Yep, instant wrinkles like I’ve just been caught in aDeath Strandingrain shower.

Come and find out which ones we’ve decided to save below.

You know the drill by now.

Beyond Good And Evil, Star Wars: Knights Of The Old Republic and Max Payne 2 headline the RPS Time Capsule for 2003

There’s only one slot per Treehouse member, after all.

Above all, it’s a very Star Wars-yStar Wars gamethat swings for the fences.

  • but there’s a reason it’s an enduring classic.

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In 2003, it was the most hilarious thing anyone had ever seen.

and “Wuuuay!”

From friends and strangers alike for ‘absolutely stacking it.’

Screenshot from Star Wars Knights Of The Old Republic

This all changed withMax Payne.

The great music helps there too.

It is still fun to dive sideways through doors and gun down mobsters in bullet time.

Marge and Homer Simpson outside their house in The Simpsons: Hit And Run

Silly, sure, but what about Max Payne isn’t?

And it’s still better than the first game.

Not just because it didn’t have platforming bloodmazes.

Max Payne guns down baddies during a sideways dive in a Max Payne 2 screenshot.

You could even connect metropolises (metropoli?)

Unlike its predecessors, Sim City 4 feels a little more… gritty?

Its depiction of urban environments as they were at the turn of the millennium is surprisingly unflinching.

A volcano surrounded by houses in Sim City 4

Sim City does more with its 2D presentation than any city builder before or since.

Boisterous and flowing with an undercurrent of darkness.Its magnificent.

Music matters for your memory, and that one track solidified Vice Citys iconic status in my mind.

A screenshot of GTA: Vice City in which the game’s protagonist is walking next to a fancy car, in front of a fancy house.

Ghost Master

Ollie:I was eight-years-old when I first playedGhost Master.

To this day, I can recall almost every track from the OST.

One simple reason: it’s the greatest game music ever.

A human with a t-shirt that says Bite Me is surrounded by ghosts in a house in Ghost Master

Others may be better, but none are as great.

I don’t care, it makes sense to me.

We all know this to be true.

Lara Croft runs through a botanical garden in Tomb Raider: Angel Of Darkness

I know times have changed and online gaming with your buds is more convenient yada yada.

So, that’s all the more reason why LOTR is so important.

or “Fair”.

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That’s why I think it’s important we save this couch co-op silliness for an aggressively online future.

I’ve heard many say that it was a game released before its time?

Though I can see why.

Jade and Pey’j from Beyond Good And Evil prepare to fight

It also has a great story: a stealthy sci-fi plot that deals with government conspiracy.

Also, Jade is badass.

She’s got her skull-cracking staff, a camera for her investigative reporting, and her outfit!

An athletic man swings from a pole in the wall in Prince Of Persia: Sands Of Time

Like, no one can pull off a pair of green cargos and a bandana like Jade can.

And the matching lipstick - incredible.

I also love how you could use the camera to take photos of alien wildlife - very cool.

In all seriousness, though, Sands Of Time remains an absolute classic.

Not the film, of course.

The film was absolutely terrible.

Cor, what a thing.

The actual Sands of the title, meanwhile, is what gives the Prince his power.

No rewind power for you, sir.

(sorry, Assassin’s Creed, I stilllove you a lot, yeah?).

So into the Time Capsule it goes.

Don’t worry, I’ll give it a bit of a shake before we seal it up.