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Emperor: Battle for Dune is a top-down RTS developed by Westwood Studios (now part of EA Los Angeles) and released in 2001. This is the third game in the Dune RTS series and the 1st to use 3D graphics for gameplay.

In TC:NY it's up to you to expand your district by placing and upgrading buildings. Meet your residents' demands, develop your businesses against rival AIs, build famous landmarks of the Big Apple and ultimately take control over the whole of today's Manhattan.

Bully: Scholarship Edition was developed by Rockstar Vancouver and ported by Rockstar New England. Friends? You and me?

Rise of the Argonauts is a 3rd person action RPG brought to you by Liquid Entertainment (who also made the nice warcraft clone, Battle Realms, in 2001) in the last month of 2008. Throughout the game you will meet other characters who will join you as argonauts. They will stay with you on your ship. When you leave the ship, you can pick who you want to accompany you. This is similar to games like KOTOR and Mass Effect. This game received above average review scores. Some people have complained that the game has way too many dialog and not enough action. I think that's not fair.

What can one say about Arx Fatalis? It's a 1st person RPG from way back (originally released in 2002) made by Arkane Studios (same folks who did "Dark Messiah of Might and Magic"). It was meant to be Ultima Underworld III but due to not being able to secure a license became its own game. I'm glad it's not tied to an existing franchise. It uses a skill based system as well as requiring the player to use mouse gestures to cast spells. The game is in the same vein as Morrowind/Oblivion but is much, much smaller in scale than either.

TimeShift is a FPS created by Saber Interactive released in 2007. This game is noteable for allowing the player to manipulate time. It also received mostly above average review scores.

Empire Earth III is the third in the series of Empire Earth RTS games developed by Mad Doc Software (now Rockstar New England) and published by Sierra Entertainment. It is by far the least liked in the series by fans with (devastatingly) low review scores across the board.

Spore is a multi-genre single-player god game developed by Maxis and designed by Will Wright. The game was released for the Microsoft Windows and Macintosh operating systems in September 2008 as Spore. Covering many genres including action, real-time strategy, and RPG, the game allows a player to control the development of a species from its beginnings as a microscopic organism, through development as an intelligent and social creature, to interstellar exploration as a spacefaring culture.

Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning is the popular MMO from from Mythic, set in the Warhammer universe.

SW is a snowboard game with multiple challenges to choose from in open environments, not unlike the late Tony Hawk's Pro Skater series' most recent titles. The Scimitar engine (Assassin's Creed, Prince of Persia 2008) supposedly allows the gameplay to rely solely on physics whereas most "board" games are animation-based. A more obvious feature though is that you can control your avatar through some half-pipe fun during loading times, something AC's Altayr probably misses terribly.