Destination: 2003 | the year of Call of Duty, Enter the Matrix, Max Payne 2: The Fall of Max Payne, Need for Speed: Underground, Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic, Tron 2.0
Travel time: July-August 2022
Travel guide: link
Other travels: 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002

List of Games:
• Age of Mythology: The Titans
• American Conquest: Fight Back
• Beyond Good & Evil
• Big Rigs: Over the Road Racing
• Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Chaos Bleeds
• Call of Duty
• Castlevania: Aria of Sorrow
• Commandos 3: Destination Berlin
• Command & Conquer: Generals
• Contract J.A.C.K.
• Def Jam Vendetta
• Deus Ex: Invisible War
• Devil May Cry 2
• Enter the Matrix
• EVE Online
• F-Zero GX
• Fatal Frame II
• Final Fantasy X-2
• Finding Nemo
• Fire Emblem: The Blazing Blade
• Freedom Fighters
• Freelancer
• Gothic II: Night of the Raven
• Homeworld 2
• Hulk
• IGI 2: Covert Strike
• Impossible Creatures
• Indiana Jones and the Emperor's Tomb
• Jak II: Renegade
• James Bond 007: Everything or Nothing
• Jurassic Park: Operation Genesis
• Kao the Kangaroo: Round 2
• Legacy of Kain: Defiance
• Lionheart: Legacy of the Crusader
• Madden NFL 2004
• Manhunt
• Mario Kart: Double Dash
• Master of Orion 3
• Max Payne 2: The Fall of Max Payne
• Need for Speed: Underground
• Nosferatu: Wrath of Malachi
• Pirates of the Caribbean
• Postal 2
• Praetorians
• Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time
• Ratchet & Clank: Going Commando
• Rayman 3: Hoodlum Havoc
• Rise of Nations
• Shin Megami Tensei III: Nocturne
• Silent Hill 3
• SimCity 4
• Sonic Heroes
• SpellForce: The Order of Dawn
• SpongeBob SquarePants: Battle for Bikini Bottom
• SSX 3
• Star Trek: Elite Force II
• Star Wars: Jedi Knight - Jedi Academy
• Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic
• Tales of Symphonia
• Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines
• The Hobbit
• The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
• The Simpsons Hit & Run
• The Sims Superstar
• The Temple of Elemental Evil
• Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six 3: Raven Shield
• Tony Hawk's Underground
• Tron 2.0
• True Crime: Streets of LA
• Vietcong
• Viewtiful Joe
• Warcraft III: The Frozen Throne
• WWE SmackDown! Here Comes the Pain
• XIII
• Zuma

Time travellers:
- PaterAlf (☆ Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time)
- Suicide_Angel (☆ Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time, ☆ Deus Ex: Invisible War, ☆ Silent Hill 3)
- bluethief (★ Deus Ex: Invisible War)
- InkPanther (★ Freedom Fighters, ★ Freelancer, ★ Star Wars: Jedi Knight - Jedi Academy)
- ciemnogrodzianin(☆ Nosferatu: Wrath of Malachi)
- .Keys (★ Beyond Good & Evil, ★ Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time)

☆ – games played / declared to be played
★ – games completed

As per usual, any help with adding missing titles and removing those belonging to other years is greatly appreciated.

2003 also saw the release of two mythical RTS titles: Age of Mythology: The Titans (expansion) and Rise of Nations. I wish they were on GOG.

Another year, cheers!


Here are some possible additions, sorry for the messy list :P

https://www.gog.com/game/beyond_good_and_evil
https://www.gog.com/game/star_trek_elite_force_ii
SpellForce: The Order of Dawn - part of https://www.gog.com/game/spellforce_platinum
Kao the Kangaroo: Round 2 - part of https://www.gog.com/game/kao_the_kangaroo_trilogy
Gothic II: Night of the Raven - part of https://www.gog.com/game/gothic_2_gold_edition
https://www.gog.com/game/nosferatu_wrath_of_malachi
Commandos 3: Destination Berlin - part of https://www.gog.com/game/commandos_2_3
EVE Online
Homeworld 2 - part of https://www.gog.com/game/homeworld_remastered_collection
https://www.gog.com/en/game/lionheart_legacy_of_the_crusader
https://www.gog.com/en/game/the_temple_of_elemental_evil
https://www.gog.com/en/game/master_of_orion_3
https://www.gog.com/en/game/praetorians
https://www.gog.com/en/game/impossible_creatures
Zuma

Yay, another time travel!

Not many games this year. One of the few I've played is Need for Speed: Underground. Great racing game, one of my favourites on the PS2.

The one that I will play this month is Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time. It was on my list for quite some time and it doesn't seem to time consuming.

Hello. Here's a few more notable releases:

- Big Rigs: Over the Road Racing. This is a legendarily bad game, up there with Superman 64.
- Castlevania: Aria of Sorrow. One of the biggest fan favourites in the Castlevania series.
- Fatal Frame II/Project Zero II. I mentioned the first game in the last thread, but this one actually did come out in 2003. Again, it's the fan favourite.
- Fire Emblem: The Blazing Blade. The first FE game to get a western release.
- Ikaruga. Very popular shmup. (Edit: Oops, I'm dumb. The Gamecube version was 2003, but that wasn't the original release).
- A few more games which do have releases here: Indiana Jones and the Emperor's Tomb, Master of Orion 3 and Rayman 3.
- Shin Megami Tensei III: Nocturne. Another popular one which got a remaster recently.

I'm also gonna play The Sands of Time. Published by Ubisoft, just like Splinter Cell, coincidentally. I was really busy in early June and since then I've mostly been in the mood for familiarity, so I've been replaying a lot of games. I could see myself replaying Deus Ex: Invisible War (which I actually like) and Silent Hill 3.

Time is running too fast! :)

American Conquest Fight Back
Contract J.A.C.K
Vietcong
Spellforce : The Order of Dawn

It does not count for this Travel, but I've played and dropped the game in May.
I do not understand all the people who like it – it's a primitive, pathetic game with a very poor gameplay.

Thank you ConsulCaesar, InkPanther, Suicide_Angel and MaxFulvus for mentioning all those games I missed :)

Rainbow Six : Ravenshield
The original version had a subtle but meaningful difference between silenced guns.

I found some demos but haven't tested them.
https://www.fileplanet.com/archive/p-1211/Tom-Clancy-s-Rainbow-Six-Raven-Shield-Single-Player-Demo
https://www.fileplanet.com/archive/p-30237/Tom-Clancy-s-Rainbow-Six-Raven-Shield-Multiplayer-Demo-v1-1-Updated

I have great memories of that game. Was on High School when it came out and remember the talks with my friends: "What car you're driving?", "What upgrades have you put on'", "Did you beat that race with 8 laps already?". Fun times. It's a short game and a great one too. I hope you like it, and if you do be sure to also check Warrior Within and The Two Thrones next!

That time when Ubisoft were actually original and their games were not an open-world fest.

I'm playing Deus Ex: GOTY Edition right now and I'm planning on playing Invisible War next.

That's what I'm planning to do as well. I'll probably play Human Revolution as well. Deus Ex is one of my favourite game franchises.

Added, thank you :)

I loved Human Revolutions and Mankind Divided. But since I had never played 1 and Invisible War, I'm making up for it now.

Hopefully, now with the franchise on the hands of Embracer they can make the sequel to Mankind Divided, alongside more games in the series.