The 6 Best Video Games Released Since 2000, Ranked

In the year 2000, video gaming at large was still considered a niche interest, though the needle was beginning to move with Sony’s launch of the PlayStation 2, Nintendo’s growing dominion over handheld gaming devices, and the release of such titles as The Sims and Diablo II marking just some of the gaming milestones of the year. Needless to say, the 21st century has been a time of drastic evolution for the medium, not only in the dramatic advancement of technology, but in the popularization of online gaming, the depth and richness of the format’s storytelling experiences, and in the growing cultural significance of gaming as a prestige form of entertainment as well.