Pro Game Artist Ranks the BEST LOOKING Video Games for EVERY year (2000-2025) - Year 2000

My first long form series! I'm going to be looking at and appreciating the last 25 years of video game graphics history, and for fun, ranking the best looking games from EACH year based on their artistry and graphics. I'm also going to give my thoughts on each game, based on how good they loo, how they use the tech, and how they hold up - in everyone's favourite form: the tier list.

I'm Ben, a professional video game environment artist. I've been working in industry for 8 years, at a lot of big studios. I’ve shipped AAA titles across the industry, from Call of Duty at Infinity Ward to the World Rally Championship games at Codemasters and worked at Wargaming, and Lightspeed LA. My channel pulls back the curtain on how real video game dev pros think about and create art for video games.

I've built a career at home in the UK, and had the privilege to move abroad to Los Angeles, and work at the biggest studios in the world in the USA.

My mission is to educate the world on what it means to be an environment artist, and how video game art isn't just about graphics and assets. It's about making worlds that feel right, not levels that just look good!

If you're looking to break into the games industry or level up your portfolio, I offer 1:1 sessions that're designed to give you real world, actionable pro-level guidance.

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Thank you for watching. My goal is to build this channel into a hub for all things environment art, with fun challenges, reactions, rankings and more!

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Timestamps:
00:00 - Intro
01:33 - The Sims
05:04 - Vagrant Story
09:01 - Spyro 3: Year of the Dragon
11:36 - Perfect Dark
15:13 - The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask
18:04 - Diablo II
20:06 - Resident Evil: Code Veronica
22:45 - Baldurs Gate II
25:23 - Skies of Arcadia
27:15 - Final Fantasy IX
29:10 - Shenmue
31:15 - Jet Set Radio

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