A good joystick-using PC game?

I'm usually more of an empire-builder gamer - Civilization, Masters of Orion, that sort of thing. For my birthday, I got a joystick from a well-meaning but uninformed relative. I must admit, it's pretty kick-@ss as joysticks go, and I just feel it's a shame to not use it. Trouble is, I don't know of any really cool games using one. In fact, the only game I'm familiar with at all for the joystick is Flight Simulator, which bores me to tears.

I've tried Best Buy and Circuit City, but they have nothing interesting on the shelves, and the kids that work there have proven singularly unhelpful. I even tried digging out my old copy of Freelancer, thinking that might be a good one to play again, but, alas, it has no option for a joystick. Can anyone recommend something fun? Maybe a space combat type-of-thing a la Homeworld?