Simultaneously the greatest and most painful thing you're ever likely to hear is two friends attempting to harmonize to songs they think they know. Nothing beat stompin' monsters with friends. The result? Well, throw the game in and see for yourself. Because everything in Snowblind's engine was tile-based (meaning they could use little bits and pieces of high-res artwork rather than trying to model everything wholesale from polygons), the worlds could not only deliver the kind of detail that you'd normally equate with more advanced Xbox techniques like bump mapping, but everything was rendered at a resolution higher than the normal PS2 output and then scaled down. The key was using a technique called supersampling. Plus, it sports not only local co-op, but online, too, and some of the prettiest graphics you're ever likely to see pumping out of a standard def TV. Sure, we've already got their Baldur's Gate dungeon crawler on our list, but Champions of Norrath is the culmination of those original concepts. When looking for games that have hit since our original feature was whipped up, almost instantly Snowblind Studios' take on Sony's own EverQuest world came to mind.

See it on Amazon / See it on Amazon (UK).

Champions of Norrath: Realms of EverQuest

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