2007 saw many new installments in established video game franchises, such as ''
Madden NFL 08'', ''
NBA Live 08'', ''
NBA 2K8'', ''
Tony Hawk's Proving Ground'', ''
WWE Smackdown vs. Raw 2008'', ''
Super Mario Galaxy'', ''
Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare'', ''
Halo 3'', ''
God of War II'', ''
Team Fortress 2'', ''
Metroid Prime 3: Corruption'', ''
Final Fantasy Tactics: War of the Lions'', ''
Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock'', ''
Half-Life 2: Episode Two'', and ''
Lego Star Wars: The Complete Saga''. New
intellectual properties included ''
Assassin's Creed
''Assassin's Creed'' is a historical fiction, historical action-adventure video game series and media franchise published by Ubisoft and developed mainly by its studio Ubisoft Montreal using the game engine Anvil (game engine), Anvil and its m ...
'', ''
BioShock'', ''
Crackdown'', ''
Crysis'', ''
Mass Effect'', ''
Portal'', ''
Rock Band
''Rock Band'' is a series of rhythm games first released in 2007 and developed by Harmonix. Based on their previous development work from the Guitar Hero, ''Guitar Hero'' series, the main ''Rock Band'' games have players use game controllers mod ...
'', ''
Skate'', ''
The Darkness'', ''
The Witcher'', and ''
Uncharted''.
The year has been retrospectively considered one of the best and most influential in video game history due to the release of numerous critically acclaimed, commercially successful and influential titles across all platforms and genres at the time and remarked the birth of new video game franchises. The year's best-selling video game console was the
Nintendo DS
The is a foldable handheld game console produced by Nintendo, released globally across 2004 and 2005. The DS, an initialism for "Developers' System" or "Dual Screen", introduced distinctive new features to handheld games: two LCD screens worki ...
. The year's most critically acclaimed title was ''
Super Mario Galaxy'', which is ranked
Metacritic
Metacritic is an American website that aggregates reviews of films, television shows, music albums, video games, and formerly books. For each product, the scores from each review are averaged (a weighted average). Metacritic was created ...
's fifth highest-scoring game of all time. The year's best-selling home video game worldwide was ''
Wii Sports'' for the
Wii, and other critically acclaimed titles such as ''
BioShock'', ''
The Orange Box'', ''
Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare'' and ''
Halo 3''.
Major awards
Events
Hardware and software sales
Worldwide
The following are the best-selling games of 2007 in terms of worldwide retail sales.
Europe
*Based on estimates from
Electronic Arts
Electronic Arts Inc. (EA) is an American video game company headquartered in Redwood City, California. Founded in May 1982 by former Apple Inc., Apple employee Trip Hawkins, the company was a pioneer of the early home computer game industry ...
:
Video game console sales of 2007 in Europe
Japan
*Based on figures from
Enterbrain:
Video game console sales of 2007 in Japan
Best-selling video games of 2007 in Japan
North America
*Based on figures from the NPD Group via
IGN;
[ the games' publishers are listed in brackets:
Best-selling video games of 2007 in North America (by platform)
]
United Kingdom
*Based on figures from Chart-Track:
Best-selling video games of 2007 in the UK
Best-selling video games of 2007 in the UK (by platform)
The games' publishers are listed in brackets:
United States
*Based on figures from the NPD Group:
Video game console sales of 2007 in the US
Critically acclaimed titles
Metacritic
Metacritic is an American website that aggregates reviews of films, television shows, music albums, video games, and formerly books. For each product, the scores from each review are averaged (a weighted average). Metacritic was created ...
(MC) and GameRankings (GR) are aggregators of video game journalism reviews.
Business
Hardware releases
Game releases
Video game-based film and television releases
See also
* 2007 in esports
* 2007 in games
Notes
References
{{History of video games
Video games by year