I recently came across a blog called If You Watch It Backwards and got a real kick out of their humorous takes on movie plots viewed in reverse. (Example: If you watch Spider Man backwards, it's about a super hero who gets bitten by a spider and loses his powers.) So because it's my job to only ever think about video games and nothing else, I decided to throw together a few impressions of what certain video games would be like if played them backwards (with some help from Chris Watters, too). Here we go!

Mass Effect 2 is a game about losing all your friends until you die in a fire.

Halo: Reach is game about a lone wolf recruiting soldiers for a squad until they turn on him and kick him out.

Red Dead Redemption is a game about a rancher who's so fed up with his family that he decides to go ride horses by himself forever.

Pac-Man is about a little creature who tries to systematically cover mazes in vomit. He tries so hard that sometimes he barfs up someone's soul.

Assassin's Creed is about sprinting around the Holy Land/Renaissance Italy, reviving dead people, and then walking away like nothing happened. In doing so, you succumb to a progressive mental disorder that causes you to forget places you've been, lose motor function, and enter a hallucinogenic coma in which you are a regular dude from the future.

Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare is a game about a guy who rescues some dudes from a car accident on a bridge, and then they travel the world together.

Halo is a series about a diplomat named Master Chief who makes peace with a bunch of aliens and becomes memorialized by a later civilization called the Forerunners who build a giant ring in space after him.

Half-Life is a game about a dude from another dimension who just dreams of being a scientist and riding trams all day.

Crysis is a game about a guy who escapes an alien ship and then helps North Korean soldiers stranded at the bottoms of cliffs.

Homefront is a game about getting so fed up with traffic on the Golden Gate Bridge that you move to Colorado.

Section 8 is a game about soldiers who fight battles on Earth and then celebrate by jumping into space.

That's it for now. Feel free to add your own in the comments!