The year 2008 has pushed forward the often unstable union of video games and the ritzy-glitzy world of Hollywood. There are more movies based on games than ever before, for one. Sure, the majority of them are produced by Uwe Boll and aren’t very good, but it’s also working in the opposite direction. Just look at Quantum of Solace for a big name publisher and developer taking on a video game adaption of a movie. Then there’s the influx of voice talent from Hollywood stars. Fallout 3, Call of Duty: World at War and Fable II are just three examples of games with star quality.

So, the question is where do these illustrious games line up in a list of the top 10 star-studded games of all time? Which games have the cast lists that make us faint out of giddy excitement?  Lucky for you, wonderful reader, the answer has been provided for your scrutiny. Before we continue, take note of one proviso: games that are official adaptations or spin-offs of movies and TV shows have been disqualified from the list, because that’s just too easy for me. That’s why you won’t see any sign of Superman Returns, Lost: Via Domus, or 24: The Show on this list, and I’m sure you’ll agree that’s a good thing. Let’s begin.

10. True Crime: Streets of LA

True Crime wasn’t a poor game really, but history will likely remember it as the GTA III clone where you play a cop. It did a lot of things right, such as having decent graphics (minus a few obvious glitches), a big city, and a fun auto-targeting system. It also did a lot of things badly. Take the cliché-ridden script, bizarre inclusion of zombies, and incredibly unlikeable protagonist for examples. That’s fine ‘cos we don’t care about them, just their famous friends. Academy Award winner Christopher Walken bookended True Crime with narration, whilst Academy Award hating Gary Oldman, The Fast and the Furious actress Michelle Rodriguez, and everyone’s favourite tough guy, Michael Madsen lent their talents to fill out the cast. Creepy Walken starred in the sequel, True Crime: New York City, alongside Laurence Fishburne and Mickey Rourke. There won’t be a hat-trick of appearances, however, as Activision cancelled True Crime 3. Oh well.

9. SSX Tricky

This is choice you may not have been expecting, but 2001’s SSX Tricky (really SSX 2) featured a damned impressive cast list. That’s odd when you consider that no other game in EA’s snowboarding franchise has featured one recognizable name. One for the philosophers, I guess. So, who was in it? Well, you could pull off crazy tricks with Lucy Liu, the perfect choice for cool-as-ice babe Elise Riggs, or as David Arquette in the form of 70s throwback Eddie Wachowski. Macy Gray, Billy Zane, and Bif Naked also provided voices. Plus it had the coolest theme tune, Run DMC’s ‘It’s Tricky,’ and a small clip from the song would play whenever you pulled off an uber-trick -- something to bring back for that rumoured next SSX...