Best Games of 2000
Ranked by our critic's grades, best first.
Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 2The manual turned a list of tricks into a sentence, and every skateboarding game since has been borrowing that grammar.Read the review
The Legend of Zelda: Majora's MaskThree days until the moon lands, and a whole town's worth of people you can only save by starting over.
Final Fantasy IXSquare looking backward on purpose, and finding the warmest story it ever told doing it.
Deus ExThe ugliest great game of its decade, and the last word on letting a player solve a level any way they like.
Spyro: Year of the DragonThe biggest and most varied of the three, held together by playable characters that mostly justify themselves.
The SimsWill Wright turns a dollhouse into the best selling game on PC by simulating hunger, a bladder and the neighbors.
Baldur's Gate II: Shadows of AmnThe high point of party writing in games, a role-playing epic that answers nearly every question you think to ask it.
Diablo IIThe loot loop that every action role-playing game since has been quietly copying.
Resident Evil Code: VeronicaThe most operatic entry in the classic series, and the one most willing to break your save.
Marvel vs. Capcom 2: New Age of HeroesFifty six characters, four of them good, and one of the most joyful fighting games ever made.