The most interesting games released in 2001

Strategy 28 March 2001

An unusual strategy game with RPG features, developed by the British Lionhead Studios under the lead of a legendary developer, Peter Molyneux. Black & White takes us to the world of Eden, where a long-standing harmony and balance between the humans and the nature is disrupted by the appearance of many deities, whose untamed craving for power leads to countless conflicts and wars.

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Strategy 19 September 2001

Rails Across America is an economic strategy addressed to railway enthusiasts, allowing the player to take on the role of railway company manager. His responsibilities include, among other things, design and construction of new connections, financing of research work and concern for the financial condition of the company. Developers from the Flying Lab Software studio have taken care of the complexity of social and economic dependency mechanisms in the game.

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Strategy 13 July 2001

A real-time strategy set in the Star Trek futuristic star series, which tells the story of eight great galactic empires fighting with extremely strong pirate cartels.

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RPG 15 June 2001

The Action-RPG genre is associated as a game in which a lot of fantasy is fought (most often in the fantasy world) while collecting a lot of items, finding and buying equally huge amounts of weapons. This is no different in the case of this title.

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Racing 05 February 2001

A racing game that tries to reflect the realities of competition behind the wheel of sports cars. The production includes several licensed cars, as well as several different modes of play.

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Racing 02 November 2001

Racing production with official Lotus license. In the game we sit behind the wheel of thirty-eight famous British supercars, which compete on a dozen or so tracks, among which there is no shortage of even a test track of the above mentioned automotive company.

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Arcade 15 July 2001

A very pleasant platform game created with the use of nice two-dimensional drawing graphics, designed for the youngest players.

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Simulation 18 April 2001

Free space simulator designed for team play on the Internet, allowing you to compete in three game modes with one of thirteen different cosmolots.

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Racing 01 September 2001

Simulation of the murderous Paris-Dakar Rally through dangerous and trapped areas of North Africa. The player has to cover twelve twenty-five-kilometre sections, although at the same time the authors allowed a lot of freedom in choosing the route. The creators provided seven cars, six buggies and the same number of motorcycles.

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Strategy 02 October 2001

Take control of the development of the big lunar city, take care of the proper development of industry, trade and the entire economic infrastructure. Make sure that citizens are proud of where they live and smile to enrich the city's budget.

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Racing 14 November 2001

A typical example of a low-budget race in which the player sits behind the wheel of one of the title monster trucks, i.e. vehicles on giant wheels. It is worth mentioning that this is a fully-fledged dexterity game, in which particular emphasis is placed on uncomplicated play.

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Sports 27 May 2001

A game about the most popular sport of the old continent, i.e. football, in which we have the opportunity to participate in the struggles of sixteen best European league teams in the prestigious Champions League.

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Party 20 September 2001

Interactive graphic program for children with Pokemons in the lead role. It allows younger players to create nice pictures of Nintendo's pets. With the help of a simple interface they design tattoos, stickers, postcards, stationery, banners and many other useful things.

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Racing 20 March 2001

Crazy races, where at the start there are ten incredibly fancy and ridiculous creatures, each of which wants to win at any price.

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Adventure 12 November 2001

The latest issue (subtitled Treasures of Knowledge) of the legendary series entitled Where in The World is Carmen by Sandhi? by Broderbund, a company specializing in educational programs and games for children.

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RPG 30 October 2001

A game combining elements of cRPG and real time strategy, set in fantastic realities. It captivates with the size of the presented world, the number of development options and the possibilities of tactical fighting.

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Strategy 01 June 2001

Heroes Chronicles: The Sword of Frost is the eighth and final game in the Heroes of Might and Magic spin-off miniseries, based on the mechanics from the fan favourite - the third installment of the main series. Gelu, the wielder of the Armageddon's Blade, sets out to destroy The Sword of Frost, which can lead to the end of the world. Tarnum's task is to stop him. By kidnapping the dwarven captain of Gelu's army, he manages to defeat the Blade's wielder.

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Party 14 November 2001

Fuzion Frenzy is a multiplayer game, ideal for a party, in the style of the famous Mario Party or Sonic Shuffle, in which up to four players can take part simultaneously. Naturally, if we don't have a living person willing to help, it will be a pleasure to do it with quite advanced Artificial Intelligence.

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Puzzle 20 October 2001

A logic and film game in which players have to repair damaged railway routes and safely lead a miniature train from the starting point to the end point.

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Adventure 04 November 2001

Jazz and Faust is a classic adventure game, for which the Saturn Plus development team is responsible. The story depicts the fate of two young men who travel through the lands of the ancient East. The creators have prepared 70 locations, in which 175 puzzles await players to solve.

