[an0n]

3. Dawn of War (PC)
2. Rome: Total War (PC)
1. Halo 2 (Xbox)

[.::Tin Can::.]

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• Half Life 2
• World of Warcraft
• Sims 2
• Halo 2
• Dawn of War
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[Liberator]

HL2 loses automatically because of the damn Steam issues.
Halo 2 will win simply because of Fanboi-ism and the fact that they have a lot of celebrities in their corner.

[Knight Templar]

There's a reason for that too.

[Rictor]

Half Life 2

uhm, that's about it. All the games which I have played in recent times have been from 2003 (Call of Duty, Prince of Persia etc.)

[Triple Ace]

Doom 3 and GTA: San Andreas.

[pyro-manic]

Originally posted by Rictor


Agreed. Its a fantastic game, one of my all time favourites.



Playing it now. I just reached the Russian missions, and boy are they hard. Bastard Russians, firing on their own people. I hates them precious, hatessss them.

Someone else who's played it! At last! I'm gutted, because the ending left things wide open for a sequel, but there will never be one because it sold so poorly...

And try the Russian missions on the highest difficulty level. THAT is hard...

[Rictor]

Don't worry. When I become a millionare, a sequel is first up on my list, right after FS3.

Honestly, the world and characters made simply wandering around a joy. The art director for that game should get a medal. Seems I have a knack for falling in love with phenomenal, though commercially unsuccessful games (FS2, BG&E, Red Faction, System Shock 2 etc)

[pyro-manic]

Agreed. It wasn't overly complex, but it all fitted together so perfectly you got immersed in the whole place. I loved the species - felis sapiens, taurus sapiens etc. Sheer genius...

Did you ever play Ico on the PS2? That's my all-time favourite game for art direction and visuals. It was beautiful. I'll have to see if I can post some screenshots one of these days....

[Martinus]

[color=66ff00]I just finished Homeworld 2 and then Homeworld Cataclysm.

Epic and utterly satisfying.

As for the games released this year:
Doom 3: Atmospheric, visually brilliant but dissapointing end boss and repetitive scenarios. (enter room, approach items, get jumped).
HalfLife 2: More dissapointing than the Phantom menace and the Matrix sequels combined into some kind of uber-dissapointment-causing-package-of-woe.
Steam: You suck.
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[spaceman spiff]

in no particular order

halo 2
mechassault 2
ninja gaiden (when was this released? 2003?)
all for xbox

i can't buy pc games cuz my computer is crap

[pyro-manic]

I hated Doom 3's graphics. It didn't look half as good as HL2 IMO. And I just got bored of it. I played it up to the point where there's that sort of monorail-train thingy that you have to move around between 3 or so stations and do.... something. I just couldn't be arsed to play any more. Lucky I didn't buy it really...

(I didn't pirate it btw - I borrowed it off a friend to see what it was like, given the mixed reviews)

Half Life 2 on the other hand I really enjoyed. Yeah, the lack of plot and closure at the end was really annoying, and Steam is a pile of crap, but simply playing the game was great fun. Ravenholm, for example - fantastic. Better than anything Doom 3 offered me, and was good to play through. Also the airboat helicopter chase - brilliant. And the sound was soooo much better than that on D3....

I urge everyone to go out and buy Beyond Good and Evil. You'll probably find it for 5 quid in a bargain bin, and it'll be the best money you've spent in a long time. BRILLIANT game

[Rictor]

Why Maeg, why do you hate joy?

edit: no, I haven't played ICO, on account of not having a PS2. Maybe when they get cheap (I can get the Gamecube for a hundred bucks where I live) or when someone comes up with an emulator.

raa: just over $1.50 American I think.
quid= british pound

[phreak]

Of all the new games i've played that have come out in '04

FS2 3.6.5 (all right im a homer)
Homeworld 2
Half-Life 2 (steam=steamy pile of ****)
UT2K4
Halo 2
Dark Horizons: Lore (all right im a homer again)

lots of 2s...

edit: im a retard, as i forgot to put in UT2004.

[Taristin]

Pardon my Ignorance, being a merkin and all, but about how much is a quid?

[pyro-manic]

Raa: "Quid" is slang for a pound (£1), which is about $1.90 at the moment (according to xe.com). Basically, it'll be very cheap - the price of a budget game. Note that the plural is the same, i.e. you'd say "one/a quid" and "five quid" or "fifty quid", not "fifty quids"...

Rictor: I'll have to hook the puter up to the TV and grab some screenshots then. It's breathtaking (or at least I think so ).

[Liberator]

Originally posted by pyro-manic
I urge everyone to go out and buy Beyond Good and Evil. You'll probably find it for 5 quid in a bargain bin, and it'll be the best money you've spent in a long time. BRILLIANT game

I played the demo, and the ani-people kids are soooooo cute, B:G&E is at the very top of my list when I get a job.

[FireCrack]

UT2k4


I havent tried of new games this year