KINGDOM HEARTS I & II
Perhaps the perfect marriage between eastern and western culture combining the magic of Disney films and the, well magic also, of Final Fantasy. One of the best moments is when Sora enters Hades and meets with Auron from FFX, because he’s dead.

MARVEL VS CAPCOM 2
After X-Men: Children Of The Atom and Marvel Super Heroes, Capcom made the right decision and started pitting the characters from the Marvel and Capcom universes against each other. It all ended with MvC 2 in a fantastic hadou/x-gene explosion.

SHEN MEGAMI TENSEI: LUCIFER'S CALL
In Lucifer’s Call there is a generic sub-dungeon sidequest to complete; your reward for this is anything but generic, however – it’s freaking Dante! He appears first trying to attack you but eventually you can swing him round to your side and make him part of your team. And he’s so very strong.

VIEWTIFUL JOE
Dante again. It was quite surprising when he turned up in the PS2 version of Viewtiful Joe as he wasn’t in the earlier released GameCube version, but what an awesome idea! He manages to look even cooler in 2D than in 3D and has a move set all of his own – it’s not just a palette swap.

CAPCOM VS SNK
For a few years after Street Fighter II was released, Capcom and SNK became bitter rivals, the fight culminating in the creation of joke character Dan Hibiki by Capcom to annoy SNK. Eventually the two kissed and made up and created the incredible Capcom Vs SNK. The sequel is even better.

SOUL CALIBUR II
The Xbox version got Spawn, a rubbish comic character; the GameCube got Link, a rubbish monosyllabic character with bombs; and the PS2 version welcomed in Heihachi Mishima. Heihachi didn’t have any swords, but he’s so hard he fights with his fists anyway.

EVOLUTION SKATEBOARDING
Remember Snake skating about on Big Shell in Metal Gear Solid 2: Substance? Well Konami made its own skateboarding game and who turns up as an unlockable playable character? Why, Solid Snake of course. Raiden’s also in there, but who cares about that?

METAL GEAR SOLID 3
Snake again, but this time with apes and not as the title suggests, monkeys. But anyway, in Snake Vs Monkeys, Snake must track down those loveable apes from Ape Escape and shoot them. Don’t worry, their heads don’t explode in a fountain of blood – they’re just knocked unconscious.

NAMCO X CAPCOM
It’s the ultimate in gaming cross-overs, and you’ve never played it, and probably never will. When characters from both Namco and Capcom start appearing in the world and begin fighting each other, it’s up to you to recruit various characters and battle the bad guys. In Japanese.

RESISTANCE: FALL OF MAN
Resistance is a pretty serious game dealing with an alien invasion on a global scale as the Chimera wage war across the globe. But if you’re good enough to get 100 skill points you can lighten things up by equipping all the soldiers with back packs shaped like Clank from Ratchet & Clank.