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Votes: 25, Link, a young man from a small farming village, finds Hyrule is being consumed by an otherworldly twilight. Guided by a strange pixie named Midna, he endeavors to return light to the land and confront the usurper king Zant.

Votes: 4, In , a lone survivor of a plane crash named Jack discovers an abandoned underwater utopia, only to find out that the mystery behind its creation is much more sinister than he first believed. Votes: 18, M Action, Adventure, Fantasy. After 10 years of endless nightmares and servitude to the gods of Olympus, Kratos is assigned with a final task, to kill Ares, the God of War. Votes: 9, After being betrayed by the gods of Olympus and annulled of his divine powers, Kratos must embark on a journey to meet the Sisters of Fate and take his revenge on Olympus.

Votes: 8, M Action, Crime, Drama. Now, Tommy is out to make Vice City his home. T Adventure, Comedy, Sci-Fi. A test subject wakes up in a scientific facility controlled by a sadistic artificial intelligence and must escape with the help of the only instrument she has--a gun that makes portals.

T Adventure, Fantasy, Romance. A celebrated young athlete is drawn from his futuristic hometown and convenient lifestyle to a harsh and techno-phobic land by a mysterious force only known as Sin. Votes: 7, M Action, Adventure, Thriller. The Call of Duty series returns this time into a modern day setting.

E Action, Sport. Life begins at the summit where a wide-open mountain awaits you -- board it, explore it, and beat it. Featuring all-new freestyle events and race courses, jaw-dropping tricks, and a cast of cool, customizable characters. You and your friend Eric Sparrow are local skaters in New Jersey, discovered by professional skater Chad Muska, he tells you to find a sponsorship. You travel around the world to get noticed and meet other skaters. After saving the galaxy two years ago, Ratchet and Clank are recruited by the director of antother great enterprise, called Megacorp, in order to recuperate a robbed experiment in a far away galaxy.

Henry wakes up to realize he's confined in his apartment. He is then forced to crawl a mysterious hole in his bathroom; a gateway that leads to grisly realities, holding both secrets and answers.

Votes: 5, Action, Sport. M Action, Horror, Sci-Fi. A demonic invasion at Union Aerospace Corporation's Mars Research Facility has left only you and a handful of survivors with the chance to fight your way to safety. Stars: J. Votes: 4, Play as either the Confederacy of Independent Systems, the Galactic Republic, the Galactic Empire, or the Rebel Alliance, and lead each faction in the key battles of the Republic age, and the Empire age.

Create a character and travel around the world with Tony Hawk and Bam Margera in a crazy competition to see who is the better skater.

M Action, Crime. A family tragedy prompts gangster Carl "CJ" Johnson to return home, only to find it overrun by crime and corruption, which he must regain control of the streets before it gets even worse. Votes: 38, M Action, Sci-Fi, War. The Helghans have rebuilt their planet after the first Helghan War and have attacked the ISA on the colony planet Vekta, who are heavily outnumbered.

Ratchet and Clank return to the Solana Galaxy to combat Dr. Nefarious, a villain from Qwark's shady past, who wishes to turn all organic life into robots. M Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi. As the alien Covenant invade Earth, the Master Chief must defend humanity's homeworld whilst discovering more about the rings called "Halo. Votes: 9, Freeman is taken out of stasis by his "employer" to help rid the planet of invading aliens forces known as the Combine that entered through the portals he helped create.

In , a U. M Action, Adventure, Horror. Oh well Want to share your opinions with the world? Well here it is While of course we're a little partial to our PCs, this list is actually really promising for PC gamers. You're the pilot of an experimental aircraft that falls into an unknown sector of the universe. Your objective is to get home alive, but that won't be any small task as tons of enemies and obstacles will try to slow your progress throughout the adventure.

The game boasts more than fully operational aircraft, six interactive civilizations, in excess of 10, objects to use, and thousands of hours of gameplay.

Fighting, trading, and solving puzzles are all part of the territory in this massive gaming experience. Your adventure begins as you depart on a journey to save your beloved wife. Enter into the shadows, and explore catacombs and hidden passages as you travel the pathway to darkness. Now you can experience Myst the way the Miller Brothers originally envisioned it -- truly immersed in a world that lives and breathes around you, where the weather changes, the sun rises and sets, the trees sway in the wind, and animals scurry by.

A unique game system that authentically recreates the most exciting engagements of WWII. Emphasizing command control and combined arms, the first volume of the series, Danger Forward, focuses on the Mediterranean and Western Front, from Battle stations! Battleship: Surface Thunder is now a fast-action, 3-D naval adventure. Now you can take command of your own battleship and sink enemy convoys, attack shore gun emplacements, and free captured ports in an all-out effort to defeat a renegade empire.

Tiger Woods PGA Tour delivers three new courses, enhanced online play, and a brand new game type. The Presidents Cup lets you join either the U.

Coming Soon. Essential Links. Highs and Lows. Highest of the Month. Lowest of the Month. Metascore: 92 User Score: 8. Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 2 Platform: PC October 25, Players can choose to skate with the skills of Tony Hawk, the most legendary pro of all time, or as one of 12 pro skaters from the star-studded lineup. The Operative: No One Lives Forever Platform: PC November 11, A story-driven, first-person adventure delivering over-the-top action, tense subterfuge, outrageous villains, and wry humor in the tradition of the great 's spy films and TV shows.

Deus Ex Platform: PC June 23, The game that incorporates RPG, action, adventure, and 1st-person shooter genres into a chaotic blend of real-world conspiracies, cliffhangers, and plot twists. Sacrifice Platform: PC November 5, Sacrifice provides a truly fresh approach in the 3-D RTS genre, allowing players to act as both commander and combatant over huge, real-time, generated landscapes in single or multiplayer modes.

