Empire Earth

Half-Life

Call of Duty

Medal of Honor: Allied Assault

Medal of Honor: Allied Assault

Deus Ex: Invisible War

Medieval: Total War

Shogun: Total War Warlord Edition

Half-Life: Blue Shift

Max Payne

Max Payne 2: The Fall of Max Payne

Far Cry

Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory

Manhunt

BioShock

As the "spiritual successor" to System Shock 2, it fails, but still a solid game in it's own right.

This is a little different format from most of the reviews I've written. In the game forums, I have encountered a large number of players who absolutely love the game, and an equally large number who, like myself, felt ... Read Full Review

The Elder Scrolls III: Bloodmoon

Once more, into Vvardenfell!

An epic addition to the Morrowind line. Only this time, the story is more about Norse mythology than Tolkien fantasy. The look of the mostly snow-covered exteriors is a great change from the environments of Morrowind a... Read Full Review

The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind - Game of the Year Edition

If you've never played a role-playing game, and are searching for your first experience, look no further.

Reviewing "The Elder Scrolls: Morrowind" is a daunting task, for the simple reason that the game has so much to offer, one could easily fill several pages and still fail to do it justice. So consider yourself warned. I... Read Full Review

The Suffering

The most imaginative, unique, and SCARY storyline to come out in a long time.

Players that have had their fill of killing zombies, aliens, Nazis and terrorists, and are looking for something different will find a wickedly unique experience in The Suffering. A frightening prison-island setting tha... Read Full Review

Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Pandora Tomorrow

Almost four years after it's initial release, still an extremely satisfying stealth experience.

Having just played the game for the first time, I have to say that it was a pleasant...no, make that excellent...surprise. Being primarily a FPS action fan, I find the stealth sub-genre to be a great diversion when I ne... Read Full Review

F.E.A.R. Perseus Mandate

Worst in series? Definitely.<br /> Totally unnecessary expansion? Undeniably.<br /> Still hella fun to play? ABSOLU

Maybe it's just me, but I think the many critics of this release may have been a little harsh. I mean, sure, Perseus Mandate is riddled with some significant flaws, but I don't think it's as bad as many "professional" r... Read Full Review

Call of Cthulhu: Dark Corners of the Earth

The good is GREAT, but the bad truly sucks. In the end, a few simple changes could have made it more appealing.

Most gamers will either love it, or hate it. GOOD STUFF... 1) REEELY creepy environment. 2) The inhabitants of Innsmouth freaked me out. 3) 'Insanity' aspect is a cool (if sometimes, frustrating) innovation. 4)... Read Full Review

Rome: Total War Barbarian Invasion

Probably won't grab you to the same extent RTW did, but a solid addition none-the-less.

Ever since Shogun, CA has done a great job of introducing &quot;Invasion&quot; expansions to each Total War game. With Shogun TW, it was &quot;Mongolian Invasion&quot;, with Medieval TW it was &quot;Viking Invasion&quot... Read Full Review

Hitman: Blood Money

Nothing extraordinarily good OR bad…just more “47 fun” for fans of the series.

I had a difficult time writing this review. I’ve been a fan of the Hitman series since the original Codename 47, and while I enjoyed Blood Money, after I had finished the game, I couldn’t think of anything really notewo... Read Full Review

The Suffering: Ties That Bind

Although Ties That Bind is a disappointing follow-up to an amazingly unique game, Suffering fans will probably enjoy it.

Die-hard fans of the The Suffering will have fun with Ties That Bind, simply because it contains elements of the original and reminds us how truly great that game was, but its' mediocrity ultimately results in disappoin... Read Full Review

Mafia

A Grand Theft Auto clone? Maybe, maybe not...but even if it is, what's wrong with THAT?

Given the huge popularity of the GTA series, would it be such a huge crime if Illusion Softworks &quot;borrowed&quot; some concepts from those games? Personally, I don't think so. I love certain elements of the Grand T... Read Full Review

Company of Heroes

Although slightly over-hyped, the revolutionary visuals, game play and multi-player successfully “break the mold” for Re

Any production that receives as much pre-release press as Company of Heroes did typically has a difficult time living up to all the hype. While there are certainly fans that consider it to be “the greatest RTS of all ti... Read Full Review

F.E.A.R. Extraction Point

A shotgun blast to the face of what was once a promising franchise?

