It’s easy to say a game is great. I could start and end this review by just saying “Dragon Age: Origins is the best game of the year, and possibly, the best RPG in the last couple of years, better than The Witcher, better than Mass Effect and better than King’s Bounty.” but it wouldn’t do the game justice. Dragon Age: Origins is a game that’s made to be a classic. It’s a game that no matter the flaws, no matter the hiccups or the problems it might have, it manages to make you ignore them entirely and push on, immersing you in an amazing journey, enjoying every moment and at the end giving you an experience that you will gladly remember.

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The first Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare was a huge blockbuster hit with a ton of sales and wide positive critic approval. The game packaged a great single player experience with awesome multiplayer gameplay. Modern Warfare 2 sets out to not only do that but top it off with a co-op mode, great visuals and music, high quality multiplayer and a diamond-crafter level of polish. Did it succeed? Read on.

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Some games pride themselves on storyline. Some game pride themselves on great visuals. Some even pride themselves on being new and unique. Borderlands prides itself on delivering, pure, raw, unadulterated fun mixed in with a healthy dose of loot. Lots of loot. Tons of loot. Did i also mention gore? And laughter-inducing death animations? This game stands in a category i like to call “Awesome” simply because it strives to be that way, without falling in the “Lame Awesome” category.  The only way it could be more awesome is if it had a gun that ’shoots shurikens and lighting’ as Yahtzee might say. Wait.. On second thought, it might have one.

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Did you ever want to just sit down at your computer, start a game, put on your headphones and just have a consistent and satisfying gaming session? The kind that sucks you in, that has you looking out the window in the morning, see the sunrise and wondering where the night went?  I do.. and sadly, few games nowadays have what it takes to do that to me. Risen, the new RPG from Piranha Bytes, the original makers of Gothic I/II and III, does that, and more.

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Portal, the game that unexpectedly stole the thunder from the Orange Box, was a modern day masterpiece of game design. It relied on simple physics puzzles, which you’d solve using the featured Portal Gun, all wrapped around in a very simple art-style. It also features an incredible ‘eye in the sky’-narrator, GLaDoS, that was a pure joy to listen to and follow.. or not follow. With great success comes the usual reaction of having a lot of your ideas and style copied but somehow, never matching the quality of the original. So we ended up with Twin Sector.

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… and then i took a truck, got some speed, and rammed a turret bunker head on, went through, then continued through a reinforced wall and half into the next garage building. Then i got out, destroyed the pillars of the bunker with my sledgehammer, left the building, picked up my rocket launcher, destroyed the base of a nearby signaling tower and it came crashing down on the remaining building structure, destroying it. Then i died.

That’s just one of the many awesome stories you’ll hear around the watercooler  from the people that played Red Faction: Guerrilla.  And there’s a lot more where that came from.

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A time bubble, and a futuristic soldier in power armor dying to an arrow.

I’ve yet to see a game feature time-travel in a way that was both interesting, fun and logical. ChronoTrigger reserves the title of the game that managed to get as close as possible to that idea but few others even get on the list fallowing it. On the very bottom of that list, you’d find Darkest of Days. Darkest of Days is a First Person Shooter made by 8monkeyLabs, in which your character, the last surviving member of General Custer’s army, Alexander Morris, has to travel back in time to certain periods to find some people and to generally fix the flow of time.

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