I'm back! I've been away for a month working hard at finishing my Open Uni modules for this year and then going on holiday to Finland with my Girlfriend. I have several ideas for posts I want to talk about, but I thought I'd start by rectifying my previous indecision.
Ok, so a mate of mine told me to grow a pair and put down my top 5 xbox 360 games properly, without moving away from the point.
So here are my top 5 games:
1. Red Dead Redemption - as stated before. It's just all round awesome.
2. Fable 2 - it's a bit of a toss up between this and RAGE, but overall I think this one had the longest hold on me and I could still play it today and enjoy it! I'm half way through my third play through, and probably my fifth or sixth play through when you factor in playing with friends.
3. RAGE!!! - as stated above, it was a toss up but I think this just comes in behind Fable 2. But as this blog will testify, I love this game. Well worth getting, as long as you invest in all the expansions. Although that doesn't cost very much these days, probably about £15 for everything.
4. Battlefield: Bad Company 2 - as per my previous "top 5" post, the reason I didn't write a top 5 was because I just couldn't really think of anything that came close to the feeling of emersion that I got from the top 3 I've put down here. But Bad Company 2 was so enjoyable as an online game, which I played with my brothers and mates for so long, it just has to be put in my top 5. It was so easy to connect with mates and get into stable servers, as a single squad. It didn't have the desperately annoying player owned servers and stupid inability to connect to a game as a squad with friends that Battlefield 3 has. But it should be noted the single player was TOILET! Battlefield single player is always toilet, they should concentrate on multiplayer and stop pissing around with it.
5. Gears of War 2 - this was very difficult to choose because I got a lot of enjoyment out of FIFA games and have played many meaningful and excellently written single player campaigns. But I think this takes my fifth spot because I think it is the best Gears of War campaign. It was made extra special because I played it all the way through for the first time in a 12 hour marathon with a good mate, and at the end of it we both felt so fulfilled by the strength and diversity of the excellent 10 hour long campaign - we still use it as our measuring post for all other single and co-operative campaigns. Add in good horde mode and some reasonable multiplayer and it was a brilliant game.
It feels a bit of a weak top 5 to me. Apart from the top 3, no games on the xbox 360 have left very lasting impressions on me; you might say, "well, what about Gears of War 2?", but there's something inside me that says I shouldn't play through it again, because I'll find out that it wasn't that good.
I'm looking forward more and more to the next generation, but, as I've said in an early blog post, I'm still quite sceptical as to how well the next generation will do and I think good gaming PCs are so reasonably priced these days that I just really want to get back into it!
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