1. The Last of Us 2. Mass Effect 3. Bioshock 4. Spec Ops 5. Anything by Telltale Honorable mentions go to Uncharted, Arkham, Heavy Rain, Dragon Age, and Red Dead Redemption. If COD makes a top 5 stories list, then you don't play enough story-driven games. I will agree that Black Ops story probably was the most creative. They brought in David S. Goyer (writer of The Dark Knight) to do some of the writing.