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Best Arcade games of 2008
The 19 best Arcade games released in 2008, ranked from 3,616 critic and player ratings.
The best Arcade game of 2008 is LittleBigPlanet, with a critic score of 96/100 — updated augustus 2026.
01
LittleBigPlanet
Welcome to LittleBigPlanet – a world of infinite possibilities, where imagination becomes reality and the powers of creation are firmly in your hands. If you can think of it, you can create it if you can create it, you can share it if you can share it, you can play it – and watch our colorful LittleBigPlanet grow and diversify! It’s a new kind of game that unleashes the creativity in everyone. Design your own character and play over 50 awesome developer levels packed with dangers to navigate, races to win and puzzles to solve. As you play you will learn the skills to build a world of your own by earning creative tools and collecting hundreds of items. Use these items and tools to shape amazing levels of your own, featuring puzzles, challenges, and enemies of your own design. When you are ready, go online to access the LBP community and Share your creations for everyone to play. LittleBigPlanet is a world with no limits – a world that’s yours to shape, build and explore.
96
/100
02
Burnout Paradise
Evolve or die. For Paradise, we knew we had to change everything. Burnout was a killer arcade driving game, but for a new generation of hardware and connected player Burnout had to become something more ambitious. Closed tracks made way for an expansive, open city, and we seamlessly synced your friends into the action and let you loose on a heap of cool challenges that unsurprisingly rewarded you for driving like a lunatic. Hey, it’s us after all.
93
/100
03
Braid
Braid is a puzzle-platformer, drawn in a painterly style, where you can manipulate the flow of time in strange and unusual ways. From a house in the city, journey to a series of worlds and solve puzzles to rescue an abducted princess. In each world, you have a different power to affect the way time behaves, and it is time's strangeness that creates the puzzles. The time behaviors include: the ability to rewind, objects that are immune to being rewound, time that is tied to space, parallel realities, time dilation, and perhaps more. Braid treats your time and attention as precious; there is no filler in this game. Every puzzle shows you something new and interesting about the game world.
87
/100
LittleBigPlanet
Welcome to LittleBigPlanet – a world of infinite possibilities, where imagination becomes reality and the powers of creation are firmly in your hands. If you can think of it, you can create it if you can create it, you can share it if you can share it, you can play it – and watch our colorful LittleBigPlanet grow and diversify! It’s a new kind of game that unleashes the creativity in everyone. Design your own character and play over 50 awesome developer levels packed with dangers to navigate, races to win and puzzles to solve. As you play you will learn the skills to build a world of your own by earning creative tools and collecting hundreds of items. Use these items and tools to shape amazing levels of your own, featuring puzzles, challenges, and enemies of your own design. When you are ready, go online to access the LBP community and Share your creations for everyone to play. LittleBigPlanet is a world with no limits – a world that’s yours to shape, build and explore.
96
/100
02
Burnout Paradise
Evolve or die. For Paradise, we knew we had to change everything. Burnout was a killer arcade driving game, but for a new generation of hardware and connected player Burnout had to become something more ambitious. Closed tracks made way for an expansive, open city, and we seamlessly synced your friends into the action and let you loose on a heap of cool challenges that unsurprisingly rewarded you for driving like a lunatic. Hey, it’s us after all.
93
/100
03
Braid
Braid is a puzzle-platformer, drawn in a painterly style, where you can manipulate the flow of time in strange and unusual ways. From a house in the city, journey to a series of worlds and solve puzzles to rescue an abducted princess. In each world, you have a different power to affect the way time behaves, and it is time's strangeness that creates the puzzles. The time behaviors include: the ability to rewind, objects that are immune to being rewound, time that is tied to space, parallel realities, time dilation, and perhaps more. Braid treats your time and attention as precious; there is no filler in this game. Every puzzle shows you something new and interesting about the game world.
87
/100
04
Bionic Commando: Rearmed
86
/100
05
Soul Calibur IV
85
/100
06
Pure
83
/100
07
Midnight Club: Los Angeles
82
/100
08
MotorStorm: Pacific Rift
82
/100
09
Ratchet & Clank Future: Quest for Booty
76
/100
10
Mortal Kombat vs. DC Universe
74
/100
11
BlazBlue: Calamity Trigger
73
/100
12
Dragon Ball Z: Burst Limit
72
/100
13
Luxor 2
70
/100
14
Need For Speed Undercover
65
/100
15
Spider-Man: Web of Shadows
64
/100
16
Sonic Unleashed
60
/100
17
The Incredible Hulk
59
/100
18
Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa
59
/100
19
Lost: Via Domus
54
/100
Bionic Commando: Rearmed
86
/100
05
Soul Calibur IV
85
/100
06
Pure
83
/100
07
Midnight Club: Los Angeles
82
/100
08
MotorStorm: Pacific Rift
82
/100
09
Ratchet & Clank Future: Quest for Booty
76
/100
10
Mortal Kombat vs. DC Universe
74
/100
11
BlazBlue: Calamity Trigger
73
/100
12
Dragon Ball Z: Burst Limit
72
/100
13
Luxor 2
70
/100
14
Need For Speed Undercover
65
/100
15
Spider-Man: Web of Shadows
64
/100
16
Sonic Unleashed
60
/100
17
The Incredible Hulk
59
/100
18
Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa
59
/100
19
Lost: Via Domus
54
/100
FAQ
What is the best Arcade game of 2008?
LittleBigPlanet currently tops the ranking with a score of 96/100 across 270 ratings. Ranking updated augustus 2026.
How is this ranking built?
Games are ranked on their aggregated critic score out of 100, with a minimum vote threshold so a single glowing review never outranks a proven classic; the Tier community's own F-to-S grades are shown alongside each game.