Play it Forward: Video Games Predictions 2007

Supreme Commander
RTS maestro Chris Taylor is back, with this spiritual successor to genre classic Total Annihilation. Featuring huge battlefields measuring thousands of square kilometers, its interface provides players plenty of opportunity to concentrate on the battle's "big picture" as they combine sci-fi-themed air, land and sea forces to spectacular effect.

Enemy Territory: Quake Wars
Preparing to make a huge impact on the online multiplayer shooter scene in 2007, Quake Wars is the follow-up to the spectacular Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory. This one's set in the future world of the Quake games, obviously, and features oodles of vehicles, weapons, character classes and top graphics thanks to its tweaked Doom 3 engine.

Crysis
Looking for the cutting edge in gaming visuals? Throw out your consoles. Crysis exploits Microsoft's new DirectX 10 technology and new Vista operating system to produce visuals more realistic than anything else we've seen. Sure, you'll need a new computer to play it, but with graphics like this it might actually be worth the price.

Super Mario Galaxy

Age of Conan
Based on the 1930s novels, and not the Arnie cheesefest, this creative MMORPG should give all of us a welcome break from World of Warcraft. Uniquely, it plays as both a single and massively multiplayer game, as you can create and level up a character offline before entering the online world. It's also coming to the Xbox 360, although that version might not make 2007.

Super Mario Galaxy
The world's most famous plumber blasts off into space in this Wii platformer, which wowed the crowds at its debut in 2006. The interplanetary action is wild and unique, and there's even a hint that it might support cooperative multiplayer. Of course, it doesn't hurt that it's one of the most visually impressive Wii games around.

>> Go to Casual Games Predictions