We didn't want to influence your votes, so we allowed you to decide which games you felt were the best in each category, as opposed to limiting your choices by just giving you a few to select from (as some sites and magazines are prone to do). This seems to have given us a very accurate look at which games the gameplayers thought were really the best! The votes are categorized by genre and each game is shown with the percentage of votes you cast.
ACTION
1 Jedi Knight 31% 2 Quake 2 25% 3 Tomb Raider 2 20% 4 I-76 10% 5 GoldenEye 8% 6 MDK 6%
ADVENTURE
1 Curse of Monkey Island 31% 2 Blade Runner 19% 3 Callahans 13% 3 Zork, The Grand Inq. 13% 4 Riven 6% 4 Lands Of Lore 6%
FLIGHT SIMS
1 Longbow 2 24% 2 Microsoft FSM 98 12% 2 FA/18 Hornet Korea 12% 3 Red Baron 2 8% 3 Flight Unlimited 2 8% 4 Wing Commander Prophecy 7% 5 Warbirds 5% 6 Flying Corps Gold 4% 7 EF 2000 2.0 4%
RACING
1 F1RS 32% 2 Nascar Racing 2 18% 3 NFS2SE 14% 4 Motoracer 10% 5 Pod 9% 6 Xcar 5%
STRATEGY-Turn based
1 HOMM2 22% 2 CIV 2 17% 3 XCOM 3 11% 4 Incubation 10% 5 Magic The Gathering 6% 5 Panzer General 2 6% 5 Civ War Gen 2 6%
STRATEGY-real-time
1 Age Of Empires 33% 2 Total Annhilation 29% 3 Dungeon Keeper 9% 4 Dark Reign 7% 5 Myth 4% 6 7 Kingdoms 4%
RPG's
1 Fallout 62% 2 Diablo 19% 3 Shadows Over Riva 6% 4 Daggerfall 3%
SPORTS
1 NBA LIVE 98 31% 2 FIFA 98 23% 3 FIFA 97 14% 4 Madden 98 8% 5 Jack Nicklaus 5 6% 5 LINKS 98 6%
So, by now you must be wondering which game was the gamers' favorite of 1997? Go here
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