I need some new PC games...

[LintBalll]

...and I've been out of the *game* market for about a year. What should I look at?

 

[Zwingle]

Max Payne!

 

[Rallispec]

Max payne is pretty good.

 

[DannyLove]

Diablo 2
Operation Flashpoint
CS (oh yea!!!)
Team Fortress
Need for Speed: 5
Black and White (maybe)

ill edit when i remember more

danny~!

 

[aUt0eXebat]

Half-life series
Max Payne
UT
Quake III
CS
Alice

 

[BigSmooth]

Baldur's Gate II
Serious Sam

 

[Maetryx]

What computer do you have? If we recommend something that doesn't work on your hardware, that won't do you any good.

My wife plays The SIMS all the time, with the expansion packs, Livin' Large and House Party. Personally, I like Livin' Large but I could pass on House Party.

I just picked up Microsoft Flight Simulator 2000 for $4.97 ($24.97 - $20.00 MIR) from SAMS Club. It's fun, but it's *almost* edutainment. Which is cool by me because the cockpits are nice and realistic.

I bought Tribes 2 and Black & White at almost the same time, but I played Black & White more. Tribes 2 is just better graphics from Tribes, but not terribly innovative. It incorporated some of the features from the fan mods of Tribes, but that hardly is innovative. Black & White is totally innovative. There are no (zero) icons! The entire game is driven from a beautifully rendered floating view of the landscape, and your "hand" (the mouse pointer). You "gesture" with your hand to invoke different commands (i.e. swirl the mouse, or draw a star or a box with mouse movements). It's very nice, but it includes a story line that is more or less linear. That hasn't stopped me from starting from the beginning with relative joy.

Black & White also has a multiplayer mode, where you compete with other "gods" online to see who can dominate the population of your islands. I haven't tried that yet.

 

[flamingelephant]

strategy? pick up Emporer The battle for dune... A sweet playing sweet lookin' RTS

 

[MrCodeDude]

Tribes 2, Unreal Tournament, NHL 2001, Half-Life Series, QuakeIII: Arena, StarCraft, etc.
-- mrcodedude

 

[MrBond]

Tribes 2, but you've got to read the manual first. The jetpack adds a new dimension to FPS (Up), but the learning curve is quite steep on the game.

Tribes was also the first (and t2 continues this) FPS to have driveable vehicles in multiplayer. I know HL has them, but jeepathon doesn't count

 

[arod]

another vote for tribes 2 here I play this game every other night and it just gets better and better

 

[PaNsyBoy8]

you can't lose with CS, its such an awesome game

 

[Donuts]

Delta Force Land Warrior!

 

[LintBalll]

<< you can't lose with CS, its such an awesome game >>



May I axe what &quot;CS&quot; stands for?

 

[Avalanche007]

another vote for Max Payne and CS (Counter Strike for the guy that didnt know)

 

[huanaku]

Delta Force Land Warrior!

Another vote for that one I also really liked the Thief series (although they've been out for over a year).

 

[Alienwho]

<< Delta Force Land Warrior!

Another vote for that one I also really liked the Thief series (although they've been out for over a year). >>


Yeah the Thief series is some of my all time favorite games. Infact I beat Thief2 over a year ago and I just started to play it again a few days ago.

Also Deus Ex is good and UT [tac ops].

 

[Josh]

Max Payne!!!

 

[NoReMoRsE]

BGII: Throne of Bhaal

 

[hungrypete]

if you have broadband, Counter-Strike is THE game... it's a pretty average game with excellent game play and a steep learning curve. It's also FUN AS HELL.

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