Were you expecting this?

2.

I love competitive games, CSS, TF2, etc. I always get into games that require skill, I think what attracts me is that the more I play the more I can smack talk and own noobs. The sort of gameplay Starcraft offers sounds just like that, fast-paced and skillful.

Starcraft 2 has three different races; Terran, Protoss and Zerg just like Starcraft 1. When I say different races I mean it, the fundemental idea of Starcraft is that the 3 races should be as unique as possible.

Here's the new Zerg unit the infestor:

While it doesn't look like much in that shot he's deadly in the game. It can burrow silently into position before infecting a building or unit. Infected units will spread disease to anyone around them, infected buildings produce slow and also infected units.

One of the new things in SC2 is how the Single Player Campaign works. Once you complete a mission you go to the headquaters area of the race you're fighting with. And the game turns into a point and click adventure game. You interact with main characters and can progress through the campaign in a Non-Linear way. Sounds pretty awesome to me.

Hopefully some of you have been eagerly awaiting number 2 in my top 3 future PC games, if not you might find it interesting anyway.

2.

I think this'll be on everyone's radar, I mean who wouldn't like to play this?

For the few who don't know, Spore is a game in which players take control over their own species of animal, taking it from the primordial soup all the way to space. (Read about the 5 phases here)

I think the single thing that excites me about Spore the most is the creature creation tool. As you can see from the screen above it looks pretty deep. I bet a lot of the time I spend in Spore will be creating really stupid looking creatures.

The more you play and develop your creatures the bigger the scale becomes. What starts out as a few organisms becomes a tribe, then a civilization then a space empire. It could almost turn into a game of Gal Civ 2. Spore will be revolutionary, mark my words...

Number 1 soon...

As always there are some awesome looking PC games on the horizon, so over the next week or so I'll write about my Top 3, starting with:

3.

I've been a fan of the total war series for a long time now in fact Shogun Total War was one of my first PC games (I haven't been a gamer for that long). Naval battles were the next logical step for the TW franchise and Empire has the perfect setting to introduce them.

The ten playable factions include Britain, Prussia, France, Spain, America and the Ottoman Empire. I'll try my hand with the British first, see if I can do better than them in real life, not likely, but I'll try.

Also, for the first time in a Total War game, nearly the whole world is on the map, unfortunately for the Aussies and New Zealanders I don't think their on it. With overhauls on Diplomacy, Missions and Espionage E:TW is going to be awesome.

Visit my blog soon for number 2...