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Racing 30 June 2001

Improved version of the well-known speedway simulator allowing you to take part in exciting races on the famous World Championship classification tracks.

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Action 27 November 2001

Not too complicated action game, in which we observe the events from the perspective of a third person. We play the role of the title dragon and set off to fight hostile orcs. A dozen or so different missions to complete.

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RPG 27 June 2001

Another project of Ion Storm, the creators of the critically acclaimed Daikatana and the magnificent Deus Ex. It is a production for the RPG genre taking place in the distant future. Despite the American production team, the whole gameplay mechanism resembles Japanese games of this genre rather than their western counterparts.

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Strategy 20 November 2001

Unusual turquoise in which elements of strategy, cRPG and cards were combined. The game is divided into two main parts: the first strategic one, in which we move troops all over the map, discover new territories and manage castles, and the second part, the so-called battle, where we directly command the actions of our troops and heroes in combat.

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Strategy 21 March 2001

A futuristic RTS taking place in the 21st century, when the Earth, depleted from natural resources, sends two different expeditions to the rich Titan deposits. Different factions of the earth, genetically modified people and mechanical cyborgs, are beginning to fight for the right to Saturn's moon.

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Strategy 27 May 2001

RIM: Battle Planets is a strategy that takes players to a distant future when a great galactic armed conflict breaks out between six different races. We will play the role of commander of the earthly armed forces and we must lead our forces to victory.

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Action 11 September 2001

Batman's latest adaptation of his adventures, based on a series of films rather than comic stories, in which the hero and defender of Gotham City becomes the target of another dark conspiracy.

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Adventure 28 September 2001

Silent Hill 2 is a continuation of the action adventure game in the survival-horror convention, released in 1999. The game was produced by Konami development studio. The main character is James Sunderland, who unexpectedly receives a letter from his former beloved asking him to meet in the title town. Due to the very dark climate and terrifying scenes, the title is addressed to audiences over 16 years old.

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Strategy 15 June 2001

This is a very interesting strategy game by Altar Interactive, which, thanks to a skillful combination of RTS and cRPG game elements, definitely stands out from competitive productions.

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Action 22 March 2001

Serious Sam: The First Encounter is a crazy first person view shooter produced by Croteam's Croatian studio. The main hero of the game is a soldier of special units, who thanks to the technology called Timelock has a chance to move into the times of ancient Egypt and kill evil, which in the future may destroy all mankind.

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Strategy 17 October 2001

The official expansion to Command & Conquer 2: Red Alert 2, the renowned RTS released in 2000 by the Westwood Studios company. The expansion pack, titled Yuri’s Revenge, expands the storyline of the vanilla version by adding an additional plot thread, in which Yuri – the advisor of the main antagonist of Red Alert 2 – is the lead character.

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Strategy 18 October 2001

A medieval strategy which combines, in a rather unusual way, a castle builder simulator with a Settlers-like economic game. The player assumes the role of one of medieval lords whose task is to transform a small settlement into a powerful and well fortified stronghold and then protect it from the invaders. The castle can constructed by using various premade elements such as walls, towers, bridges or moats.

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Strategy 31 October 2001

The third full-fledged installment of the popular series of turn-based strategy games. The Firaxis Games studio, founded by Sid Meier after leaving Microprose, is responsible for its creation. As in the previous iterations of the cycle, in Civilization III we take the wheel as the leader of a selected civilization, and our task is to guide it through the subsequent eras of development, from 4000 BC to the present day. Our duties include e.g.

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RPG 15 March 2001

A fantasy action RPG developed by a debuting Piranha Bytes studio, founded by ex-employees of Greenwood Entertainment, a company that prospered in the 1990s. You take on a role of a nameless hero, who, with a group of others, gets incarcerated in a penal colony on Khorinis island. As it turns out, he is not a mere criminal, but a champion of gods who aim to clear the realm of evil forces lead by a mighty demon called The Sleeper.

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Action 26 July 2001

Max Payne is a third-person perspective action game developed by the Finnish studio Remedy Entertainment. The protagonist is an undercover DEA agent whose task is to locate the source of Valkyr - a deadly new drug. Personally, Max is also seeking revenge against the murderers of his family. He falls victim to a conspiracy and gets accused of killing his supervisor. The creators were inspired by the crime stories from the 1940s and 1950s, Pulp novels, and the movie, The Matrix.

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Action 23 October 2001

Another installment in the controversial series of action games started in 1997. Grand Theft Auto III was developed by the authors of the original game, the DMA Design studio, this time under the wings of Rockstar. The third entry revolutionized the series by unleashing the players into an open, fully three-dimensional world brimming with virtual life. This was possible thanks to the RenderWare technology. The game takes place in Liberty City, a virtual adaptation of New York.

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