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The Best Video Games Released In 2005

Video game rankings for video games that had a release in the year 2005, 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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Guild Wars game
99.4
49.4

Guild Wars

  • Action
  • online
  • competitive
  • RolePlaying

The games depict the history of the fictional fantasy world of Tyria; each campaign focuses on events in disjointed sections of the world at roughly the same time. After reaching the level cap, players differentiate their characters by which skills they equip to bring into battle; new skills can be learned...

Delta Force: Black Hawk Down game
98.4
48.4

Delta Force: Black Hawk Down

  • FirstPerson
  • Shooter

Delta Force: Black Hawk Down is a first-person shooter video game set in the early 1990s during the Unified Task Force peacekeeping operation in Somalia. Following the third mission, the player assumes the role of the same soldier. The gameplay in Delta Force: Black Hawk Down differs heavily from earlier...

The Sims 2 game
91.9
41.9

The Sims 2

  • Simulation
  • life

[game]The SIMS 2[/game] is a 2004 strategic life simulation video game developed by Maxis and published by Electronic Arts. Pleasantview is based 25 years after the town in the original [game]The SIMS[/game]. [game]The SIMS 2[/game] is offered on mobile platforms, with manufacturers such as Nokia offering...

World Of Warcraft game
92
42

World Of Warcraft

  • adventure
  • mmo
  • RolePlaying

World of Warcraft is a massively multiplayer online role-playing game released in 2004 by Blizzard Entertainment. The first expansion set of the game, The Burning Crusade, was released on January 16, 2007. The second expansion set, Wrath of the Lich King, was released on November 13, 2008. The third...

Goldeneye: Source game
91.3
28

Goldeneye: Source

  • Shooter

GoldenEye: Source is a total conversion modification of Half-Life 2. It is a fan made recreation, released for free, with only one goal in mind; to bring the memories and experiences from the original GoldenEye64 back to life using Source Technology. We want you to look at this mod and remember the first...

Kingdom Hearts II game
91.2
41.2

Kingdom Hearts II

  • adventure
  • RolePlaying

The game is a sequel to Kingdom Hearts, which combined Disney and Square elements into an action role-playing game, though it is somewhat darker in tone than its predecessor. It picks up one year after the events of Kingdom Hearts: Chain of Memories.Sora, the protagonist of the first two games, returns...

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...

Dragon Quest VIII game
85
35

Dragon Quest VIII

  • RolePlaying

"Dragon Quest VIII: The Sky, the Ocean, the Earth, and the Cursed Princess") and in PAL regions as Dragon Quest: The Journey of the Cursed King, is a role-playing video game developed by Level-5 and published by Square Enix for the Playstation 2. Dragon Quest VIII follows the silent Hero, the...

The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie game
84.5
34.5

The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie

  • Platform

On a heroic, comedic quest through more than 20 levels of platform, driving and sliding action, SpongeBob and Patrick leave Bikini Bottom and journey to new and unexplored lands. Players join their struggle to defeat Plankton's diabolic scheme to take over the world...Plan Z! Plankton has stolen King...

Resident Evil 4 game
82.1
32.1

Resident Evil 4 $19.99 $9.99

  • adventure
  • survival
  • Horror
  • Shooter
  • adventure
  • survival
  • Horror
  • Shooter

Traveling to a rural area of Spain, Leon fights hordes of violent villagers and reunites with the mysterious spy Ada Wong. Initially developed for the PlayStation 2, the first attempt was directed by Hideki Kamiya after producer Shinji Mikami requested him to create a new entry in the Resident Evil series....

Star Wars: Knights Of The Old Republic II - The Sith Lords game
81.8
31.8

Star Wars: Knights Of The Old Republic II - The Sith Lords $9.99 $3.49

  • adventure
  • Action
  • RolePlaying
  • adventure
  • Action
  • RolePlaying

Like its predecessor, it is set in the Star Wars universe 4,000 years before the events of the film Episode I: The Phantom Menace and is based on the d20 System developed by Wizards of the Coast. The game uses the Odyssey Engine, which was originally used in Knights of the Old Republic. However, the...

Stepmania game
78.9
23.9

Stepmania

  • music

StepMania was originally developed as an open source clone of Konami's arcade game series Dance Dance Revolution. During the first three major versions, the Interface was based heavily on DDR's. New versions were released relatively quickly at first, culminating in version 3.9 in 2003. In 2010, after...

Half-Life 2 game
78.9
28.9

Half-Life 2 $9.99 $0.99

Half-Life 2 is a first-person shooter video game and the sequel to Half-Life . Some years after the events of Half-Life, protagonist Gordon Freeman is woken by the enigmatic G-Man to find the world has been taken over by the alien Combine. The game won 39 "Game of the Year" awards and the title...

Super Princess Peach game
78.4
28.4

Super Princess Peach

  • Platform

Super Princess Peach is a platform video game published by Nintendo for the Nintendo DS handheld game console. It is the first game to feature Princess Peach as the main playable character. Despite being praised for its role reversal in the plot, the game was criticized for the nature of how Peach attacked,...

Battlefield 2 game
78.2
28.2

Battlefield 2

  • Shooter

Battlefield 2 is a 2005 first-person shooter video game, developed by EA DICE, with contributions by Trauma Studios. The multiplayer aspect of the game allows players to organize into squads that come under the leadership of a single commander to promote teamwork. The story takes place in the early 21st century...

Battalion Wars game
78.3
28.3

Battalion Wars

  • RealTimeStrategy
  • Strategy

Battalion Wars, originally to be titled as Advance Wars: Under Fire, part of Nintendo's Wars series, is a 2005 real-time tactics game for the GameCube, developed by Kuju Entertainment. In the midst of battle, the player will have control over a variety of units, including infantry, armored vehicles,...

Bejeweled 2 game
75
25

Bejeweled 2 $4.99 $0.99

  • Puzzle

As with the original Bejeweled, Bejeweled 2 is based on the Shariki game mechanic. The objective of the game is to swap one gem with an adjacent one to form a chain of three or more gems of the same color. Every legitimate move awards points to the player, which is stated at the bottom of the page in...

Forza Motorsports game
71.2
21.2

Forza Motorsports $69.99 $34.99

  • racing

Forza Motorsport is a 2005 simulation racing video game developed by Turn 10 Studios and published by Microsoft Game Studios for the Xbox gaming system. The game is the first installment in the Forza series, a series that has continued on Microsoft's subsequent consoles, the Xbox 360, Xbox One, and Xbox...

Rainbow Six: Lockdown game
68.4
18.4

Rainbow Six: Lockdown $9.99 $2.49

  • Tactical
  • Shooter

Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six: Lockdown is the fourth game in the Rainbow Six series. The initial design and PlayStation 2 version were developed by Red Storm Entertainment and the Xbox version was developed by the Ubisoft Montreal studio. Lockdown also gives players the ability to save their in-game progress...

Tales Of The Abyss game
67.5
17.5

Tales Of The Abyss

  • RolePlaying

Namco has given Tales of the Abyss the characteristic genre name To Know the Meaning of One's Birth RPG . Taking place in a fantasy world, the story focuses on Luke fon Fabre, a young swordsman whose pampered life turns upside down when he unwittingly becomes the target of a military-religious organization...

Castlevania game
67.3
17.3

Castlevania

  • adventure
  • retro
  • Platform

The series debuted in Japan on September 26, 1986, with the release for the Family Computer Disk System , followed by an alternate version for the MSX2 platform on October 30. The Castlevania titles have been released on various platforms, from early systems including the Nintendo Entertainment System...