Online: Gaming's best bets?: What were the games of 2000? Steven Poole keeps the score

• Published in: The Guardian (London)
• Main Author: Steven Poole Greg Howson Andy Bodle Jack Schofield
• Format: Newspaper Article
• Language: English
• Published: London (UK) Guardian News & Media Limited 21.12.2000
• Subjects: Computer & video games; Year in review

It was also the year that saw much-hyped games failing to deliver on their promises. Jon Romero's Daikatana (PC) turned out to be a fat, stinking dog, while the laudably creative ideas in Shiny's Messiah (PC) or Sega's Shenmue (DC) never gelled into outstanding games. Shenmue (the gam...