5. Duke Nukem Forever, yes or no?

4. Some straight up games!

3. More Heavy Rain!

2. Hideo Kojima you crazy sum bitch!

1. All the Press Conferences

So, as we all know, E3 is slowly but surely approaching and I love lists. Each time the leg on your clock ticks, it gets closer. Some are excited, some are dreading it. I've been through about 4 E3's (watching them). The last public and the "new" E3. I noticed nothing really different besides the fact that I saw a lot more games and less ugly models with guns, half-dressed. I enjoyed the new one a lot more to put it short. So every year, I'm always on the edge of my seat, thinking "What's going to happen this year? What will it be? Will someone fall down? Where am I going with this?" and this year is no different. Although the Swine Flu is being a dick when it comes to people coming to California, I still think there is some potential for this E3. Oh, and you know, I might be looking forward to some things that may or may not happen. Kind of like this:

10. Beatles: Rock Band

9. Official Fat Princess launch date!

8. Next Xbox 360 bundle

7. New Guitar Hero 5(6?) or Rock Band 3 news

6. Looks at some sports games

These games are based on games that’ll come out this year or possibly next year. I won’t be including things coming out this month, inFamous, UFC, etc. Also, I’m sure I missed some so throw them out there if you think I might have.

5. Madden NFL 10- Every year, there’s another Madden, every year I get way too excited for it and I’m usually disappointed. But something tell’s me, this year! This year! Things will change! This one will be even better than the one before! I’m pretty excited that allegedly they’re gonna be tweaking the Franchise and Superstar mode, which has started to become pretty tedious doing the same thing over and over again. The pocket precission seem’s possibly great but.. I just think it’s gonna be kinda unoticed. One thing that really cought my attention was the fact that now when there’s a fumble, it’ll kinda be a mini-game, fighting at the bottom of the pile for the ball…I think I heard this on IGN…I could’ve been dreaming it, though.

4. Modern Warfare 2- I’m excited for this for mainly one reason, it’s Call of Duty by Infinity Ward. In all honesty, something about this seems like it’s gonna be exactly like COD 4 but with small tweaks, kinda like World at War was. But for some reason, something is telling me this’ll be great and the story will excite me just as much as the previous one. I have my doubts but in the end, I wouldn’t be surprised if they showed Modern Warfare 2 at E3 and they completely blew my mind.

3. Fat Princess- I’m crazy, I’m stupid, I don’t know what I’m doing. All of these are totally accurate in many ways but this game, seem’s like it’ll be so…great. I’m not for sure why, it’s just kinda very cutesy, and fun.  The concept is very good, just like a new take on something that kinda seemed impossible to do so, capture the flag. I mean, fat ladies! I can’t wait for people to say “FATTY PRINCESS OVOR BIOSHOCK 2?!?!”, though.

2. MAG- From what I heard from Mr. Gallegos on the Rebel FM podcast, this game os seeming revolutionary. Having a huge force, going against another huge force on an incredibly huge map seems mesmerizing to me. One thing that I didn’t hear that I would love is if you could control air planes and just drop bombs and suicide dive things. That’d be the class that the drunk guy would play.  I really wish I could say more about this but it speaks for itself, 256 freaking players…now that’s a Massive Action Game! HEY-O!

1. Heavy Rain- Very excited for this. Not only is it a brand new IP, it’s, so far from what I know, like a drama/action/shooter/awesome. I feel as if the story is gonna be one of the deepest of the year and, despite the fact that I think Killzone 2 will remain my Game of the Year, this will be great game. I can’t say too much about that until I get my hands on it of course but from what my poor eyes have saw, it looks pretty great.

Honorable Mentions

The Sims 3

Red Faction: Guriella 

Prototype 

Ghostbuster's: The Video Game 

Fight Night Round 4

Call of Juarez: Bound in Blood

Batman: Arkham Asylum

Bayonetta

Brutal Legend

Alpha Protocol

Mafia II

Dark Void

The Saboteur

Dante's Inferno

Bioshock 2

Assassin's Creed 2

5. F.E.A.R. 2

Yes, F.E.A.R 2, although typing the title is a pain in the ass, the game is a breeze. Not a bad breeze but a good breeze, like a breeze of fresh air and you want to suck it down your throat. Although I recommend not sucking on F.E.A.R. 2.

I went into F.E.A.R. 2, hating the first so I wasn’t really expecting too much but I got a game  that was surprisingly good and surprisingly fun. The weapons were the real key factor, they’re all varied. From a crazy nail gun, flamethrower, electric gun, I could continue on with all these ridiculous weapons that let you murder your foes in all kinds of fun ways. The story wasn’t anything great, it had its creepy moments but in the end it (the story) was all just meh with a weird, disturbing cliffhanger at the end.

4. 50 Cent: Blood on the Sand

Blood on the Sand is a game that may have been a little frustrating at points but you look back at it and you see that 50 and his crew actually made a fun, crazy, and enjoyable game. Also supplying us with great lines like “I’ll kill your whole fucking generation, mother fucker” and of course, “Yo Fiddy, jump over that big ass ramp!”

3. Street Fighter IV

The weird thing is, next year or two years from now, this will be the game I’ll still be playing, not all these others so you’d expect this to be higher but, it’s not. Don’t get me wrong this game is excellent with its great fighting, fun modes and good online. It’s all that damn Ken’s fault!

2. Resident Evil 5

When the demo was released, loads and loads of people played it, including me, and loads and loads of people hated it, including me. So I picked this up being pretty skeptical but after the first chapter I knew this was exactly what I was hoping for when Resident Evil 5 was announced.

