 | Half-Life
Buy used from: £6.99 A ground-breaking FPS, an all-time genre classic.
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 | Half-Life 2 (DVD ROM)
Buy used from: £3.49 Even more widely loved than its predecessor, an incredible game. Check out the Episodes as well!
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 | Battlefield 2 (PC DVD)
Buy new: £24.99 / Used from: £2.99 Online shooter. Wide, open battlefields and a huge array of weapons and vehicles lead to joyous carnage.
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 | Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare (PC DVD)
Buy new: £50.83 / Used from: £19.95 The move to a modern-day setting has done the CoD series a lot of good. Simple but fun gameplay.
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 | Far Cry 2 (PC)
Buy new: £21.23 / Used from: £4.49 A brutal open-world shooter set in the African savannah. Gorgeous landscapes and tactical freedom.
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 | Rome Anthology (PC DVD)
Buy new: £12.05 / Used from: £10.49 Lead the Roman Republic or one of many other civilizations to conquer the known world. Nearly flawless grand strategy.
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 | Galactic Civilizations 2: Ultimate Edition (PC CD)
Buy new: £6.99 / Used from: £24.99 Epic-scale turn based strategy. Conquer the galaxy!
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 | Sins Of A Solar Empire (PC)
Buy new: £8.99 / Used from: £9.00 A sorely underappreciated space strategy.
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 | WarCraft III: Battlechest (Mac/PC)
Buy used from: £28.99 Warcracft 3 blends strategy and RPG perfectly. Ageing by this point, but still worth checking out. Also has a thriving online community.
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 | Dawn of War: The Complete Collection (PC DVD)
Buy new: £29.99 One of the all-time greats of RTS history. Nine unique factions, total carnage.
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 | The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion (PC DVD)
Buy new: £17.56 / Used from: £5.49 An insanely large open-world fantasy RPG. A must-see for anybody new to the genre.
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 | Fallout 3 (PC)
Buy new: £16.99 / Used from: £10.00 A grim, brooding open-world RPG set in a post-apolyptic wasteland. Built on the Oblivion game engine, uses it well.
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 | Neverwinter Nights 2 (PC DVD)
Buy new: £14.99 / Used from: £2.14 A must-have RPG, whether you're into D&D or not! Has spawned an astonishingly active modding community.
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 | Mass Effect (PC DVD)
Buy new: £12.20 / Used from: £7.85 Sci-fi epic. A great example of exactly how story-based RPGs should be done.
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 | Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic (PC)
Buy new: £9.65 / Used from: £8.00 Classic RPG, set in the Star Wars universe.
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 | World of Warcraft (Mac/PC)
Buy new: £7.99 / Used from: £5.44 The leviathan MMORPG, with over 11 million players. Not to everybody's taste, but don't knock it until you've tried it.
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 | Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning (PC)
Buy new: £8.74 / Used from: £1.49 A Player-versus-Player based MMORPG, and a great alternative to WoW. The player base has been declining recently, however.
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 | Spore (Mac/PC DVD)
Buy new: £24.99 / Used from: £23.00 Genre-defying, Spore has a bit of everything. Offers you incredible creative freedom designing creatures, vehicles, structures and so on, to be used in the game.
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