When you play a game, you want several things: You want escapism, you want excitement and you want to have a good time. Some games do just that with tried and trusted mechanics, while others take those ideas and try to add some exotic flavour to the mix. Some fail, some succeed and some games create lasting memories that create new benchmarks in the entire industry. Here are ten such games, which are unbelievably satisfying thanks to one key gameplay factor.

Over on Twitter, Ghostwire: Tokyo director and E3 human highlight reel Ikumi Nakamura tweeted a few more creepy concepts of what the game is aiming for, along with a snippet of static gameplay that she described as “Raptured Apocalypse + Near Future Tokyo + Supernatural”.

After a pair of games starring BJ Blazcowicz earning a reputation amongst history’s jack-booted thugs as “Terror Billy”, it’s time for a passing of the torch. Wolfenstein: Youngblood looks set to take the more sombre and introspective tone of the previous games and blow them sky-high with a pair of siblings who happen to have inherited their dad’s talent for death and mayhem. An approach that has resulted in MachineGames taking a more open-ended approach to leverage the co-op gameplay that drives this sequel forward.

New York is a new sandbox location that takes Agent 47 to the New York branch of the Milton-Fitzpatrick investment bank. Wear new disguises and use new items to complete the mission and earn new unlocks that can be used in all locations.

Ghost Recon: Breakpoint is shaping up nicely so far. Jon Berenthal looks like a terrific antagonist, the gameplay has a harder edge to it and the Auroa Islands peninsula looks massively more interesting than the lush jungles of Bolivia. See for yourself in footage that we've brought back from E3.

Twenty years later, and Crash Team Racing is back on the trac, ready to kick some marsupial butt and leave the competition in its dust. Alessandro recently had a chance to take the game for a few laps, and believe it or not…He’s actually good at this game.

Oh Square Enix, you delightful tease. Over the last couple of days, the publisher has been hinting at something new being on the horizon. And by hinting, I mean that they’ve been posting cryptic messages which happen to be formatted as travel logs from one Captain Archan. So far, the messages have been painting a story of Earth being ravaged, one last hope surviving amongst the stars and a lethal militia that’s out to get ol’ Archan.

About as British as can be and maybe even the most political game that Ubisoft has ever had a hand in, Watch Dogs Legion has one nifty trick up its sleeve: An army of hacktivists, ready to join the fight and hungry for a showdown against the shadowy new Albion force that has siezed control of London.