The Best and Worst of 2002

Out with the old and in with the new!

It's time once again to ring out the old year and bring in a new one. 2002 was a relatively quiet year when it came to PC and gaming events. Intel reasserted itself after AMD made gains in 2001, the consoles continued to fight it out amongst themselves (and the PC didn't die as a result), Duke Nukem still wasn't released, and the RIAA continued its valiant fight against a business model that reflects technological advances. One of the few surprises of the year was the lack of a response from NVIDIA to ATi's Radeon 9700 Pro challenge. We're still awaiting hardware that will either restore NVIDIA to the GPU throne or cede the DirectX 9 round to ATi.

The staff of B3D put together our annual list of the Best and Worst of the year. In discussing our lists, our voting pretty much reflected the lack of radical news during the year. In many cases it was really difficult to name a Best or a Worst, and there is no Average category! Regardless, here's the categories, our votes, and an attempt to sum up the impact of 2002 on life, the universe, and everything..

• Game of the Year
  • Genre-specific
• Worst Or Most Disappointing Game of the Year
  • Genre-specific
• Best Hardware of the Year
• Worst Or Most Disappointing Hardware of the Year
• Most Underrated Game of the Year
• Most Anticipated Game(s) of 2003
• Biggest Computing News/Development

Each category is on a separate page so read on and put 2002 to bed!