Sony PlayStation 3

Nathan Drake's debut; acrobatic platforming with cover shooting and a cinematic pace.

The series' pinnacle and one of the reasons to own a PS3; it opens in the middle of a disaster.

A search for the lost Atlantis of the Sands, featuring a spectacular sequence aboard an ocean liner.

The post-apocalyptic story of Joel and Ellie, about loss, guilt, and fragile hope.

Kratos's revenge culminates on Mount Olympus in battles against giant bosses like Poseidon.

The final chapter of Snake's saga, full of callbacks and an emotional farewell to its characters.

Sackboy and the philosophy of Play, Create, Share; the editor lets you build almost anything.

From platformer to game-making tool; logic circuits even allow entirely new genres.

Cole gains electric superpowers; moral choices change both his appearance and abilities.

A sequel set in New Marais against the Beast; new ice and plant powers.

A dark, technically stunning shooter with weighty, realistic gunplay.

A more accessible sequel with the same heavy atmosphere of the invasion of Helghan.

David Cage's interactive thriller; the player's decisions determine who survives.

A short, emotional wordless journey through the sand with music by Austin Wintory.

A meditative game about wind carrying petals; controlled by tilting the Sixaxis controller.

A merciless action RPG from FromSoftware that founded the soulslike genre.

The successor to Demon's Souls, with the interconnected world of Lordran and no loading screens.

A fairy-tale RPG made in collaboration with Studio Ghibli; hand-painted visuals.

The first Future installment pushed PS3 visuals toward detailed, richly realized worlds.

A PS3 launch title; Insomniac proved it could handle a dark military shooter too.

Over a thousand cars and twenty tracks; one of the most comprehensive racing simulators.

Over twelve hundred cars and the GT Academy project linking the game to real-world racing.

Wild off-road racing; the terrain deforms destructibly as rivals drive over it.

Ninja Theory's debut about the warrior Nariko and a sword that trades life for power.

Tactical RPG with action-style aiming and the CANVAS engine's watercolor visuals.

Kazuma Kiryu lives peacefully as the caretaker of an orphanage, until his past drags him back.

A late but brilliant series peak; school life intertwined with dungeon crawling in the Metaverse.

John Marston tracks down his old gang across a dying Wild West.

Three protagonists, one giant Los Santos; the player switches between them.

A Nordic province plagued by dragons; one of the most influential open-world RPGs.

One night in an asylum taken over by the Joker; the Freeflow combat system defined the genre.

Batman leaves the asylum for a sprawling prison district of Gotham with new gadgets.

Chell faces GLaDOS again in an expanded, more elaborate portal puzzle concept.

Booker DeWitt searches for Elizabeth in the flying city of Columbia, steeped in fanaticism.

Fifteen years of Jodie Holmes's life intertwined with the entity Aiden; played by Ellen Page.

A loving tribute to 8-bit Zelda in adorable voxel-based 3D models.

A bizarre survival simulation in an abandoned Tokyo; you play animals from a dachshund to a tiger.

A headless puppet cuts through scenery and enemies alike in a visually unique platformer.

Vincent climbs collapsing block towers amid relationship drama and puzzles.

A remastered trio of MGS2, MGS3, and Peace Walker with modernized controls.

Two poetically minimalist Team Ico classics remastered from PlayStation 2.

The Arisen, heart devoured by a dragon, travels with Pawns, AI-controlled companions.

The third chapter of the soulslike series in Drangleic; losing health on death raises the tension.

Sly Cooper travels through time to save the vanishing pages of his family chronicle.

Futuristic anti-gravity racing with a graphical overhaul for Sony's oldest racing brand.

Four playable characters for the first time, their intertwined viewpoints on the Kamurocho plot.

A prequel showing Kratos shortly after his family's murder, imprisoned by the Furies.

A bizarre blend of strategy and team action; feeding the princess cake makes her bigger.

Multiplayer action with no campaign; infantry battles, tanks, and aerial fighter dogfights.

Destructive off-road racing moved from the desert to a tropical jungle full of volcanoes.

