There Raiden shall lie for the years to come, plastered over by more adverts and sleeping like an Arthurian legend, waiting for gaming’s darkest hour to come and rising up to meet it with Metal Gear Rising 2: Die Hard With a Revengeance. When video games need him the most, the giant handsome robot man will return.

For all the fun that we throw towards America and their WILD society, it’s hard to deny that we have a lot of love for the regular people across the pond. They’ve got a national pride that cannot be measured, they’re actually a friendly lot whose confidence is inspiring and they’re responsible for 97% of every inspiring speech in movies today. So with that in mind, here’s a look at several games from years past, that made me want to pump my fist into the air and yell America hell yeah!

The ides of March may be a taboo subject around a Caesar salad bar, but for gamers? The third month of the year is looking pretty good if you happen to be nostalgic, starved of action and you feel like playing with your food. Xbox’s regular Games With Gold promotion that doles out free games has a whopper of a selection that happens to scratch all three of those moods, as the month ahead will see the following games released as freebies.

If I had a gun to my head and could only choose three to save from a gang of Russian Bratva that I’d pissed off? It’d be the following three before I used my years of kung-fu experience to save my body by grabbing the bullet with my face.

Climbing up the list of our top 100 games of the generation. Join us for some fantastic games that made us happy and defined this generation of gaming before we move into the next gen gaming.

Are you one of the lucky winners in our Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance giveaway?

You could win a copy of the latest entry in to the Metal Gear universe, Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance; a game so good they had to make up new words.

Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance is slicing up some pretty impressive review score. See them all here.