Halo's been an awesome game for years, but not quite "holy crap, AWESOME!" material in my eyes...but it's a well-deserved score, at least to me. What can I say, Reach has to be one of the most emotionally involved Halo game ever...every Spartan in Noble team has their own personality, and the story does an excellent job in making you feel the planet's desperation. Without spoiling anything, the best I can describe the game is like watching the ending of Saving Private Ryan by the time you finish the campaign. Long, exhausting firefights against challenging enemies (especially on Heroic...I can't count how many times I've spent hours on the same checkpoint! :o). The worst thing I can say about Reach is that it's the same gameplay as Halo on the Xbox, with a few upgrades (you know, like instead of tweaking the core gameplay, they add on more features) like the long waited sprint button (which I really hate to pass up in favor of the armor abilities or jetpacks...my playstyle never really strayed too far from using sprint the most). But I figured that if you're going to pick up Reach, you're already a Halo fan as it is, so having more of the same shouldn't be held against it, especially when everything else is done perfectly.

Anyway, since I'm not a Gold subscriber for Live, I'm relying only on the campaign to give me hours of entertainment...and I must say, even if you're not the MP type, Reach still has plenty to offer for the antisocial gamer. At times, it doesn't feel like a Halo game...with such massive battles and gut-wrenching moments, it's suprising to see how well Bungie does something different with an old franchise. I mean, the ending just screamed heroic, and like every movie and game nowdays, give you a reason to stick around after the credits...just to show you an ending that's even more epic! :shock: Well, if this really is Bungie's last Halo game, it's both depressing to hear, as well as mindblowing that they end the franchise off with such a massive bang.

Anyway, just picked up Dead Rising 2 (or whatever you'd call downloading a game off Steam :P) and I'm pretty suprised that this game runs perfectly on my computer, and not some half-assed port. Given the amount of things going onscreen at once, it's impressive that there's no slowdown with everything cranked to Max :o. Not to mention the keyboard setup is as smooth as holding a controller (except for the usual PC things, like driving with a keyboard still sucks :P). Anyway, I feel that this is another game "for fans only" because if you never grew too fond of the first one, there's little to draw you in this one. But as far as zombie holocaust simulators go, Capcom does what they do well: take a game that was already awesome years ago, and still manage to find a way to make it even better! I really have to commend Steam for allowing the pre-load, so I could just hop into the game the moment I woke up this morning :D.