers of Makeout Point safe from the rubber-nosed menaces from outer space. Hilarious weapons like the cotton candy ray, puppet gun, and attack balloon dog would keep things light, and levels like the police precinct and circus tent/spaceship would make for superb multiplayer.

KEY MOMENT: You're deep into a Capture the Flag match with your back to the wall and a carload of Klowns bearing down on you until your teammate busts through the wall in the ice cream truck and hauls your butt out of there.

#3 Killer Klowns From Outer Space
65% average
critic
score

#2 Se7en - [ Xbox 360 ]

The chilling plot of David Fincher's masterpiece is easily as gripping as a good book, or even the book of Myst. While the movie went light on the action, it could make for a genre-defining, atmospheric graphic adventure. Players could scour seven horrific crime scenes as hot-shot Detective Mills, compare evidence with autopsy photos, and pump witnesses for clues. When you've hit a dead end, consult with almost-retired Detective Somerset for some insight.

KEY MOMENT: You're on a roll when John Doe suddenly turns himself in, provided you head out to the desert for one last search. "What's in the box?!...

#2 Se7en
83% average
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score

#1 Shaun Of The Dead - [ Xbox 360 ]

This romantic-zombie-comedy taught us all that survival horror can be fun... not unlike the 16-bit under-appreciated gem, Zombies Ate my Neighbors. Picture a 3D update with shovels, shotguns, and LP's for weapons and you've got the idea. Running from garden to garden to reach the pub (and safety!) would be a blast, solo or with three other potential zombie snacks.

KEY MOMENT: Finally reaching the safety of the pub, only to have it flood with zombies for a close-quarters zombie beat-down.

#1 Shaun Of The Dead
85% average
critic
score