Best PlayStation 3 games of 2008
The 74 best PlayStation 3 games released in 2008, ranked from 21,344 critic and player ratings.
The best PlayStation 3 game of 2008 is LittleBigPlanet, with a critic score of 96/100 — updated augusti 2026.
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
The Orange Box
94
/100
03
Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots
Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots is the final canonical Metal Gear game to feature Solid Snake as the main character. The gameplay of the previous games have been kept along with some new features, such as the ability to roll on your back and also to hide in bins scattered around the environment. Most of the story and the relationship between the characters are explained through cut-scenes with a considerable length, so knowledge of the prior games is recommended to fully understand the story. The game also features a complex multiplayer mode entitled Metal Gear Online with some original missions based on the stealth aspects of the single-player games.
94
/100
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
05
God of War: Chains of Olympus
91
/100
06
Shin Megami Tensei: Persona 4
90
/100
07
Fallout 3
Fallout 3 from the creators of the award-winning Oblivion, featuring one of the most realized game worlds ever created. Create any kind of character you want and explore the open wastes of post-apocalyptic Washington D.C. Every minute is a fight for survival as you encounter Super Mutants, Ghouls, Raiders and other dangers of the Wasteland. Prepare for the future. The third game in the Fallout series, Fallout 3 is a singleplayer action role-playing game (RPG) set in a post-apocalyptic Washington DC. Combining the horrific insanity of the Cold War era theory of mutually assured destruction gone terribly wrong, with the kitschy naivety of American 1950s nuclear propaganda, Fallout 3 will satisfy both players familiar with the popular first two games in its series as well as those coming to the franchise for the first time.
89
/100
08
Grand Theft Auto IV
Grand Theft Auto IV is an action-adventure video game developed by Rockstar North and published by Rockstar Games. It is the eleventh title in the Grand Theft Auto series, and the first main entry since 2004's Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas. The game is played from a third-person perspective and its world is navigated on-foot or by vehicle. Throughout the single-player mode, players play as Niko Bellic. An online multiplayer mode is included with the game, allowing up to 32 players to engage in both co-operative and competitive gameplay in a recreation of the single-player setting. Two expansion packs were later released for the game, The Lost and Damned and The Ballad of Gay Tony, which both feature new plots that are interconnected with the main Grand Theft Auto IV storyline, and follow new protagonists.
88
/100
09
Mega Man 9
Mega Man 9 brings the series back to its old school roots with retro gameplay, music and classic 8-bit style graphics! Mega Man fans, your wait is over! The classic Blue Bomber that debuted in 1987 is back with the ninth installment in the classic series. It's a new adventure for Mega Man all done in an 8-bit style -- graphics, music, and gameplay are all like you remember them!
88
/100
10
GRID (2008)
87
/100
11
Resistance 2
87
/100
12
Braid
87
/100
13
Dead Space (2008)
86
/100
14
Bionic Commando: Rearmed
86
/100
15
Far Cry 2
85
/100
16
Valkyria Chronicles
85
/100
17
Soul Calibur IV
85
/100
18
Prince of Persia
84
/100
19
Battlefield: Bad Company
84
/100
20
Sid Meier's Civilization Revolution
84
/100
21
Call of Duty: World at War
83
/100
22
Pure
83
/100
23
FIFA 09
83
/100
24
Command & Conquer: Red Alert 3
82
/100
25
Midnight Club: Los Angeles
82
/100
26
MotorStorm: Pacific Rift
82
/100
27
Devil May Cry 4
81
/100
28
Saints Row 2
81
/100
29
Mirror's Edge
81
/100
30
Condemned 2: Bloodshot
81
/100
31
PixelJunk Eden
81
/100
32
LEGO Batman
80
/100
33
Brothers in Arms: Hell's Highway
79
/100
34
Tales of Vesperia
79
/100
35
NHL 09
79
/100
36
Castle Crashers
79
/100
37
Race Driver: Grid
78
/100
38
Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Vegas 2
78
/100
39
Ratchet & Clank Future: Quest for Booty
76
/100
40
Naruto: Ultimate Ninja Storm
76
/100
41
Command & Conquer: Red Alert 3
75
/100
42
Mortal Kombat vs. DC Universe
74
/100
43
BlazBlue: Calamity Trigger
73
/100
44
Star Ocean: The Last Hope
73
/100
45
Mirror's Edge
72
/100
46
Tomb Raider: Underworld
72
/100
47
Overlord: Raising Hell
72
/100
48
Dragon Ball Z: Burst Limit
72
/100
49
Mercenaries 2: World in Flames
71
/100
50
Army of Two
71
/100
What is the best PlayStation 3 game of 2008?
LittleBigPlanet currently tops the ranking with a score of 96/100 across 270 ratings. Ranking updated augusti 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.