Recent games I have played:
Unreal 2 - stay away from it - nice and flashy, couple good missions but otherwise same old same old.
Operation Flashpoint - GET IT!! Tough. Unbelievably tough. But fairly realistic, good story and enough variety to have a lot of fun. Pick it up in gold edition with the expansion stuff - should be aorund $20-30 - make sure you have the recommended requirements...
Baldur's Gate 2 and Neverwinter Nights... BG2 - EXCELLENT!! NWN... verdict is still out... I might enjoy this a lot more, when I figure out how to manually put my GeoForce in OpenGL mode... cause the way I am "forcing" it to play, my 2.4Ghz is acting like an old, old computer...
Line of Sight: Vietnam... only seen this at my friends house and I want to get it... very difficult, highly challenging Sniper game.
Medal of Honor: Haven't played yet and am drooling waiting too - excellent graphics, playability and come on you get to invade Normandy on D-Day? Al la carte Saving Private Ryan!!
Anyway thats my short list of suggestions.
Sam
PS... you know here is an idea... a PC Game pass... older and newer games...