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Video game 2025

Mario Kart World

Mario Kart World is a kart racing game for Nintendo Switch 2 that brings together characters from the Mario universe within an open world. Courses are no longer selected only from a menu: they are connected within a single environment that players can freely explore between races. Races can feature up to 24 drivers and introduce new movement possibilities, including off-road driving, traveling across water, ra…

• Adventure
• Fantasy
• Racing

Video game 2016

Mafia III

In 1968, Lincoln Clay, a young Vietnam War veteran, returns to New Bordeaux and to the surrogate family that raised him. He agrees to help the local Black Mob deal with its troubles, bringing him into the orbit of the powerful Marcano crime family that controls the city. When the organization betrays and murders the people closest to him before leaving him for dead, Lincoln survives and sets out for revenge. W…

• Action
• Adventure
• Drama

Video game 2014

Mario Kart 8

Mario Kart 8 is a kart racing game in which players control characters from the Mario universe and other Nintendo franchises. Drivers compete on themed courses while using items collected from item boxes to gain an advantage or hinder their opponents. The game introduces anti-gravity sections that allow vehicles to drive on walls and ceilings, where certain collisions provide speed boosts. Races can feature up…

• Action
• Fantasy
• Racing

Video game 2013

Grand Theft Auto V

Los Santos promises sun, money, and success to everyone who thinks they can pay the price. Behind its villas, highways, and beaches, however, live three men who each maintain a very different relationship with this dream. Michael De Santa is a former bank robber settled in a comfortable retirement that does not make him particularly happy. Franklin Clinton is trying to leave behind the small-time hustles and dead-e…

• Action
• Adventure
• Comedy

Video game 2010

Just Cause 2

Rico Rodriguez, an Agency operative, is sent to Panau, an island nation in Southeast Asia ruled by dictator Pandak “Baby” Panay. His friend and mentor Tom Sheldon has disappeared with classified intelligence and a substantial amount of money belonging to the organization. Rico infiltrates the archipelago to find Sheldon while destabilizing the regime. To advance his investigation, he must create enough chaos to w…

• Action
• Adventure
• FPS

Video game 2010

Mafia II

In 1943, Vito Scaletta, a Sicilian immigrant, is arrested following a robbery. Rather than serve a prison sentence, he chooses to enlist in the United States Army. When he returns to Empire Bay on leave in 1945, Vito reunites with his childhood friend Joe Barbaro, who is now involved with the city’s crime families. He also discovers that his late father left the family deeply in debt to a loan shark. To repay …

• Action
• Adventure
• Fantasy

Video game 2008

Grand Theft Auto IV

Niko Bellic leaves Eastern Europe to join his cousin Roman in Liberty City. For months, Roman has described a life of money, luxury cars and success. When Niko arrives, however, he finds a run-down apartment, a struggling taxi business and, above all, the debts his cousin has accumulated with local criminals. Niko has not come simply to enjoy a new life. A former soldier scarred by war and by the loss of almost his…

• Action
• Adventure
• FPS

Video game 2006

Just Cause

Rico Rodriguez is an undercover operative working for a secret organization known as the Agency. He is sent to San Esperito, a fictional Caribbean island nation ruled by President Salvador Mendoza. His mission is to help overthrow the dictator, who is suspected of stockpiling weapons of mass destruction. To weaken his grip on power, Rico joins several forces already opposed to the regime. Alongside other agent…

• Action
• Adventure
• FPS

Video game 2004

Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas

After spending five years in Liberty City, Carl “CJ” Johnson returns to Los Santos when he learns of his mother’s death. He reunites with his brother Sweet, his sister Kendl and his old friends Big Smoke and Ryder, but discovers that Grove Street Families, the gang they belong to, has lost much of its influence to the Ballas and other organizations now controlling the streets. Almost immediately after arriving, CJ …

• Action
• Adventure
• FPS

Video game 2002

Grand Theft Auto: Vice City

After spending fifteen years in prison, Tommy Vercetti is released and returns to the Forelli crime family. His former boss Sonny Forelli, however, prefers to keep him away from Liberty City and sends him to Vice City to take part in a major drug deal intended to expand the organization’s activities in the south. The meeting immediately turns into a disaster. Armed men attack the exchange, several participants are …

• Action
• Adventure
• Comedy

Video game 2002

Mafia

Mafia takes place in the 1930s, from the fall of 1930 through the end of 1938, during the final years of Prohibition. The story is set in Lost Heaven, a fictional American city inspired in particular by New York, Philadelphia and Chicago. The player takes the role of Thomas “Tommy” Angelo, a taxi driver simply trying to make a living on the streets of Lost Heaven. An unexpected encounter, however, draws him again…

• Action
• Adventure
• FPS

Video game 2001

Grand Theft Auto III

During a robbery in Liberty City, Claude is betrayed by his partner Catalina, who shoots him before escaping with the money. Arrested and sentenced, he avoids reaching prison when the convoy transporting him is attacked. Taking advantage of the chaos alongside another prisoner, 8-Ball, Claude disappears into the streets of Portland. With no resources and still determined to find Catalina, he begins working for diff…

• Action
• Adventure
• FPS

Video game 1999

Grand Theft Auto 2

Grand Theft Auto 2 places the player in Anywhere City, a retrofuturistic metropolis dominated by several criminal organizations. To progress through this world, they must complete jobs for different gangs, earn their respect and accumulate enough money to gain access to new districts. Each organization has its own activities, territory and rivals. Working for one gang improves the player's reputation with that …

• Action
• FPS
• Racing

Video game 1997

Grand Theft Auto

In a criminal world inspired by major American cities, the player takes the role of a lawbreaker attempting to earn a place among different organizations. Progress begins in Liberty City, where contacts provide missions through telephones scattered across the streets. Vehicle theft, deliveries, attacks, escapes and contract killings provide money and access to new employers. Each mission nevertheless leaves con…

• Action
• Adventure
• FPS