To the gamers...

I quote:

Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War is the next industry-defining real-time strategy (RTS) game from Relic Entertainment...

And if you're into RPGs or just 'dungeon crawling', try Neverwinter Nights. There's tons of mods online and I'm sure you can find one to your liking.

I never play games, but I got myself a copy of need for speed 2 and it really was a fun game, I think I played it like 8 hours a day or somthing for a week or two :P
And that's a LOT for me!

World of Warcraft will not let you down.

Nos.

It will not let you sleep either.

i'd Reccomend for the following moods.

" Damn i wana blow **** up " - Half life 2 (10/10) and Ut2k4 (8/10)

" I want the **** scared outta me " - Doom 3 (9.5/10)

" I wana go adventuring and meet new people and kill big bad monsters and go on massive quests" - Everquest 2 (really amazing game) (9.5/10)

" I want to run around with 13yr olds in kiddy graphics land killing X and gather X missions until im uber enuf level to PVP" - World of Warcraft (7/10)

" I wana be a leet swordman and kill 10 guys vs me in full motion cinimatics and solve puzzles while im at it" - Prince of Persia: Warrior Within (10/10)

not a big gamer here (just a bit of console stuff) but some friends of mine gave me NFL street 2 as a late christmas present and it absolutely rocks, if you're into sports games and like football its a blast.

chris

I know more about the fps, because that's mainly the kind I play and when I buy a game, it's for its multiplayer aspect.

Like other said,

-HL2 is a great game, a must have if you have a decent computer. Great single player, the AI is very amazing. You can play HL2 dm online and CSS. Both great mods, even though there're some flaws about them.

-FarCry is a FANTASTIC game. The one with the most amazing graphics, the greatest environment I've ever seen (better then HL2 and Doom3). The AI is sweet as well, but I never played the single player completly. They blow up with that game, because the multiplayer had too many problms when it came out. The netcode was bad, and everyone was complaining about the lag and everything. I heard they got a patch to fix some of the issues, but I didn't try it. NOTE that you need a VERY good pc to run this game with high quality graphics, because it's one huge game, but very interesting.

-Doom3 If you have a great sound system or jsut great headphones and like to be scared when playing a game, go for this one. It's a really exciting game with very great graphics as well. Don't buy it for the multiplayer though, because it's one of the worst there is. It's only DM and it's 4on4 MAX (even though it could have changed since the last time I played it). But it's very laggy and it's just not fun to play :(

Others games I heard were good, but haven't tried are

Battlefield Vietnam

Unreal Tournament 2004

Call of Dutie

Splinter Cell (for single player only)

and there are more obviously, but I can't think of any other right now :/

Uhh.. Farcry doesnt have better graphics then HL2 LOL... Farcry has very good graphics I tottally agree.. But HL2 blows EVERYTHING out of the water.

I have to disagree with you man. Did you ever play Farcry with max video settings on? And more importantly, did you play Farcry since you played HL2?

Farcry has more cartonish graphics then HL2, but it doesn't make them worse then HL2.

If you take both separately,

-- Better water quality goes to Farcry. It's alot more realistic, the reflexions and the movement of the water is simply a work of art, I couldn't believe they would make water looks so nice in a game of today. In HL2, the water is just wrong, it doesn't move the way it should be, it's too fast and unrealistic.


-- The lightnings in general are slightly better in HL2, but it wins this one only because of the smoke you can see sometimes and the little particules flying in the air (that's pretty neat) but other then that it's even.

And I'd have to say Farcry offers better sun or lights reflexions in general on the objects and environments. For exemple the light reflecting on metal textures was one of the best inovation Crytek had done with this game.


-- The textures are pretty even at mid range. But close range, HL2 doesn't make it. It's made to lower the work for your computer so when your close, the textures in HL2 are complete crap, so this is why Farcry wins that one also.


-- The vegetation... well this is probably the easiest one and Farcry obviously wins it again... for the number of trees and the fact that you can walk through them, every kind of plants there are, it's just AMAZING (plus they move slightly when there's a wind). HL2 on the other and, offers poor quality vegetation, it's all square and doesn't look good at all. And it's even worse when they are in the background, they're yucky :P


-- The caracters are even on both sides. They move just as good and look just as good (at mid range). But just like the textures, at close range, Farcry wins this category also, because the texture of the ksin and clothes don't lose too much quality.



What else? I don't know, but if you agree with me on those points, you can see Farcry has better qulity graphics and environment.

Just my 2 cents