Titan Quest: It’s pretty much a direct clone of Diablo 2, but it does it well. The main differences are in the historic settings (Greece, Egypt, and China), and a dual-class skill system that allows a lot of different combinations. All it needs is an expansion pack to provide some more locations (perhaps some random dungeons too) and smooth out some rough spots, and some tweaks to the loot system to allow more upgrades and variety, and it’ll be a worthy successor to D2.
SiN Episodes: Emergence: I played this after HL2 and its latest episode, and SiN is a bit of a disappointment in comparison. The graphics are fine, but there’s not enough variety, there are too few ‘set piece’ battles, and the choice of weapons is weak (the shotgun in particular). I don’t think I’ll be buying the following episodes.
Yoshi’s Island (GBA): This is one of the few Mario games I hadn’t gotten around to playing yet. I think I was putting it off primarily because the focus wasn’t really on Mario, and because of the different, ‘kiddie’ visual style. It’s too bad I waited for so long, since it’s actually quite a good game. There’s lots of variety in the levels, and the boss fights are all uniquely different and challenging, unlike some other Mario games where they’re only slight variants.
Chronicles of Riddick: Games based on movie licenses usually suck, but occasionally there’s an exception, and this is one of them. It combines shooter, stealth, and adventure game aspects smoothly, and is one of the few FPSes with a decent hand-to-hand combat system.
The Chronicles of Riddick one sounds fun!