The Future trilogy's finale; Ratchet chases down the kidnapped Clank and the Great Clock.

The darkest chapter of the Chimera trilogy; humanity has already lost the war.

A strange early PS3 exclusive about an Irish village bordering the realm of the dead.

The return of the legendary vehicular combat arena with bizarre cars and special attacks.

A reworking of the Japanese horror title Siren, set in the mountain village of Hanuda.

Amaterasu, as a white wolf, restores color to the land. One of the most beautiful games ever made.

Newcomer Nero with a demonic arm carries the series' first PlayStation 3 entry.

A bold reboot from Ninja Theory; the world of Limbo actively reshapes itself around the player.

Cyborg Raiden and a katana; PlatinumGames turned a turbulent development into a standout action game.

Perhaps the most extravagant action game ever; fighting with guns on hands and high heels alike.

A post-apocalyptic Journey to the West; a strongman and a girl bound by a deadly collar.

MercurySteam transformed Castlevania into a grand 3D action-adventure.

The apocalyptic horseman War clears his name; the art style draws on American comics.

The series traded cities for the seas; pirate Kenway is one of its most likeable heroes.

A reboot that turned Lara Croft into a terrified castaway fighting to survive.

An open Hong Kong; an undercover cop inside the triads lives a double loyalty.

The technically most dazzling JRPG of its time; the floating world of Cocoon versus harsh Pulse.

The post-apocalyptic series in full 3D for the first time; a Capital Wasteland of massive scale.

Made by Obsidian on the Fallout 3 engine; many consider it the series' peak.

Arrived on PS3 with most of its DLC; assembling the team drives a gripping middle act.

BioWare at its most classic; dark fantasy that echoes Baldur's Gate.

One of the first sprawling open worlds on PS3; for many players their first Elder Scrolls.

A tactical RPG from Nippon Ichi; the vampire Valvatorez survives on sardines.

Firaxis revived turn-based tactics; base management alternates with missions against an invasion.

One of the most accessible Tales entries; two heroes, two perspectives on the story.

An expanded version of the Wii JRPG with a rich epilogue about guilt and old friends.

An unconventional JRPG from tri-Ace set on a giant steel gear structure called Basel.

Technically weaker, emotionally all the stronger; a father searches for a cure for his daughter Yonah.

Vanillaware combined an arcade beat-'em-up with deep loot collecting.

A collection that first brought the original game's Final Mix to the West in HD.

The cyberpunk franchise returns; Adam Jensen grapples with what made him human.

The console version arrived a year after PC and proved a surprisingly better way to play.

A shift from World War II to the present day; it set the bar for the entire genre.

The Frostbite engine tore down walls and buildings; the battlefield literally crumbled underhand.

A descent into the underwater Rapture, a utopia destroyed by the ideal of unlimited freedom.

A refined looter shooter; Pandora is ruled by one of the best-written villains around.

A claustrophobic survival horror aboard the ship Ishimura; the tension never lets up.

A broken hero from New York in a dazzling São Paulo; the tone stays just as weary.

PlatinumGames injected a cover shooter with the frantic pace of a rocket-powered slide.

A military shooter as the genre's sharpest critique; loosely based on Heart of Darkness.

Chris Redfield in Africa alongside Sheva; a game built from the ground up for co-op.

An ambitious online-only shooter for up to 256 players in a single battle.

The entry that set the series' direction for years to come; its star is an unpredictable pirate leader.

The arcade series left the tracks and dropped players into one open city.

A return to police chases and fast cars; Criterion carries over Burnout's pace.

A racing game staged like a TV show; the track collapses right beneath the players' wheels.

The high point of Codemasters searching for balance between rally and mass-market spectacle.

A PS3 launch title showing off the new generation; the series' signature is the long drift.

The culmination of the plastic guitar and drums era; the third entry added keyboards too.

The entry that carried the series to its peak and became a symbol of guitar-based rhythm games.

A platformer where the notes you collect assemble a playing track in real time.

Tricks are performed by moving the stick to mimic your feet on the board, not with button combos.

