For ruthless mayhem my game of choice is GTA: Vice City. I do play the story and have it saved at my favourite mission - the toy plane. Pop in some codes go on a rampage get killed and repeat. If I'm looking for something different Timesplitters 2 - my only FPS in my game collection. Dodging those monkeys that are infected with a virus or on fire is not fun.

From guns to swords my game is Bujingai: Tale of the Forsaken City which has some of the greatest fights in any action game: fight in mid-air for long lengths of time, bounce of walls, perfect strikes, perfect counters; it will make your forearm strong.

Though I think my heart is with RPGs. Pop one in, continue the story or whatever while beating up baddies. It may be fun to kill stuff with guns or in a hack-n-slash, but controlling the likes of any of the great and powerful RPG characters is better - to me.