Now be careful with those spoilers people

First up I would have to say Half Life

Spoiler Alert! Highlight to read. Who can forget when you finally beat the game and Briefcase man appears on the train carriage travelling through space and offers you a job? You accept, walk out the door and the screen goes black...........................

Name: Gordon Freeman

Mission: Awaiting asignment

awesome............

Of course you can choose not to walk out the door and get those "unbeatable enemies". Its hilarious[/QUOTE]


Then theres good old Shogun. After fighting the seemingly endless hordes of peasant from the East you are finally ruler of Japan

Spoiler Alert! Highlight to read. and you get that really cool movie flying over Japan with the cool voiceover, ending with a nice little FMV clip of modern Japan with a statue of you in the middle of a busy road, neon lights etc. Very nice, and all part of the ambience that makes Shogun possibly the most atmospheric game ever[/QUOTE]


Finally, for now there is NHL 2004. As any fan of hockey will tell you, the on-ice Stanley Cup winning celebrations are unbelievable. The Stanley Cup is probably the toughest trophy to win in team sports and it shows when a team wins it. So many ice hockey games have had you play 100+ games to win the Stanley Cup and when you finally do, if you're lucky you get a 10 second shot of the players with the cup. Hell, some of them don't even have that, you get a picture of the Stanley Cup with your teams name underneath it. GAH Not so with NHL 2004

Spoiler Alert! Highlight to read. As the hooter blows to signal the end of the Cup winning game, you stay in the game engine which has superb graphics & animation. All your players jump over the bench, dropping their sticks, throwing their gloves into the air and head for a big team pile up centered on the goalie. Lots of shots of smiling players hugging before it cuts away to the opposition. When I won the cup with Ottowa, Paul Kariya was down on one knee, leaning on his stick with a look of utter despair on his face, I swear it looked like he was about to cry. It was awesome. Cut to more shots of your players hugging before another shot of the opposition skating dejectedly off the ice. Then your captain skates up to collect the cup. The crowd roars as he lifts the cup above his head. Finally it cuts away to your team grouping together for the traditional on-ice team photo with the cup. The flashbulbs go off and the picture freezes with that shot...........and you think that was awesome, the best celebration of winning the cup ever seen in a game.


But wait Theres more Then you get a close up of each of your players in the photo with their Goals, Assists, Points, plus/minus and Penalty minutes. One by one it goes through your team and I felt a real attatchment to my players, it felt like they were all my heroes. But then finally after 5 minutes or more, its over and its time to sign those free agents, draft those rookies and start the next season [i] cos you want to win the cup and see those celebrations again[/i] [/QUOTE]