Famous for the Jordan Challenge mode, where the player relives Michael Jordan's greatest games.

Classic asteroid shooting, this time on the surface of a round planet instead of a flat screen.

A rescue action game in caves where water, lava, and gas behave according to their own physics.

A puzzle platformer about rewinding time, where death stops being a punishment and becomes a tool.

A black-and-white silhouette platformer without a single word, defined by silence and atmosphere.

An isometric action game accompanied by a gravelly narrator commenting on the player's every step.

A hand-drawn platformer where even the environment breathes and dances to the music's rhythm.

A cinematic, controversial campaign featuring the infamous airport mission; a relentless pace with no room to breathe.

A Cold War thriller full of conspiracies and the question of what's real and what's just a figment of the mind.

Frostbite 2 gave the generation its best-looking visuals; but the main draw is the massive multiplayer.

A massive open world on the island of Panau; the grappling hook enables absurd physics-driven stunts.

A self-aware parade of absurdity in Steelport; the Saints gang is already a celebrity brand here.

Alex Mercer turns his body into blades and claws; he steals abilities from the victims he absorbs.

Killing as art; the Skillshot system rewards creativity, not just aiming and shooting.

An enhanced port of one of the generation's most difficult and precise action titles.

Openly borrows from God of War, just sets the scythe combat across the nine circles of hell.

A faster sequel to the horror game set on the Sprawl station; telekinesis can now impale enemies.

An action series told in episodes with recaps; battles against gods escalate to cosmic scale.

Destroying buildings with Geo-Mod 2.0 isn't an effect here, it's the core game mechanic.

A tactical shooter from the pioneers of online multiplayer and voice chat on the PS2.

Famous for its interrogations; MotionScan captures suspects' subtle facial reactions.

Choices with no clearly right answer; the story of Lee and Clementine amid the ruins of civilization.

A fantasy world by R. A. Salvatore and Todd McFarlane; classes can be freely combined.

A mature RPG from CD Projekt RED. The second chapter branches into two different storylines depending on your choice.

A JRPG exclusive to PS3 from Level-5; combat with an MMO feel and transformation into a giant knight.

A space-set prequel to the Star Ocean series from tri-Ace; humanity searches for a new home after a nuclear war.

An action adventure based on the Book of Enoch; the visuals transform radically as you progress.

An HD remaster of the cult adventure about journalist Jade and the conspiracy of the military organization DomZ.

An RPG written by the show's own creators, Parker and Stone; South Park humor in full force.

The series moves to the American Revolution with a half-Mohawk hero, Connor Kenway.

A Telltale adventure set in the Fables universe; Sheriff Bigby Wolf, the Big Bad Wolf himself, solves murders.

An RPG from Larian Studios in which a dragon hunter learns to turn into a mighty dragon himself.

A celebration of 20 years of Sonic: classic 2D and modern 3D hedgehog across legendary levels.

Sega character kart racing where vehicles transform into boats and planes mid-race.

A sequel to Origins with musical levels where character movement syncs to the rhythm of the song.

A physics-based puzzle platformer from Frozenbyte; a warrior, a thief, and a wizard solve puzzles.

A sequel to Trine with a richer world and new abilities for the trio of fairy-tale heroes.

Kart racing with an editor letting players build their own racers, cars and tracks.

Ibiza's open world blends realistic driving with an online lifestyle and car collecting.

Racing through a collapsing city where buildings crumble and the track vanishes beneath your wheels.

Criterion Games' reboot brings Burnout Paradise's freedom to illegal street racing.

The return of the gravity-defying snowboarding series with wild tricks on fictional mountains.

A remaster of the most famous levels from the first two entries; Warehouse and School II in a new coat of paint.

A light arcade golf game from Clap Hanz with cartoonish graphics and a shot-timing system.

A tennis simulation from 2K Czech famous for its precise stick-based shot timing.

A meditative underwater evolution game from thatgamecompany; no score, just sinking deeper.

An optical-illusion puzzle in the style of Escher; the camera links seemingly disconnected paths.

