It's definately not. Total War are great games but there's nothing in common between them and AoE. Plus, being used to the AoE style (traditional RTS) it's a lil hard to get into the gameplay of Total War games.

Morrowind we have mentioned already as a no-brainer.

Other PC exclusive games that I can come up with that think you could like is Mount & Blade: Warband. But I don't know if it's your style. I absolutely love it.

£1500

but student discount reduced cost of it & the accessories I got by A LOT like over £400

@Dobby

I wouldn't mind doing that at all

@Slimebeast

I guess its time to try something new since AOE isn't coming back :( :( :(

Morrowind is a Day 1 buy (Mac arrives next week)

Now I need to buy a mouse!

It must come back, man. It must!

The Orange Box ... 5 amazing games in 1...nuff said =P

I recommend Total war games, and Mass Effect 1/2. Or the witcher. Theres alot of good games unfortunately for you your graphics card is pretty low end so that will be the bottleneck in your system. But it should still run just about any game of fairly decent settings!

What kind of GPU does it have?

Didn't know you could use a Windows OS onto a Mac, that's awesome, I personally like the Mac better but the game library compared to the one on Windows is saddening. Good to know you can use a Windows OS on a Mac.

Stay away from CnC4 it doesn't do the series justice.

Oregon Trail

Nice spec but that 256mb GPU is going to be a real issue with current and future games probably even 1-2 year old games might struggle at higher detail levels :'(

I know the problems games may have at higher settings, I went in knowing this.

My main motive is to be able to play and enjoy oldder PC games I have missed out on & new PC exclusives.. Any PC games that are on PS3 will be bought on Ps3 of course.