This PS3 exclusive has been on our radar for some time but suddenly, passing interest has become full-blown infatuation. Below is Tom McShea’s Gamespot video review for Uncharted 2, which awarded it a head-turning score of 9.5. It arrives in stores October 13.

In dishing out scores, critics are a bit heavy-handed with the 9s these days… but in the past decade only a handful of truly special games (and only eight other current-gen releases) have scored 9.5 or better at Gamespot.

Can you guess the games in the 9.5-and-up club? You probably can. But here they are:

• Grand Theft Auto 4
• Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots
• The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion
• Gears of War
• Braid
• Halo 3
• Super Smash Bros. Brawl
• Super Mario Galaxy
• Uncharted 2: Among Thieves

And for objectivity, Metacritic‘s A-list:

• Xbox 360: Grand Theft Auto IV (2008) 98
  Rockstar Games
• Playstation 3: Grand Theft Auto IV (2008) 98
  Rockstar Games
• Wii: Super Mario Galaxy (2007) 97
  Nintendo
• Playstation 3: Uncharted 2: Among Thieves (2009) 97
  Sony Computer Entertainment
• Xbox 360: BioShock (2007) 962K Games
• Wii: Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess, The (2006) 95
  Nintendo
• Playstation 3: LittleBigPlanet (2008) 95
  Sony Computer Entertainment

Metacritic is our go-to place for game ratings; their metascores represent an average across a bunch of sites.