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Black & White from Lionhead Studios released originally back in 2001 went on to great reviews, and won various awards. Sadly, it's one game that has also been lost to time but the openblack project plans to revive it with open source.
I really loved this game. There was something to it that I think went on to inspire spore and maybe other games too.