So another year is over, there was many good games this year and in this next few sections I will outline a few of my favourite games of the year and my reasons for liking those games of all the other I played in 2010.

Best Downloadable Game

Pacman Championship Edition DX: I was never really a big fan of the pacman games. But this game just astounded me. It has the same addictive aspects of games such as Geometry Wars. The leader board stuff adds a competitive element to the game. I just love the feeling when you see your score pass a friends even more when you speak to that person again and can rub it in.   It was a close choice between this and Limbo but Pacman just stole a hell of allot of my time.

Best Mobile Game

Infinity Blade looks beautiful, it has great RPG elements where you level your character and weapons, the game play is really loads of fun. Blocking and parrying uses the touch screen well and so does the magic spells. May I add this game looks amazing using Epics Unreal engine on the Iphone WOW!

Best Multiplayer

Call Of Duty: Black Ops: I am not really a multiplayer gamer so I never really put much time into the Online parts of a game, unless its co-op but Halo Reach and Call of Duty Black ops started to get me into multiplayer this year... With Call of Duty especially, I actually played the multiplayer before even getting into the campaign experience. Never have is spent enough time on a multiplayer game since Counter strike: Source. The level system, the currency and all the things that come of that (the guns, the perks, clan tags, gun skins) are amazing and just add to the fun of the game.

Best Single player Experience

Mass Effect 2: This game came out early in the year, it was a great game much improved on the original.   Bioware seemed to streamline the rpg aspects and make the game more of a shooter. The story continued from the original and let you import your character and story aspects from the original. The game play was great, the story was great. The game made the first quarter of the year for me.

Game of the Year

3 Halo Reach: The single player and story is the best bungie has done so far, I have always loved the Halo franchise more than any other and can’t wait to see what Bungie has in store for us next. The Multiplayer has so much variety. The new levelling system is great not quite as good as Call of Duty’s but still great. I also loved the customisation of the game being able to make your own level and also being able to create your own Noble 6 editing armour as you go.

2  Need for Speed Hot Pursuit: I am not usually a driving game fan but I love playing as a cop in this game shutting down racers and the leader board system is like crack to me seeing my friends score before each level and trying over and over trying to beat that time. The single player is great being a cop and a racer is so much fun but I also love the multiplayer 3 on 3 races cops vs. racers is so much fun and the fact that all the exp. Gained from this mode (used to unlock cars) carriers over to the single player game is amazing.

1 Call of Duty: Black Ops: The multiplayer is amazing 2 to none but Black ops also has a great single player game too. I love the story and although it was a little obvious the twist at the end was great too plus Ice Cube is in this game every one Ice Cube!!!

Game of the Decade

There have been so many great games in the years of the 2000’s but only a few stands out to me, the original Gears of War, Halo 3, Call of Duty: Modern warfare and many more but one game has struck out more than any for me one game I played more than any other. In the early part of the decade I was big into multiplayer PC gaming and I played one game more than any other, that game was Counter strike: Source. It is an extremely simple premise Terrorist versus Counter Terrorists in 2 different game types, One where the T have to plant a bomb on one of 2 bomb sites and CT have to defuse the bomb and another where the T have to protect hostages they have capture from the CT who in turn have to get those hostages to the a safe zone. Another way for both teams to win was to kill all of the members from the opposing team.   The game was amazing and totally different from other games of its time which were only interested in deathatch and team deathmatch modes. So CS:S is my game of the Decade.

As far as Christmas is concearned I am the worst person in the world, i always put off buying prezzies till the 24th and wrap them early christmas morning. Well this year i have changed that, last month i managed to get all of my girlfriends gifts and this month i got the rest of the families so for once i am set. Now the problem is what do i want :S 
 
This has been a major problem this year what do i want, Kinekt? Nope, not even enough room to swing a cat around so no chance with that. Move, nah it looks terrible. so  stuck on just a few games and blu ray disks. Then when i think the problem is over my Nan decides to give me £100 to go get my self anything i want for xmas. So the problem starts again anyway here is what i ended up choosing to get.  Halo Reach controller, Enslaved, Assasins Creed Brotherhood, Gran Turismo, NBA Jam, Need for speed and Inception and Expendables on Blu Ray. My Girlfriend also got me some stuff which i have no idea about so the small amount of time i do have off for the holidays (5 days) will be filled with gaming and films...sounds great.

 If you read my previous blogs you will know that I recently got really, really addicted to Call of Duty: Black ops. I also have to say that I was doing quite well until........

Until Monday, since I got the game I played well usually at the top or there abouts every game. Then Monday, I just started losing and not occasionally but quite often. I have no idea what happened to my skill but it seems to have ran out. I don’t know if I am just rushing and need to take my time more, I am using the wrong setup or something else entirely but it is really, really frustrating me.

Because I am getting frustrated by this I just seem to pay less and less attention and end up dying more. Its a bloody cycle of suckiness. So I decided to maybe take a day or twos rest from the multiplayer and make a start on the campaign mode and come back after a fresh calmer me.

Ok so its been snowing....allot where i live. I went to work on tuesday and by the time 5 o clock came around i was unable to get home. No busses were running, the roads were clogged so from tuesday to saturday i was stuck. Ok so it wasn't so bad because i was stuck at my girlfriends who lives near where i work.  That meant no games......or did it?
 
On wednesday we decided to walk to the local town and whilst there my girlfriend commented that she had been getting into games lately and wanted an xbox so I decided to buy the new 250 gig console to play whilst we were snowed in and then take home to mine when i got back swapping it out for my elite which would go to hers.  This only left me with one problem, no games. I did have 2100 points on my account so decided to buy crazy taxi and pacman championship edition dx plus redownload so games i had purchased before on my live account.
  
