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The world of video games is populated by plenty of different types of organisation. Military, medical, criminal, altruistic and scientific, there is no short supply of organisational bodies. However, not all of them are created equally and while some manage to achieve such wide ranging success in their fields, others can barely muster the mental energy to get out of bed each day.  (Images property of Capcom, Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment, Sega, Sony Interactive Entertainment and Ubisoft) As such, I have itemised a list of video games’ worst offenders for dangerous, chaotic and outright incompetent management for your perusal. You never know, it might even make companies like EA look halfway capable for once.Beware spoilers for all game series mentioned here. Umbrella - Resident Evil In the world of international biomedical organisations, the stakes are already pretty high for anyone worried about making mistakes. Failing to properly test new medicines or operations could h...

 Playtime is an important metric in the world of video games. Reviews are inherently subjective, meaning that they can't  reflect how large numbers of people might feel about a game. Player numbers aren't perfect either seeing as thousands of people can still get together to play a bad game, demonstrated recently by God's chosen dumpster fire The Day Before .  (Images property of Nintendo, FromSoftware and Bandai Namco, Rocksteady Studios and WB Games) Very few people though, will willingly play a bad game more than once. As such, replayability is a valuable commodity for game developers to capture if they want to guarantee their game's long-term popularity. However, replayability is a hard thing to quantify and, in recent years, I've found myself more and more surprised by what games I keep returning to. Today then, I'd like to discuss what I think are three of the core tenets of what makes games replayable and some of the best games that manage to deliver them...