U2 is shit, UT2k3 is slightly less shit (slightly). Dont bother with either of them (unless you want to look at the pretty graphics).

C&C Generals was OK, although nothing new. I prefered Warcraft III myself.

Splinter Cell if you havent played it would be a good choice.


Oh, and Doom III got leaked (at least, last years E3 demo did). 

Hey Shambler, nice to see you`re back.

Unreal2 was a big let down. Graphically it was good but the rest wasn`t up to much. Some of the level design was interesting, but the game had nothing to do with the original and should have been given a different name. Gameplay was just standard shoot and find the exit stuff.

UT2K3 was ok but it was more of merging of different games than anything. It got very tiresome after a while. Some nice levels though, looks wise anyway.

I didn`t think much of C&C Generals. It didn`t add much over what they`d done before. Impossible Creatures was interesting, but didn`t grab me. Warcraft 3 was definitely better.

Splinter Cell is a poor mans Metal Gear Solid, except without all the long cut scenes. I played it on XBox and got bored of it very quickly.

To be perfectly honest PC games in general over the last 8 months haven`t been up to much as far as I`m concerned, which is part of the reason why I`ve switched to playing more console games. Only PC game I`ve really played a lot of (other than War3) is BattleField 1942. That`s how bad things have gotten. 

I played it on PC, and prefered it to MGS (especially MGS2).

Tenchu 3 beats them both though :)


As Paul said, PC gaming has got kinda lame recently 

havent tried out too many different games myself since my PC cant run most of the newer stuff.

Last few things I played were warcraft III and NOLF2. Both very good IMHO, warcraft II mixes some RPG elements, a reasonable narrative and RTS quite well. Well worth trying, I dont like RTS games but warcraft III drew me in.

NOLF2 is excellent IMHO, its taken the best bits from NOLF 1 and improved the level design & gameplay a lot more.

Prior to that, I played SOF2 which sucks balls apart from 1 or 2 missions, I would avoid it though. Jedi Knight II is quite good if you havent played it, just stick with it for the first 8 levels or so, it gets a lot better when you get a lightsaber.

Apart from that, some killer quake SP maps have been released during that time and also Xidia part 2 (http://www.planetunreal.com/phalanx) if you still have UT installed.

hope that helps. 

NOLF2 is good. Well the demos were. I never got around to the full game. If you liked the original then it should be the same for the sequel. 

i opened a Q1SP review site. ;)

http://www.planetquake.com/underworld/index.html 

I have never actually worked on it but now that you are back maybe I should?