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Top 7 Most Anticipated Games of 2007
Mon, Jan 01, 2007
2007 is a great year for gaming and especially for PC Gaming, we will see new great titles in the gaming industry. The best of most-anticipated games are reviewed in no particular order below. Article Updated: Spore Added.
Half-Life 2: Episode Two (Q2 2007)
First of three expansions to Valve's groundbreaking shooter is set for June 1 retail and online launch; sequels due by end of year and in 2007, respectively.
Half-Life 2: Episode Two is the second of a series of stand-alone episodes based on HL2, the popular and acclaimed shooter epic. Armed with new weaponry and vehicles, Dr. Gordon Freeman must race through a countryside riddled with an increasingly feirce Combine threat.
Command & Conquer 3: Tiberium Wars (28 March 2007)
Command & Conquer 3: Tiberium Wars is a real-time strategy computer game currently being developed by Electronic Arts Los Angeles.
It is 2047 and the stakes could not be higher. Tiberium a self-replicating alien substance that has infected the Earth -- is spreading like a radioactive ice age. The Global Defense Initiative, a high-tech alliance of the world's most advanced nations, is fighting to contain Tiberium, but Kane, the megalomaniacal leader of The Brotherhood of Nod has other plans for Earth. Kane's secret society turned superpower is bent on using Tiberium to take control and transform humanity into his twisted vision of the future. All-out war rages over Tiberium and the fate of the planet rests in the balance.
Unreal Tournament 2007 (Q1 2007)
Unreal Tournament 2007 (previously codenamed 'Envy') is Epic Games sequel to Unreal Tournament 2004. Published by Midway Games, UT2007.
Unreal Tournament 2007 marks the return of the industry's premiere first-person shooter utilizing the completely new Unreal Engine. This new entry in the deathmatch competition extravaganza features massively upgraded graphics, modifiability, playability and other gameplay features takes the new UT challenge to a new level.
Bioshock (June 2007)
BioShock is a revolution in the shooter genre that will forever change the expectations for the FPS. Going beyond "run and gun corridors," "monster-closet AIs" and static worlds, BioShock creates a living, unique and unpredictable FPS experience. BioShock is the Shooter 2.0.
After your plane crashes into icy uncharted waters, you discover a rusted bathysphere and descend into Rapture, a city hidden beneath the sea. Constructed as an idealistic society for a hand picked group of scientists, artists and industrialists, the idealism is no more. Now the city is littered with corpses, wildly powerful guardians roam the corridors as little girls loot the dead, and genetically mutated citizens ambush you at every turn.
Crysis(Q3 2007)
Crysis is an upcoming sci-fi first-person shooter computer game that is currently in production by German developer Crytek. Crytek is best known for the 2004 shooter Far Cry that was released for PC.
Players take the role of Jake Dunn, a United States Delta Force Soldier sent into a mysterious island in the South China Sea to investigate an unidentified flying object that has crash in the area.
Crysis is highly anticipated, as it will be one of the first Direct X 10 games. Some of the technology it will utilize include dynamic day/night cycle, fully interactive environments, sunrays and diffuse transmission, real time soft shadows, soft particles, interactive/destructible environments, volumetric clouds, and advanced shader technology. Please see the demonstration video in the download section to view this.
Hellgate: London(Q3 2007)
Hellgate: London combines the depth of role-playing games and action of first-person titles, while offering infinite playability with randomly created levels, items and events. The player creates a heroic character, completes quests and battles through innumerable hordes of demons to advance through experience levels and branching skill paths. A robust, flexible skill and spell system, highly customizable appearances and a massive variety of randomly generated equipment allow players to create their own unique hero.
The setting is London, 2038. The city is in ruins, but remains unmistakable. Rubble litters the streets and the buildings that once stood proud in the skyline are now vacant, shadowed hulks burning with eternal hellfire. What’s left of the once-great city now serves as the arena for the great battles that pit the human resistance against their demonic enemy. From the Temple Church on the banks of the Thames to abandoned and secured Underground stations, this international metropolis is now ground zero in the fight to save humanity.
S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chernobyl(Q1 2007)
It's been development for so many years we've lost count but is finally due early next year - and it's made it into the list. Despite waiting for it for an age, and the fact that it's been streamlined a bit and some of GSC's original features planned for the game left by the wayside, we're still keen, keen, keen to experience the survival-FPS and explore the wasteland surrounding the Chernobyl nuclear power plant while scavenging for artefacts and tackling mutated beasts and fellow fortune seekers.
Top 7 Most Anticipated Games of 2007 Update 1:
Spore(Q3 2007)
From the very tiniest forms of life to the intergalactic level of existence, you are in control of life itself in this simulation game by Will Wright, the creator of The Sims, comes SPORE. Beginning in the primordial ooze, players create a character from DNA that will grow, survive, and mate as it evolves from a single-celled organism to a fully-formed member of an establishing species. As more and more creatures inhabit the world, and as evolution forms the future, your species will join herds, clans, even civilizations. The more advanced the creatures of the planet grow, the more complex the strife of survival becomes. And while the player can continue gameplay in Spore at any level playing as a cell, as a wild creature, or as a civilized and organized society – players can also step even further out and play the game from the planetary or interstellar level, while also going online to connect worlds with other gamers.
The Uncut Spore gameplay video of Will Wright's presentation from last year's Game Developers Conference:
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jeremy
Mon, 01 Jan 2007 22:38:16 GMT-07:00
these are all FPS with one exception.... are there no other types of games that are greatly anticipated in 2007? come on.. variety is the spice of life.
