2007 saw many new installments in established video game franchises, such as ''
Madden NFL 08'', ''
NBA Live 08
''NBA Live 08'' is the 2007 installment of the ''NBA Live'' series by EA Sports. It was released for the PlayStation 2, Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, Wii, Windows and PlayStation Portable. This is the first ''NBA'' video game to include all three ne ...
'', ''
NBA 2K8'', ''
Tony Hawk's Proving Ground
''Tony Hawk's Proving Ground'' is a 2007 skateboarding video game developed by Neversoft for the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360, Vicarious Visions for the Nintendo DS, and by Page 44 Studios for the PlayStation 2 and Wii. ''Proving Ground'' is the ...
'', ''
WWE Smackdown vs. Raw 2008'', ''
Super Mario Galaxy
is a 2007 platform game developed and published by Nintendo for the Wii. It is the third 3D platformer game in the ''Super Mario'' series. As Mario, the player embarks on a quest to rescue Princess Peach and save the universe from Bowser, af ...
'', ''
Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare'', ''
Halo 3'', ''
God of War II'', ''
Team Fortress 2
''Team Fortress 2'' (''TF2'') is a Multiplayer video game, multiplayer first-person shooter game developed and published by Valve Corporation in 2007. It is the sequel to the 1996 ''Team Fortress'' Mod (video gaming), mod for ''Quake (video g ...
'', ''
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
''BioShock'' is a 2007 first-person shooter video game developed by 2K Boston (later Irrational Games) and 2K Australia, and published by 2K. The first game in the ''BioShock'' series, it was released for Microsoft Windows and Xbox 360 ...
'', ''
Crackdown'', ''
Crysis
''Crysis'' is a first-person shooter video game series created by Crytek. The series revolves around a group of military protagonists with " nanosuits", technologically advanced suits of armor that give them enhanced physical strength, speed, ...
'', ''
Mass Effect
''Mass Effect'' is a military science fiction media franchise created by Casey Hudson. The franchise depicts a distant future where humanity and several alien civilizations have colonized the galaxy using technology left behind by Elder race, a ...
'', ''
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
''Uncharted'' is an action-adventure video game series and media franchise published by Sony Interactive Entertainment and developed by Naughty Dog. Created by Amy Hennig, the ''Uncharted'' franchise follows a group of treasure hunters who trav ...
''.
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
is a 2007 platform game developed and published by Nintendo for the Wii. It is the third 3D platformer game in the ''Super Mario'' series. As Mario, the player embarks on a quest to rescue Princess Peach and save the universe from Bowser, af ...
'', 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
''BioShock'' is a 2007 first-person shooter video game developed by 2K Boston (later Irrational Games) and 2K Australia, and published by 2K. The first game in the ''BioShock'' series, it was released for Microsoft Windows and Xbox 360 ...
'', ''
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
, formerly , is a Japanese publisher and division of Kadokawa Future Publishing founded on January 30, 1987, as . Magazines published by Enterbrain are generally focused on video games and computer entertainment as well as video game and strate ...
:
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
''IGN'' is an American video gaming and entertainment media website operated by IGN Entertainment Inc., a subsidiary of Ziff Davis, Inc. The company's headquarters is located in San Francisco's SoMa district and is headed by its former e ...
;
[ 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
GameRankings was a video gaming review aggregator that was founded in 1999 and owned by CBS Interactive. It indexed over 315,000 articles relating to more than 14,500 video games. GameRankings was discontinued in December 2019, with its staff bei ...
(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