Games that absolutely blew you away when you first played them?

[MadBurgerMaker]

StarDrive has kind of blown me away. It isn't really that I haven't seen anything like it or whatever, its more that it's so fun and good (imo, of course. Ymmv) for a beta made by one dude.

[Warspite]

WW2 Online never really grabbed me. I signed up, joined a clan, but even then I found most battles to be disorganised run-arounds a la OPF rather than a simulation of mid-century combined arms combat. Call me a miserable old git but just throwing in historical equipment doesn't make a game "realistic" for me, which was supposed to be WW2OL's selling point. A good clan v clan CounterStrike game I found much more entertaining.

[Ed Anger]

I liked to grenade spam in the original Medal of Honor. See a wall? Toss 3 grenades over it.