The Warriors
Look, I love GTA V and Red Dead Redemption II, but every damn day, I mourn that the Rockstar Games that had time to pump out games that weren’t GTA appears to be in a coma. Don’t even get me started on how much I miss Midnight Club, we’ll be here all day. But above all, we don’t talk enough about the one time Rockstar decided to play in someone else’s cinematic sandbox to give us not just one of the best takes on a 3D beat-’em-up we’d get (until the Yakuza games finally started to gain traction in the West), but also one of the best movie adaptations all around. The Warriors takes a cult classic film literally nobody was even paying attention to in 2005, and breathes new life into it. The game isn’t just an adaptation, but is an expansive prequel starring most of the same cast. This thing has been long overdue for a remaster, but alas, Rockstar would have to pull people off of lovingly modeling every strand of a meth head’s chest hair in GTA Online to do it.
