Computers

What could be better than a real-life Jurassic park? How about one where, instead of placidly viewing the prehistoric beasts with Dicky Attenborough, you go around killing all of the dinosaurs in a Jeep? Velociraptor Safari gives you a Jeep, a retractable medieval flail, and an open island and tells you to go nuts.

It's an interesting irony that although there are plenty of games based on real sports, few were invented solely in the world of gaming. The one which arguably does buck that trend is Unreal Tournament. Having burst onto the scene in 1999 as a spin-off from the original Unreal, it quickly took over as the far better game. Basing itself around...