Come on people, who can honestly say, hand on heart, that last years selection of PC releases were amazing? I know I can't. Last year offered almost nothing of value for the underrated PC gamer. Only two games last year offered something that wowed me and they were Empire at War and Red Orchestra. EaW offered a slightly fresher look at the RTS genre while RO fufilled my craving for a decent multiplayer WW2 shooter. That was it. Sure, there were a lot of hyped games that came out last year but in my opinion they are just loafs of stale bread. Games such as Advanced Warfighter, Prey, HL2: Aftermath, NFS: Carbon and DoW: DA. This year is going to be frakkin' different! It better be! I went through 2006 with hardly any decent PC releases! But I think I can sleep easy, here are some reasons why: Alliance: The Silent War A FPS set across a couple of decades of various different wars, this should add a welcome twist to a much abused genre. Chrome 2 I'm a fan of the Chrome series because it has so many qualities that are lacking in most other shooting games. And it was enjoyable to boot. Command and Conquer 3 Not so excited about this. But it's a step in the right direction for the RTS genre. Crysis This is what I'm talking about! This is made by the guys who left their old team because Ubi was pretty much ruining everything it touched. If this is the direction PC gaming is going, freeze me now and thaw me in a few years 'cos I can hardly wait! Enemy Territory: Quake Wars I'm loving that games are being set in the near-future. An online FPS set in the middle of an alien invasion of Earth? Yes please! This again is going to make new ground for online gaming. Haze From the makers of the Timesplitter's series (and the good bits of Goldeneye 007) this is gonna rawk!! The trailer raises and answers some questions and just leaves me wanting more. Project IM I've had my eye on this for a while. What drew me to it were the sounds. I loved them. But this should be a winner. S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Everyone is raving about it. I was too when I saw the first vids some years back. But I've lost interest...for now. Supreme Commander This is it. This is the game I have been waiting a decade for! Since I first played TA all those years back I still want more. I still play TA every now and then and marvel at how it is still years ahead of most current RTS games. This is going to push the envelope further. I can't see anything touching this for years to come. This is going to be the HalfLife 2 of 2007 in my book. I may also pick up Halo 2 when it comes out. I hated #1. Was so poorly made. Hype and fanboy-ism carried that game. But I love alien invasion games. Damn me!