An untraditional tower defense: you build towers right on the enemy path and upgrade them with coins.

A meditative platformer about swinging on threads; it's more about the rhythm of movement than combat.

Civilization simplified for the gamepad; the famous strategy series finally playable on console.

A hand-drawn point-and-click adventure from Amanita Design, without a single word of text.

An addictive tower defense game where plants defend the house from waves of zombies in the yard.

The third entry in the legendary Match-3 series, enriched with a range of new game modes.

An unusual blend of puzzle and tactics; unit battles on a shared grid in real time.

An arcade strategy game about dragons and treasure; risk a pile of gold, or invest it?

A surreal puzzle adventure set in the favelas, where houses turn into staircases.

Bullet time meets Japanese horror; enemies with advanced AI cooperate and take cover.

A tactical cover shooter in third-person style; Vegas gave the series a more modern pace.

A turn-based JRPG from From Software with golem-collecting as combat companions.

Total Punch Control turns boxing punches into stick movements; injuries heal live.

Three excellent games in one package; arrived on PS3 two months later due to porting.

A JRPG set in the dying Chopin's dreams; magic depends on light and shadow.

Stick-based control instead of button combos; relive your wipeouts with the bail cam.

Fast-paced arena shooter with Deathmatch, CTF, and Onslaught; arrived on PS3 just weeks after PC.

Every mission begins with a parachute jump, letting you choose your own landing spot and approach.

A comic-style team shooter with nine distinct classes, from the Scout to the Heavy.

A shift away from pure rally toward rallycross, buggies, and off-road on the new Neon engine.

A short, brilliant puzzle game about portals and GLaDOS; one of the most talked-about games of its time.

An action JRPG with real-time battles on a 2D axis; the story of mercenary Yuri Lowell.

Four-player co-op mayhem with Tom Fulp's hand-drawn art style.

Gangster open world pushes absurdity further than GTA; the campaign can be played co-op too.

Mercenary dark humor and environmental destruction on the Frostbite engine go hand in hand.

Less simulation-heavy driving, flashy damage, and cinematic replays; one of the generation's hits.

Illegal street racing in a faithfully rendered Los Angeles with deep car tuning.

By night a powerful Werehog, by day a fast platformer; the journey spans seven continents.

A series restart with painterly graphics; companion Elika saves the prince instead of a game over.

An absurd alternate Cold War with live-action cutscenes and three factions.

Malaria, jamming guns, and wind-driven fire turn Africa into an unpredictable trap.

The series debut built on observation and assassinations; the sci-fi frame with the Animus defined the format for a long time.

A musical biography of The Beatles with period footage; singers will appreciate the three-part harmonies.

A light-gun prequel to Dead Space, set aboard the Ishimura before the first game.

Ezio Auditore in Renaissance Italy; the installment that elevated the series into a grand open world.

The founder of the looter shooter genre; cel-shaded comic-book style, randomized weapons, four-player co-op.

B.J. Blazkowicz against occult Nazis; the Shadow dimension gives the action a supernatural twist.

Colorful, accessible rallycross fun with Ken Block instead of a dry rally simulation.

Flick-It controls replace buttons with tilting the sticks; you build ramps in a broken-down city.

Giant Vital Suit mechs against insectoid Akrid on a frozen planet; without heat you freeze to death.

The campaign leads through a devastated America; giant bosses give the game unprecedented scale.

A restart of the mech series for a new console generation; you pilot the advanced Next machine.

The most ambitious entry in the mech series, with emphasis on online battles for territory.

A survival horror about a soldier returning home who searches for his missing brother.

A survival horror about an escaped convict; rain signals the shift into a darker world.

A remastered collection of Silent Hill 2 and 3 for one console generation.

The first major crossover of LEGO into the Marvel universe; over a hundred playable heroes across Manhattan.

The final entry in the stealth series; Sam Fisher commands the Fourth Echelon unit against terrorists.

An expanded edition of the fighting game from CyberConnect2, completing the story through the battle of the fourth war.

