Unfortunately for fans, Half-Life 3 is yet to surface some 12 years later. Even the All-Knowing Vortigaunt doesn't know whether it will see the light of day.
Part strategy game and part Tamagotchi sim, you're a God tasked with ruling over a tribal village while mentoring a skyscraper-sized creature - such as a cow or an ape. Molyneux described the game as a "big personality test" due to its gameplay, which brands you as good or evil depending on your actions. Which you totally did, you monster. The AWP. Simpler than its modern equivalents, the original Half-Life mod is just as fun to play in as it was when its big CD box landed on videogame shop shelves in Remember them?
With more than 5. It's little wonder then, that WoW has raked in more coin than any other game in history. Launched in XP's gaming heyday, World of Warcraft's original art style and accessible gameplay helped it appeal to just about any kind of gamer.
You can delve into a few side quests on your own over a weekend or spend hours tackling lengthy raids as part of a clan. Or, if you're Leeroy Jenkins, well, you know the rest…. Improved combat, ragdoll physics and gorgeous graphics helped the fourth Elder Scrolls game feel like the first truly modern entry into the Elder Scrolls series.
Oblivion's Prison Break-style intro set the bar high, and not just because the Emperor's opening monologue is voiced by a certain Patrick Stewart. Before long you're badgering NPCs, punching boars in the snout and legging it from multi-limbed Land Dreughs, which came four years before Dead Space's hellish Necromorphs.
The daddy of the "Nope! This was used to great effect by forcing you to hold either a torch or a weapon at any one time, placing you on the edge of cardiac arrest when venturing into a pitch-black room. The Mahjong Huntress. Real Sudoku. Rating 3. Cat On A Diet. Mahjong Secrets. A Game of Changes. Love's Power Mahjong. Jigsaw Puzzle. Doodle God: Genesis Secrets. Clutter IV. NagiQ 2: Treasure Hunt. Storm Chasers: Tornado Islands. Running Sheep: Tiny Worlds. Rating 2.
Lucky Sudoku. Marble Run. Build huge panzer armies and fuck shit up, deal with dissent in your nation if you screw up, research bigger and badder tanks and planes, and generally have fun conquering the world.
As of now, the sequel Hearts of Iron 3 is a bugfest- Paradox likes to rely on its mod community to finish their games for them. Awesome game, I can't believe it's not on here already. You are basically some surly English commandos tasked with killing Nazis and blowing shit up. It's mostly a stealth game, but shooting everything that moves is also a viable strategy. The campaign is actually really long, and takes you from North Africa to the Czech Republic.
Before each mission you choose your loadout, including tools compass, wire cutter, aqualung , weapons American, English, German, Russian are all here , and even your uniform. You also pick 4 commandos to make up your squad, who are good at some things but not others, though you'll probably find yourself using the same 4 guys over and over, unless someone gets killed they die more or less permanently.
As a hitman, you sneak into It's a masterpiece. Play this shit, for real. For some reason, this game was overshadowed by its sequels but it really shouldn't. In terms of story, gameplay, soundtrack and atmosphere, Hitman 2 really beats the competition even to this day. Also on the PS2, but the PC version controls are so much better.
Pretty much the same as above, but it's an older game. Probably the most grimdark Hitman released. Has some amazingly atmospheric levels and music. See Homeworld. Over a century ago, the Exiles returned to their Homeworld, Hiigara. Follow them once more in their quest to stop the savage and determined Vaygr from conquering the galaxy.
Retaining the atmosphere of the first game, Homeworld 2 adds new gameplay elements, such as fighter and corvette squadrons, upgrades, and capital ship hardpoints, modules, and subsystems, adding more variety to gameplay like disabling a Battlecruiser's engines, for instance.
The game also has a good modding community. It was inspired by an earlier game known as Carrier Command Realtime Games, The latest patch also adds in more maps, planes, and new static campaigns based on theoretical and real events. The community has also modded it to cover jets up to , including some Korean and Vietnam era planes such as the Mig and the F, the mod pack also redesigns the game's main menu to look better, and organizes planes based on their respective nations.
