The most active ones at the moment.
Far Cry 2:
Better than I expected so far. For some reason I recall hearing mainly bad things about this (worse than its predecessor etc.), but it feels pretty good to me, marrying GTA-kind of gameplay with FPS. I can't say for sure if I consider it better or worse than Far Cry 1, it is a different experience mostly. The first one was more traditional FPS than this one.
Sometimes I feel a bit bored getting yet another mission telling me to drive again to the very farthest edge of the map just to kill yet another person, having to fight or evade the same checkpoints I had to fight just before (they seem to magically become populated with enemies whenever you get a new mission). But at least it sometimes gives an option try to drive off-road, evading the checkpoints.
And thank god the PC version has save-anywhere... Just so that I haven't misunderstood something, is it so that Far Cry 2 doesn't have similar magical binoculars as Far Cry or Crysis 1-2, which track the enemies for you? It just has that monocular for scouting areas, right? I guess that makes the gameplay somewhat more realistic, but now I usually don't notice enemies until they start shooting at me (playing in the hardest difficulty level).
Mafia:
I recently started playing this, after all these years of having it. Seems like GTA3 in slow motion, which is not necessarily a bad thing. Seems to run great on Win7/64bit, even though I read lots of complaints about issues with the game, crashing in intro videos, graphical artifacts etc. I see none, runs like a champ on ASUS G75VW.
Wheel of Time:
I re-installed this again, I now have it running on two Win7 PCs. I must say I'm a bit annoyed by the gameplay, it seems I am constantly out of ammo and I have to revert back to that low-range "steam attack" which is next to useless. Very weak attack, and with it I have to let the monsters so close to me that I can't help getting damage. And those stupid health potions/spells seem to give you only 10 points (out of 100) back, less than one hit from an enemy does damage. In cases like this, the Halo-kind of automatically replenishing health starts to sound better and better.
And the FMV (Quicktime) parts of the game are as buggy as ever, but I guess one option is to skip them (they play between levels), and just watch them out of the game with your favorite media player whenever you complete a level.
Post edited February 04, 2013 by timppu