Best Games of 2003
Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republicon 4 of 9 rankings2
Max payne 2on 1 of 9 rankings3
Mario Kart: Double Dash!!on 1 of 9 rankings4
SpongeBob SquarePants: Battle for Bikini Bottomon 1 of 9 rankings5
The Simpsons: Hit & Runon 1 of 9 rankings6
Metal Arms: Glitch in the Systemon 1 of 9 rankings7
Silent Hill 3on 1 of 9 rankings8
Tom Clancy's Splinter Cellon 1 of 9 rankings9
Crimson Skies: High Road to Revengeon 1 of 9 rankings10
Need for Speed: Undergroundon 1 of 9 rankings11
Ghost Masteron 1 of 9 rankingsHow this ranking is made
According to Made the Cut's census of 9 independent rankings, recounted 19 October 2026, the best game of 2003 is Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic, followed by Max payne 2 and Mario Kart: Double Dash!!.
How this is counted
This chart counts 9 ranking sources, one voice each: the published ranking of games from that source with the most titles released in 2003, cut down to those titles, in the order that source listed them. A title's place is its average position across all sources counted: a title someone left off their ranking counts as tied with their last place (here, that source ranked titles of this kind and left this one out). A small pull toward the middle keeps one enthusiastic list from crowning a #1. Every title in the computed chart has a numbered position, with its source count shown beside it. It is recounted whenever a ranking is published, changed or removed, last on 19 October 2026. Member rankings and attributed external lists use the same calculation. Multiple lists from one member or external author count once; linked slices add no extra vote. Frozen links, private or unlisted lists and unmatched titles are never counted. The full method.