Many standalone skins and jets have been added, including the MiG and the F For a guide on installing the latest mod package and IL-2 , even with the Steam version, see this thread.
The best Jurassic Park game out there. You're in control of John Hammond's organization and you have to build a theme park - with dinosaurs. Loads of attractions and tons of details which make up for an awesome and fun experience. If there's a tornado coming the next month, activate emergency mode immediately and hope that the tourists run out fast enough.
Yes, they're that slow and if a tornado catches them it'll wreck your entire economy. Also on the PS2 and Xbox. GTA-like game that takes place in the USA in the 30s and tells the story of a beginner in the world of crime and his carrer in the ranks of the Mafia. An undercover cop finds himself framed for murder and thrown right in the middle of a drug conspiracy, just as New York is being ravaged by its worst blizzard ever. This noir-styled shooter was one of the first games to use bullet-time as a core gameplay mechanic.
Tense story, cool action set pieces, and graphics that still manage to convey the gritty atmosphere make this worth checking. Humble Steam. Has many changes, but still stays true to the original game in terms of gameplay, story, characters, and atmosphere. Takes place two years after Max Payne; you're in a hospital, and it seems that you did some bad shit in the recent past. You make an escape, and spend half of the game flashing back to what happened.
Not going to spoil anything. The gameplay is the same, but improved. More balanced weapons, better bullettime. You still need to save the game constantly like your life depended on it. Like Call of Duty 4 , it was an FPS trend-setter: from time to time you are followed by a group of allies who do nothing but die pointlessly, you fire from an MG42 while defending some house, and so on. It was created with Steven Spielberg, so plenty of action and top-notch voice acting, even by tomorrow's standards.
The soundtrack accompanying the Nazi-killing goodness was recorded by the Seattle Symphony and it's gorgeous. The Spearhead expansion pack is pretty decent, but Breakthrough is mediocre. Part of the team who developed this game later worked on Call of Duty. A very popular roguelike, with good reason. There are hundreds of coded interactions within this game, many of which are beneficial, many more so of which are deadly.
Pick a class and deity, then prepare to dive into 50 or so levels in search of the Amulet of Yendor. Each step brings you closer to victory No save system, folks, except for reloading a game in progress.
Official website. Did you like the Baldur's Gate series? This is the spiritual succesor taking place in the same world. Unlike the classical CRPGs from Black Isle the gameplay is a bit different: You only play one character and depending on the add-on have either one or two sidekicks.
But just like Baldur's Gate you have a gazillion possibilities when it comes to character customization Classes, races, skils, feats, weapons, spells, you name it! The story of the main game is your standard run-of-the-mill fantasy story, but the interconnected story of the first and second add-on really shine! There's also a ton of decent free campaigns Check out Darkness over Daggerfold made by a team featuring the producer from the Baldur's Gate add-on Throne of Bhaal!
Since they stopped selling these they also deactivated the license check, so you can play them for free, and the Diamond Version from Gog. Everything great about the original is back.
NOLF 2 delivers everything a sequel ought to; new weapons, more expansive levels, and even quirkier characters than before. The missions are a lot less linear, and the skill point system offers incentive to gather intel and complete the optional quests.
Enemies include ninjas, mimes, and human cubes. Like the first, its unlikely to get a re-release since no one knows who owns what. NOLF Revival. The year is , the environment has gone to shit, the world is under a single government, and the police is divided between hiding the truth from the people and hunting down terrorists.
That is, until a cop realizes that she is being deceived as well. A then-unique mix of beat 'em up and third person shooter, perhaps a better Ghost In The Shell game than any game officially bearing that title. The graphics have aged quite a bit, but the action is still very fun. Bungie's last game before selling their souls joining Microsoft. Doesn't work right on modern systems, so be sure to get the AE update. You, your girl, and a sparkling Ferrari.
