Another top something list but this time its online games.

1) Counter-Strike
My first online game and it was great fun back in the day around 2001. CS 1.6 was truly great fun and yet required skill and of course a bit of luck to play.

2) Battlefield 2
the Sequel the Dice’s Battlefield 1942 was a great online-FPS with a huge range of great maps, weapons and vechivles to choose from.

3) Call of Duty 4
This game is just great fun, its very tough when you start out and you will die a lot due to other players actually knowing what the heck there doing. This probably should be number one but only because i havnt played it as long as the other two games.

4) Team Fortress 2
Valves remake of the Half-Life mod is just awesome with its cartoony graphics great game modes and characters its great fun from start to finish.

5) Unreal Tournament
Is a game that ive never really gotten into i remember the demo of it back in 1999 i think it was great fun but ive never really gotten into the main game of it. Its the insanly fast gameplay that puts me off to be honest buts its still a great game is its own right.

I normally dont post top 10 lists but i just thought id post my Top 10 for PC Games. I recently started to play “Mass Effect” and its one of the best games ive played in a long long time.

Half-Life 2
The most anticipated game ive ever encountered. You might remember back in 2004/2004 a german hacker stole some of the HL2 source code and the game got delayed. I can say that ive never ever waited for any game as bad as Half-Life 2. The game is simply incredable a master class in what a good game is. If you manage to find this post and would like a Free Copy of Half Life 2 just comment on this post saying your name and email address, ive one free copy to give away.

Operation-Flashpoint (ColdWar Crysis):
This game look quite dated now but its another real classic game where it puts you in the role of a soldier and makes you live every minute of it. I still can remmeber 2 missions from that game that still remind me how fantastic this game is.

Mafia:
A real gem of a game that i picked up by complete “Accident” in my local PC Shop. The story in this game is amazing the cut-scenes are fantastic and its game that i really enjoyed playing from start to end.

World of Warcraft:
A game i kinda hate at the moment but none the less a fantastic and very addictive game that was my first MMORPG.

Max Payne:
The movie based on this game is coming soon and it looks like its kept the style of the game. Not many games can make Bullet-Time fun but this game’es great story and cut-scenes made it something special.

Blade-Runner:
This 1997 Westwood studios Adventure game based on the 1982 Ridley Scott Movie is another example of what makes a great game. Its living breading atmosphere and characters made it something special. I onyl wish i could get it to work on windows vista 64.

Mass Effect:
I only installed this game two days ago and even though its been out for over a year its simply incredable. The story is just awesome and your thrown right into the action and giving a ship to sort the galaxy out. Made by Bioware who know how to make great games its simply stunning. With incredable cut-scenes and voice acting and graphics its a game you wont put down until you finish it.

Grand Theft Auto: Vice City/IV:
I cant decide what version of the game is the best and i dont think it would be fair to do so but GTA4 is the reason i bought an Xbox 360 and is again huge step forward in the GTA games.GTA Vice City has such a great feel and soundtrack that its probably the better one but only by a tiny factor.

The story in GTA4 is what makes it tick unlike GTA:San Andreas where the whole “Boys in the hood” story didnt do it for me. The Multiplayer is also good fun and im looking forward to the PC version in november.

Crysis:
Make no mistake that this game is total “beast” to get running on your PC. Unless youve got a good gaming setup forget playing this game it wont do it justice. The physics and graphics are out of this world in this game and story bar the ending aint half bad either.

Call of Duty:
You could say Any Call of Duty game but Cod4 wins because of its multiplayer part. I havnt finished the single player campaign yet but i love the multiplayer game. Its great fun and the stats system adds that bit of extra fun asn you unlock new weapons.

I finally did it and its something ive thought long and hard about. In fact since about nov 2007 when i felt that raiding was too much for me. WoW is a great game but sometimes its time to say enough is enough. After 2 years and seven Level 70 characters its time to leave or take a break.

The game at the moment is quite boring all there is to do for me is PvP and that can be fun at times but after so much of it ive had enough. Ive quit raiding for good so all there is now is PVP and well i can get better action in Call of Duty 4 or Team Fortress 2.

