Best described as a "medieval life simulator", The Guild II: Renaissance has a lot of detail, but lacks some humanization.

A dark fantasy RPG based on a long-running Polish fantasy series, "The Witcher" has some interesting ideas in some fields, but falls back on genre standards with others.

Produced by a 10-man team of French developers, E.Y.E.: Divine Cybermancy has some neat ideas, but an overall questionable execution.

"Supreme Commander 2" largely eschews the ground-breaking concepts of scale found in its predecessor, and ends up being a fairly standard RTS game.

The sequel to "Shogun: Total War" (released in 2000), Shogun 2 uses immersive graphics and solid gameplay to create a distinct advancement to the Total War series.

Successor to one of the first truly open-ended FPS games, "Deus Ex: Human Revolution" has a lot to live up to. Amidst accusations of simplification, does DX:HR live up to its legacy?

A zombie-based FPS using RPG elements similar to games like Diablo or Borderlands, "Dead Island" can't quite make up its mind what it wants to be.

A fairly innovative puzzle game from Ubisoft, "From Dust" has the player solving problems using the raw elements of nature itself.

A direct port of the board game by Games Workshop, Blood Bowl is part football, part rugby, and part gladiators set in a world of fantasy, magic, elves, dwarves, and orcs.

The natural evolution of the Sims series, "The Sims 3" adds more content and streamlines gameplay, but is basically more of the same.