Best Games of 2003
Ranked by our critic's grades, best first.
Prince of Persia: The Sands of TimeThe rewind button that changed a generation of action games, wrapped around the most graceful platforming of its era.Read the review
Star Wars: Knights of the Old RepublicThe best story the license has ever been handed, bolted to combat that is rolling dice behind a curtain.
Beyond Good & EvilA photojournalist, a talking boar, and a planetary cover up: the best story Ubisoft has ever published.
Zone of the Enders: The 2nd RunnerEverything the first game promised, delivered at twice the speed with a boss fight against an entire fleet.
Castlevania: Aria of SorrowEvery enemy in the castle is a spell you have not stolen yet, and it fits on a Game Boy Advance cartridge.
Silent Hill 3The most viscerally disgusting game the studio made, and a direct sequel that finally finishes the first game's story.
Ratchet & Clank: Going CommandoWeapons that level up as you use them, and a series that becomes a shooter in the space of one sequel.
Crimson Skies: High Road to RevengeDieselpunk dogfighting with zeppelin boardings and radio-serial swagger; still the arcade flight game to beat.
Tony Hawk's UndergroundGetting off the board sounds like a gimmick until you realise it is the only way to make a skate game about being a nobody.
Call of DutyThe war shooter that stopped putting one soldier in every room and gave you a squad that talked back.