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Call of duty 2 was out and I was really enjoying the game play. Mid 2005 I went active in DaDs again. COD2 had a great story line and the multi play was pretty damn good. We played almost a full year before things started to go stale. There are many people who can stick to a game for more than 2 years, but it had better be good, an MMO maybe but not a shooter, sure I will go back to TF2 or Recon now and again but I have yet to find the shooter that will hold me for 3+ years.

Ea games came out with Lord of the rings Battle for middle earth, a RTS game. This was a nice diversion from the nightly fight v/s the nazis, and elves are just as fun to kill as any other foe.
Several of the maps were from the books and movies. Playing out Helms deep and battles at the black gate were a blast. There was a strong community and several user maps to choose from, War$ Robb, and I truly had a blast fighting the AI and a few or other players along the way.

Word also came out the next COD would be a modern warfare version, could it be the end of the WWII shooter?

Another great game in 05 was F.E.A.R. , by Monolith, who made Blood back in 97 so I had to try it out. It was fantastic, a horror shooter with some of the best AI I have ever come against. The single player was freaky scary and had me jumping in my seat a few times.
We Launched a DaDs server for a short while as well, the multi player was fast and fun, but the melee was a little too over-powered. It kind of reminded me of my old Quake II days.

Toward the end of the year I started looking at free and indie games, I had been into making and modding maps for 3 years now, and there was so much stuff out there to sample you could never keep up with it all. The mods for half life alone cold easily occupy most of your time.
I stumbled on a "free" game, another mmo called Entropia in November of 2006, mmo games had come along way, and this one looked very interesting.