Morrowind climbs into second

In its first full week of release, Bethesda's ambitious fantasy role-playing game The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind jumped up to second place on NPD Techworld's latest weekly list of best-selling PC games. The game trailed Electronic Arts' virtual-life game expansion The Sims: Vacation, which remained in first place for the seventh week in a row. Dungeon Siege, Microsoft's fast-paced role-playing game, dropped one place to third, followed by Star Wars Jedi Knight II: Jedi Outcast, LucasArts' sci-fi action game, in fourth place. The best-selling PC game of all time, The Sims, slipped to fifth place from third place the week before.

The Sims: Vacation also topped NPD's list of best-selling PC games for the month of April. Dungeon Siege came in second place, followed by The Sims and Jedi Knight II in third and fourth, respectively. Medal of Honor: Allied Assault, EA's World War II first-person action game, came in fifth place for the month.

The lists below rank games according to number of retail sales. To see a list of PC games ranked according to GameSpot review score, take a look at our Top Games page.

Best-selling PC games for the week of May 5-11, 2002:

Rank / Title / Publisher / Average Price
1 / The Sims: Vacation / Electronic Arts / $30
2 / The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind / Bethesda / $46
3 / Dungeon Siege / Microsoft / $41
4 / Star Wars Jedi Knight II: Jedi Outcast / LucasArts / $48
5 / The Sims / Electronic Arts / $43
6 / Spider-Man: The Movie / Activision / $22
7 / Medal of Honor: Allied Assault / Electronic Arts / $46
8 / The Sims: Hot Date / Electronic Arts / $30
9 / RollerCoaster Tycoon / Infogrames / $21
10 / Starcraft: Battle Chest / Vivendi Universal / $21

Best-selling PC games for the month of April 2002:

Rank This Month / Rank Last Month / Title / Publisher / Average Price
1 / 1 / The Sims: Vacation / Electronic Arts / $29
2 / 8 / Dungeon Siege / Microsoft / $42
3 / 2 / The Sims / Electronic Arts / $42
4 / 4 / Star Wars Jedi Knight II: Jedi Outcast / LucasArts / $47
5 / 3 / Medal of Honor: Allied Assault / Electronic Arts / $45
6 / 5 / The Sims: Hot Date / Electronic Arts / $28
7 / 6 / Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone / Electronic Arts / $28
8 / 10 / The Sims: Livin' Large / Electronic Arts / $28
9 / 13 / Heroes of Might and Magic IV / 3DO / $43
10 / 9 / RollerCoaster Tycoon / Infogrames / $21
11 / * / The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind / Bethesda / $49
12 / 12 / Starcraft: Battle Chest / Vivendi Universal / $21
13 / 11 / Zoo Tycoon / Microsoft / $27
14 / * / Freedom Force / Electronic Arts and Crave / $39
15 / 16 / Diablo II: Lord of Destruction / Vivendi Universal / $31
16 / 14 / The Sims: House Party / Electronic Arts / $29
17 / * / SimTheme Park / Electronic Arts / $17
18 / * / Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon: Desert Siege / Ubi Soft / $20
19 / 18 / Civilization III / Infogrames / $47
20 / * / Age of Empires II: The Age of Kings / Microsoft / $30

An asterisk indicates that the game did not appear on the previous month's list of best-selling PC games.