From the PlanetXbox360.com feature article:
"There is one time out of every single year that all gamers look forward to and it's the holiday season that begins right around the end of summer. It isn't holiday in the traditional sense so much as the time when we look forward to Christmas as it is when all of the best games are releasing. However, this year it seems there is a bit of a wider birth being granted as several games are nudged into the first quarter of next year. In the meantime, I have scrounged together my 10 must haves of the hottest games releasing before 2009 comes to a close.
10. Darksiders - Dropping the original Wrath of War subtitle, I find it very interesting that this title hasn't slipped into 2010 yet as several sites including Amazon still have it coming at the end of the year. Personally, I think the concept is interesting and stands apart from Dante's Inferno in that instead of being definitively good or evil, you just want to kill everyone. After all, you're filling the shoes of War, one of the four horsemen of the freakin' apocalypse. This isn't a day job for the weak of heart, given that when you're finally called in to the office you're expected to slaughter everything in sight. Oh, and it's the end of the world. All the same, the basic plot of the title involves you, as War, being blamed for prematurely causing that whole Armageddon thing and both Heaven and Hell are pretty upset about it. So, you have to do what anyone trying to prove their innocence would do, annihilate their way to absolution. While the videos of Darksiders have shown very intelligent gameplay mechanics on the part of the development team, I can't help but fight off the feeling that this title will slowly drift out of the year into the next. As it never hurts to have time to finish polishing a game, I still would like to see this game be of truly biblical proportions before the year is out."
This could be fun as they make great tables. Go big or go extinct. Prime your senses for a neural handshake and step into the cockpit of a Jaeger. It is on you to cancel the apocalypse when Pacific Rim Pinball comes to Pinball FX on May 16.
Huzaifa from eXputer: "2008 was home to the likes of Call of Duty: World at War, Dead Space, GTA 4, Far Cry 2, Left 4 Dead, and many other hits, which is outright remarkable."
Just about every year in the 7th generation was great and something we most likely won't experience again.
2009 for example had Assassin's Creed 2, Batman: Arkham Asylum, Dragon Age: Origins, Uncharted 2, Halo 3: ODST, Killzone 2, Borderlands, Bayonetta, and Demon's Souls to name a few.
While the mainstream media always sees things turning in favor of the hero, here are 6 games that own being a bad guy.
Pretty much all of these games listed are based around a morality system you don't have to be bad and you don't have to be good.
It seems to have left out some real amazing games like red dead redemption 1/2,ass effect and true crime la/ny
Armored Core VI?
Ok, I'm really missing something here. Just beat chapter 3 earlier this evening, unlocked A-rank Arena fights. I'm not seeing or sensing any branching paths or morality system and I've done every side mission and arena fight available to me up to that fight.
Is something big coming soon to branch the story?
No mention of Grand Theft Auto? Saints Row (original trilogy), Manhunt? Also The Suffering (depending on the ending you get).
I am not going to buy any Xbox 360 game this holiday season.
Gotta agree with most of the games on this list, Operation Flashpoint, Darksiders, and Modern Warfare 2 all look fantastic....it's going to be an expensive Holiday season no matter which console you own!
I am not going to invest my time and money into the Xbox 360 platform for the remainder of the year.
I am only going to spend my money and time on the PlayStation 3 platform and its respective content.
It's too bad Mass Effect 2, Bioshock 2, Splinter Cell Conviction, Bayonetta, and Final Fantasy 13 were made 2010 titles or else it would be even more packed this holiday.