An HD remaster of two PS2 fighting games; the gameplay and content remained faithful to the originals, unchanged.

A dark prequel from writer Yoko Taro, creator of Nier; a morally ambiguous story about sisters.

Mech action from FromSoftware; build a robot from dozens of parts and fight for corporations.

The fourth entry in the figure-based series introduces traps for villains, who become playable characters.

The film adaptation combines a linear story with open-ended building of your own Toy Box playset.

Sumo Digital adds three new characters alongside Sackboy, each with their own ability.

HD compilation of the first three entries in Naughty Dog's platformer series, from before Uncharted.

Treyarch's series debut; cinematically directed battles for France and man-to-man duels.

The first entry with exoskeletons and double jumps; the villain was played by a digitized Kevin Spacey.

The first Call of Duty with branching story endings; father and son against the terrorist Menendez.

A different studio made the PS3 version; the entire campaign is missing, leaving only multiplayer and Zombies.

For the first time in the series, a controllable canine companion named Riley; brothers from the Ghosts unit against a new federation.

The culmination of the Makarov trilogy, in which the series lost Sergeant Soap MacTavish.

Treyarch's first solo entry and the birth of the Nazi Zombies mode; a raw take on World War II.

The sequel to Metro 2033 in the Moscow underground; stealth, horror, and survival with ammunition as currency.

A shift away from illegal street racing toward circuit tracks; the first entry with real body damage.

A return to street racing with a movie-like story about an undercover agent; starring Maggie Q.

An action racing game built on tense duels and fast, adrenaline-fueled driving.

Simulation racing with a helmet-cam view; the only entry released solely on the then-current generation.

The lead development platform featuring time travel; a direct sequel to Final Fantasy XIII.

The trilogy's conclusion and main development platform; wraps up the story that began in 2009.

A 2D fighting game from the creators of Guilty Gear; Persona characters fight using their guardian demons.

An exclusive free-to-play entry only for PS3; an online service with ongoing missions and events.

A mech-building kit from FromSoftware even before Dark Souls; faction battles over territory.

Ezio founds the Assassin Brotherhood in Rome and tears down the Borgia's towers of terror.

Concludes the stories of both Ezio and Altaïr; the aging master searches for a library in Constantinople.

A darker spin-off from Black Flag; former slave Adéwalé fights the slave trade.

For the first time in the series, you play as a Templar; renegade Shay Cormac hunts his former brothers.

A prequel to Arkham Asylum set on Christmas Eve; eight assassins are hired to kill the young Batman.

A purely digital installment with no campaign; three Pacific maps and the classic Conquest mode.

The conclusion of MercurySteam's trilogy; Dracula fights in a modern city with both whip and vampiric powers.

An eccentric tactics series with dark humor and extremely deep character development.

Open-city chases get a twist from Shift – instantly jumping between cars mid-drive.

Turned the turn-based mech series into real-time third-person action combat.

Sackboy and LBP's creative tools transplanted into kart racing by genre specialists.

A compact prologue to Phantom Pain; infiltrating Camp Omega hinted at the direction of the whole game.

An unexpected crossover with DC Comics released with a milder Teen rating.

A fast 2D fighter from the makers of BlazBlue, where your Persona attacks as a second layer of combat.

An action platformer in the series' acrobatic style, where parkour is complemented by the ability to control time.

The only entry in the series built purely around co-op play for up to four players, with a fixed isometric camera.

A smaller spin-off combining action-platforming with base defense against waves of enemies.

An action-platformer in the series' classic style, with a colorful arsenal and alien worlds.

This spin-off turns the series into a team shooter; an Umbrella squad eliminates witnesses from RE2 and RE3.

This spin-off was developed by Bugbear, the studio behind FlatOut - track destruction instead of pure drifting.

The series' first entry on PS3 and the first without a single-player campaign - purely online firefights.

This weapon-based fighter brought in guest fighters from elsewhere for the first time and added Critical Finish.

The story jumps seventeen years ahead and brings in mostly new fighters, with veterans as mentors.

An open-world New York where the player switches between Spider-Man's human and symbiote forms.

