IGN Announces Best of 2003; LucasArts' ''Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic'' Wins Overall Game of the Year.Entertainment Editors SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 16, 2004 IGN IGN Ignored (Status) IGN Institut Geographique National IGN Ignition IGN Instituto Geografico Nacional (Spain) IGN Imagine Games Network IGN In-Game Name (gaming) Entertainment -- home to IGN.com(R), the web's largest information and entertainment destination for gamers -- today announced their choice for the Overall Best Game of 2003. In addition IGN showcases the very best 2003 had to offer for each gaming platform, DVDs, Gear, and other categories such as the biggest surprise of the year, what game had the best sound as well as the best game no one played. After reviewing almost a thousand games across nine different gaming platforms in 2003, IGN's editors locked themselves into a room and picked a single overall winner for Overall Best Game of the Year. The honor, this time, goes to "Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic" from LucasArts, released for Xbox and PC. "Developer Bioware has crafted a wonderfully immersive roleplaying experience, set 4,000 years before the events in the first Star Wars film," said Peer Schneider Peer Schneider (born 1971-04-09) is the current Vice-President of Content Publishing at IGN Entertainment. He oversees all of the network's editorial content, including that of IGN, GameSpy, TeamXbox, and Rotten Tomatoes. Peer is best known for running N64. , IGN Network Director. "Besides the great attention to detail, the expansive worlds, interesting characters and smart dialogue, KOTOR Kotor (kô`tôr), Ital. Cattaro, town (1991 pop. 5,620), SE Montenegro, on the Bay of Kotor, an inlet of the Adriatic. It is a seaport and a tourist center. The town was colonized by Greeks (3d cent. B.C. amazed a·maze v. a·mazed, a·maz·ing, a·maz·es v.tr. 1. To affect with great wonder; astonish. See Synonyms at surprise. 2. Obsolete To bewilder; perplex. v.intr. us with a sense of freedom seldom experienced in videogames. By letting players choose right from wrong on their own and explore every nook and cranny Noun 1. nook and cranny - something remote; "he explored every nook and cranny of science" nooks and crannies detail, item, point - an isolated fact that is considered separately from the whole; "several of the details are similar"; "a point of information" of the Star Wars universe at their own leisure, Knights of the Old Republic has perfectly brought the franchise into the RPG (Report Program Generator) One of the first program generators designed for business reports, introduced in 1964 by IBM. In 1970, RPG II added enhancements that made it a mainstay programming language for business applications on IBM's System/3x midrange computers. realm."
The best games of 2003 for Game Boy Advance, GameCube, PC,
PlayStation 2, and Xbox:
Platform Game Publisher Rating
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GBA Wario Ware, Inc Nintendo Everyone
GC Viewtiful Joe Capcom Teen
PC Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic LucasArts Teen
PS2 Ratchet and Clank Going Commando Sony Teen
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Xbox Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic LucasArts Teen
Other "best of" categories include the best cyber athlete of the year Athlete of the Year
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