The computer gaming market nowadays is so large that almost whatever type of game you like, you will have enough of them to play for several years.  I am at the stage where I do have way too many games to play, and too little time to play them.  However, there are a few games that have been dominating the amount of time I play recently.

Company Of Heroes: Opposing Fronts

The expansion to the original CoH game adds the British into WW2, and also another German army, along with campaigns for both of those sides – essentially doubling the size of the game (The original only had an American campaign, but is about as long as British and German combined).

Now, for those who haven’t played the game at all (Multiplayer version at least), you firstly have a choice of which team to play on.  Allies give you either American or British, Axis old German or new German.  Once in the game, you get experience from a number of things, and put these into skill points, giving you a number of special abilities depending on which army you are playing with and what tech tree you choose to play with.

I always used to play with American, mostly playing Armoured (there is also Airborne and Infantry).  Armoured gives you a number of really good tanks and upgrades for tanks, airborne allows you to drop paratroopers and other things in to the map and infantry allows you to get some brilliant infantry and call in artillery strikes on the enemy.

However, since British were added, we have tended to play as German.  The main reason for this is because the British are too expensive to play with, and although the units are much better than Americans, you can’t really afford to lose any as you won’t be able to get any more for ages.  New Germans on the other hand, are also more expensive but mostly have tanks, giving you the advantage of not losing anything as quickly (and once you have the right type of tank, you can win fairly easily against the computer – not tried against real people yet).

Anyway, it is a good game, and at £18 from Play it was certainly a good buy.

Although I haven’t played many other games recently, the other people in my house have.  World of Warcrack is a game that has always seemed to be a fairly good game every time I have seen it, but not worth the subscription fee you have to pay.

Unreal Tournament 3 – Much improved graphics over UT2k4, and also works in Linux.  To be honest, the lack of game support is one of the main things holding Linux back, so hopefully more game development companies will follow UT3′s lead.

Hellgate: London – From the makers of the Diablo series, a game that I do actually want to play. Due to the way they have done the MMORPG part of the game, I will probably actually play that rather than the single player if I do get it (they are the same, just one is multiplayer).

And finally, although it isn’t a game, Zero Punctuation is a brilliant place to find reviews of games.  Although not really safe for work, etc, the reviews are exceptionally funny, especially given how most of them are entirely accurate.  Go look for yourself.  Well worth it.