Any recommendations for maps? 

Is badass. The way the suit allows you to play is totally cool. 

the way it lets you switch between stealth and action modes, without forcing it on you and leaving it completely in your hands, is very very cool. 

Crysis is cool, the warhead standalone expansion is pretty badass also. Though it doe's feature some annoying turret sections. Worth sticking with it though.

Crysis 2 did the suit powers much better imo, so much easier to use and you can do things like use stealth and speed at the same time, though it drains your energy much faster as a trade-off. I never really understood the complaint that C2 dumbed down the suit powers, if anything they are better than ever and each mode is always useful in every situation. 

http://i.imgur.com/0qEN4.jpg 

no crap included. 

 

i'm only about 1/3 through the ones i downloaded (about 4gb worth).

try these ones, the brackets are rating out of 5. 4 and above is definitely worth playing, 3.5 is so-so. you'll have to look on filefront or moddb for them though.

theharbour [4]
fcfort [4.5] (can't destroy AAA guns at end?)
crysissingleplayerpanama [3.5] (no ending)
coldmountain [4]
2011_04_29_Oasis [3.5-4]
CallOfTheFireflies_v2 [4]
2011_05_21_Uncharted_SC [3.5] (got majorly lost)
vulcanassaultv2 [3.5] 

3.5 should be very good IMHO. 

i guess it depends on if you define 1 as utter crap or 1 as average. :P 

1 should be crap, 2 below average, 3 good, 4 excellent and 5 amazing. 0.5 increments to add further adjectives :) 

I quite like reviews that don't bother with some score at all but just give it in words. It's not hard to say 'crap'. :p

A rating is good to get an overall average opinion, but anything more than the five star system is pretty meaningless. 

I rate 2.5 as average. So anything below that is deleted.

5 = amazing
4 and 4.5 = great, definitely worth keeping.
3.5 = just good. playable just the once unless you're really bored, or at had a flaw which prevented it from getting a 4 (ie no ending or getting lost).
2.5 to 3 = average so it's debatable whether you'd play a level on that score. not worth keeping.
2 = crap. not worth finishing.
1 = utter crap. rare, i've never rated anything that low because i'm not silly enough to download it in the first place, let alone keep it. 

agree but if you have ratings, they should mean something. Part of the problem with most commercial game reviews, I dont think I've seen anything scored less than 80!

kona, yeah I thought thats what you meant but describing 3.5 as so-so gives the impression that its not really worth bothering with.

anyway, enough semantics from me. 

The new Deux Ex will have in-game advertising. Deux Ex. In-game advertising. Oh dear. 

how do u become a moderator im desptrate for the colours thx:) 

http://store.steampowered.com/app/98200/

I'm totally hooked :D Will definitely pick this up! 

Gift me your 2nd copy? :) 

http://eseanews.com/index.php?s=news&d=comments&id=9969

Valve's CoD? Based on this report, it sounds like it will give CoD/BF3 a run for their money. 

A really good RTS at the moment. Hopefully without too many tech requirements.

Got DOW2 and can run that on min spec. 

...bought The Witcher instead. 

:o 

Age of Empires Online comes out on the 16th - free to play with some caveats. Micro transactions to unlock some restricted civ gear, certain gameplay modes, etc etc, but at least it's free to try out.

Age of Empires is one of the best RTS brands out there, btw. Not as pro-gamery as SC or SC2, but still a very solid RTS. 

got the EE version a week ago off GoG for 10$. 

I've heard StarCraft 2 is quite good...

Can run it on a cheap laptop on min settings with no problems.