Four Spider-Men from four dimensions in one story, each with their own play style.

Cooperative action based on the movie Star Trek Into Darkness, with Kirk and Spock at your side.

A brick-built platformer based on the Clone Wars series, with the series' trademark humor and two-player co-op.

The series' return ten years after 3rd Strike; for the first time with fully three-dimensional character models.

An improved version of the base game released as a standalone title, not just DLC.

A cooperative action RPG for three players set parallel to the book trilogy.

The PS3 version arrived two months later than on PS4 and Xbox One and was adapted by a different studio.

A bizarre spin-off throws the familiar streets of Kamurocho into a zombie apocalypse.

Perhaps the most sprawling entry in the series: five characters, five cities, each with its own fighting style.

FIFA na PS3 s režimem hry za jediného hráče a začátkem Ultimate Team.

Pohyb do všech směrů: driblink, který změnil, jak se FIFA hraje.

Fotbal, ve kterem se hvezdy konecne chovaji kazda po svem.

Rocnik, ktery prinesl fyzicky souboj a skutecnou obranu.

Posledni velka FIFA, ktera patrila hlavne generaci PS3.

Oficiální šampionát motorek na PS3 ještě před érou Moto2 a Moto3

Italské studio Milestone a sezóna 2014 na stárnoucí PS3

Klasický dungeon crawler z první osoby se zase chová jako 80. léta

Stejný Vetřelec, stejné napětí, jen na hardwaru, který už dosluhoval.

Kratovy první dva díly v jednom HD balení pro televizi, dřív než přišly na přenosnou Vitu.

Legendární akce v kolekci Orange Box, tentokrát se zadrhávajícím snímkováním.

Původní edice komiksové řežby DC bez pozdějších bonusů z Wii U verze.

Jediná verze trilogie, kde mise From Ashes byla od začátku na disku zdarma.

Stealth v otevřeném světě, kde si infiltraci plánujete sami; Kojimovo velké finále.

Kapesní Peace Walker poprvé s druhou páčkou a velkým obrazem v obýváku.

Oficiální motocyklový šampionát 2013 v plné konzolové podobě na PS3.

Basket s Jay-Z jako producentem a týmem snů z roku 1992 na PS3.

Policejní honičky z Redview County ještě na konzoli staré generace.

Ninja Gaiden II přepracovaný pro PS3, s novými hrdinkami a méně krve.

První Pro Evo v HD, s online zápasy přes PlayStation Network.

Pro Evo v HD, které se po letech s FIFA vrací do hry o výsluní.

Trilogie z PS2 v HD, s trofejemi a podporou stereoskopického 3D.

Battlefield 4 na dosluhující PlayStation 3 - stejná válka, poloviční bojiště.

Karaoke s online obchodem, kde si písně skládáte sami.

Týmová bojovka, kde se potkává Street Fighter s Tekkenem, plus hosté ze Sony.

Japonská verze pro PS3, která dohnala konec generace.

Grindhouse zombie střílečka plná vulgárního humoru; rail shooter s nadhledem.

Tři stealth plošinovky o mývalím zloději v jednom balení; stylová klasika.

Nejrychlejší týmová bojovka své doby s tuctem nových postav.

Tenis s podporou PlayStation Move a stereoskopického 3D.

Hackování Chicaga na konzoli, která už dávno měla být v penzi.

Alternativní 60. léta s nacisty u moci; překvapivě silný příběh i střelba.

Destiny na PS3: stejný svět, o generaci skromnější technika a kratší podpora obsahu.

Kompletní Diablo III s datadiskem i na starší konzoli, jen v ořezané verzi.

Konzolová verze s přepracovaným, akčnějším soubojovým systémem místo PC hotbaru.

Technicky omezenější verze pro předchozí generaci konzolí s menšími oblastmi.

Původní edice Dark Arisen z roku 2013 na PS3, ještě před pozdějším HD remasterem.

Stary engine z FIFA 16 - aktualizace pro hrace, kteri zustali u PlayStationu 3.