God of war 2 is...ridiculously good. Ive been stuper stoked for this game. Ive been looking forward to it for some time...and considering the release lineup for all systems the next few months, this was something i totally wanted. I buy about 4 to 5 games a month usually, some for pleasure some for work. So to have sometime to concentrate on one game is fantatstic. And i think if one game deserves time its gow2.
I also just recently finished up Crackdown, which i was a huge fan of. Usually i lose interest somewhat quickly in games like GTA, perhaps their lack of structure and lack of "forcing" players to do something has me bored often times...but whatever the difference is, Crackdown had me hooked from start to finish. Now with rumors of new single player downloadable content ill have a reason to break it back out for a longer time to come. Putting it aside for gow2 was hard enough already...
One more game that deserves mention is definitly Hotel Dusk: Room 215 on DS.

Im a huge DS player and upon first seeing this game i knew i had to get my hands on it. After playing a few hours into it i was hooked. You get so wrapped up into the story you forget that your not button mashing and fighting off enemies or doing something other than reading. But anyone who thinks they might be turned off by the reading, just give the game a shot. Its not all reading and the story...the story will suck you in. I needed something to replace EBA, and this does that and then some.
-MC543