I've been playing wideo games for like 25 years now and every time coming accross a game that had something different to those before, I had a 'wow!' moment. Let's ignore my Commodore 64 days, but on PC:
Centurion - Defender of the Rome
Prince of Persia
Pool of Radiance
Civilization 2
Eye of Beholder 1 & 2
Colonization
Warhammer - Shadow of the Horned Rat
Realms of Arkania 2
Warcraft 2
Heroes of Might and Magic 2, 3 and 5
Medieval: Total War
Rome: Total War
Warhammer: Mark of Chaos
There were probably some others there that I can't think of now, but the biggest "WOW!" I had so far was with
Assassin Creed
And I didn't think I even liked games like that one...
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