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Best Original Games of 2003?

Posted by michael on from the imitation-is-the-sincerest-form-of-copying dept.

PapaZit writes "It seems like most of the games that I purchase these days are sequels: GTA3 and Vice City , Zelda: Wind Waker, even Knights of the Old Republic and Galaxies built on the Star Wars franchise. What are the best original (not a sequel or franchise) games that you've played this year?"

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  1. Galactic Civilizations by vjmurphy · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Great game, killer AI, and massive support from the publishers. Never had this much fun with turn-based strategy games since Alpha Centauri.

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    Vincent J. Murphy
    Spandex Justice
  2. Re:Best game this year? by AnriL · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Absolutely! And aside from being an innovative concept in gaming AND a completely new approach to human input to games, it is an astonishing technology demo which works fantastically well. For those who have not seen it, it's not just that the camera recognizes motion on the screen in real time in wildly varying lighting conditions and uses it as input for boxing, keeping up a football in the air with your head, popping baloons, etc - the whole input system is camera based. When in the menus, the screen has several hot-spots (Select, Cancel, etc) and you just wiggle your fingers at the hot-spot for a second and the system will take your hint and accept it as input.

    In any way, kudos to Sony R&D for putting lots of cool technology to a very practical use. I'm still amazed at how flawlessly the system works in less than ideal lighting.