New game time! Only if the wife lets me.

So Ive been itching for a new game to play lately. To make matters worse Im at the point where Im sick of the 2 or 3 genres Ive been playing lately (MMO's, FPS's at the top of that list). So Ive been looking around for a couple new games and have narrowed my search.

On the RTS front Warhammer 40k: Dawn of War looks very interesting. The expansion pack for the game is just about to hit stores so hopefully the original game will drop in price soon. The reviews on it are all good and the game looks great.

http://www.dawnofwargame.com

In the empire building games the big news is the new Age of Empires III. Since other AoE games made me want to stick hot pokers up my pee hole due to the total crappy-ness of them I decided to venture a little farther down the path of 4X (explore, expand, exploit and exterminate) games. I found this preview of Galactic Civiliazation II at gamespy which got my interest peaked in the game. Many of the features mentioned remind me of Master of Orion II which is a game I loved (but not MoO III which sucked balls).

Read the preview here: http://pc.gamespy.com/pc/galactic-civilizations-ii/649285p1.html

On the console side of things my Xbox has not gotten used in MONTHS so Ive been looking at picking up another game for it. The one which has stood out the most is the new Dynasty Warriors. Its the 5th one in the series and they have always looked cool although Ive never played one. From looking at the reviews they seem very hit and miss. DW 1 and 4 got good reviews while 2 and 3 were ripped pretty bad. I hope the 5th one is good because this will probably be my next Xbox game purchase.

http://www.ebgames.com/ebx/product/257295.asp

The new Burnout: Revenge is coming out next week. Burnout: Takedown was one of the most fun racing games Ive had the pleasure of playing lately. The crash mode is easily worth the price of the game itself. I want to wait and see if there is any huge differences between Revenge and Takedown however. EA is notorious for rehashing games and selling them a year later *cough* Madden *cough*. Why by a 2006 model when you can get the 2005 for a quarter of the price right?