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December 2002 Charts
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Here's the first Chrimbo Top 30 Mac Games Chart. Surprise, surprise but The Sims take the top three spots! The first ever clean sweep in the five year history of our charts.
Bugdom 2 come a creditable fourth, bouyed by sales as a new release. Old stagers Civ 3 and Age of Empires II showed that class really tells by nearly pinching fourth place themselves! This year's biggest seller, Medal of Honor Allied Assault just pipped new releases Jedi Knight 2 and Ghost Recon for seventh place.
Other noteworthy performances in the games chart came from the excellent Railroad Tycoon 2, Jazz Jack Rabbit 2, Myst 3 Exile and Fly!
Top of the kids' chart was Zoombinis Island Odyssey - a UK exclusive from MacGold Direct. The lovable zoombinis are now into science! we now have three current Zoombinis titles.
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1, The Sims - Unleashed
The next add-on for The Sims. The Sims have pets! Plus there's over 40 new lush areas with new homes, cafes, shops and markets for your Sims to explore! Expand your Sims world with the Unleashed add-on. Click on product title for full description, technical requirements, screenshots, reviews and more.
2, Medal of Honor Allied Assault
Top selling WWII game. 1942-45. Survive the D-Day landings and fight across Europe to the Bridge at Remagen. Even don enemy uniforms to evade capture! Over 20 levels of action using the Quake III engine. Over 20 authentic WWII weapons and 22 different types of enemy from snipers to the Gestapo! Click on product title for full description, technical requirements, screenshots, reviews and more.
3, Age of Empires 2 Gold Edition
Age of Empires II Gold Edition is the sequel to Age of Empires. Includes the Conquerors Expansion pack which was sold separately on the PC. Classic real-time strategy game. Features mediaeval civilisations, troops, technology and warfare. Campaigns and random scenario generator. Different styles of games, including against-the-clock. Excellent graphics. Will keep you engrossed for hundreds of hours. Brilliant and a bargain. Click on product title for full description, technical requirements, screenshots, reviews and more.
4, Tom Clancy Ghost Recon
From the Makers of Rainbow Six and Rogue Spear. Squad-based tactical combat with next-generation military action in stunning 3D environments. Mission-driven storyline with 15 different single player maps (as big as 400m x 400m), and 6 dedicated multiplayer maps. Click on product title for full description, technical requirements, screenshots, reviews and more.
5, Star Wars Jedi Knight 2 Jedi Outcast
The rebel Jedi Kyle Katarn employs a unique mix of weapons, Force powers and a lightsabre in both single and multiplayer modes. Explore breathtaking Star Wars locales, Cloud City, the Jedi Academy on Yavin 4, Nar Shaddaa, the smugglers' moon plus some never before seen locations. Uses Quake III engine. Click on product title for full description, technical requirements, screenshots, reviews and more.
6, Championship Manager 01/02
Top soccer management game, latest version includes updated and expanded database plus database editor. Improved game engine, computer intelligence and commentary. Game diary where you can make notes about players and set reminders. Loads more. Click on product title for full description, technical requirements, screenshots, reviews and more.
7, Black & White Platinum
Black & White plus its add-on Creature Isle, in the same pack! You must use your godly powers to rule over and look after your people. As you do so they pray to you and worship you more and more, and you use this power to carry out Miracles and to extend your influence. Click on product title for full description, technical requirements, screenshots, reviews and more.
8, The Sims
Build, design and furnish dwellings; populate with Sims, guide their careers, help them make friends, and find romance. Fast becoming THE game to have. MacFormat 90%. Click on product title for full description, technical requirements, screenshots, reviews and more.
9, The Sims - Livin Large
This expansion will double your gameplay with new objects, furniture, architecture, custom skins, characters and new jobs. Makes The Sims a much bigger, better game. Far more challenging than just the original game. IMG review score 9/10. Click on product title for full description, technical requirements, screenshots, reviews and more.
10, Civilization 3
The third instalment of Civilization from its creator Sid Meier. Now there are new ways to win, new pathways to explore, strategies to employ and more powerful tools to build and manage. Check out the screen shots... Click on product title for full description, technical requirements, screenshots, reviews and more.
11, Links Championship Edition
The biggest graphics update to Links ever. Create your own courses with the Arnold Palmer course designer. Realistic ball flight physics. Tee-off on 13 of the world's finest championship courses. Play against your friends online. Click on product title for full description, technical requirements, screenshots, reviews and more.
12, Myth 2 Worlds
Myth II: Worlds is a squad-based tactical strategy game delivering an impressive assortment of 3D battlefields created by experts and fans alike in the Myth community! Inside you will find three CD's bursting with total conversions, characters, solo levels, and multiplayer levels, as well as the award winning Myth II: Soulblighter!
13, Payback
If you'd always wondered what it would be like to be a master criminal, then Payback is the game for you! It's entirely non-linear - to complete a level you simply have to obtain a certain number of points - how you get those points is entirely up to you; you can do what the local kingpin tells you, uncover secret missions or just go on a mad killing spree! Click on product title for full description, technical requirements, screenshots, reviews and more.
