""Diablo II succeeded in an area that many other genre leaders haven’t – it set the bar so high that everything else has paled in comparison. Yes, that’s right. Every hack and slash and/or dungeon crawler is still being compared to the nine-year-old Blizzard title that hasn’t fallen from the position of being the king of the mountain.

Online gaming and Battle.net pushed Diablo II above and beyond the expectations of the hack and slash genre. The advancement of multiplayer is always a welcom..."

Caspel via www.gamezone.com »

"In the world of Gaming, 2000 was actually a pretty kick ass year. We were all able to get our hands on the PlayStation 2 and Nintendo sold it’s 100,000,000th Game Boy system.

Looking Glass Studios (System Shock 2, Thief series) went out of business. Bungie was bought by Microsoft (to the eternal embarrassment of Apple's Steve Jobs, to be sure), and Red Storm Entertainment became the new property of Ubisoft. Volition, the development house behind FreeSpace 2 and Summoner (and later Saint's ..."

PacoDG via www.bingegamer.net »

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1. Final Fantasy VII
2. World of Warcraft
3. The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time
4. Chrono Trigger
5. Fallout 3
6. Diablo II: Lord of Destruction
7. The Ultima Series
8. Xenogears
9. The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past
10. Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic
11. Mass Effect
12. Earthbound
13. Final Fantasy XII
14. Super Mario RPG
15. Suikoden III
16. Pokemon Diamond and Pearl
17. The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion
18. Baldur's Gate 2: Shadows of Amn
19. Disgaea: Afternoon of Darkness
20. Deus Ex
21. Persona 3
22. Planescape Torment
23. Skies of Arcadia
24. Grandia
25. Kingdom ...

Dark Arcanine via www.gamepro.com »