A train hanging over the void, and Nathan Drake clinging on as if it were your own hand slipping.

The profile tells a more mixed story, though. On the urge to rediscover it for the first time, Uncharted 2 climbs high, ahead of nearly 9 games out of 10, but take that with care, it rests on just a few votes so far. The rest sits lower. Attachment edges past barely one game in five, and it's the steadiest line of the bunch, carried by several duels. Fun and the desert island stay in the soft middle, on very thin voting. That's the tension here: a game you dream of reliving, yet one you bond with less than expected.

In the cinematic action-adventure genre, it's the direct ancestor of everything we now call a playable blockbuster, from modern Tomb Raider to The Last of Us. The grammar of the set-piece, it wrote it.

So, who's it for? For you if you love scripted rollercoasters, the breathless spectacle, the joy of watching as much as playing. Much less if you're after a lasting bond with the characters, the profile still hesitates there.