14, Freedom Force
An evil alien race sets in motion a sinister plan to conquer earth. They unleash a powerful catalyst - Energy X - that imbues the planet's worst miscreants with superpowers to bring the planet to its knees. Now Earth's only hope lies with a new breed of heroes... Freedom Force! Click on product title for full description, technical requirements, screenshots, reviews and more.
15, WarCraft 3 Reign of Chaos
Orcs and Humans are joined by the Night Elves and The Scourge, the army of the Undead in this next instalment of the excellent Warcraft series. Each have distinctive units, magical abilities and weapons of war. New 3D engine. Features Neutral buildings and characters for the first time. Azeroth now also contains legendary Heroes who can collect items and then use them to cast spells. Improved Battle.net features. Click on product title for full description, technical requirements, screenshots, reviews and more.
16, Carmageddon 2 Carpocalypse Now (18)
25 maniac drivers, 36 fully navigable stomach-churning race circuits, 5 race environments. You earn points for speed, racing style and the number of innocent PEDESTRIANS! (Supplied unboxed). Click on product title for full description, technical requirements, screenshots, reviews and more.
17, No One Lives Forever Game of the Year Edition
Spy themed first person shooter, critically acclaimed on other platforms. Take deadly arch enemies with an impressive arsenal of weapons and spy gadgetry. 15 missions over 60 levels. Click on product title for full description, technical requirements, screenshots, reviews and more.
18, Return to Castle Wolfenstein
You are a highly decorated Army Ranger tasked with escaping and then returning to Castle Wolfenstein in an attempt to thwart Heinrich Himmler's occult and genetic experiments. Through genetic engineering and the harnessing of occult powers, Himmler hopes to raise an unstoppable army to level the Allies once and for all. If you played the earlier versions take a look at the screen shots of this one! Click on product title for full description, technical requirements, screenshots, reviews and more.
19, Star Wars Galactic Battlegrounds
Real-time strategy set in the Star Wars universe. Uses the Age of Empires II game engine. Play as either Rebels, Royal Naboo, Gungans, Wookiees, Galactic Empire, or Trade Federation. Each has its own campaign, with up to 7 missions. Over 300 different units and structures. Also single-player campaigns, skirmishes and multiplayer battles. Click on product title for full description, technical requirements, screenshots, reviews and more.
20, Bugdom 2
Bugdom II is, unsurprisingly, the sequel to the outrageously successful family action game, Bugdom. Click on product title for full description, technical requirements, screenshots, reviews and more.
21, Heroes of Might & Magic 4 (Import)
Turn based, fantasy, strategy game. All new game engine. Six new campaigns and 24 scenarios. 48 Hero Classes and all-new skill and magic systems. Click on product title for full description, technical requirements, screenshots, reviews and more.
22, Big Red Box
Compilation of the following Mac games: Tropico, Sheep, Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?, and Championship Manager 01/02. Click on product title for full description, technical requirements, screenshots, reviews and more.
23, Final Doom (15)
After Doom 2 and Ultimate Doom comes Final Doom... It's two 32-level episodes. It's time to finish what you started. 1st person shooter. Click on product title for full description, technical requirements, screenshots, reviews and more.
24, Civilization 2
Great value. Hundreds of hours of challenging play from Sid Meier. Take a civilisation from the Stone Age to the Space Age. MacFormat 92%. Click on product title for full description, technical requirements, screenshots, reviews and more.
25, Fly! 2 (Import)
This game is the sequel to the successful Fly!. It is a very comprehensive civilian flight simulator with a full list of features to satisfy the occasional hedgehopper or the more serious pilot! We recommend that it is run under Mac OS 9 as it's Mac OS X performance leaves something to be desired. Click on product title for full description, technical requirements, screenshots, reviews and more.
26, Crystal Key
Explore stunning 3D lands of desert, jungle, & water. Search breathtaking ruins and caverns for the elusive Crystal Key. Intelligent non-violent graphic puzzle adventure. Click on product title for full description, technical requirements, screenshots, reviews and more.
27, Myst 3 Exile
Features five entirely new Ages for players to explore and hours of new mysteries to uncover, and a new villain of course! A must for all Myst and Riven fans. Click on product title for full description, technical requirements, screenshots, reviews and more.
28, X-Plane 6 (Import)
New version. Requires more powerful Mac. New high resolution scenery. Includes USA, Hawaii and Alaska scenery. Unlike version 5, you must purchase scenery disks for other parts of the world. Over 40 aircraft included. For loads more detail on this game click the title link above to go to the full product description.
29, realMYST
realMYST is the version of Myst that Cyan and the world-famous Miller brothers always wanted to make, but the technology wasn't ready - until now. Experience a fully immersive, dynamic world that you can wander through and with which you can interact. Has an entirely new realm to discover! Click on product title for full description, technical requirements, screenshots, reviews and more.
30, Kick Off 2002
Sold over 3.5 million copies! Fast paced soccer action with over 204 national teams! Skill levels and tons of game attributes can be customised. Move over Actua Soocer on the Mac, there's a new kid on the block. Click on product title for full description, technical requirements, screenshots, reviews and more.
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