Which of these would you reccomend?

Ok, I'm ordering a new vid card upgrading from a Geforce 6150LE, so there are a few decent looking games that I'm thinking about buying. I dont want to buy everything at once, and there are most likely going to be some games that I will most likely discard from the list. But I just wanted to get some thoughts. Although I'm probably forgetting a few, tell me what you think of these:

Empire Total War- I'm a fan of strategy games, especially online ones. And it just looks awsome.

Crysis/Crysis Warhead- Just because the graphics are still amazing, and the gameplay still looks fun. Also, the online Powestruggle mode definitly looks interesting, but I've heard not to expect too much.

Counter Strike Source- My pc can probably run this now, but I'm just not sure if it would be worth the money since the games getting pretty old.

Gmod- Heard some really good things about this, but not too many specifics on why. If its always all out craziness, then I most likely won't like it. I played Halo 3 for a good bit last summer (sad, yes I know), and eventually people got crazy with the forge system and made extremely stupid maps and game modes that to me seemed like content only entertaining to 7 year olds. Although playing infection maps and game modes was probably the funnest gaming expierence I've ever had, I'm scared that things on Gmod might turn out being like the Halo 3 forge system.


I already have Orange Box, and a few Ironclad games, but if there are any others that you could reccomend feel free to do so. I do tend to spend allot of time on multiplayer with friends. And games/modes with some strategy or some type of upgrade system seem to attract me like crazy. And since I know someone will suggest this, I've already played L4D too the point where just typing the name makes me bored.


Thx for the input!