[aldin]

Originally posted by Arryn:
Best RPG: Knights of the Old Republic
Best FPS: Call of Duty
Best Wargame: Highway to the Reich
Best Strategy Game: Dominions II

Best game overall? (tough choice) Knights of the Old Republic. All four games listed above are excellent.

Greatest Disappointment: MOO3 (SWG runs not far behind)

Deus Ex Invisible War is Deus Ex Lite. Pay full price for a game that only gives ~14 hours (by the game's own record-keeping) playtime. The original was over triple the length and much more challenging and intriguing. Deus Ex was Game of the Year for 2000. In 2003 the sequel isn't even a contender.

For the person who had the temerity to mention ToEE as a contender? ROTFL. YUCK! What a piece of junk. You'd be by far better off getting Neverwinter Nights and the various expansions to it. Heck, even Lionheart, with all its flaws, is a better game than Temple.

Fine, mock my choice, see if I care Seriously, ToEE was an amazing port of the 3.5e tactical sombat system to a computer screen. If Hasbro hadn't eviscerated it a month before it shipped (and some of that content can be recovered with the unofficial Circle of Eight patch) it would certainly have been even better. My response to NWN is somewhere between a yawn and a yelp at the misery they inflicted on the D&D rules. The response to Lionheart is a lot of crying over a great concept that was a pathetic game and a horrible misuse of SPECIAL. ToEE was simply gratifying in a "I knew someone could get D&D tactical combat right" way.

I've never met a FPS I liked, but the rest of your noms seem reasonable. I guess I'm a little suprised you didn't give the nod to HttR. DomII is a sequel and hard to name over an otherwise good "new" game. KotOR is one of those good but not great games that'll be forgotten as soon as the next bit of halfway decent fluff hits the market. HttR, on the other hand, is an amazingly different game that suffers only from it's limited scope.

Just my two bits.

~Aldin