Features - Best Games Of The Last Decade: The Nicest of the Noughties

[HEXUS]

Check out my favourite games of the last decade and don't forget to tell us yours...

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[MSIC]

Nice list... but you are clearly missing Diablo 2

For me, i keep coming back to Civ 4 (B.T.S.) time and again too.
Battlefield 2?
Oh, and Star Wars Battlefront 2 mixed the Battlefield above with that 0h-so-awesome John Williams music, and a little bit of X-Wing v Tie Fighter that worked well multiplayer.

[Steven W]

Nice list... but you are clearly missing Diablo 2

For me, i keep coming back to Civ 4 (B.T.S.) time and again too.
Battlefield 2?
Oh, and Star Wars Battlefront 2 mixed the Battlefield above with that 0h-so-awesome John Williams music, and a little bit of X-Wing v Tie Fighter that worked well multiplayer.

Embarassing as it is to admit, I've never played Diablo 2.

[Ferral]

My favourites over the past 10 years are as follows :

Mafia
Tron 2.0
Soul Reaver 2
Bioshock
Unchartered 1&2
Batman AA
Doom 3
Sacred
Shadowman
Silent Hill 2
Call of Cthulhu Dark Corners of the Earth
Guild Wars Prophecies
Need For Speed Most Wanted
Fable 1&2
Judge Dredd
Assassins Creed 1&2

Theres a few others but I can't think of them at the minute!

[starbuck]

Have to include GTA Vice city in the list. Great voiceovers, brilliant music and radio stations and the settings(like the scarface house etc) were great. It had one of the best atmospheres of any game I've played in a long time as gave a real feeling of the 80's.

[0iD]

PC
Call of Duty 2 & 4
L4D
STALKER
FEAR
Far Cry
DOOM III
Prototype
Vampire the Masquerade: Bloodlines
XIII
Unreal & UT2
World of Warcraft
Black & White
Guild Wars
Neverwinter Nights
Return to Castle Wolfenstein
Sims

Wii
Madworld
Raving Rabbids
Wii Fit
House of the Dead: Overkill
MarioKart
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare: Reflex Edition
Super Mario Galaxy
Super Smash Bros. Brawl
Family Trainer
Lego Star Wars: The Complete Saga

[j.o.s.h.1408]

battlefield 2
Sims 2
PES1-5
FIFA 09
GTA VC
MGS 1,2, 4
Shenmue 1 and 2(favourite game of all time)
crazi taxi
soul calibure
Gtr evo
Forza 2
zelda: orcharine of time N64
Guild Wars
Unchartered 1&2
Bioshock
Arma 2

btw, I've never played Diablo 2.

[Jay]

Champ Manager 4
Shenmue 1/2
HL2 / CS:S
Fallout 3
Fable 2
GTA4
Assasins Creed
EVE Online

[Steven W]

battlefield 2
Sims 2
PES1-5
FIFA 09
GTA VC
MGS 1,2, 4
Shenmue 1 and 2(favourite game of all time)
crazi taxi
soul calibure
Gtr evo
Forza 2
zelda: orcharine of time N64
Guild Wars
Unchartered 1&2
Bioshock
Arma 2

btw, I've never played Diablo 2.

Forgot about Shenmue, classic!

[Knoxville]

Silent Hill 2
Civilization 4
Batman - Arkham Asylum
Shenmue
Rez
Resident Evil 2 & 4
Half Life 2
Metal Gear Solid 2, 3 & 4
Portal
GTA 3 & 4
Tony Hawks 2
Gran Turismo 3
Eternal Darkness
Dead Space
KOTOR
Far Cry
IL2 1946

I'm probably missing a few, the last three/four years have been especially good

[danroyle]

battlefield 2
KOTOR
Stalker
COD 4 MW
GTA 3
Final fantasy 10
Counter strike/Source
shenmue 1/2 awesome games (still got 2 for the xbox/ 360)
Assassins creed 1/2
Forza motorsport 2 and 3
Batman arkham asylum
FAr Cry
tony hawks 3

[dfour]

Battlefield 2
Call of duty 4
Morrowind
Oblivion
Unreal tournament 2003/2004
Diablo 2
Mechwarrior 4/mercenaries

[Pob255]

Also add to the list
Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War 1 and it's additional packs

[JimNastics]

These are the games that stood out for me in the 2000's, I've bolded out those which meant the most to me. If I had to choose one game which defined my decade of gaming, it would easily be Counter-Strike, though I now haven't played it for many years.

2000 - Banjo Tooie (the N64's swansong for me) (N64)
2000 - Tony Hawks 2 (PS2)
2001 - Jak and Daxter: The Precursor's Legacy (PS2)
2001 - Counter-Strike (1.0 to 1.6) - for about the whole of 2000, 2001 and 2002, this was pretty much all I ever played online...
2002 - Battlefield 1942 - this eventually took over from CS as my online game of choice
2002 - Medal of Honour: Allied Assault
2003 - Prince of Persia: Sands of Time (PS2)
2003 - Beyond Good and Evil (PC)
2005 - Battlefield 2
2006 - Battlefield 2142
2006 - Zelda: Twilight Princess
2006 - Psychonauts (PC) - absolute classic, the last great 3D cartoon adventure.
2007 - Mario Galaxy
2008 - Mario Kart Wii

[Shooty*]

Batman Arkham Asylum
F.E.A.R.
Shogo: MAD*
Rogue Squadron 3D*
UT2004
Jedi Knight: Outcast and Academy
Dawn of War 1
Dead Space
Bioshock
Audiosurf
FFX on PS2
SSX Tricky on PS2
Mario Galaxy on Wii

*just within 10 years, hopefully

Edit: I'm going to add three very special gaming moments:
1. Seeing Unreal for the first time, the introductory bit with the castle, and the first level with the mist in the pipes, and thinking WOW. THIS is what I got a 3d card for. It kicked Quake 2 into a cocked hat, as the expression goes.
2. Playing Half Life for the first time. Specifically, the geniune fright which a lot of people I know all experienced when, near that huge fan that you have to activate, a face crab jumps up at you out of a lower level air vent. Yeah, you know the bit I mean.
3. Loading and playing the HL2 demo, looking at the graphics and just being absolutely blown away. The distance they lifted the bar was phenomenal. Doom 3 was already out by then, IIRC, which looked nice in a cartoony way, but the level of detail in HL2 was just something else.

[Phage]

HL2
Call of Duty4
L4D & L4D2
DOOM III
Unreal Tournament 2004
Return to Castle Wolfenstein