Homeworld: Cataclysm Platform: PC September 7, Homeworld: Cataclysm boasts 18 all-new ships, 25 new technologies, 17 single-player missions, and fantastic multiplay, while improving on the interface and technology that earned Homeworld 's highest accolades. Superbike Platform: PC October 9, Superbike delivers authentic Superbike racing from Superpole qualifying to the championship rounds.

Metascore: 88 User Score: 9. Thief II: The Metal Age Platform: PC March 23, On the streets and rooftops of a darkened city, where the forces of a corrupt sheriff loom, it takes someone with a soft touch and even softer step to stay ahead of the law.

Allegiance Platform: PC March 31, Allegiance, the multiplayer space-combat game from the minds of Microsoft Research, combines the challenges of tactical squadron-based combat, intense one-on-one space dogfights, and amazing graphical and sound effects into a space-action experience like nothing you've seen before.

Metal Gear Solid Platform: PC September 24, You are snake, a government agent on a mission to regain control of a secret nuclear weapons base from terrorist hands. Metascore: 83 User Score: 8. Metascore: 82 User Score: 7. Metascore: 81 User Score: 8. Metascore: 81 User Score: 7. Chessmaster Platform: PC November 14, While it does have some new features and still plays well, it actually falls short of its two predecessors in the important area of multiplayer support.

Metascore: 80 User Score: 6. Metascore: 79 User Score: 7. Heavy Metal: F. StarLancer Platform: PC March 31, Starlancer combines the action of first-person space combat with the drama and intrigue of a classic air combat movie. Metascore: 78 User Score: 5. Dirt Track Racing: Sprint Cars Platform: PC October 19, It completely reinvigorates the original game by adding four new car types, 20 racetracks, and a host of updated graphics and gameplay mechanics.

Metascore: 78 User Score: 8. You Don't Know Jack: 5th Dementia Platform: PC October 31, It's an excellent party game, but unlike its predecessors, its online play component also makes it ideal even when other people aren't at home.

Metascore: 77 User Score: 6. Metascore: 77 User Score: 8. Dark Reign 2 Platform: PC June 30, With a new 3-D engine and a host of features -- gorgeous 3-D terrain and units, traditional top-down and immersive "on the battlefield" camera viewpoints, true line of sight, and unprecedented battlefield control -- DR2 will innovate the RTS genre and give gamers the most exhilarating war experience ever.

The Devil Inside Platform: PC November 9, The game features you as the star of a live Hollywood television show investigating paranormal activities. Rune Platform: PC November 7, A third-person game of action and adventure steeped in Norse mythology and high fantasy.

Vampire: The Masquerade - Redemption Platform: PC June 7, Your unholy showdown begins in Europe and rages on into the modern day as you track a soulless enemy in an eternal struggle to destroy him. Delta Force: Land Warrior Platform: PC November 7, Engage the enemy in expansive indoor and vast outdoor environments; select from a team of diverse characters, each with their own special abilities; advanced new rifles, systems, machine guns, and grenade launchers; developed from the same engine used to train the U.

Sanity: Aiken's Artifact Platform: PC September 26, Thirty years from now, citizens begin to display remarkable psychic abilities. Metascore: 73 User Score: 7. Sheep Platform: PC November 29, Sheep is a puzzle-solving escapade through crazy mazes starring those most lovable of all creatures Hitman: Codename 47 Platform: PC November 19, Take control of this old-fashioned, modern-time assassin, and stay alive long enough to revile your past.

Metascore: 73 User Score: 6. Call to Power II Platform: PC November 17, The game blends classic themes and play styles of the empire-building genre with improvements in pacing, balance, and combat. Microsoft Golf Edition Platform: PC August 24, Designed for the new PC golfer, Golf combines easy-to-use features with the added realism of great golf anytime you want it.

Riddle of the Sphinx: An Egyptian Adventure Platform: PC December 5, Riddle of the Sphinx makes up for its technical shortcomings with a great location and an impressive amount of detail. Metascore: 72 User Score: tbd. Metascore: 71 User Score: 6. Crime Cities Platform: PC January 15, Get ready to enter a futuristic world where law and order have been replaced by terror and crime.

Metascore: 71 User Score: 7. Battle Isle: The Andosia War Platform: PC November 29, On the border between exciting real-time maneuvers and the demands of strategic planning, a new exciting kind of game experience emerges where there is a time for cool planning, quick reactions, discovery of stunning landscapes, and time for pursuing mission goals!

Metascore: 70 User Score: 7. F1 Championship Season Platform: PC November 30, It enhances a number of the original game's features, adds a handful of new ones, and, ultimately, it will undoubtedly please racing enthusiasts and interested beginners alike. Soulbringer Platform: PC June 30, It features a five-act plot that involves the player in a fully 3-D world with 1, years of history. Quake III: Team Arena Platform: PC December 18, The first official expansion pack for "Quake 3" includes several new capture-the-flag and deathmatch maps, and now teams can design their own skins and logos as well as choose from different character heads.

Metascore: 69 User Score: 7. Submarine Titans Platform: PC August 3, Submarine Titans dares you to go where no real-time strategy game has gone before -- deep into the three-dimensional heart of a fantastical underwater universe.

Gunship Elite Platform: PC July 19, Incredible rendering techniques, real-time 3-D universes, aliens, asteroids, mammoth vessels, aggressive fighters, and powerful weapons will make this the action game your universe is clamoring for! Starship Troopers: Terran Ascendancy Platform: PC November 7, Lead a squad of heavily armored, over-the-top troopers on a series of in-your-face, real-time battles against vicious bug battalions. Heroes Chronicles: Warlords of the Wasteland Platform: PC September 27, After generations of oppression, Tarnum discovers his people's true history and leads an army of Stronghold troops against their tyrannical masters.