Psychonauts is an action game from Double Fine Productions and Majesco, with design by Tim Schafer, famed designer of Full Throttle and Grim Fandango. You play Raz, a kid attending a summer camp, where students are trained to harness their pyschic powers for combat and intelligence purposes. You must develop your own mental abilities through mental training, and use your abilities to solve a kidnapping case in the summer camp.
Midtown Madness 2 is a racing game from Rockstar and Microsoft, with physics model that manages to be simple without being totally unrealistic. The game features detailed models of London and San Fransisco with adjustable traffic and pedestrian density, a large variety of motorized vehicles ranging from Mini-Coopers to Greyhounds, and plenty of gameplay modes including racing, free-roaming, missions, stunts, and taxi driving.
Worms: Armageddon is a turn-based strategy game from Team 17 and MicroProse. You command a squad of worms and must take out one or more opposing squads using an array of heavy weaponry ranging from bazookas and grenades to nukes and doomsday devices.
Serious Sam is an FPS from Croteam and Gathering of Developers. You play as Sam "Serious" Stone, and do battle with thousands of alien nasties throughout various historical set-pieces, using an array of diverse and enormous weapons.
Command & Conquer: Tiberian Sun, is a sci-fi themed RTS from Westwood and EA, and a sequel to the pioneering Command & Conquer. You play as the commander of GDI or NOD, and continue to wage apocalyptic war on the other side.
Total Annihilation is a sci-fi themed RTS from Cavedog and GT Interactive. You play as the commander of either the Arm or Core, and fight the other side in an intergalactic war with high tech weapons like giant robots and plasma cannons.
Neverwinter Nights is a Dungeons & Dragons RPG from Bioware and Infogrames. You create your own custom hero character, and you must singlehandedly defeat an evil cult, stop a plague, and thwart an attack on the city of Neverwinter. Extremely modular design and toolkits allow you to experience and endless amount of freely downloadable adventures, both to be played alone and in multiplayer.
Another World (UK, Australia) / Out of This World (Rest of the world) is a DOS-era shooter from Delphine Software and Interplay. You play as Lester Chaykin, a physics professor, stranded in an alien universe after an experiment goes haywire. This re-release, which uses the game's European title of Another World, is fully WinXP compatible, has support for high resolutions, and has all-new artwork designed to take advantage of the high resolutions that can be turned off if desired.
Who doesn't know about the spelunkering heroine Lara Croft? This game gets back to the roots of the series by incorporating actual tomb raiding in various exotic locations with the buxom protagonist.
3rd person adventure game with a Sci-Fi protagonist. Very story driven with an emphasis on cinematics.
