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The Best Video Games Released In 2001

Video game rankings for video games that had a release in the year 2001, ranked from best to worst. This includes games that had a release. All scores are calcuated by gamer's ratings, post reactions, and more. You can affect these rankings by joining and rating video games.

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Colin McRae Rally game
98.2
48.2

Colin McRae Rally

  • racing
  • Sports

Colin McRae Rally and more recently; DiRT, is a racing video game series developed and published by Codemasters. Started in 1998, the franchise has been a critical and commercial success and is generally acknowledged as a pioneer of realistic rally sports racing games. Colin McRae Rally, the first title...

Half-Life game
98
48

Half-Life $9.99 $0.99

Named Game of the Year by over 50 publications, Valve's debut title blends action and adventure with award-winning technology to create a frighteningly realistic world where players must think to survive. Also includes an exciting multiplayer mode that allows you to play against friends and enemies around...

Grand Theft Auto III game
94.7
44.7

Grand Theft Auto III

  • racing
  • Shooter

Featuring a fully 3-D living city, a combination of narrative driven and non-linear gameplay and a completely open environment, Grand Theft Auto III represents a huge leap forward in interactive entertainment. For the first time, players are put at the heart of their very own gangster movie, and let...

Half-Life: Blue Shift game
94.1
44.1

Half-Life: Blue Shift $4.99 $0.69

Blue Shift is the second expansion for Half-Life, originally intended as part of a Dreamcast version of the original game. As with Gearbox's previous expansion pack Opposing Force, Blue Shift returns to the setting and events of the original game, but portrays the story through the eyes of another person....

Final Fantasy X game
93.7
43.7

Final Fantasy X

  • adventure
  • steam
  • rog
  • nostalgia
  • finalfantasy
  • spira
  • team
  • magic
  • RolePlaying

Set in the fantasy world of Spira, the game's story revolves around a group of adventurers and their quest to defeat a rampaging monster known as Sin. The player character is Tidus, a blitzball star who finds himself in Spira after his home city of Zanarkand is destroyed by Sin. Shortly after arriving...

Max Payne game
91.6
41.6

Max Payne $9.99 $3.49

  • Shooter

Max Payne is a third-person shooter in which the player assumes the role of its titular character, Max Payne. Almost all the gameplay involves bullet time-based gun-fights and levels are generally straightforward, occasionally incorporating platforming and puzzle-solving elements. The game's storyline...

Final Fantasy Ix game
90.7
38.5

Final Fantasy Ix $20.99 $8.39

  • japanese
  • adventure
  • JRPG
  • Strategy
  • TurnBased
  • RolePlaying

The ninth installment in the long-running RPG series and the final for the original PlayStation, Final Fantasy IX gives fans of the franchise the nostalgic thrill of re-experiencing the visual style, gameplay elements and overall spirit of the 16-bit Final Fantasy games of the 8/16 bit eras. The main...

Tropico game
91.9
41.9

Tropico $6.99 $1.74

  • Simulation
  • Strategy

Tropico is a construction and management simulation video game developed by PopTop Software and published by Gathering of Developers in April 2001.Feral Interactive has developed and published a number of the games in the series for Mac OS X. Tropico features Latin-styled Caribbean music, largely performed...

Crazy Taxi game
90.2
40.2

Crazy Taxi

The game has also been re-released for the PlayStation Network, Xbox Live Arcade, iOS, and is featured on the Dreamcast Collection. It became one of the few Sega All Stars on the Dreamcast, and also earned Greatest Hits and Player's Choice status on Playstation 2 and GameCube respectively. Along the...

Rayman 2: The Great Escape game
89.6
39.6

Rayman 2: The Great Escape

  • adventure
  • Platform

Rayman 2: The Great Escape is an action-adventure video game developed by Ubi Soft Montpellier and published by Ubi Soft in 1999. The game was critically acclaimed upon release. Ly the Fairy telepathically communicates with Rayman explaining the consequences of the damage, with the core's shattering...

