Phantasy Star Online was truly something unique in 2001 for many different reasons. Remembering 2011: The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, Batman: Arkham City, Dark Souls, and More.Remembering 2010: Red Dead Redemption, Fallout: New Vegas, God of War III, and more.

Remembering 2009 : Batman: Arkham Asylum, Uncharted 2, Borderlands, and more.Remembering 2008: Fallout 3, Metal Gear Solid 4, Grand Theft Auto IV, and more.Remembering 2007: Bioshock, Mass Effect, Uncharted, and more.Remembering 1999: Final Fantasy VIII, Silent Hill, Resident Evil 3, and more.Remembering 1998: Metal Gear Solid, The Legend Zelda: Ocarina of Time, Half-Life and more.Below, you can find our previous roundups of games we love. Organized by their respective western release dates, here is GameSpot's selection of the most noteworthy games of 2001, along with our thoughts on why they've stuck with us 20 years later. With titles like the trippy and subversive Metal Gear Solid 2 proving that games can reflect and predict the strangeness of our present reality, or Grand Theft Auto 3 showing the promise of letting players create their own fun in an open-world city, many of the games on this list would stay nestled in the consciousness of fans and shake up genre conventions for the decades to come.īe sure to check back with this gallery in the future, as we will be adding more shout-outs for the games of 2001. The year 2001 was incredibly disruptive, both in the gaming world and in the rest of life, and many of these games would, in some way, not only signal the coming times, but even offer a sense of comfort when people needed it most. In this roundup, GameSpot looks back at the games celebrating their 20th anniversary this year. The games industry, and the audience of consumers, expanded massively in this particular year, and several games would help usher in a new era of gaming-many of which would go on to redefine what we expect in console shooters and the burgeoning promise of exploring an open world in a game. Furthermore, Nintendo launched a new handheld in the form of the Game Boy Advance, and followed up the Nintendo 64 with the GameCube. Along with the release of Microsoft's first video game console, the Xbox, Sony's PlayStation 2 hit a major stride in its second year with an incredible slate of first- and third-party releases. The year 2001 was a monumental year for gaming.

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