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    Need a new game suggestion

    Discussion in 'Gaming (Software and Graphics Cards)' started by ArabellaUK, Mar 17, 2010.

  1. ArabellaUK

    ArabellaUK Notebook Consultant

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    Hi all,

    Just finished my second playthroughs of Call of Pripyat and Mass Effect 2 and Im wondering what I should buy next.

    I dont really do online gaming so I think Bad Company isnt for me, and I got bored very quickly of Assassin's Creed 1.

    So what do you think is worth looking at?

    Thanks in advance

    A
     
  2. SomeRandomDude

    SomeRandomDude Notebook Evangelist

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    -The Splinter Cell games
    -Clive Barker's Undying
    -Penumbra series
    They don't have awesome graphics but the gameplay is pretty good and they are fun.
     
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    Psynalizer Notebook Consultant

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    I'm hearing and reading good reviews about Metro 2033
    *edit: oh and Bioshock 2 perhaps? ;)
     
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    ziddy123 Notebook Virtuoso

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    Batman Arkham
     
  5. ArabellaUK

    ArabellaUK Notebook Consultant

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    I havent seen any reviews for Metro 2033 - the trailer looked like the same as the Stalker games but underground?

    Bioshock - hmmm was pretty but the game didnt really grab me

    Thanks for the suggestions to you and everyone so far

    A
     
  6. MahmoudDewy

    MahmoudDewy Gaming Laptops Master Race!

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    The Total Wars series
    Dragon Age origins
    GTA IV
    DiRT2
     
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    Hirohata GBF Danchou

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    The Witcher
    Dawn of War 2/Chaos Rising
     
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    lvnatic Notebook Evangelist

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    dragon age origins
     
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    Signal2Noise Über-geek.

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    For the PC, Resident Evil 5 Gold Edition.
     
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    Psynalizer Notebook Consultant

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    myx Notebook Deity

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    You should take up an mmo. If you dig it, you will never leave "the cult". I suggest any mmo BUT WoW
     
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    Call of Duty series , Medal of Honor series.
     
  13. mahdi

    mahdi Notebook Enthusiast

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    Personally, I'm looking forward to Metro 2033, as it has that stalkerish climate.... Take a look at the FEAR2 if you haven't.
     
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    Manhunt , Condemned criminal origins.
     
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    Pommie Notebook Deity

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    Assassins Creed 2 is said to be a massive improvement on the first one. Added heaps of "RPG" elements to it. The first one was great IMO, but definetly not a finished product, thats why I am looking forward to getting the second one.

    Have you tried SupCom 2 yet?
     
  16. xTank Jones16x

    xTank Jones16x PC Elitist

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    Assassin's Creed 2 is a MAJOR improvement of the first one. I have said this in several similar threads. Yes, the first one was kinda bad and repetitive, but the seconds one is nowhere near that. If you don't mind the DRM thing, I would highly recommend picking it up.

    Also a few others:

    Batman: Arkham Asylum
    Ghostbusters <- Awesome game
    Red Faction: Guerrilla
    Bioshock 1 and 2
    Call of Duty 4 and Modern Warfare 2 (If anything, for the campaign. It was awesome).
    Fallout 3 <- Amazing game
    The Orange Box
    F.E.A.R. 2
    GTA IV (If you got the specs to run it)
    Borderlands
    Left 4 Dead 1 and 2

    And these are just games I own..
     
  17. ArabellaUK

    ArabellaUK Notebook Consultant

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    Thanks - That's a purse smashing list!

    A
     
  18. LaptopNut

    LaptopNut Notebook Virtuoso

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    Your M15x will handle GTA IV + the upcoming DLC well, I also recommend Prototype, Batman Arkham Asylum and Fallout 3. I would have recommended AC2 but with that useless DRM, that in my opinion is a no go now.

    Edit: I just purchased Red Faction 2: Guerrilla Warfare from Steam for £14.99 and I consider this an essential purchase. The game has a fully destructible environment, your actions effect your camps moral, the gunfights are very fun, driving is cool, the graphics and environment are very atmospheric and you will feel the tension when you use guerrilla warfare tactics.

    It is very satisfying to take a hammer to a giant tall building of the enemy and demolish it or blow it up. Of course, when you accidentally take down the POW building it does tend to lower morale.


    Buy this one now!
     
  19. ArabellaUK

    ArabellaUK Notebook Consultant

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    Which do you recommend? What little i know about them there seems to be ages spent earning stuff to get stuff - sounds rather dull?

    TIA

    Arabella
     
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    LaptopNut Notebook Virtuoso

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    "Episodes from Liberty City (Ballads of gay Tony and the lost and the damned)" .. which don't require the main game to play.

    EDIT : NVM , laptopnut is quicker than me :p
     
  23. ArabellaUK

    ArabellaUK Notebook Consultant

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    Thanks to you both though!
     
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    another great game which i just finished was frontlines fuels of war... very nice story and gameplay!