What game wowed you the most when you first played it?

For me i think i have a top three that made me go wow

1.GTA 3 was incredible being in 3d and just causing havoc
2.Postal 2 i had never and still have never seen anything like it, setting fire to people
and then peeing on them to put it out and the cat as your silencer was funny, up da bum
3.Tomb raider 2+3 for sheer enjoyment and hours wasted on them
 
Goldeneye: Brilliant game. Shooting soldiers in the backside was pretty funny!:D

Lylat wars/Starfox 64: Haven't seen a spacehip game quite like it since:(

Ocarina of time: The whole world amazed me and the story got me involved emotionally. Standing in the temple of light and pulling out the master sword for the first time was unforgettable.

Farcry: Crawling out of the starting area and seeing the blue sea and lush jungle was amazing.

COD4: Loved the singleplayer, especially the sniper missions.
 
sorry got to make it a top five

4. Far cry never have i been so amazed at graphics before
5.Morrowind for sheer size and graphics and being the first fps rpg i ever played
 
Zelda - Link to the Past

I think at the time this was the game that made me want to get a super nintendo, mate down the road had a SNES and i wasn't that bothered on other games but then i seen Zelda and i was hooked on the art style, gameplay, story, music and the world it created.

After that game i was hooked but i didn't expect my dad to get me one for christmas it was a total surprise.

Then Goldeneye treated me to a stunning experience that i will never forget.
 
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Ultima Online - I'm yet to find another game that gives that sort of adrenaline rush... the type that makes you sweat and shake.

God I loved that game.
 
TFX I think, because I was only little but like "wow, I'm flying a jet!"

First 'real' game I had bought for me for the 486DX66 too, remember the cool box and massive manual :D
 
Homeworld

Probably the first 3D RTS I played panning around the ships and tracking the fighters on their attack runs just amazed me so much.

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EDIT - TFC was also a HUGE thing for me. I had never online gamed before and didn't even know you could really. I remember sniping on 2fort for about a year before i started clanning. I remember i was 13 at my mates house and he was playing it because his other amtes older brother got him into it. Ever since this day, i have been an online gamer.

That really changed my life i guess - Back on my old Voodoo card in software mode, everything on low, old 800mhz pc and just got 56k. AMAZING
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That brings back some memories, playing TFC for hours over a 56k :D I loved sniping on 2fort and well then I joined [FWF], awesome days.

I can remember saving up to by a Voodoo3, fairly sure it was my first gfx card that I'd bought.
 
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Remember going into a pub, saw a crowd gathered in the middle, pushed my way through and wow!

Arcade Pong in all its graphical glory!!

Awesome, just awesome, nothing like it had been seen before, the birth of gaming.
 
I've been playing games that long its hard to say... Q2 did it for me playing q2 ctf was where it was at. I then got hooked on Unreal Tournament and for me this took online gaming to a new level, ut ctf was truly amazing.

Also Planetside needs a mention, at its height organising 3\4 squads of 10 men each and achieving victory was sweet. Also when you fail miserably and all your men get slaughtered was funny ashell and made you want to come back for more.
 
I would have to say Neocron really.

I first got to try it during its open beta and it just blew me away. As an MMORPG it got so many things absolutely spot on; the reactions-based combat and pvp with both melee and range weaponry; a skilling system that was in-depth in a way I've yet to see again and that also let you just mess around and experiment with your class in unique ways; tradeskilling that was both involving and well integrated into the game world (no cop-out auction house there); an awesome sci-fi/cyberpunk setting and graphics that really suited it; I could go on but the other interesting features require a bit more explaining than I want to go into.

Sadly the company responsible failed to deal with many of the bugs and issues the game had in that beta (6 years on and you still get the same crashes and fatal errors) and that paired with their questionable patching regime has simply driven away almost everyone who ever played it.
 
Dune, back in the day. Awesome stuff. Look at what its spawned too.

Even earlier? "Maurader" on the old Amstrad CPC464 I had. Used to spend hours playing that as a kid, probably about 5 or 6 at the time. I started on PC's early, was 4 I think when the first one came. :D Never owned a console until the Xbox 360, use that as a media player though, the games are crap. :/
 
MTW2 because I was used to playing it on a my athlon xp ati 9550 512mb DDR1 system, then 2 years ago I got my q6600 88gtx 4gb ram system and its the only decent game I had and it looked amazing!

OH and Crysis looked amazing too I got it like a week after the above, I literlly sat there saying "oh ****, oh ***, wow!"
 
My god seems like most of the best ones have been mentioned! (goldeneye, sonic etc)

My classics (along with most of the above) are clearly going to be gt4 (that day showed what the ps2 could really do), urm the day i played the broken sword demo (i was like 9 maybe) i never got so into a game as i did then! (worked out how to break the game too by missing the first trip to spain too)

Random extra one is LeMans 24 on the pc :D, back on my p2 450 with a voodoo something it looked soooooooooooooo good! (3d racing to the extreme) i also had the classic gravis gamepad pro so it was so much more awesome than my mates ps1 racing games :D (and it had "good" commentary)
 
Zaxxon on the Atari 400 - just because it was the first game I ever saw.

Forsaken on the PC - rubbish game, but the first game I saw in hardware acceleration.....absolutely mind-blowing at the time.

Quake II multiplayer - my first on-line experience. I still remember the first few mins of my first ever server. I was gobsmacked - and pretty much didn't leave that chair for the next 5 years.....except to go buy Quake 3 Arena :) The phone bills from using Wireplay Direct had a "wow factor" all of their own :o
 
PC;

Carmageddon
GTA
Monkey Island
The Sims
Red Alert 2
Wow
Broken Sword

Console;

FF8
Ocarina of Time
Golden Eye
Mario 64

plus many more but i cant remember half right now.
 
A couple more come to mind...
Someone mentioned TFX yep good, but it was EF2000 that did it for me.

Also Magnetic Fields Rally Championship (1999). The realistic tracks and detailed scenery elicited a "wow" from me.
 
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