So my subsrcription runs out in August and wheter or not ill come back for WOTLK is something i dont know. To be honest i dont think i want to go through another expansion but knowing how great WoW is, it will be hard to resist.

Ive been trying out other “Time Sinks” sorry i mean “MMORPG’s” and Age Of Conan was a game i would have liked to leave to wow for but thats not the case at all. While AoC is sorta fun its too frustrating for me i dont have the patience for mobs killing me after a bad pull all the time or quest bugs anymore. While my subcription here is active ill probably cancel it once i hit 80 and try the “end game content” and give the game one last try by rolling a new class on a PVP server. If these 2 things fail then its good bye AoC. My experience with the game has been nothing but frustration probably due to class i picked and stuck with; the Assassin.

Im also trying out Vanguard not tried much yet far too obsessed with the level 80 ding in Age of Conan when i know theres no point to even getting to 80 sad but true. I think its just a goal i set myself and ill get there if it well kill,bores or frusrates me.

Thought i would try it out for the 30days to see if its a “WoW beater”. All ive heard about are Bugs,Bugs and more bugs. But ive been impressed with the graphics and videos ive seen and the sales alone of the game have been very good. I havnt read anything about the game except one article on an mmorpg site.

WoW Fatigue:
First i must explain that im totaly frustrated with WoW atm. The recent announcement i read on wowinsider.com about Season 4 and Season for Honour being put back possably to August was kinda the last straw. Well this is weird i had read that yesterday and now Blizzard have said June 24th is the start.

Its probably to late for me care anymore now, when you only play WoW for PvP your days are numbered really. Id had tried to get my frustrations known on the wowinsider.com site but of course i was kinda muted by the response. One of the repiles exclaimed “Wow is a PVE game” i quickly thanked that person for pointing that fact out.

One of the things about WoW and i guess any MMORPG (ive only played WoW so far so i cant speak for the other games in the genre) is the constant repetition. You do the same thing over and over and over again so many times that at the start you find it frustating but it you find it so much that it just wears you down and you forget that your the same thing again and again. Now this may not be a bad thing but after a while its time to stop. PVP is like that i normally try to do the daily quests on a few alts and log off quickly, thats about all i can take of WoW at the moment. Ive tried Arenas but i dont think there for me. Needless to say the chance to try out a new MMORPG in a new land with next-gen graphics was a tempting offer and thats where AoC comes in.

Age of Conan:

Character Creation:
Is great fun and very detailed, theres a tonne of options and settings you can use to create your own character and class. I spend quite a while picking mine and going through all the options.

Graphics & Sound:
First thing that strikes you is the graphics and sound they are amazing. The “water” effects are incredible, the water looks so real that you can almost reach out and touch it. “White-Sands Isle” is incredable a beautiful beech like island with tigers and panthers roaming round. “Tortage” is incredably detailed and must have taken a lot of time to create. Down by the docks the ships are quite amazing looking. Wandering around you will be awe-struck by the detail.

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Gameplay:
The game play is fairly straight-forward as your guided easily to the town of “Tortage” where you quests begin. The quest log and map are a little “cluttered” and confusing (compared to wow) but after a few mins you get used to it. You are guided along on your quests slowly and once you figure out how to read the map a handy orange arrow points you in your direction.

Combat:
Is straightforward with the keys 1,2,3 being your attacks you gain new abilities after each level which do more damage and you can find items of mobs you kill.

Bugs:
Yes there are bugs but they are minor ones and dont ruin the game play. A funny one i noticed was that in cut-scences the female characters boobs in the game “Twitch”.

Overall:
So far i like it,because its different and its unknown territory. However i must say ive only played it for one day and dont know too much about it but its quite good fun exploring and learning things. Is it a WoW beater? that remains to be seen a good competitor at least i think. Ive noticed a lot of WoW players fed up with Wow playing it. Of course whether we all come running back after a month or when WOTLK hits is another story.

Recently Microsoft released Halo 2 for the PC after 3 years since its original x-Box Release which to to many gamers was greeted with a lukewarm response, why you might ask.