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Guide Picks - Top 9 Expansions for Computer Games
The majority of computer games released in today's market are released with the plan to offer an expansion 6-12 months after the original release in order to keep interest up and sales steady. This also provides a great opportunity to continue or expand your experience with your favorite games. Here are my top expansion picks for Fall '02. Please note that most of these and the majority of all expansion packs require you to have the original game(non expansion) already installed on your PC. For example you wouldn't be able to play or install Age of Empires II: The Conquerors Expansion, unless you already had Age of Empires II: Age of Kings installed.
1) Medal Of Honor: Spearhead Expansion
With the holiday season only weeks away, this expansion will be sure to fly off shelves. Includes 9 single player missions based on the paratrooper drop on D-day. More than 15 new weapons plus new mulitplayer features.
   
2) Elder Scrolls 3: Morrowind Expansion Pack: Tribunal
Between 20-40 hours of added game-play, and designed where it can be added at any point during the game enabling you to use preexisting characters.
   
3) Civilization 3: Play the World Expansion
Includes 8 new civilaztions to play plus new multiplayer and single player functions. This as most other expansions requires the original game.
   
4) Heroes of Might & Magic 4: Gathering Storm Expansion
5 multiplayer maps, more than a dozen new artifacts, and 5+ campaigns. This expansion should keep all the MM fans happy until the next chapter in the series is released!
   
5) Star Wars Galatic Battlegrounds: Clone Campaigns Expansion
Expansion to the popular Galactic Battlegrounds with great new locales directly from the films. Can also play a break away faction or from the Republic, over 200 new units this truely is a massive expansion. plus the ability to match civilizations from episode 2 against those from the original series.
   
6) Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon: Island Thunder
Set in post-Castro Cuba, as part of the UN peace keeping force you are sent to destroy rebel forces and mercenary leaders
   
7) Stronghold: Crusader Expansion
Lead your group of crusaders into the land of deserts, in this highly anticapted expansion for the best selling Stronghold. The minor changes made to help out making game-play more fun.
   
8) Empire Earth Expansion: The Art of Conquest
New single player campaigns include the Roman Empire, WWII, and a space campaign. All the standards one would expect in an expansion are here, new worlds, units, powers and upgraded graphics.
   
9) Dark Age of Camelot: Shrouded Isles
   
10) MechWarrior 4: Mercenaries
   
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