Halo debuts on multiplayer popularity chart

Half-Life: Counter-Strike predictably retained the top slot in iGames' monthly chart of the most popular multiplayer games, and the games at positions two through four also retained their spots. It's all change lower down in the chart, though, with new entries Neverwinter Nights, Half-Life: Day of Defeat, Soldier of Fortune II, and Halo causing a real shake-up. Games dropping toward the bottom of the chart this month included Battle Realms, Quake III, and Dungeon Siege, while Serious Sam: The Second Encounter, Empire Earth, Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon, Aliens Versus Predator 2, and Age of Empires II slipped out of the top 20 altogether.

Top 20 multiplayer games for June 2002:

Rank June 2002 / Rank May 2002 / Title
1 / 1 / Half-Life: Counter-Strike
2 / 2 / Medal of Honor: Allied Assault
3 / 3 / Diablo II
4 / 4 / Star Wars Jedi Knight II: Jedi Outcast
5 / 10 / Starcraft
6 / 12 / Dark Age of Camelot
7 / 11 / Unreal
8 / 5 / EverQuest
9 / 7 / Command & Conquer Renegade
10 / * / Neverwinter Nights
11 / * / Half-Life: Day of Defeat
12 / * / Soldier of Fortune II
13 / 6 / Dungeon Siege
14 / 19 / Star Wars Galactic Battlegrounds
15 / 20 / Return to Castle Wolfenstein
16 / * / Halo (Xbox)
17 / 18 / Command & Conquer Red Alert 2
18 / 13 / Quake III
19 / * / Global Operations
20 / 14 / Battle Realms

The list above ranks games according to popularity at more than 150 game centers across North America. To see a list of games ranked by GameSpot review score, take a look at our 6013054Top Games page .