This is a bit biased, since our gaming puters have got better, so recent game developers have more of a chance
Still, my list has 2 titles from 1990's, the rest are more recent. You could say 3 are cult games, with only 1 mainstream, and 1 that was a cult game but is becoming ma
instream.
My quick list:
1. Eve Online
2. World in Conflict
3. Battlefield 2
4. Battlezone (the 1998 remake)
5. M.A.X.
There are quite a few games that should get a honorable mention, too many I guess
Titles like:
Terminus (best heir to El
ite before Eve)
Archimedean Dynasty (very original setting, great athmosphere)
Boulderdash Construction Kit (on C64, probably the best game of that platform)
Tribes 2 (just nice overall, didn't make my list)
Warhead (original, great athmosphere again
was on Amiga, space combat with very realist
ic physics)
MOHAA
Elite (didn't realize its value back in the day)
Hind (best simulator, variable missions, dynamic battlefield. AND HELO COMBAT UP CLOSE AND PERSONAL!
)
Steel Panthers 2
PSI-5 (unique, another C64 game)
Stunts (awesome car game consider
ing it was the very early 1990s, nice tracks with loops, jumps etc)
Titans of Steel (best mech strategy game, a lot of tactical features)