Crysis, it's not just pretty to look at, it's the best shooter I've ever played even with a few of it's bugs. Too bad everyone is too caught up on CoD4 to realise what a real shooter can be. The multiplayer is extremely engaging and the nanosuit adds a lot to it.

Halo 3, hate to admit it, but it's got one of the best multiplayer suites I've ever seen in any game and it's on a console.

World in Conflict, made an extremely engaging and deep team-based multiplayer RTS hybrid thing that's hard to explain without actually playing it.

Bioshock, too many whiners around this game, one of the most engaging shooters I've ever played with my favorite plot twist ever. The shooting may not be the best thing out there, but just finding out new ways to kill things is the best, bouncer big daddies make for some of the best ad lib boss fights I've ever seen.

Mass Effect, amazing new sci-fi universe with some nice shooter/rpg hybrid gameplay and a fantastic set of characters. Just sitting and reading the lore in the journal can fill hours of time for a science fiction nut.

Portal, because it's so much fun to play, extremely polished and I don't think that anyone who has played can ever forget that "The cake is a lie."

The Witcher, had no clue what it was about when I purchased it, but I was instantly drawn into Geralt's world. It has quick gameplay, a great alchemy system and a ton of lore. The story even held up really well with the shoddy English translation. Waiting patiently for CDProjekt's next endeavor.

Just the ones that come to mind that are in the OP, but this generation has seen a lot of great games so far.

Yet to be released:

Warhammer: Age of Reckoning, I'm a huge PVP fan and this looks like it will be what I've been waiting for since I first played a RvR in Dark Age of Camelot. Have yet to get my hands on it, but so long as it can bring the feeling of DAOC back, I'll be happy.

Heavy Rain, know just about nothing about it, but just the fact that QuanticDream is developing it has piqued my interest to a point where I find it hard to wait.

Spore, just because whatever Will Wright touches turns to gold, and the extended development cycle has probably done wonders for it.

The Bioware MMO and Dragon Age, because they're being developed by Bioware who are one of my favorite developers.

Left4Dead, extremely interesting premise, if nothing else it will become a cult classic.

Star Wars: Force Unleashed, the Jedi Knight games were absolutely incredible and made playing a jedi make you feel like an absolute badass, should be great to play an absolutely badass dark jedi apprentice.

Stacraft II, because Starcraft is the best RTS ever, even if SCII only stands in it's shadow I'll be happy.

Fallout 3, holding out the hope that Bethesda can bring back what made Fallout 1&2 so great, already looks like it might be able to stand on it's own as a great game, however.

These are the ones that I'm really itching to get my hands on, mainly because previous works by the developers have been so great.

[QUOTE="Crzy1"]Havn't played it in quite some time, but I really enjoyed it when I did, may go back and give it a shot, but Battlefield 2 has it's iron grip on me again, really didn't expect it's community to still be thriving like it is.DivergeUnify

Hehe, guess that's how you tell a masterpiece. Nearly 3 years later and it's just as much fun as it was when it first came along, may even get the mini-expansions since I never got to play them before, should be worth a little bit more play time.

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As far as freebies, none of them are all that great in my experience. Guild Wars was a good bit of fun, but at level 20 (the level cap) it kind of hit a brick wall and it's extremely linear. If you really want a great MMO you're probably going to have to pay a monthly fee, but there are a lot of mediocre ones out there that are OK to throw some time at if you have absolutely nothing else to play.

Have to say the original Half-Life, if only because you should feel robbed if you havn't played it.

Crysis isn't the best looking if hardly anyone can run it on high settings.pseudodog07

There are quite a few people that can run it on high/very high without problems. I find it absolutely stunning and it is easily the most technically impressive game I've played. Just because I play it at max while you can't see, doesn't make it any less pretty, does it?