Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance

Kenji Saito, Atsushi Inaba, Hideo Kojima, and PlatinumGames in collaboration with Kojima Productions' blisteringly fast, hyper-stylish, and meme-immortalized cybernetic character action hack-and-slash masterpiece across PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, and PC, released in February 2013 by Konami, earning a near-perfect 39/40 from *Famitsu* while holding an 83/100 on Metacritic and selling millions of copies, standing as one of the greatest, most adrenaline-pumping spin-offs in video game history, set four years after *Metal Gear Solid 4*, transforming cybernetic ninja Raiden / Jack the Ripper (Quinton Flynn) into an unstoppable one-man army working for PMSC Maverick Security, hunting rogue military conglomerate Desperado Enforcement and unhinged US Senator Steven Armstrong (*"Nanomachines, son! They harden in response to physical trauma!"*), single-handedly pioneering the revolutionary "Blade Mode / Free-Slicing" physics engine (slowing time to manually angle high-frequency sword slices in 360 degrees to cut anything into hundreds of physical slices in real time), the Zandatsu spine extraction mechanic, Ninja Running, and Jamie Christopherson's legendary vocal heavy metal and electronic rock boss battle soundtrack featuring "Rules of Nature", "The Only Thing I Know for Real", and "It Has to Be This Way".