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Best Role-Playing Game on PC, Nominees

Role-playing games are one of the most prolific, most successful game genres. No other genre lets you get so immersed in a fully realized gameworld. Though online RPGs like EverQuest have carved an entire new genre out of conventional computer role-playing, the traditional single-player RPG remains important and prominent. This year saw the release of numerous outstanding role-playing games, and the following five are the nominees for Best PC RPG of 2002:

Arx Fatalis

Publisher: JoWood Productions
Developer: Arkane Studios
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Arkane Studios intended to pay homage to the classic early-'90s first-person role-playing game Ultima Underworld, but it has done much more than just imitate that game.

Asheron's Call 2: Fallen Kings

Publisher: Microsoft
Developer: Turbine Entertainment
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Asheron's Call 2 is a highly streamlined, highly accessible online RPG.

Divine Divinity

Publisher: CDV Software GmbH
Developer: Larian Studios
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There's much more to Divine Divinity than its impressive graphics and music and its combination of hack-and-slash action and pure role-playing, and that says a lot for the game.

The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind

Publisher: Bethesda Softworks
Developer: Bethesda Softworks
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It's a beautiful, sprawling, and open-ended game that lets you play pretty much however you like as long as you're willing to fill in a few blanks using your imagination.

Neverwinter Nights

Publisher: Atari Games
Developer: BioWare
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