Spider-Man 2: Enter Electro game
86.6
36.6

Spider-Man 2: Enter Electro

  • BeatEmUp

It is the sequel to Neversoft's Spider-Man title, which was released the previous year. Planting a Spider-Tracer on the head thief's motorcycle, Spider-Man follows it to an abandoned warehouse where the thief is passing off a stolen briefcase to a contact. After defeating Shocker, Spider-Man follows...

Bejeweled game
86.6
36.6

Bejeweled

  • Puzzle

Bejeweled is a tile-matching puzzle video game by PopCap Games, first developed for browsers in 2001. The game was initially created by PopCap Games as a web-based Flash game called Diamond Mine, inspired by the gameplay of Columns and Shariki. They also released Bejeweled Deluxe on the Xbox as a downloadable...

Resident Evil: Code Veronica X game
85.7
35.7

Resident Evil: Code Veronica X $19.99 $3.99

  • adventure

Experience another terrifying chapter in the Resident Evil series with Resident Evil: Code Veronica X. After narrowly surviving the horrific onslaught in Raccoon City, Claire Redfield now seeks clues in search of her missing brother, Chris. Join Claire as she uncovers the insidious activities of the...

Super Mario Bros. 2 game
85.2
35.2

Super Mario Bros. 2

  • Platform

2, released in Japan as Super Mario USA , is a 1988 platform game developed and published by Nintendo for the Nintendo Entertainment System. The characters, enemies, and themes of the game were meant to reflect the mascots and theme of the festival. 2 has been considered a classic Super Mario Bros. The...

Deathmatch Classic game
84.3
34.3

Deathmatch Classic $4.99 $0.69

Enjoy fast-paced multiplayer gaming with Deathmatch Classic (a.k.a. DMC). Valve's tribute to the work of id software, DMC invites players to grab their rocket launchers and put their reflexes to the test in a collection of futuristic settings.

Paper Mario game
84.2
34.2

Paper Mario

  • RolePlaying

Paper Mario, known in Japanese as Mario Story and originally known as Super Mario RPG 2, is a role-playing video game developed by Intelligent Systems and published by Nintendo for the Nintendo 64 game console. Paper Mario is set in the Mushroom Kingdom as the protagonist Mario tries to rescue Princess...

Tony Hawk's Pro Skater game
77.5
27.5

Tony Hawk's Pro Skater

  • Sports

Published by Activision in 1999, it is the first entry in the Tony Hawk's series of video games. It also received a Game Boy Color adaptation, and was released for Xbox in 2001 as part of the Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 2x collection. The point value of the trick is based on time maintained, degrees rotated,...

Shin Megami Tensei game
77.3
27.3

Shin Megami Tensei

  • RolePlaying

It is the third game in the Megami Tensei series and the first in the central Shin Megami Tensei series. Transported with two other supporting characters thirty years into the future, the protagonist finds the Earth ruined by a demon invasion, which is now the stage for an escalating conflict between...

Shogo: Mobile Armor Division game
71.3
21.3

Shogo: Mobile Armor Division

  • Shooter
  • Strategy

It was the first game to use Monolith's flagship Lithtech engine. Shogo features a mix of both standard on-foot first person shooter action, and combat with anime-style bipedal mechs. Players take the role of Sanjuro Makabe, a Mobile Combat Armor pilot and a commander in the United Corporate Authority...

Silent Hill 2 game
71.2
21.2

Silent Hill 2

  • survival
  • Horror

The game was released in September 2001 as the second installment in the Silent Hill series. While set in the series' eponymous fictional American town, Silent Hill 2 is not a direct sequel to the first Silent Hill game. More humanoid than their counterparts in the preceding game, some of the monsters...

Rainbow Six game
68.3
18.3

Rainbow Six

  • Tactical
  • Shooter

Super Mario World: Super Mario Advance 2 game
68.5
18.5

Super Mario World: Super Mario Advance 2

  • Platform

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