Picking up PC on wedenesday, game to get with it?

tomanders91 · 12 Feb 2007 at 13:08

Well on wedenesday im going down to portsmouth to pick up my new PC, its gonna be an 8800gts, 2gb 667 ddr2 ram, E6400 etc, overall pretty good.

Anybody got any reccomendations on a game that can show off what the GTS can do, i wasa thinking Comapany of Heroes, or perhaps BF2142.

Any suggestions?

ZXSpectrum · 12 Feb 2007 at 13:10

Fear?

Or Resident evil 4 in a week or so? That should push it abit...

toxic · 12 Feb 2007 at 13:13

2142 for online play...FEAR for single play. Download some of the NVidia 8800 demos' they are cool.

Quake 4 and DOOM 3 etc. with full AA and AF are certainly nice!

eekfek · 12 Feb 2007 at 13:27

Company of Heroes is a definate, its the best rts ive played since Dune and theres a DX10 patch in the pipeline
BF2142 is also a must have and will show off your spanky new gfx card in full

tomanders91 · 12 Feb 2007 at 13:30

thanks very much, i think ill pick up Company of Heroes (i love Dawn of War) and BF2142.

wordy · 12 Feb 2007 at 13:35

World of Warcraft?

Maybe wait til friday and get Supreme Commander or Armed Assault?

TALON1973 · 12 Feb 2007 at 13:41

try pong

Andelusion · 12 Feb 2007 at 13:53

Skyline said:
Or Resident evil 4 in a week or so? That should push it abit...

I doubt it, have you seen the screenshots?

Although it's probably going to run like dog anyway.

Agent_matt · 12 Feb 2007 at 13:55

Another vote for Company of Heroes. Also perhaps try:

GTR2,
Call of Duty 2 (bit older but still good)
F.E.A.R
BF2142 (never played it myself but looks good)
Oblivion?

Metallifux · 12 Feb 2007 at 14:00

Ah yes you can't beat a bit of COD2.

redline · 12 Feb 2007 at 14:10

'Oblivion' plus some of the visual enhancement mods, makes it pretty untouchable, while pushing your rig to extreems..esp with the Quals texture pack 3.

Here's an animated comparison.

http://qarl.betteroblivion.com/ba06.gif

Pablo72 · 12 Feb 2007 at 15:32

For a massive rig like that, I can only think of one game to push it's limits... Frogger (DX10/64 bit version).

That'll put lead in ya pencil!

masslac · 12 Feb 2007 at 15:33

tomanders91 said:
thanks very much, i think ill pick up Company of Heroes (i love Dawn of War) and BF2142.

Good choice. CoH is superb.

tomanders91 · 12 Feb 2007 at 16:35

Do they work ok on vista?

Agent_matt · 12 Feb 2007 at 20:10

I should imagine so. I can't quite imagine CoH pushing your system to the max though. It'll certainly give you plenty of hours of entertainment though.

Hxc · 12 Feb 2007 at 20:45

Does CoH deviate far from traditional RTS territory? I do love RTSs but I don't like when they try and be action games and the like.

neocon · 12 Feb 2007 at 20:57

Gears of War

Agent_matt · 12 Feb 2007 at 21:04

Hxc said:
Does CoH deviate far from traditional RTS territory? I do love RTSs but I don't like when they try and be action games and the like.

It's bascially, build a base, hold territory (more territory = greater resources) and destroy the enemy. Certainly very RTS indeed.

alphaomega16 · 12 Feb 2007 at 21:24

Company of Heroes
FEAR
Call of Duty 2
Star Wars : Empire At War
Joint Task Force
Rainbow 6 Vegas
Area 51

n3crius · 12 Feb 2007 at 22:49

wordy said:
World of Warcraft?

My girlfriends 5 year old HP runs WOW. My mothers 4 year old (totally non-gaming) budget work-rig runs WOW even better.

My 3 year old gaming rig ran WOW fine when it was released.

I suggest something else. Just grab loads of latest demos. Games, nvidia etc.