The story is decent. Nothing really special, they kind of just poo poo some characters like they didn’t matter and there is a very predictable twist in the story. The thing that saves this is the gameplay it’s just fun. Great, crazy, frantic, whatever word you want to use to describe this game is probably rite in some way. The controls had its annoying points but it was something you get over quickly and really becomes a non-issue. The game looks like Brad Shoemakers beard, amazing. Mind blowing! Almost as mind blowing as…

1. Killzone 2

Everybody knows the normal ol’ E3 trailer/Killzone story but I’m going to tell you about a different story, one about a young man named Sev who rode his tiger through the might forest to reach the corpse of his dead wife and then found out she was dead.

Anyways, this game…what more to say than fantastic. The graphics are spectacular, just beautiful, one of the greatest games I’ve ever saw. The story was really just a soldier story with beefed up dudes saying your momma jokes. The dialogue sucks and the story isn’t great but…pretty much every single thing besides that is amazing. The satisfaction you get after shooting a Helghasts helmet off and succeeding at a headshot is great.

So far, this year has actually been pretty good. Some fun games and from the looks of this imaginary calendar I have here with me, it’s only going to get better. C’mon, though I’ve got to throw out some

Honorable Mentions!

The gameplay is very similar to that of Gears of War and The Club combined, these are two games that I loved so that could be reason I found this game very enjoyable. When you start out you get to choose a side-kick and whoever you choose isn’t really important what is important is that the AI in this game works. Not just the enemies are smart but your side-kick gives you some of the best partner AI I’ve saw in a game (much better than that Resident Evil 5 game) Throughout the game your partner will lead the way. Whenever you get out of a fight your partner usually just walks to where you’re supposed to go and he proceeds to yell “Fiddy, over here!”

The Club comparison comes in because it’s pretty much a constant meta-game going on, you’re getting kill combo’s and there’s also little challenges that pop up in the top left corner of the screen that’ll challenge you to do something for extra “Gangsta Fire” which is pretty much another thing that slows down the game and lets you move faster than you probably should. The Gears is pretty much everything else, the cover system is good but I ran into one of the things I done a lot in Gears but it happened more here. Getting stuck to cover. I’ll just be jumping around trying to kill people when I randomly get stuck on cover and die, that doesn’t happen too much but when it does, it’s annoying. There’s other little collectibles to—well—collect, those being Posters and little targets you have to shoot (similar to The Club’s targets) and they’re not very fun and really show no meaning but to garner more points for the level.

While you’re trying to find Fiddy’s skull, you’ll run into some levels that are all pretty much the same, the level design is pretty much ‘This place is dark, I’m in a building, now it’s bright in the desert’ I really can’t say anything bad about that though because the look of the game, besides that, is fantastic. You run into a few grainy textures but still explosions and kills look beautiful. They throw in some melee also. You go into like a button-prompt sequence which is really easy it’s just pressing B/O but after you do one you really feel like a badass, hearing 50 Cent’s music in the background while stabbing someone in the neck, yep don’t get too much better than that. Blood on the Sand is also one of those games that realize that co-op is pretty much a necessity these days! And luckily, not only does it give you co-op it gives you fun co-op.

Weapons wise, this game is loaded (Yes I seriously just made the greatest pun ever) I was disappointed there is only 2 Rocket Launchers since this game is huge on Rocket Launchers but hey, I can deal with that when it gives me the kick-ass pistols that it does. The Assault Rifles in this game are all pretty good. One with a scope, one silent, one small with a huge Rate of Fire, no matter what any Assault Rifle you want you can get. You purchase these weapons by activating random phone booths placed throughout the land and when you go into these phone booths you can also, Switch out your weapons, buy more Counterkills, and buy more taunts. Taunts are pretty much 50 yelling curse words.

All-in-all 50 Cent: Blood on the Sand is not only one of the most shockingly good games ever but it’s also a lot better than most of the games that people will pick up this year because it’s supposed to be good. This is a game that might not provide you with 30+ hours,

because after you complete the 9-11 hour story, you might not want to play it again but that 9-11 hours sure are some memorable times that left me with a smile on my face.

It is actually quite intimidating knowing that this possibly could’ve happened to Washington D.C. The environment looks nice but you can run into a quite a few gritty, undetailed looking textures but most are minor like rocks but I have saw the outside walls of Megaton glitch up on me. Now at this point in the game (1 and a half playthroughs in) I’ve yet to see a Super Mutant resembling Abe Lincoln—not for sure if that’s a bad thing or a good thing.

One thing you can tell Bethesda really worked on is the Good/Bad Karma choices in the game. And it clearly shows. All of

them are detailed and have their own perks and disadvantages. Growing through the game purely evil may be funner but if you’re like me, you want to go through making choices you’d make in real life—granted at the end of my play-through I was “Very-Evil,” it was totally unintentional I swear! Before I close this part out, I just want to say Project Purity.

The writing is excellent and I love how they kind of give you hints at what it really is throughout the game. I’m not too fond of going around yelling at people saying “Yo, you seen my Daddy?”  (Although that’s my part-time job) this actually pulls it off, I don’t know how but it did.

There’s quite a few bit of skills to be upgraded. I do have a gripe about some of them, though. Some of them are pretty much pointless. I mean, when I completed the game my Barter was 22 and I’m half-way through the game and its 20, I’m sorry to all the hardcore Barter leetest’s (or should I say: 1337) out there but that skill really isn’t needed at all. Now there’s quite a few perks like that also but I spent enough time yelling about bad skills and c’mon Fallout 3 has the Bloody Mess perk, obviously the perks are amazing!

The game-play sadly just doesn’t make it (Kind of like how Tokyochicken doesn’t make it) having to wonder through the wasteland to

Fallout 3 achieves what it’s supposed to but doesn’t do more than that. That’s not to say this game isn’t a success, it clearly is, combining great storytelling, a wonderful wasteland, and tons of re-play value makes Fallout 3 one of those games you just have to try out.