MisterReus
A wholly unique take on a fighting game, being turn-based allows for the kinds of fights that you'd only imagine or see in Flipnote animations. Obviously a proper matchmaking system and some ways to ease players into the experience would help, but the core gameplay was cool enough for me to ignore being pulverised for my first few matches.
2023
2007
1999
It's undeniably an arcade-first game, but Sega was really cooking when it came to car games. At first playthrough you might get by with only 3 or 4 passengers, but slowly you learn how to drift, dash and stop effectively, and it's strangely engrossing. Soon you're dashing between traffic, drifting through corners, and finishing with an S rank and a new high-score.
2012
2004
1992
2023
2021
Story aside, the gameplay within the sandbox environment is really fun and lends itself to great gameplay moments, whether you're sneaking around in a box, driving over enemy soldiers, mowing down reinforcements with a machine gun, sniping from afar using tranquilizer darts, and more. I'd argue it's the best MGS game in gameplay.