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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mark Hope" data-source="post: 4638722" data-attributes="member: 27051">Thanks again to everyone who has chipped into this thread.  I have a shortlist of about a dozen games now that have consistently been recommended across the board, so that will keep me going for sure.As mentioned above, I had already ordered the Orange Box and have been playing it until unreasonable hours most nights.  Fantastic.  I'm still in Half-Life 2 (bombing along the coast in that rattly dune-buggy thing) and loving it to bits.  A friend said that it was better than the first Half-Life and I didn't know whether to believe him.  Man, was I wrong.  Awesome game.It had an annoying glitch, mind you - it would freeze up during certain load screens or when reverting to some previous autosaves after I had been killed.  Not all the time - just often enough to be annoying.  I installed it to the hard drive and (along with removing the fan noise) this has made it run perfectly smoothly.  Dunno if that was an issue with my copy or with the Orange Box in general.  It doesn't happen with any of our other games.  Oh well.  Bygones.Also been playing my gf's copy of Tomb Raider: Legend (which she bought on impulse as it was only £8!)  Lots of fun.  And for my daughter, I picked up an old Xbox game called Barbie Horse Adventures: Wild Horse Rescue (or something like that).  Very simple, very straightforward.  Perfect for her.  She adores it.Anyway, really enjoying the console.  Me, my gf and my son all have birthdays coming soon, so we should be making a few more purchases.  My son is dead keen on Fifa 09 and the old Enter the Matrix game.  Does anyone have experience with the latter?</blockquote>

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