A suspense-filled action title with puzzle-solving elements and spell-based combat. Set in 1785, the game takes place a few weeks after Elly Kedward, the so-called Blair Witch, was banished to the dark woods surrounding the small town of Blair, Maryland. [Gathering of Developers]

While the game has its merits, it really doesn't have the firepower necessary to make an impact in the PC shooter market.

In Message in a Haunted Mansion, Nancy has flown to San Francisco to help out an old family friend who is turning a beautiful but dilapidated Victorian house into a bed-and-breakfast establishment.

Sea Dogs is reminiscent of Bethesda's classic RPG, "Daggerfall," in which players were free to choose any course of action they wished in a limitless and unbounded game. You can give your allegiance to one of three countries or choose to serve only yourself as a swashbuckling pirate. [Bethesda Softworks]

MechWarrior 4: Vengeance weaves heart-pounding BattleMech action with the continuing drama and unfolding storyline of the perpetual BattleTech universe, now in its 16th year. [Microsoft]

Four new adventures take you from the rooftops of a high-tech city to the bowels of a German U-boat. Utilize new moves to overcome obstacles. Search through files, drawers, and shelves for useful inventory items. Enhanced inventory system for greater combination of a variety of weapons. [Eidos Interactive]

Features - Race 8 different cars on 8 different tracks - Play Adventure, Single or Two-Player modes - Make pit stops for fuel and turbo recharge - 13 mini-episodes and race missions - Gamepad compatible

Each of the surfers is modeled and textured in seamless 3-D with a full set of animations that accurately reflects their individual style and moves. [Mattel Interactive]

Though it's worth considering that this game was essentially developed by a group of amateur designers, there are many first-person shooters available that are much more worthwhile.

The game blends classic themes and play styles of the empire-building genre with improvements in pacing, balance, and combat. Innovations in city growth and management, more powerful diplomacy and trade, and unique AI personalities provide even greater strategic depth and immersion. [Activision]

Take on, self-absorbed Emperor named Kuzco. Add a devious royal advisor named Yzma, her brawny assistant Kronk and their potion that turns Kuzco into a llama. Introduce a good-hearted peasant named Pacha, to help Kuzco. And, what do you get? Al-paca trouble!

Take control of this old-fashioned, modern-time assassin, and stay alive long enough to revile your past. Think to survive and learn to plan your hits. Exploit your enemy's hideout in three continents, and go forward to get back to where you started. Enter the world and face your self among madmen. [Eidos Interactive]

This golf game features 21 courses and 35 different gameplay modes. Choose from one of 11 amateur golfers, and then make your way to the top of the golfing ranks.

Konami hopes to mimic the state of the art visual effects of the film in their upcoming title, The Mummy. The game puts players in control of the film's heroes as they fight evil hordes in the ultimate quest to vanquish the guardian Mummy.

Star Wars: X-Wing Trilogy provides the complete Star Wars space combat experience in a special commemorative gold-foil-stamped package.

An epic 3-D adventure spanning over 150 unique locations across two distinct and detailed worlds. [Funcom]

This game brings Rock and Roll trivia to your computer with more than 100 songs performed by the original artists.

A grand-slam for sports trivia fans! Just 15 rounds to the sports trivia title! - Ultra-fan Regis tosses tough sports trivia. - Trivia topics ranging from football, baseball, and basketball, to hockey, golf, and more. - Challenge your friends for the highest scare. - A slam dunk gift for every "Millionaire" and sports fan.

The Federation believes that whoever controls all three Red Orbs may have the power to destroy the universe as we know it, so it's up to you -- playing as either Captain Sisko, Major Kira, or Lt. Commander Worf -- to find the Orbs first. [Simon & Schuster Interactive]

If you're a fan of motocross, then Motocross Mania would make a great addition to your collection.

While it does have some new features and still plays well, it actually falls short of its two predecessors in the important area of multiplayer support.

Sierra's latest gambling game in the popular Hoyle series offers everything you would expect from a solid and addictive virtual casino game.

If you like wordplay, and you don't already have a CD-ROM collection of word games, then this is the package to get.

