Top 7 Most Anticipated Games of 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.

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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: