Grisly murders, deadly nightmares and a marriage proposal followed immediately by a one-night stand? What exactly is going on in Atlus' Catherine? the game's official website gives us the skinny.

We pulled the top 100 highest rated games from review aggregation website GameRankings.com and broke them down by primary motivation - the driving force behind the heroes, anti-heroes, competitors and god-like beings inhabiting those acclaimed titles.

Dead Rising 2 is a zombie game with bite – a darkly humorous exploration of the ultimate power wielded by multinational pharmaceuticals and the corruption that creates.

No matter who is brought in to write a story or dialogue, the industry still treats the written word in such a utilitarian way that it has a second-class citizenship among the other art forms comprising a video game.