The games have the same challenging play elements as that of their real-world counterparts, but they are enhanced with graphics and sound for a more engaging PC experience.

The Elemental Lords end ten thousand years of peace and prepare to make the world their battleground unless Tarnum can overcome his hatred of magic and learn the spells necessary to build the Conflux town and defeat them. In order to form an army capable of stopping the destruction of the world, he'll need to journey through the magic clouds, lucid pools, rocklands and fiery fields of the elemental planes.

Features the "Black Widow" Jeanette Lee and an improved single-player mode.

In the beginning, there was Half-Life, Valve's blockbuster debut. With its engrossing story line, skeletal animation system, and so-good-it's-scary AI, Half-Life blew away the gaming world. The Half-Life universe grew with the release of Team Fortress, Opposing Force, and most recently Counter-Strike. These games pushed the Half-Life engine to its limits and beyond, adding exciting new story lines, weapons, enemies and multiplayer challenges. See for yourself why PC Game declared Half-Life "The Best PC Game Ever." Half-Life Platinum includes Half-Life: Game of the Year Edition, Half-Life: Opposing Force, Team Fortress Classic, Half-Life: Blue Shift, and Half-Life: Counter-Strike.

It’s been 20 years since Myst became your world, and there's never been a better time to revisit the Ages. This newly refreshed and rebuilt version of realMyst is all-things Myst, but amazingly more real. You can explore anywhere, unfettered, and in realtime! Pick your own path through the forest on Myst Island. Listen to the crickets as the sun sets in the Channelwood Age. Relax in the falling leaves in the Selenitic Age. Spin around for a full panoramic tour of Sirrus’ throne room. Seek shelter from the thunderstorm in Stoneship Age.

Make your way through a challenging and perilous interactive world to rescue your professor. Characters come to life with innovative facial animations and full audio dialogue. Immerse yourself in diverse and realistic environments all modeled with historic accuracy to create an authentic experience. [Eidos Interactive]

A story-driven, first-person adventure delivering over-the-top action, tense subterfuge, outrageous villains, and wry humor in the tradition of the great 1960's spy films and TV shows. [Fox Interactive]

The game features you as the star of a live Hollywood television show investigating paranormal activities. Hubert Chardot, author of the Alone In The Dark series, creates the foreboding backdrop for the evening's activities. [TalonSoft]

From the developers of the award-winning Europa Universalis I and II and Hearts of Iron, comes the all-new Europa Universalis Crown of the North. Crown of the North takes place in the years between 1275 and 1340 in a time where nobility and the church held all the power and Sweden was about to launch into its only civil war. Play as Norway, Sweden or Denmark and plot to change the historical legacy of a region seldom explored. [Strategy First]

A combat flight simulation that harnesses super-sleek hardware-accelerated graphics, the easiest flight control system available, and the thrill of piloting billion-dollar jet fighters, delivering a heart-pounding, fevered defense of American soil. [TalonSoft]

Counter-Strike modifies the multiplayer aspects of "Half-Life" to bring to it a more team-oriented gameplay. Counter-Strike provides the player with an experience that a trained counter-terrorist unit or terrorist unit experiences.

This interactive emergency room game features 35 unique medical cases that players must help to treat.

A scurvy-inducing new chapter in the legendary Monkey Island adventure series unfolds in rollicking 3-D. Developed by the team who created LucasArts' irreverent classic "Sam & Max Hit The Road," Escape features an original cinematic story full of drama, intrigue, and, of course, side-splitting humor. [LucasArts]

Engage the enemy in expansive indoor and vast outdoor environments; select from a team of diverse characters, each with their own special abilities; advanced new rifles, systems, machine guns, and grenade launchers; developed from the same engine used to train the U.S. Army elite Land Warrior soldiers. [NovaLogic]

If you're serious about space strategy, you can't afford to miss it.

Instead of offering a robust gambling simulation that'll help you hone your craft for a trip to a real casino, Microsoft Casino aims to re-create the Las Vegas experience itself.

