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[Prine]

I need to test out my new PC. I just ordered Half Life 2, can someone reccomend a few games to push my PC??

Dell XPS
Pentium D 3.2 GHz
1024MB PC-4200 Dual Channel DDR2 533MHz
ATi Radeon X850XT

Im not a PC gamer and have absolutly no clue what game to buy or what games to look foward to.

Someone suggested FEAR... what else?

 

[Gattsu25]

Far Cry
Warhammer 400000: Dawn of War
Doom 3
Battlefield 2 demo
Painkiller
Rome: Total War

 

[Rorschach]

Don't forget HL2

 

[Borys]

Shit, nice setup Prine.

Best looking PC game: Doom 3.
Second place: Far Cry.

You can get demos of both games from www.3Dgamers.com, so download them, set max settings (AF, AA) and watch the eye-candy.

FEAR isn't out yet.

Must haves: Half-Life 2, Unreal Tourney 2004.

For some serious eye-candy download 3DMark2005 from Futuremark. You can't play it but it blows everything else out of the water.

And hell, just for kicks download Halo 1 PC demo. You have an Xbox so you'll finally see the difference (the same goes to Doom 3).

Painkiller (get 3 Painkiller demos from 3Dgamers!) is nice but not best looking. Unbelievable boss fights though.

Oh.

BATTLEFIELD 2 DEMO

 

[Prine]

Cheers, i'll get started in BF2

 

[Borys]

And just because I don't like guys with Halo avatars, links:
(EDIT: oh snap, Prine has a new avatar!)

Doom 3 Demo

Far Cry Demo 1

Far Cry Demo 2

Painkiller Demo 1

Painkiller Demo 2

Painkiller Demo 3

Unreal Tournament 2004 Demo

Half-Life 2 Demo

3DMark2005 Benchmark

 

[thorns]

Chronicles of Riddick too.

 

[Myoclonic Jerk]

tell me your score in 3Dmark2005

 

[ArcadeStickMonk]

Probably Far Cry with pixel shader 3.0 support. Thhe HD light rendering looks flat out amazing.

Don't try playing the game though, just walk around the first beach area then uninstall.

Painkiller

Painkiller?

Painkiller

I guess...

 

[Ferny84]

You all forgot Battlefield 2.

Edit: Nm.

 

[golem]

Lock On Modern Air Combat
Trackmania Sunrise
Splinter Cell Chaos Theory
Guild Wars
Everquest 2
Flight Simulator 9 + Addons

 

[El_Victor]

Throw in Max Payne 2 too, playing it again right now.

 

[The Shadow]

Painkiller? Eh...

Try SWAT 4 for a great looking game.

 

[CabbageRed]

I'll second Swat 4. Also, I'm still very impressed by Sims 2 and RCT3.

 

[dark10x]

Probably Far Cry with pixel shader 3.0 support. Thhe HD light rendering looks flat out amazing.

Don't try playing the game though, just walk around the first beach area then uninstall.

I agree with that (especially the walk around then uninstall), but he is using an 850XT...which does not support Shader Model 3.0.

I would recommend Doom 3 first, then Half-Life 2. Doom 3 animates so damn well and is really a treat to experience in motion. HL2 is pretty stunning to behold, but doesn't look quite as nice in motion.

 

[Dilbert]

Half-Life 2 is outstanding, and looks gorgeous. However, I've had the most fun with UT2k4 over the months.

 

[Pimpbaa]

Far Cry definitely. Looks great and plays great (despite what some haters say in this thread). Half Life 2 is pretty sweet looking too.

 

[blackadde]

Download and watch this.

http://www.ati.com/gitg/promotions/crytek/

 

[isamu]

Trackmania Sunrise takes the fucking crown gentlemen. And you can tell 'em Isamu sent'cha....

 

[ArcadeStickMonk]

Far Cry... Looks great... plays great

Sounds like the mantra for the PC gamer with low standards.

^^^ Even without 3.0, that looks pretty good ^^^

 

[Pimpbaa]

Sounds like the mantra for the PC gamer with low standards.

I'm a console gamer more than a pc gamer. It's by no means a perfect game, but it's better than the likes of Doom 3.