So the 2 games i managed to play this week:
 
Crazy Taxi 

So I did what i said i wouldn't.....I bought Blops. Its good infact its really good. I really didn't expect that at all. I played a little bit of Treyarch's last Call of Duty game, World at War and didn't like it at all. But as soon as i jumped into this game I loved it. I really haven't played much of the campaign but i am loving the cash system in the multiplayer.I started playing at 9 p.m last night and didn't look up till 4 a.m (i was shocked to see the time). Like i said i have only done the 1st mission on the campaign but that looks like the same old call of duty cinematic gameplay. Everyone knows its all about the multiplayer. 
 
I played a little more New Vegas also. I am still loving this game bugs and all. I think i am close to completion now. Really wanna get it done soon i have loads of games still to complete and more coming at xmas. 
 
I am also still playing through the Halo games from start to finish with my girlfriend because she "wants to see the story". I think she really, really wants to take an interest in my hobbies which is cute. 
 
Thats been about it for my week, that and work, gunna watch the new harry potter on wednesday but apart from that i expect my wek will be BLOPS!!!!!!

Today i decided to set myelf a task. Well actually it was my girlfriends idea. Play every Halo game (by bungie) from start to finish. 
 
My girlfriend recently saw the Halo Reach advert and from hearing me talking about it she said " i want to know how it happened".  So here we are she wants me to play though every halo game while she watches so she can pick up the story. So everytime she is over at mine i am gunna play an hr or so (we do have other things to do ;) ) of halo with her untill each halo game is complete. So that is basically it. I will keep people posted how i am getting on. I plan on starting Combat Evolved Sunday so i will update from there onwards.
 
P.S I know she is amazing taking an interest in gaming for me :)

So the past few days i have played allot.....correction a hell of allot of New Vegas. I have managed to get to (SPOILERS) the part where you get the platinum chip back and decide what to do with it. So yeah i decided and i thought that was the end of the game but nope. I now have to get all the clans to help me with the NCR, Legion war. So yeah more New Vegas time then. This game is a good game but it is starting to wear a little thin for me. It maybe because i have played around 10 hours of it today. I may come back to it in a day or so and be loving every second again. I really hope so because I like the game and i want to complete it.
 
I also got myself Alan Wake for the bargain price of £1. It was a new copy too :) The game seems good. I have only played an hour so far and I hope to invest a bit more time soon.
 
Thats about it for me, i decided I will but Blops soon because everyone is raving about it so I have to check it out. Apart from that i have been at work and going to the Gym. Pretty normal week. 

There has been so many great games this year and I have only been able to play a few but of the games i have picked up and played i consider many game of the year worthy so in this small blog i have decided to list those such games and give my personal reasons as to why i think they are candidates for my Game of the Year.
 
Mass Effect 2
 

So I don't really write a blog at all, so i thought it was time a made a start.  In this blog i will probably just waffle on about what games i played or films i watched in the last week or so depending on how often i tend to write it.
 
First things first (obviously, it would be stupid if i put the first thing at the end) i have to say bloody hell games are getting released, it seems that from March to the end of September there was nothing of any importance on the market and then we hit the peak time and everything comes at once (like buses...i know bad joke).
 
Got a couple new games this week:
 
The Sims 3 for Playstation 3
 
 I am realy shocked at how much i am loving this game, I really liked the original on the PC but felt that number 2 wasn't really much of a move upwards and kind of left the series there. I dabbled a little with The Sims 3 on PC but it never really piqued my interest and I have played Sims games on consoles before and they have been terribly poor control and gameplay wise, so when The Sims 3 was bought for me on the Playstation 3 i was quite skeptical. But after played a good few hours on the game i am loving it, the controls are perfect and they developers have managed to fit everything that was great about the sims onto this console version. I am loving creating my guy, building my house and making him hit on every female in sight (and some males too shhhhh). Needless to say I am yet again addicted to the sims (currently trying to throw a diamond in the air whilst typing to represent).  
 
Fallout New Vegas For Playstation 3
 
Now this was the biggest hassle i have ever had trying to get a bleeding game. I preordered this game from a major retailer online for it to be delivered to my door on release day like most of the other major titles i buy.  So release day came and no game had arrived. I though oh well it must have got delayed in the post so i waited till after the weekend. Monday post came and still no game. I rang the retailer and they told me to wait till Friday so i did, frustrated that i didn't get the game on its promised date of the 22nd.  The friday came around and still no game so i rang again and was told they would send me out another copy. I waited another week and again no game arrived. So another angry phone call and finally they tell me they are unable to sned another copy out but i can go to one of their stores and pick up a copy if i am able. So i finally do that and get my game. After 2 and a half weeks wating. So anyway the game is great, hella buggy but great. I'm not too far in yet but its basically the old fallout but a new area. Love this game!!!!!
 
Thats about all for the games i played, I did go to the cinema to watch Paranormal activity 2, thats a pretty good film. A few jumpy moments but all in all not as good as the original which i loved. I was a little annoyed at some parts when kids would laugh at times when laughter was definately not needed. I also went to watch Saw 3d, the "final saw film". Its pretty much what you expect from a saw film these days, the storys good but nothing really excells. Its extremely gross but thats what you go to these films to soo right? The 3d in the cinema is watched it in seemed to be off because most of the film was a little blurry. But all in all 2 good films.
 
Thats about it for my week, i am considering buying alan wake because its on sale where i work so i can get it for like £10 and i might try and jump back into halo reach after 3 or 4 weeks without playing it. I will more than likely get my arse kicked but i'll try. I'm will probably not be getting Black Ops yet because i am not really that excited about it Treyarch don't really make great games. I'll check out reviews first. N27