by Gr1mmy

13.1.09

I first saw this game at a screening of the latest Indiana Jones film, the trailer was funny, action packed and quite stunning. I bought this game soon after its release and was amazed by the long distance visuals of Russian countryside filled with the distant echos of gunfire, explosions and funny cut scenes gets this game into my top 5.

This game was recommended to me by our very own Lewis, I have always liked racing games but not many have been that much fun since the days of the original Need for Speed Underground 1 and 2. I truly enjoyed GRID because it had lots of different types of racing split between 3 parts of the world, USA with city races, Europe with track racing and Japan with its Touge and Drift events.

I chose GTA IV as my number 3 because I thought its realistic approach to the series was a good step to take rather than head towards the likes of Saints Row and its unrealistic and frankly childish game play. It had some lovable characters including Niko, Roman and Little Jacob who all had their own personalities.

Over the Christmas holidays this was pretty much all I played on my off days when my guild wasn't raiding. I gave the story mode a try first but i thought it to be a little repetitive, but then I tried the online mode and that got me pretty hooked. It reminds me of Call of Duty 2 with all the Berlin settings, I also love the new Pacific and Japanese Locations that are included.

I know that this may be unfair because I'm such a big Warcraft fanboy but I have spent so much time playing it since release and have enjoyed so much of it with my guild mates. I really enjoyed the new icy scenery, chilling orchestral music and all the lore behind the quests and characters thought the continent of Northrend. This expansion features so many of the characters and historical places from Warcraft III: Frozen Throne. I made this number 1 because I'm a huge fan of Blizzard's amazing games, who have a good year ahead of them with the upcoming Diablo 3 and Starcraft 2 in progress and probably much more to come from WoW.

Grimmy

- Gr1mmy