The Lord of the Rings: Return of the King

The Lord of the Rings: Return of the King

Developer: Electronic Arts    Publisher: Electronic Arts    Release: 11/06/23   Genre: Action The Lord of the Rings: the Two Towers was a huge surprise in 2002. Licensed games are nothing new but few had the production values and scale...
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Klonoa 2 –  Lunatea’s Veil

Klonoa 2 – Lunatea’s Veil

, Developer: Namco    Publisher: Namco    Release: 07/25/01   Genre: Platformer Klonoa was a breath of fresh air for platformers during the 32-bit era. While many developers were going full 3d like Mario 64 Klonoa was a throwback to the 16-bit...
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Vampire Night

Vampire Night

Developer: Wow Entertainment   Publisher: Namco   Release: 11/13/01  Genre: Action In the mid to late 90s Sega and Namco went back and forth creating arcade hits to compete with each other. When Sega made Virtua Fighter Tekken was not far...
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Spider-Man: the Movie

Spider-Man: the Movie

Developer: Treyarch    Publisher: Activision    Release: 04/16/02   Genre: Action     Platforms: PS2, Gamecube, Xbox, PC For the longest time Activision was a shining example of how to handle licensed video games. Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater was a revo...
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Eternal Quest

Eternal Quest

Developer: Tamsoft   Publisher: Midas    Release: 05/21/04   Genre: RPG The Simple 1500 series of games has always fascinated me. Dating back as far as the PS One these smaller titles spanned every genre and ranged in complexity, from otherwise...
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Gradius V

Gradius V

Developer: Treasure    Publisher: Konami    Release: 09/14/04    Genre: Shooter For a while in the mid-2000s it looked like Gradius was sent to the graveyard where once popular intellectual properties reside. Aside from the solid Gradius Galaxies ther...
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Spy Hunter

Spy Hunter

Developer: Point of View    Publisher: Midway    Release: 03/12/02   Genre: Action Spy Hunter is a game everyone remembers for its cool theme rather than its gameplay. After a few minutes you have seen almost everything it has to offer and...
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Champions of Norrath

Champions of Norrath

Developer: Stormblind Studios    Publisher: Sony    Release: 02/10/04   Genre: Action RPG The Baldur’s Gate Dark Alliance series were some of the best action RPGs of the sixth generation. Interplay and Snowblind Studios married the Dungeons & Drag...
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Rockman: Power Battle Fighters

Rockman: Power Battle Fighters

Developer: Capcom    Publisher: Capcom    Release: 08/05/04   Genre: Action To this day I still miss arcade games. Part of the thrill of visiting the arcade was seeing games that were technically far ahead of what we had at home. Obviously...
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XIII

XIII

Developer: Ubi Soft    Publisher: Ubi Soft    Release: 11/25/03   Genre: FPS In 2003 the first person had not reached its saturation point yet. But you still needed to do something different to stand out. Ubi Soft licensed the French comic...
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