I picked up Orange Box and COD 4 this last weekend (and crashed my car in the process), and have really enjoyed both. I beat COD 4 in about 10 hours, which was longer that I had anticipated from the reviews that I read saying that it was a short campaign. Even if 10 seems short, the 10 hours were EXCELLENT! With a great variety in weapons and mission types and objectives, you rarely repeated the same gameplay during play. But I must say, as a 360 owner who doesn't have Live, I really appreciate that you can get all of the achievements in the single-player campaign. Since I'm sort of a completionist, it bothers me when there are things to a game that I can't get just because I'm not online.

I started portal and got to the last level in about 2 hours, but I've noticed that I try too hard at these sorts of games. I've caught myself sitting there thinking about how to solve this puzzle a really complicated way, when it shows you how to do it a simple way on a tile on the floor. The humour in the game is quite witty, but if your not paying attention or looking for it, it could just pass you by. I've yet to play the half-life games but intend to which leads me to the blog point.....

HOLY CRAP there's alot of FPS games! They make up about half of my collection. Its ridiculous. Even though the majority of the ones I've played are good, there are alot of bad ones out there, and it just makes you wonder, why?

-RJ Out