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Grand Theft Auto IV

The Simpsons Game

Saints Row

Saints Row 2

Kingdom Hearts II

The Sims 2

The Simpsons: Hit & Run

Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater

Saints Row: The Third

Steelport - the only port in the country with no boats.

Saints Row: The Third is a decent follow up to the previous two installments. Not great, but not horrible either. While new things like jet bikes and VTOLs were added, many things were taken out and the setting just se... Read Full Review

Spore

A nice, well-rounded and flexible game.

Spore is another revolutionary game by the man that brought the gaming world SimCity and the Sims. It basically an evolution simulator, but the player gets to control the species at every step of the process, from small... Read Full Review

Sid Meier's Civilization Revolution

Simplified Civ for consoles, but still addictive.

To be honest, I've always considered myself a SimCity guy, but Civilization has been on my radar for years. I have played previous Civ games on both PC and console, as well as the Linux clone Freeciv, though I haven't r... Read Full Review

Enslaved: Odyssey to the West

Life After People, the Game, with some New Hope and Matrix thrown in

Intro: Enslaved: Odyssey to the West takes place in a future America in where cities are in ruin and robotic "mechs" wreak havoc on the human survivors. Computer-controlled human slavers are going across the land findi... Read Full Review

Red Dead Revolver

A fun Wild West shooter.

I picked this up at EB Games for about 10 bucks. Seeing how the only Rockstar games I had played to that point were GTA games and Bully, I was expecting something like that with an old west setting. Not quite, but the ... Read Full Review

Batman: Arkham Asylum

Metal Gear Solid stealth with fighting game action

This game combines all the features you would want from an action game and also throws in some well-done stealth elements. The game is obviously tied to one location, so Gotham City cannot be implemented, unfortunately.... Read Full Review

NCAA Football 10

broken, recycled old features + broken new features = NCAA 10.

Really this game franchise has hit an all time new low. EA Sports' "exclusive" licensing of football has finally brought football games to a standstill at best in terms of innovation and quality. Just everything in thi... Read Full Review

Pokemon Blue Version

For a "kiddie" game about pet animal fighting, it is a surprisingly deep RPG.

Okay, this game was a little past my time, in 1998. My younger siblings got into it a bit more, but I managed to play the first game (both red and blue editions) through. My collection of pokemon was pretty big, and I ... Read Full Review

The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion

Not as big as Morrowind, but a game that will keep you occupied for quite some time.

The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion, or simply "Oblivion", is a great followup to ES3: Morrowind, thought it is not nearly as long nor does it seem to the same level of vastness. But then this could be due to the instantaneo... Read Full Review

The Godfather II

Short and sweet. Not an award-winner, but very fun.

The first Godfather game was kind of like 1930s-40s GTA, but based more around the mafia structure and rising through the ranks, with buyable ability upgrades. The game revolved around the events in the movie, but most ... Read Full Review

Saints Row 2 (Collector's Edition)

I like it better than GTA4, but not by much.

This game is a good followup to the first Saints Row, where you had far more character customization than any similar driving & crime sandbox game out there. This game offers even more customization. You can be practic... Read Full Review

Grand Theft Auto IV

Tries to be 'too' realistic, but still pretty fun.

This game has a lot of things going for it. You can date, go out and do stuff with your buds, or just play through the main story. Added features that are a real convenience are the internet pages and a fully functiona... Read Full Review

Mother 2: Gyiyg no Gyakushuu

My kind of RPG

This game was comical and modern, yet had solid RPG gameplay. It's not based in medieval fantasy, and despite the name and cover design, the alien/sci-fi element isn't too big either, at least early on. It's more tab... Read Full Review

Zelda no Densetsu: Majora no Kamen (w/Memory Pack)

Best 3D Zelda to date.

This and Links Awakening are the biggest black sheep of the Zelda series. While others may not like this installment, I loved it. The key distinguishing factors are: 1. A Groundhog's-Day-like, 3-day timeloop. 2. A... Read Full Review

SimCity 4

Should be called SimMetroArea 1.

I've been playing SimCity for around 15 years, but this was a completely different experience than all the rest. This game truly brought something new to the table: a functioning collection of cities, otherwise known as... Read Full Review

Tecmo Super Bowl

The game that started it all.

Nowadays, you have EA Sports Football, 2K Football, Blitz, and a long list of other titles out there. Back in the late 80s, there were a handful of simplistic, generic, often tedious football games out there. Then ca... Read Full Review

Star Ocean: Till the End of Time

Decent RPG, but not as futuristic as it led me to believe at first. Too long, took me 100 hours to finish.

Star Ocean 3 is the first one in the series that I have played, and to date the only one. It has a promising start that makes you think you'll be zooming around the galaxy exploring space, but at some point turns into j... Read Full Review

The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim

Some things taken out, a lot of new things added. Still a stellar RPG.

Skyrim is an amazing game that I have spent far more hours playing than I care to admit. This game doesn't waste any time. The opening is very dramatic and gets you right into the action. Improvements to the game incl... Read Full Review

RollerCoaster Tycoon 2

Best game that I've hardly ever "played". Difference between RCT1 is mod-ability.

RollerCoaster Tycoon 2, like its predecessor, is a scenario-based theme park simulator. The actual game in Chris Sawyer's plan has gotten little usage by me. His intention was to have players work with fairly small parks... Read Full Review

The Sims 2

Mostly just a simple architectural tool for me.

Since I like designing houses, Sims 2 was worth it just for the improvements over Sims 1. You can make basements, houses up to 5 floors (I only have the base version with no expansions) and can place windows and doors o... Read Full Review

Bully

Welcome back to high school.

This game naturally gets compared to the GTA series, being made by the same company. While the basic architecture is much the same, and you have a little outlaw as the main character, I'd rather look at it like a video ... Read Full Review

NCAA Football 06

I think the 128-bit NCAAs peaked out at 04, but 06 is a pretty good little game.

This game is superior to NCAA 04 in a couple ways, but it really dropped a few notches in other categories: Rosters: Though the 70-man roster was introduced in 05, that game had many problems and I view 06 as the "co... Read Full Review