It seems after the summer the games keep flooding in, like every year before this there are too many games for the average gamer to buy and play, what makes it worse for me is that I'm now trying to catch up on months of XBLA games that I missed out on.

Well this past few weeks I've been a very busy bee indeed, I've played numerous titles including Halo: Reach , Dead Rising: Case Zero, Limbo and Puzzle Quest 2. I do have review coming for most of these games but I wanted to take this opportunity just to share a few quick thoughts on these games.

Halo: Reach

As a fan of the series reach has been my bread and butter since its release, I have clocked in over 5 days of gameplay in a very short time, the single player campaign was amazing, exactly what I wanted from a Halo game, great pacing, great vehicle sections, wonderful co-op experience which extends to the firefight mode which now has a matchmaking service.

The reason I loved the other Halo games was the AI and Reach give me good AI in buckets, the grunts swarm and try suicide runs, the elites run and hide when the shields are down and enemies try to flank and put you in disadvantageous situations.

The team at Bungie have thought of everything for there farewell to the Halo universe, the daily challenges, the forge and great multiplayer that keeps you playing long after the story is done.

Limbo

I don't know where to begin with this game, I don't feel like the pricing matched the content you got but I wouldn't have passed this game up for anything. The plat forming and art are impeccably done and there are countless standout moments which you will remember for years to come.

This game is a true hit of the modern age, its got a haunting soundtrack that perfectly matches the action on screen, the game is around 3 hours long but during that time the game throws challenge after challenge at you, each a little different from the last which keeps the action from getting stale and even at its hardest the game never feels cheap or unfair, I could recommend this to anyone.

Puzzle quest 2

Straight up not as good as the first, the new over world adds nothing to the game, essentially just being a point and click interface rather than the dungeon crawler I thought it would be, there are also several problems with this interface with the cursor automatically moving to the next objective this often leads to you misclicking if you where trying to explore. I haven't finished it yet but the combat is much better this time around and a quick scan of my friends leader board shows me sitting alone on there leading me too believe that like myself people prefer the first iteration.

More to come on this in the future.

Dead rising 2: case zero

Justplainlucas recommended this on his blog and subsequent review and reluctantly I gave it a shot and I was not disappointed, the game is only 5 bucks but it packs in so much action, a great taste of what was too come though its probably a defunct purchase now that the full game is out, but if you are interested in the backstory its worth a look.

Dead Rising 2

Last on the list but certainly not least, there is so much fun to be had with this game, to paint a typical scene from my experience,

I was dressed as a swat officer with little bunny slippers, my friend dressed as a ninja, both of us on little pink bikes travelling up and down the mall running over zombies after 5 minutes or so we grow weary and decide to move locations and stumble across a pyschopath battle, its difficult but we get it done, time is running out on the objective now so the rush is on to the location but along the way we get sidetracked by the possibility of mankinis and all sorts of crazy duct tape weapons, case failed, "ah well we'll try again tomorrow lets mash some ZOMBIES".

So much fun though the multiplayer doesn't seem to work well.