POSSIBLE SPOILERS A moment of silence may be in order here, since we could be witnessing the death of 2005’s Game of the Year. Is this the end of FEAR? I’m not sure, but at the very least, Extraction Point is a step... Read Full Review

Cold Fear

“Things go bump in the night”….but don’t worry, chances are it’s just YOU.

With an antiquated “keyboard-only” movement and view control system, one of the scariest aspects of Cold Fear is the prospect of having to simply run down a hallway without banging into crates, barrels….the wall. Clicki... Read Full Review

Half-Life 2: Episode One

All the gaming goodness of Half Life 2…just not enough of it.

Fans who loved HL2 will find a lot to be happy about with Episode One, as it picks up right where HL2 ended and is essentially a continuation of that game. The storyline is less ambiguous in E1, which was a common compl... Read Full Review

Rome: Total War

Creative Assembly takes real time strategy to the next level.

Being a Total War fan since Shogun, one of the things I admire most about the developers is that they have taken an innovative core concept (the blending of turn-based strategy with real-time battles), and consistently i... Read Full Review

Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas

Bigger, badder, edgier…and with new SIM-like elements, San Andreas is even more addictive than it’s predecessors.

THE GOOD: huge game world; tons of new content; lots of challenges; excellent characters; hilarious parodies of real-life that are the trademark of the GTA series. THE BAD: combat sequences are way too easy; some of t... Read Full Review

RAGE

Under-rated, particularly with all the required fixes in place.

RAGE was a long time in development and full of bugs when it was finally released. I think that caused a lot of animosity when it finally launched. But a couple of years after it's release I purchased a digital downloa... Read Full Review

Quake 4

Amazing visuals! Stunning effects! Intense combat ! All that, AND...um...eh...gee...why am I here, again?

That about sums up the Quake 4 experience. The story is so thin and the game so linear, you may as well strap yourself to a motorized hand cart on a track and get ready to slug your way down a set of corridors, locate t... Read Full Review

Half-Life 2

Over four years in the making, Half Life 2 once again puts Valve way ahead of the pack.

Half Life 2 has already been out for a year, and since this review is so late in coming, I won’t belabor all the amazing aspects of the game that have already been thoroughly covered in countless other reviews. In fact,... Read Full Review

System Shock 2

A scare-fest extrordinaire...seven years after it's initial release, still the CREEPIEST experience around.

Rather than re-iterating all that's already been said about System Shock 2, I'm going to keep this short. If you're a hard-core gamer like I consider myself to be (I've played well over a hundred PC titles), then you'll... Read Full Review

Deus Ex

The first of it's kind, rivaling Half Life in the level of innovative concepts and fresh ideas introduced in a game.

Don't gt me wrong...I'm a huge Half Life fan, and that masterpiece was definitely the game-opiate that got me hooked. But at the time of Deus Ex's release, no other game combined all the elements of action, stealth, rol... Read Full Review

Rune: Halls of Valhalla

A hugely entertaining game that has been sadly maligned

(Note...this is essentially my review of Rune, but since Halls of Valhalla is the multi-player expansion, I've added some additional comments about the on-line play.) Coming on the heels of the Half Life's, SIN's, Qua... Read Full Review

Unreal II: The Awakening

Maybe not a completely &quot;unreal' experience, but still innovative and extremely enjoyable.

Some of the innovations introduced in The Awakening (such as characters with more depth, and movable sentry guns and barricades) are widely used today in other games. The story packs more punch than many of today's game... Read Full Review

Rune

A hugely entertaining game that has been sadly maligned.

Coming on the heels of the Half Life's, SIN's, Quake's and Unreal's of the game world, this choice morsel was quickly dismissed in favor of bigger guns, badder explosions, alien invasions, yada yada yada. And that is tr... Read Full Review