December 9, 2007

The end of the year is closing in, but what games come out on top? You will find out my opinions on that right now. Here are this year's top five games that I've played. Unfortunately, Mass Effect couldn't be added due to a still ongoing delivery from BestBuy.com. Please note that all of these are picked on their relevance to their release, not on how good they are.

5. Bioshock is the game that brought a modern PC quality shooter to the console for pretty much the first time. It did it well too. I'm not too big a fan of this kind of game, but I'm on the last level and I kind of like it. My only complaint is that it can get a bit too tensing.

4. Halo 3 is the end to the Xbox's fantastic trilogy. And to top it off, it pushed us into an era of streamlined user created

3. s.k.a.t.e. is the perfect alternative to shooter on the Xbox 360. The skateboarding genre was in need of some innovation, and this was it. If more games like this are released, the 360's audience will broaden.

2. Metroid Prime 3 showed that shooters can be done well on Wii. I really only put this up because the controls are quite revolutionary. I'm not the biggest Metroid fan.

1. Super Mario Galaxy saved a genre from obscurity. The platformer is back and better than ever with gravitational physics. Let's just hope that Banjo Kazooie 3 follows in its footsteps.