

October 12 – EA Sports launches the multi-format FIFA Football 2005.The game became id's best selling game to date. August 3 – Doom 3 is released, restarting the breakthrough franchise, and featured complex graphics features such as unified lighting and shadowing, real-time fully dynamic per-pixel lighting and stencil shadowing.


The year's best-selling video game was Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas. The year has been retrospectively considered one of the best and most important in video game history due to the release of numerous critically acclaimed, commercially successful and influential titles across all platforms and genres at the time. The Nintendo DS was also launched that year. New intellectual properties included Fable, Far Cry, FlatOut, Killzone, Katamari Damacy, Monster Hunter, N, Red Dead Revolver, SingStar, and Sacred. 2004 saw many sequels and prequels in video games, such as Doom 3, Dragon Quest VIII, Gran Turismo 4, Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas, Half-Life 2, Halo 2, Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater, Ninja Gaiden, Pokémon FireRed/LeafGreen/ Emerald, Everybody's Golf 4 ( Hot Shots Golf Fore!), Prince of Persia: Warrior Within, and World of Warcraft.
