of the Year at the CNET Gamecenter Computer Game Awards for 2000, and was nominated for the Best Multiplayer Game award, which went to Earth 2150. It also won the award for "Best Graphics, Artistic" at GameSpots Best and Worst of 2000 Awards, and was nominated for the "Best Sound" award, which went to The Sims. It was a runner-up for GameSpys "2000 Strategy Game of the Year" award, which also went to The Sims. The staff called it "a strategy game at heart [...] with resource management and troop building playing a major part." The game did win the award for "Genre-Bender", though. The staff of Computer Games Magazine nominated it for their 2000 "Real-time Strategy Game of the Year" award, whose winner remains unknown. Since its release, Sacrifice had been one of PC Gamer UKs Top 100 Games for at least eight consecutive years. Looking back at the history of real-time strategy gaming, Geryk pointed out that Sacrifices "depth and originality" was unparalleled in the genre and often overlooked in favor of its graphics. The staff of gaming site UGO shared a similar opinion, naming the game in 2010 as its eighteenth top strategy game of all time. Although Sacrifice was honored as a quality game, industry observers pointed out that its qualities were forgotten by most people; the staff of GamesRadar+ said the game was "practically invisible to the gaming public", and according to Gillen, few remembered Sacrifice as the pioneer of the mouse-gesture control system, which was praised as revolutionary in Peter Molyneux's later game Black & White. Gillen further lamented that Sacrifices release heralded the end of Shiny's forays into creative game development, as the company switched to producing more mainstream products, such as Enter the Matrix. Despite receiving numerous calls for a sequel, Shiny said in 2002 that it would not produce one. Years later, GamesRadar+ repeated the call for a sequel while proclaiming Sacrifice "one of the most underappreciated games of all time". References External links Official Sacrifice website (archived: April 8, 2002) 2000 video games Fantasy video games Classic Mac OS games Multiplayer and single-player video games Real-time strategy video games Shiny Entertainment games Video games scored by Kevin Manthei Video games developed in the United States Windows games