What makes them your favorite games?

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1) Homeworld
This game offers one of the best sci-fi stories which is a struggle of a race trying to find their way home. Its emotional and the gameplay plays it out perfectly. Homeworld's gameplay is one of the first 3D RTS games where you have full 360 control of the camera and the freedom on the map. This IP could easily be a movie/series. Its a violent galaxy in the Homeworld universe, one i couldn't recommend enough.

2) Half-Life
Saw an advertise on an old video show (Cannot remember the name) seeing for the first time a player interacting with an NPC. Having them follow you and help you was quite incredible at the time. Half-Lifes story is what makes it great, a mystery experiment gone wrong. I am sure not many need to know how good Half-Life is.

3) Halo 3 / Perfect Dark
This is a toss up, i just couldn't pick which one is my third favorite. Halo 3 has an incredible story with one of gamings most iconic character. The struggle between the human race and the highly advance covenant. It plays so good on the 360 and looked absolutely amazing for the time. Loved the relationship building, the fight and survival. Perfect Dark was a game that had so much hype behind it, and to live up to the spiritual successor in Golden Eye. Joanna Dark was just a fun and interesting character, being the perfect female James Bond. The things you do in this game and the things you can do was just top notch, even to today's standards, PD does things better than most modern day FPS games.