Titan Quest, The Elder Scrolls: Oblivion, Battlefield 2 and what not

Titan Quest is great. I played three hours, managing to bring my character up to level 4. Incredible atmosphere. Splendid graphics. Excellent gameplay. Best of all, the setting, mythological Greece, Egypt and Asia. What more could one ask for?

Well, there is something small that bothers me. Like The Elder Scrolls: Oblivion, Titan Quest is heavily scripted and linear, however, unlike Oblivion which is free-form, Titan Quest is heavily structured in that you have to achieve objective A before you can get to objective B. You can't simply jump from A to C. In other words, one has little freedom in locales, one needs to finish the quest in the village of Helios before one can get to the Spartan war camp. One cannot, say, decide to sail to Egypt.

Meanwhile, I uninstalled Battlefield 2, Battlefield 2: Special Forces, Battlefield 1942, Road to Rome and Secret Weapons of World War II. It is time to move onto other games. I have not been touching these games for months anyway.

I also uninstalled Rising Kingdoms. This is a real time strategy (RTS) which is much akin to Warcraft III and Warlords Battlecry III with current state of the art graphics. It's a charming game but I don't particularly care for it. I think Rising Kingdoms will appeal to Warcraft III fanatics.

On a last note, I have decided not to pick up Auto Assault and Guild Wars: Factions. I have also decided not to make a return to the World of Warcraft when the expansion is released. I think I have grown out of World of Warcraft and the nature of its repetitive gameplay.