Metroid Prime, Kingdom Hearts and Super Mario Sunshine led the charge in 2002, the year that saw The Sims become the highest selling PC title of all time, Rare switch hands from Microsoft to Nintendo, and the launch of the first video game television network, G4.

Counting down the top games from 1990 straight up through 2008, Binge Gamer's James Walker takes a look at the best (and worst) games from the year of the GameCube, 2002.

2002 was one of those years that is hard to classify. At the time there were very few "wow" games (as opposed to "WoW games"), but when you look back you find that some of the most influential games of the past decade were released in 2002. But before we get to all that, let's step in the way-back machine (© Binge Gamer 2008) and look at the year that was 2002.

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