A full tank, good music, and the endless road before you. No speed limits. Classic FPS set in fantastical supernatural occult settings varying from citadels and churches to graveyards to gigantic castles and beautiful palaces to dark caves, cold cities, and theatrical auditoriums.
A HUGE variety of enemies from the typical occult skeletons to Lovecraftian monsters and a vast array of unique weapons to fight them. All you really need to know is that there's a gun that shoots shurikens and lightning. GOG Humble Steam. You play as one of three doctors, each with their own morals and practices, and each trying to find the cure for a virus infecting a small town.
Unlike most games, there is a heavy emphasis on survival, and the choices you make can have long-reaching effects. Each time you play the game things might happen completely differently based on what you do. That's right, a good movie tie-in! Play in first person as Jack, or in third person as Kong himself.
Really fun, really atmospheric and very faithful to the movie, with some great voice acting from the movie's cast. While it's short hours and could use a few more Kong levels it's a great game and worth checking out.
The Xbox version is superior due to heavily upgraded graphics. Perimeter's tagline, "Real Time Strategy Reborn", speaks volumes about this game's innovative gameplay. It features gameplay mechanics which had never before been implemented, unique unit and base building methods and a deep sci-fi plot [if you can follow it, which may at times be difficult]. Challenging until you have mastered the gameplay, full of replay value, and graphics which look shiny and cool despite its age.
Your planet is dying, and your species' only hope is to colonize a new world. But just as the transport ships arrive, a disaster happens on the surface - and you have to find out what happened. And it was a lot of fun back then! Episode III, plot-wise the last one, is a Gamecube exclusive with completely different gameplay. Servers: Destiny Ephinea Ultima Schthack. Survive a week in Paradise as the Postal Dude. Very early s references abound. About 10 NPC models, repeated over and over again to fill the map.
Good for you Columbine types. Noteworthy for being sandboxy as fuck with tons of exploration and a good modding community; basically Deus Ex meets South Park and worth a look even if you don't think putting out fires by pissing all over everything is the best gameplay mechanic since mouselook it is.
A Cherokee ex-soldier is abducted to a massive spaceship that feeds from people, and he has to use his injun spirit magic to beat the aliens and save the world. Yeah, I know it sounds ridiculous, but give it a chance.
This is a very solid game albeit quite linear , with excellent writing and voice work — the hero and his girl were played by actual Crees, and there are cameos by tinfoil hat radio celebrity Art Bell as himself.
The graphics have held out very well. You are some Persian Prince who travels with his father back to their homeland. But a treacherous Vizier convinces them to raid his lord, the Maharaja of India, instead. After party vanning them, they take many treachures, including a mysterious hourglass and a glowing dagger, to the King's old bro, the Sultan of Azad. The vizier persuades the Prince yes, that's his name. Really creative,huh? Shit happens, and everyone except the Prince, the enslaved Maharaja's daugher Farah, and the evil Vizier turn into Zombies corrupted by the Sands of Time.
Now the real fun begins: With the help of the snarky princess and her sexy bow you have to travel through the kingdom of Azad with your athletic skills, beat the crap out of the zombies and manipulate time to outsmart death.
If you like time foolery and An Hero'ing, that's the right game for you. Beautifully made game which is a pearl under the many PC-Games, also for people who enjoy Oriental architecture, challenging puzzles and an awesome script "Look, a crack! The dark horse of the Sands of Time trilogy, this game returns to the Prince's story seven years after the first game, where he has taken a serious turn for the grim and dark. Not without reason, as he's being chased by a Final Destination-style creature hellbent on seeing him killed to eliminate the final error in the timeline caused by the events of Sands of Time.
If you can get past the suddenly dark, gritty approach, complete with wailing electric guitars and blood imagery, as well as the weak script, the plot is decent and the combat has taken a considerable step up from Sands of Time, along with general gameplay improvements, though sadly the puzzles take quite a dive.
