Best new PC games

[RemaL]

Right i'm getting a new desktop gaming PC this week.

So I ask as i've not had any PC games due to my PC is very old and using the PS3 and Xbox for the past few years what good games do you recommend for the PC?

I like racing games, shoot em up's and games like Sim city, command and conquer, also Flight sims and counter strike and Battlefield 2 and footy manager sims

So whats your suggestions?

Edited by RemaL on Sunday 17th May 19:52

[rsv gone!]

I like shooty games and I've recently got heavily into Fallout 3. Also try

Left 4 Dead - brilliant online cooperative shooter
Crysis
Dawn of War 2
COD 4 & 5
Far Cry 2 - Well I liked it!

[RemaL]

rsv gone! said:

I like shooty games and I've recently got heavily into Fallout 3. Also try

Left 4 Dead - brilliant online cooperative shooter
Crysis
Dawn of War 2
COD 4 & 5
Far Cry 2 - Well I liked it!

cheers for the feedback

BUT:

got COD4 and 5 on 360 but after seeing the Zombie levels on the PC will be getting COD5. Fallout not my thing, had it on the 360

Far cry again have on the 360

anything goout out like sim city or any flight sims. used to love a game from the early 90's which I think had a Sr71 and it was not a microsoft game. any idea's or similer games but more recent?

[twin40s]

For a strategy game Empire total war is well worth a look.

[SlipStream77]

RemaL said:

rsv gone! said:

I like shooty games and I've recently got heavily into Fallout 3. Also try

Left 4 Dead - brilliant online cooperative shooter
Crysis
Dawn of War 2
COD 4 & 5
Far Cry 2 - Well I liked it!

cheers for the feedback

BUT:

got COD4 and 5 on 360 but after seeing the Zombie levels on the PC will be getting COD5. Fallout not my thing, had it on the 360

Far cry again have on the 360

anything goout out like sim city or any flight sims. used to love a game from the early 90's which I think had a Sr71 and it was not a microsoft game. any idea's or similer games but more recent?

Operation Flashpoint 2 is out soon I think

http://www.codemasters.co.uk/flashpoint/index.php

ARMA 2 looks good too

http://www.arma2.com/

For flight sims, I recommend FSX for general aviation (you can download and buy new aircraft and scenery, including a Blackbird ) and IL2 1946 for combat.

The Sims 3 is also out soon.

Since you are on PH I assume you will also like Test Drive Unlimited and for sims, rFactor, GTR Evo and GPL.

That should keep you going for a while!

Have fun

[MrV]

twin40s said:

For a strategy game Empire total war is well worth a look.

maybe in 6 months time when they have ironed out all the current bugs but for now I would say get Medieval total war 2 and then add the Middle Earth mod that turns it into Lord of the Rings


http://www.moddb.com/mods/third-age-total-war

[RemaL]

cheers guys for that, give me something to look at

ARMA 2 looks very good bu never been a fan of Sim's

[isee]

Also try Lock on: enemy engaged and Lockon: flaming cliffs
if you like combat air sims

FSX as already been mentioned is the way to go for GA. They have added some nice challenges in that one and I even managed to hook mine up to googlemaps for photorealistic (or shoudl it be just photo) scenery.

for shooters as already been mentioned: Left 4 Dead and team fortress 2

HTH

[RemaL]

sorry to bring this back up but will I have any problems getting Flight Simulator X and Rfactor working on a pc of this spec?

vista 64bit
8 gig ram
Ati 4890 Graphics card

anyone see any problems. i'm not thinking if the PC can handle it but if the games are compatible?

[mdotd]

If you haven't already played the xbox version(s), Half-life2 and it's episodic add-ons are worth a shout; they'll be cheap to come by as well as they've been out a while now.

[Mr_Yogi]

RemaL said:

sorry to bring this back up but will I have any problems getting Flight Simulator X and Rfactor working on a pc of this spec?

vista 64bit
8 gig ram
Ati 4890 Graphics card

anyone see any problems. i'm not thinking if the PC can handle it but if the games are compatible?

Don't know about FSX but rFactor will run great, I'm running Win7 64-bit, 6GB RAM and an HD4890, and can run everything on max (including Level 3 AA) in 1200*1920.

Another vote for Dawn of War II if you're into strategy games, I'm only on mission 5 or 6 so far but really enjoying it. And Company of Heroes is supposed to be very good too. Another one worth a punt is Supreme Commander.

[SlipStream77]

RemaL said:

sorry to bring this back up but will I have any problems getting Flight Simulator X and Rfactor working on a pc of this spec?

vista 64bit
8 gig ram
Ati 4890 Graphics card

anyone see any problems. i'm not thinking if the PC can handle it but if the games are compatible?

IMO it should be fine even on a high resolution and pretty high detail settings. If you start opening multiple windows and flying over large busy airports it probably will slow a bit but most of the time it should be OK.

You could try the demo first if you want to be sure.

http://www.microsoft.com/games/flightsimulatorx/do...

[RemaL]

mdotd said:

If you haven't already played the xbox version(s), Half-life2 and it's episodic add-ons are worth a shout; they'll be cheap to come by as well as they've been out a while now.

cheers for the feedback

I have just bought the orange box mainly for TF2 but looking forward to playing HL2 again.