What about System Shock 2 (Score 1)

Ok, I do believe there is a rut, but there have been a few games that make an attept to pull out of those ruts. Half-Life started to work out of the rut, but they dove head first into it when all they cared about was the mods. Now they are working on TF2 (multiplayer only!) which is going to be yet another Counter Strike clone. How original! My personal favorite was System Shock 2. Granted it had a few bugs, but I think it blew away any game when it hit. It is one of the only games that I still play, and have to play with the lights out. I think the gaming rut as a whole is the "multiplayer only" fase the gaming industry is going through. They are doing less production on games, and selling them for more (Diablo 2 anybody?). Hopefully we will se some more quality coming out soon.