what are some good computer games

now that I have a computer i might get some games for it (manly to pass time on long car rides) any suggestion

CounterStrike Source really fun game

PC exclusives?
Well lets see, we have:

Crysis
S.T.A.L.K.E.R.
Age Of Empires III
Empire: Total War
Company of Heroes
Infernal

Painkiller was one of my favorite PC games.

Age of Empires II: Age of Kings

BEST GAME EVER!!! I still play it and its MS

Got to say the quality of RTS games are just keep getting worse since it. With the exceptions of Company of Heroes, thats is an awesome game. Any game from the Total War series are very good, my best would be Rome: Total War, with Medieval II: Total War on second... I didnt like Empire... The gunpowder units have taken over the game and made it quite bad appart from naval battles. (Total War games are TBS, Turn Based Strategy)

Anno is also very nice, think its called something else in the states due to low profits on the name over there... Very nice and relaxing game, until you get bankrupt

Battlefield 2, alot of players play it to this date and some very nice mods are starting to show up now.

Crysis is probably not for the laptop to play in the car You will need quite a "beefy" rig to play it properly. I have a PC for about 1500€ and can play it decently on high settings. I average about 25-35 FPS on it.

Ooh!!!

If you like Point n' Click games:

Broken Sword The Shadow Of The Templars is seriously EPIC

If you like 3D adventure games:

Grim Fandango is seriously underappreciated. IGN rated it as 20th greatest game of all time but almost no one's heard of it!!

Also Broken Sword: The Sleeping Dragon.

Also Secret Files Tunguska.

None of these games require a powerful laptop as most are quite old (if you want a newer adventure game which a more powerful pc can run, Broken Sword & The Angel Of Death).

For FPS,

I've not played many pc fps' but ones I've played and were good:

Doom 3 (my crappy pc can run it lol)

Call Of Juarez

Crysis (lol I hope your computer has amazing graphics card....I've actually not played this though)

Halo (duh)

WarRock (download free!!!!)

Ok..


for mmos:

World Of Warcraft and if you don't like monthly fees, research Private Servers

Guild Wars (no monthly fee but don't get this game pre-owned or downloaded or you can't play it....seriously)

Dungeon Crawlers:

Diablo 2 ftw!!

Ok...that's all I got ya for the moment. lol

StarCraft, WarCraft, Quake 4, Doom 3.

Tibia and Crysis

Team Fortress, Starcraft, Left 4 Dead, Counter Strike, Crysis, Diablo, Grim Fandango

Dragon Age Origins, heard thats a lot better on PC