A third-person game of action and adventure steeped in Norse mythology and high fantasy. Use your brains and massive brawn to survive as you explore the 3-D game world fighting off creatures from Norse legend and the fertile minds of the Human Head staff with their array of swords, axes, and magical devices. [Gathering of Developers]

Tiger Woods PGA Tour 2001 delivers three new courses, enhanced online play, and a brand new game type. The Presidents Cup lets you join either the U.S. or International team in this exciting match play tournament. [EA Sports]

Take charge of the new Tonka Space Station! It's all-new Tonka fun with Tonka Joe where you create, maintain and protect your very own Space Station. Add up to eight different action modules, carry out exciting missions and operate cool Tonka Space vehicles! Features: - 9 all-new Tonka space vehicles - 9 different fast-action missions - Simulation or Arcade mode

Sacrifice provides a truly fresh approach in the 3-D RTS genre, allowing players to act as both commander and combatant over huge, real-time, generated landscapes in single or multiplayer modes. Wizards will not be disappointed as Sacrifice serves up over 50 spells and creatures. [Interplay]

One of the most popular society simulations of all-time returns!! All of the ground-breaking excitement of the classic meets incredible updates and expansions. You'll get Age of Empires and Age of Empires II as well as their expansion packs, The Rise of Rome expansion and The Conquerors in this comprehensive empire-building package. As always, the object of the game is to build a culture and guide it through the annals of history, and you can do so in a world inhabited by hundreds of other online societies with this game's great multi player!

A futuristic action game that challenges your agility as well as your aim, Ricochet features one-on-one and team matches played in a variety of futuristic battle arenas.

It's a journey through history as Pac-Man travels back in time to save his planet. Pac-Man's archenemies, the ghosts, have stolen his planet's magical power pellet, smashed it, and scattered the pieces from ancient Egypt to the Wild West. Now it's up to Pac-Man to get them back! [Hasbro Interactive]

FIFA 2001's environment is alive -- this is not just a simulation: sidelines bustle with activity from spectators, coaches, and teammates as the weather and lighting change. [EA Sports]

The game beautifully blends eerie adventure and exploration with action-based survival horror and puzzle-solving elements. In 1886, a mysterious character with an unknown past awakens in Burkittsville, MD, just as several baffling events begin to befall the town's inhabitants. [Gathering of Developers]

It's an excellent party game, but unlike its predecessors, its online play component also makes it ideal even when other people aren't at home.

A dynamic sim racer featuring rugged, customizable 4X4 vehicles. It's the first third-party game with online capabilities that will support connections between Sega Dreamcast, Mac, or PC versions, allowing players to compete head-to-head with one another regardless of platform. [Gathering of Developers]

This 3D platformer stars Rollie McFly, an adventurous bug who must save Budgom from the evil fire ants.

Players can choose to skate with the skills of Tony Hawk, the most legendary pro of all time, or as one of 12 pro skaters from the star-studded lineup. The game's intuitive and solid control scheme allows players to perform hundreds of tricks in a variety of realistic, obstacle-filled, real-world locations. [Activision]

The success of this assault depends on your leadership, strategy, and the combined efforts of all your men. Putting yourself in harm's way, you create a diversion by opening fire. Your men seize the opportunity and move up to overtake the enemy. This is what it means to be a squad leader! [Microprose]

There is no reason whatsoever for you to purchase or play Deep Raider.

Features an all-new graphics rendering engine, perfected ball physics, new tour players and courses, and the new Arnold Palmer Course Designer (APCD). [Microsoft]

Lead a squad of heavily armored, over-the-top troopers on a series of in-your-face, real-time battles against vicious bug battalions. Call in air strikes, capture prisoners, and nuke bug holes. It's survival of the fittest and the last one standing wins. Answer the call and defend your planet! [Microprose]

Recreate your favorite legends from Greek mythology as you build and rule beautiful city-states. Help Hercules defeat the Hydra, Odysseus win the Trojan War, or Jason retrieve the Golden Fleece. You'll make friends in high places, get involved in the affairs of immortals, and even meet Zeus himself. [Sierra Studios]

Wielding strange new technologies and hungering for revenge, the Soviet Empire invades America. New York City and Washington are overwhelmed. Allied forces, unprepared for the surprise attack, are decimated. Will freedom be crushed under the heels of Communist aggression? [Electronic Arts]

It completely reinvigorates the original game by adding four new car types, 20 racetracks, and a host of updated graphics and gameplay mechanics.

