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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. Feel free to try Riftwar... by inkless1 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I've made a UT2003 mod called Riftwar, which one 1st place in phase one of Epic's contest for Best Gametype.

    The latest version, which was entered into phase two of the contest, does something different from most FPS mods. The game itself is tracking the state of a war between three armies (Humans, Undead and Aliens) over the course of the maps/games that are played. You can see the state of the war, which consists of trying to win the capitol maps of three worlds, at a web site, for instance:

    http://inkless.com/edfcentral/

    Sadly, with a waning UT2003 online crowd it's hard to find more than a couple of people on the server and the mod is really designed for teams to be beating the server, trying to win back worlds from each other. Still, if you want something a bit different:

    http://inkless.com/riftwar/