Why this version? All of them were really good. WTF? It was great on the XBOX but not a good FPS by PC standards.ġ7 - UT2k4.
I grow tired of the "inevitable march to victory" feel of these games and feel that it actually fails to do history justice.Ģ0 - Rise of Nations. On a related note, why do all these countless WW2 fpses only feature battles from the second half of WW2 which the Allies won (oh, and Pearl Harbour). An inferior, dumbed down Medal of Honour clone which brought nothing new to the genre at all. What the fuck is it with this game? Why the hell do it and its sequels continue to attact such plaudits. Proof that Lucas should have let Bioware write Episodes 1-3.Ĥ) Call of Duty: FOR THE LOVE OF GOD NO.
BF2 in particular was an utter crock.ĥ)Knights of the Old Republic: Yes, definitely. Still, there's no denying that Company of Heroes is very, very pretty.Ħ) Battlefield 1942: Yes, I'd probably go along with this, on the proviso that all of the sequels and expansion packs are excluded. They're basically the same game underneath but, particularly with the expansions, I find Dawn of War slightly deeper. Personally, I'd have substituted Warhammer 40k: Dawn of War for this, though.
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Plus the graphics were beautiful and the AI probably the best we've seen in an fps.ħ) Company of Heroes: Hmm. I actually felt Quake 4 was better, so may just have substituted that altogether.Ĩ) F.E.A.R: again, a decent pick just on account of atmosphere. I'd probably have put this in the bottom end of the list, though, given the lack of variety. I know a lot of people found fault with it, but this game scared the living shit out of me (at least for the first half of the game). They were basically the same as any other RTS around, if not slightly better due to the decent hotkeys system.ĩ) Doom 3: Yep, decent pick. I'm mystified as to why the article says the controls were tricky, though. Probably the best of the small-scale RTSes from the XP era. However, I will grant that they do seem to push the requisite buttons for an awful lot of people, so happy to let this one stand.ġ0) Warcraft 3: Reign of Chaos - yeah, good pick. Gameplay that was outdated compared to other RTSes even at release.ġ2) Guild Wars - not played it, so can't really comment.ġ1) Civilisation IV - frankly, the Civ games have never done it for me.
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Command and Conquer with a slight graphical facelift, but none of the production values that made the very early installments in the series great. No thanks.ġ3) Command and Conquer: Generals - Oh god no.
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However, I will grant you that, with two solid expansions and a huge mass of mods available, NWN has grown way beyond what originally came out of the box.ġ4) Max Payne 2 - Can be completed in about 4-6 hours by an average player and has no replay value. The sequel is massively better in this respect. On the one hand, the game as released, straight out of box, is pretty damned poor, with an original campaign that falls waaaaay short of the usual Bioware standards. Unfortunately, if you look further down.ġ5) Neverwinter Nights - ooooh, tricky one. If this were the only one on the list, I could have been perfectly happy. I'm not quite sure how TFA manages to claim the original is better.ġ6) Medal of Honour Allied Assault - I guess you have to include one of the WW2 shooters and I guess this one is the obvious candidate.
It was definitely the best iterration of the series. Very solid game.ġ7) Unreal Tournament 2004 - this made me go "hmm" at first, but on balance, I think I could live with this here. sure, the Xbox version was great, even if its own sequel does comprehensively out-shine it, but the PC version always felt like a nasty hack at best.ġ8) Rome: Total War - reasonable pick and probably in about the right place on the list. Graphics are dated quite badly now, so a sequel wouldn't go amiss.ġ9) Halo - w. I may even have moved it a little higher up the list. It's a nice concept and still a fun game to play. thoughts on each of these in turn:Ģ0) Rise of Nations - yeah, ok, this seems fair enough.
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