Enter the worlds of six girls from famous moments in America's past and become their most trusted friend and confidant. Develop friendships through conversations using FriendLink Technology™ and all-new stories will unfold, uniquely reflecting your impact on their lives.

Seize the helm and test you seafaring savvy against the world's best yacht crews in Ubisoft's Virtual Skipper, the first 3D yacht racing simulation for your PC. Learn the ropes in detailed sailing and regatta tutorials. Master advanced regatta tactics to steer and tack your boat to victory! Six regatta courses: New Zealand's Maria Island (America's Cup 2000 location), France's La Trinite sur Mer, San Francisco Bay, the treacherous Isle of Waiheke, and more.

Amateur League Golf will draw you in with its easy play and hook you with its wacky humor! Features: - A state-of-the-art golf game complete with bad shots, sand traps...and jokes too. - Play against up to three friends or compete in a tournament against the characters in the game. - Play stroke, match or skins game. - Choose you club, aim, and swing. Control the power and accuracy of your shot, and remember to manage the wind. - The whole game is in full 3D - from the characters to the courses!

Battle stations! Battleship: Surface Thunder is now a fast-action, 3-D naval adventure. Now you can take command of your own battleship and sink enemy convoys, attack shore gun emplacements, and free captured ports in an all-out effort to defeat a renegade empire. [Hasbro Interactive]

This pack contains seven classic Sega games.

Takes you back in time with authentic aircraft, detailed cockpits, and spectacular scenery. Moving canopies, folding wings, battle-scarred paint, realistic aircraft damage, and last-second bailouts immerse you in a new level of combat flight simulation. [Microsoft]

It's incredibly short, has awful car physics and poor graphics, and nobody cared enough to even implement joystick support.

Now you'll fight for the Cotentin peninsula, from the landings at Utah Beach to the siege at Cherbourg. In the dense hedgerows of the French countryside, AT teams may be lying in ambush almost anywhere. By placing a premium on infantry tactics, Invasion puts the capital "C" back into Close Combat. [Mattel Interactive]

An adrenaline-packed driving phenomenon delivering the ultimate in arcade racing. Combining the heart-pounding elements of extreme racing with a stack of souped-up features, such as insane Rubble Soccer, this game forces racers to use every trick in the book to win. [Take 2 Interactive]

Superbike 2001 delivers authentic Superbike racing from Superpole qualifying to the championship rounds. With the all new Training mode, novice riders are smoothly brought up to speed, while real telemetry and enhanced race management options give sim racing fans even more authenticity. [EA Sports]

This enhanced version of SWAT 3 includes multiplayer support, new weapons, new levels, and more.

Your mission: destroy the evil Batnix! Breakout will wow you with constant surprises-from being chased by a giant, ferocious wolf, to battling an ancient mummy in the dark depths of a myterious Egyptian tomb! With over thirty challenging Breakout locations - including a dank, dark prison cell, a menacing Dragon owned castle, a deranged animal infested farm and the darkest reaches of outer space - the demolition fun just goes on and on. Featuring countless challenge modes, secrets, bonuses, and multiplayer mayhem, just pick up and play for fast and furious arcade action!

Aliens have taken over the planet Gromada - a former testing site for new military units - and now control a high-tech arsenal. Armed only with a tank called Kassandra, you must defeat the alien-controlled forces amassed against you and rid the planet of the aliens once and for all. Gromada is a highly entertaining arcade action game that forgoes gore and blood in exchange for non-stop action and family entertainment.

On the surface, Rally Masters has everything needed to be a first-rate simulation, but you'll find that it can become frustrating on several different levels.

This first of three Blair Witch adventures pits Spookhouse agent Doc Holliday against the demons that drove hermit Rustin Parr to brutally torture and murder seven children. Along the way, she will have to interact with horror-stricken townspeople and investigate ancient Native American legends and rituals. [Gathering of Developers]