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With its high-resolution screen (1024 by 762 if you're keeping score), this thin 20-in. LCD can be used as a high-definition TV or a PC monitor. There's also a 15-in. non-HD model for $650. sharpusa.com...
Millions of people fell in love with the customizable suburbanites of The Sims, which became the best-selling PC game of all time. How could veteran designer Will Wright top that? Answer: by showing just how adorably complex these creatures can be. In Sims 2 (for PC; $49.99), your characters grow older, pass on their genes to their kids, even die. They have life goals (like raising a family or raking in cash) and short-term aspirations (like making a new friend or buying a new refrigerator). You can make your characters look like just about anyone (one gamer...
...know what it's like to line up thousands of Roman troops--from the legionnaires to the attack dogs--and bring them thundering down on your enemies? If you've had the chance to play Rome: Total War (for PC; $49.99), the best real-time strategy game yet made, the answer is yes. The level of battlefield detail is amazing, going far beyond previous Total War titles, set in medieval Europe and imperial Japan. You can direct the entire bloody battle from a distance or zoom in and see the reflection in a single soldier's helmet. You will need...
This game (for PC; $54.99) was five years in the making, and every minute appears to have been well spent. The graphics and physics of how objects move in Half-Life 2's world are by far the most realistic ever to grace a computer screen. As you wander the streets of City 17, the alien-controlled police state your character Gordon Freeman is attempting to subvert, you have to rub your eyes to realize you're not actually visiting an East European capital. And check out the mayhem you can cause with Gordon's gravity gun, which sucks...
Multiplayer games--in which participants compete via the Internet--continue to grow in popularity. The most dramatic entrant this year was Battlefield: Vietnam (for PC; $39.99), a surprisingly likable simulation of America's least-liked conflict. Choose one of a dozen maps (from the Mekong Delta to the fall of Saigon) and log on to a server with 30 or so like-minded players. The server automatically divides you into Americans and Viet Cong. Then all you have to do is capture as many enemy flags as you can and try to get killed as few times as possible (death...