It's still worth playing, if just to see whether you'll like it or not, but it's nowhere near as classic a game as Sands of Time. Sadly, the original stealth-platforming-sandbox-action game this was meant to be, Kindred Blades, was never released.
But the redesign, Two Thrones, was meant to appeal to those who liked Sands of Time but didn't like Warrior Within; toning down the darkness a bit and trying to give an experience closer to the first game--but not quite nailing it, in part due to a lack of time, having gone through major changes mid-development.
But if you've played the other two, no reason why you should stop now: play this, and round out the platforming trilogy. A mixture of RTS and 3rd-Person Perspective action game where you build turrets and others buildings on yours floating islands, while you defend yourself from enemy attacks.
Play as an carnival escapee who runs away to a summer camp for psychics. Original storytelling and well written humor compliments this game. Continuing the plot of Quake 2 1 and 3 have unrelated plots , you're a space marine fighting the Stroggs, a conquering cyborg alien race. It got a bit of an underwhelming reception, but it's actually very fun.
It's more linear and "cinematic" than its predecessor, but still feels old-school enough no auto-healing or weapon limit bullshit. Workers of the world, unite! And by world I mean Mars, where the poor brutalized miners are rising against the evil corporation that runs the planet.
A nice shooter, and first in a series noted for its destructible environments, a very cool feature that even now remains unusual. Realistic gameplay means if you get shot once, you're probably dead. Emphasizes teamwork, and one really good player doesn't ensure victory for his team. Don't play the game like it's god damned Call of Duty and you will appreciate what it has to offer.
It's , and the Nazis plan to turn the tide of war by using dark magic to summon the undead! An old-fashioned, super-tough hardcore shootan by the same devs of Redneck Rampage and Kingpin: Life of Crime. Likely the best in the series. Pretty much the racing game for the PC, designed to be easily extensible; countless cars, tracks, and series have been added by fans since its release. It has realistic physics, including advances in tire modeling, complex aerodynamics and a degree-of-freedom game engine.
In March ISI announced the development of rFactor 2, which will include weather effects, reflections, and accurate shadows on a variety of textures. Campaign mode has a 4X-style strategic world map where you manage your nation, cities, army divisions, and economy, but the real fun is when you engage in combat. You switch to an zoomed-in tactical view of your troops and control them RTS-style.
If you were a fan of Robot Wars or Battlebots and ever wanted to make your own fighting robot, this game is for you. This is primarily a designing game; the opponents are patronizingly easy save one , but no less satisfying to destroy. Has an active modding community GameTechMods ; the game is quite easy to mod if you're into that.
The current most popular mod is the DSL total conversion. Sacred features a big open world of Ancaria to explore, many interesting quests, 6 characters to choose from, dozens of items and a good sense of humor.
The Sacred Underworld expansion adds two more characters and a new story mode taking place in Underworld. Sacred Gold includes both, as well as many bugfixes. Turn-based strategy that should be familiar to fans of Koei's strat-games Nobunaga and RotTK especially , Advance Wars, and other such series.
Yandere translations has a full English translation. Be a badass action hero from the future, travel through time, massacre hordes of monsters. Huge numbers of enemies requiring all the basic FPS tactics and weapons to dispatch. A must have for LANs, or a quick blast with an online friend. Note, the first SS is split in two episodes.
Later they received HD versions with improved graphics and up to player online co-op mode. SS2 is sort of the black sheep of the series, because it adopted a more cartoonish style. However, it does look fine - and the gameplay is still the same brutal non-stop carnage as the first game.
For some visual modernizing, use the Renovation mod. One of the greatest slashers ever created. Large levels with simple puzzles, tons of weapons and armor, lots of combos and special moves. Four characters: a barbarian, a knight, a dwarf and an Amazon; absolutely different styles of combat for each of them and a different starting level.
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