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flaakmonkey
Mon, 01 Jan 2007 22:40:54 GMT-07:00
yah i guess i noticed they were all basically FPS, no WoW: BC or Spore. There are a few other highly anticpated PC games there.
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Mike
Mon, 01 Jan 2007 22:44:42 GMT-07:00
Now, are these all just PC, because if you are talking just PC, this list is good, but still not complete, and is based soley on opinion i'm guessing.
Where is Halo Wars?
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rossiter08
Mon, 01 Jan 2007 22:46:23 GMT-07:00
Are you kidding me....the only real game worth mentioning is Halo 3...its going to be the most amazing game....Halo 2 WAS xbox just as halo 3 well may BE the 360
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Hesh
Mon, 01 Jan 2007 22:49:17 GMT-07:00
ur missing alot.
i reckon halo 3 and assasin creed should be somewhere up. also halo wars. S.T.A.L.K.E.R shouldnt be even in that list.
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Voltron
Mon, 01 Jan 2007 22:53:21 GMT-07:00
Not a very good list if spore's not in it.
And Supreme Commander, successor to the #1 RTS of all time has been anticipated for 10 years now. Released soon.
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lynkdead
Mon, 01 Jan 2007 23:04:22 GMT-07:00
All the people complaining about no Halo 3 or MGS4 or Wii titles or whatever need to look at the list and realize something: These are only PC games. I know it doesn't say top most anticipated PC games, but it really shouldn't be that hard to figure out.
And, I agree that Spore should be on here.
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zzyzy
Mon, 01 Jan 2007 23:20:29 GMT-07:00
I could see some of these games ending up in the bargain bin by year's end; can't say the same for the up-and-coming Supreme Commander.
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Ringo
Mon, 01 Jan 2007 23:23:36 GMT-07:00
Read the article before suggesting your most anticipated console games. From the first paragraph, it should be pretty clear that the games are all for PC.
Spore and SupCom should definitely be on there somewhere, as well as WoW:BC and maybe even Sam & Max episodic content. Too bad the count *had* to reflect the significance of the new year.
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Rick James, bitch
Mon, 01 Jan 2007 23:25:52 GMT-07:00
Hellgate London? That shit shouldn't even make the list. And where the fuck is Spore? Or Assassin's Creed?
Fucking Hellgate London. No one is looking forward to that pile of shit.
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Steven
Mon, 01 Jan 2007 23:32:39 GMT-07:00
If 70% of "top 7" games are FPS, it's going to be a really great year. Great year for kids who are woo'd by pretty pictures that is, crap for anyone who's actually interested in real gaming. I hope you got this list wrong otherwise it will be a truly shit year; given you left out spore I'm leaning towards the former.
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King James, bitch
Mon, 01 Jan 2007 23:40:30 GMT-07:00
Stop fucking bitching about the list. Go make your own damn list and post it on the internet if it matters that much to you.
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Andrew
Tue, 02 Jan 2007 00:57:52 GMT-07:00
Not to be repetitive, but like it or not, Halo 3 and Spore both have huge potential and huge support. It does seem like they should make this list...
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john
Tue, 02 Jan 2007 01:29:09 GMT-07:00
This is a decent list but more specifically its the most anticipated titles for the PC. Spore is the industry insider buzz, but its probaly not the most anticipated title for PC fps or mulitplay.
Wish we could put a Tribes 3 on the list.
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cpuGamesRdead
Tue, 02 Jan 2007 01:56:53 GMT-07:00
PC Games are dead, period. These games offer nothing new worth mentioning. I wish gamers would quit settling for this crap.
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Bazwalt
Tue, 02 Jan 2007 02:07:25 GMT-07:00
You have to expect that most content on the internet is biased and based on the writers own opinions. Therefore it is only logical to expect most of the games to be on here are the ones that he/she is expecting to see.
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veteran
Tue, 02 Jan 2007 06:00:37 GMT-07:00
Don't forget about Sam&Max for the PC either. The list above contains some of the "heaviest" pc releases. But I know I will have more fun playing Sam&Max than most of the games on that list.
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veteran
Tue, 02 Jan 2007 06:08:49 GMT-07:00
Don't forget about Sam&Max for the PC either. The list above contains some of the "heaviest" pc releases. But I know I will have more fun playing Sam&Max than most of the games on that list.
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dick
Tue, 02 Jan 2007 07:48:49 GMT-07:00
You should have titled it, Top 7 most anticipated "PC" games. If you didn't just mean PC then you don't know much about games that's for sure. All games in general you missed Halo 3, GTA, MGS
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Helix
Tue, 02 Jan 2007 09:27:04 GMT-07:00
Awful list.
No Spore = No Go.
If your not just talking about PC games then you also need to consider Halo3, SSB:B, SMG, Maetroid, Forza 2, Mass Effect, MGS4, and a plethora of highly anticipated console games.
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Mezentius
Tue, 02 Jan 2007 12:53:15 GMT-07:00
Continuing in the "what about x game" mode, how about Huxley? It is at least a slightly more original concept then most of what's highlighted here and holds the possibility of redefining the fps/mmofps genre in a way that WoW did for MMORPGS.
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Iphigenie
Wed, 14 Feb 2007 01:41:38 GMT-07:00
Spore: Many people have seen this kind of "promise" and hype before, remember Black and White? Loads of hype, top reviews within days of release and then turned out to be boring to a lot of people within 1 week. Spore could be an incredible experience, or it could be like playing Sim City followed by Starcraft followed by MOO, but not as well as those games would have done it.
We'll have to see
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