Maybe they should put Jack Tompson on next years cover. :D

I'm going to recommend the most bang for your buck.
Pick up Call of Duty Warchest that includes COD1, the United Offensive expansion for that and COD2 for 39.99 USD and Star Wars Best of PC with 3 great shooters Jedi Outcast, Republic Commando and Battlefront as well as the excellent Role Playing Game Knights of the old Republic and the Real Time Simulation Empire at War for 34.99 USD Thats a whole lot of gaming for under 100 bucks.
The Call of Duty set is easily 25 hours of solid play combined for an experienced player and has a very forgiving checkpoint system the keeps it from getting frustrating. As a last resort it even comes with the PDF game guide/walkthroughs on a separate disc if you get stuck they will tell you exactly what you need to do and how to do it. The difficulty on all of the games listed is adjustable all the way from very challenging down to so easy its almost hard to die.

Almost all of the games have great game guides right here on GameSpot too so if you ever get stuck help is just a few clicks away.

When your ready to move on to Multiplayer or even if you want to just dive right in I think Call of Duty 2 still has a reasonably active community. If your seriously interested in Multiplayer then the Half Life/Counterstrike/ Steam games are the way to go. I don't play Multiplayer games so others here can provide better advice in that area.

Scooby Doo 2 Monsters Unleashed.

Mindless minigames with your only motivation for winning them is to unlock stills from the movie. It was stupid, pointless and damm it, it was fun LOL

I used to think (and liked to think) that Gamespot would never give another 10, ever. Now with the new .5 system, all bets are off and a 10 seems a little more possible.DarkCatalyst

I'm going to second this statement.

Personally I don't think a 10 should be possible this year simply because of the state of hardware this year. IMHO I think that in order for a game to be a 10 it must have perfect timing in a systems development time as well as being a great game.

What I'm trying to say is that in order for a game to be perfect everything must peak at the same time.
Hardware sophistication (As good as the system will be technically)
Hardware utilization (The game developer must milk every ounce of the hardware.)
Programming experience with the platform.
Then comes game quality and all the other facets like story, graphics and all the other things we rate games on. Its kind of like bull riding. If your bull sucks it counts against your score. So many things factor in and must be nailed from multiplayer to save and menu interface in a game. Its not enough to have a great game anymore you have to have the entire package.

With Vista , PS3, Wii, all brand new 360 has the best chance for one but I still think it's too young. Game company's really didn't start milking the PS2's full potential until just 2 years ago if that. Same thing with XP.

Depends on how you look at it. You cant seperate out cross platform games. Each one is listed as a seperate game for each console it is on.

Around 41,000 games are listed.
That includes unreleased and canceled games and goes back into to the 80's.
About 8500 are PC games
550 Xbox 360 games (including Xbox live games)
500 Wii games ( I would estimate at least 400 of those are console/download games or not out yet)
350 for PS3 (Again, less then 100 of those are boxed games or already released if that.
2900 PS2 games
750 PSP
1200 DS
The other 26000 or so are spread out across every other system you can think of including cell phone and arcade games.

When I get to my seventeenth annoying ****ing jumping puzzle. That and physic enemy's that can see through walls or shoot you from 5 times further away then you can hit them from.

Nice list Robnyc22 :)

This is a little off topic but Aeon Flux.
If you didn't see the original animated series your not going to understand what's going on in the game. The series was very confusing to some people to start with so even that might not help.

When I read the title of this thread I though he said it was the worst movie he was ever in. What he really meant was it was the worst movie making experience he ever had.

I was going to point out that he must have forgotten that he was in Spice World.... LOL

I don't think Super Mario Brothers was that bad a movie but I know I'm in the minority.

It's very easy to tell what's a Wii game and what's a Virtual Console game. Wii games have boxart and the Virtual Console games just have a screenshot in place of boxart.

But what I would really like is if it would show us the score of the VC games when we click the Virtual Console tab in the Wii games. Right now it just shows the name of the game and you have to click it in order to see the score. That's kind of a hassle.

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Nice try but the box art is not shown on the list except on the first page. You must click each game to see if it is a console release or not and even then it might not be clearly stated until much further down in the review if at all. I suppose that is ok when your looking at new releases but its still no excuse for Castlevania to have a release date of April 20, 2007 for the Wii. If games had their original release date on them it would be obvious but they do not they have the console release date for an arguably good reason.

I never owned a NES so I'm not familiar with all of the old titles and I'm old. I seriously doubt that anyone under the age of 20 remembers them at all and that is a big selling point for them. What happens when a real new game is released for the first time only on the console? How are we to differentiate between a 15 year old game and one that actually came out today? I understand the need to keep the list of available games for a system current but the games need to separated. Console games can be listed by them selves boxed games should be able to be too. Simple as that.

Since console games can be listed separately they must already be tagged somehow in the database. It seems that adding a drop down to list all Wii games not on that console list ( leaving boxed games) would not be a very complicated programming task.

Your other comment is a separate issue and sounds like a very good suggestion.

See its not about how rare it is, it's about how much it's worth CAPITALIST DOGS!!! lol jk

Ok lets see,
Rarest? Probably Spiderman Vs. Venom: Maximum Carnage for Genesis in it's blood red box with blood red cartridge and manual all in brand new condition.

Most valuable? I guess it's Star Trek Armada 2 for PC thats in a box around here somewhere.
That can fetch as much as 150 bucks used with no manual which I do have.