I cannot stop playing Tenchu Z. I have over120 hours and the number keeps rising.

The new wave of shooters have very limited guns. Shadowrun has only a handful of guns, and they all act the same way. Gears of War has practically eight gun, half of which are cheap as hell. However, old games like Time Splitters have a near endless array of guns. Have game developers forgoten what makes a shooter good. Also, the cross-hair is HUGE. What ever happened to normal looking cross-hair? -- used to be enough, no we use ({}). People don't need to see were the bullets might go, only were they SHOULD go. GRAW has reasonable cross-hairs, however, all the guns reload the same way.

I feel that the new racing games (Forza 2, DiRT, ect) are over looking some very important aspects of gaming. I am of course talking about drifting. Both Forza 2 and DiRT have drifting, but it feels lacking and unsatisfying. Games like Burnout and Ridge Racer, though not great games, have phenomenal drifting. Both allow gamers to drift and regain control without sacrificing speed. In Forza 2 and DiRT, the drifting impacts the speed more than crashing into the wall. Also, all racing games lack the sense of speed. The motion blur does nothing, going at 200 MPH feels more like 50. Next time you are riding in a car, look outside. You will note that every stationary object wiz passed you. Not in video games. In video games, you are lucky if you can get a stationary object to even pass you.