I feel that this year was sort of dissappointing for game releases. At least for me. There were a few games that stuck out, though. For this blog I'm going to go with my top three games of the year. I guess I'll get right into it.

3. Modern Warfare 2

I don't really feel this game is amazing or deserves the credit it is given. I played it a fairly signifigant amount and rounded up all the achievements, but as of late I'm not even playing it anymore. i just feel it added on to Call of Duty 4 in all the wrong ways, in terms of multiplayer. It was very disappointing. Despite all of that, I did enjoy the time I spent in campaign and Spec Ops. I do enjoy the multiplayer, but like I said, it seems like a downgrade.

2. Resident Evil 5

I finally got around to playing Resident Evil 5, and I must say the game is quite fun. I did nothing besides hate on it after playing the demo. I guess I never gave it a chance. I was visiting a good friend of mine and I ended up playing through the game almost twice on normal. I felt acomplished considering my mediocre RE skills. It was a pleasant surprise.

1. Borderlands

At first it just seemed like a decent shooter with some loot but when I finally picked it up and started playing it, I became addicted. There are glaring flaws with the game but considering I looked past them and played the game for a very large amount of time, I feel the game deserves a great deal of respect. Not to mention, the co op experience is probably the best I've ever had. Borderlands easily takes the title of Game of the Year, for me.

I just wanted it to be known, I own the game. I don't really want to speak on it too much, though. It's ok. The single player is decent and the multiplayer is ok but it almost feels like too much of the same. Plus, the new kill streaks, perks, ect... just makes the line between good players and bad players much closer. Which I don't like. Regardless, I am having fun and I will unlock all attachments and camos for every gun. I do that instead of prestige. I will probably go on to play that for a long while.

As for a final note on MW2, I enjoyed Borderlands more. lol I ended up leveling up three characters to 50. The Hunter, Siren, and Berserker. The Siren was my dedicated Co-op character that I only used, to play with one of my good friends. I believe that brought my total time to around 6ish days of gameplay. lol Ya, way too much.

On another note, this friday I am getting New Super Mario Bros' Wii. I am really looking forword to that game. I think it looks great and the fact that there is little motion controls is great. I am honestly more excited for this then playing more MW2.

EDIT: Just beat MW2 on veteran. BOOM! lol I think it was much easier then COD4.

Alright, I just finished up borderlands and I thought I would give a few opinions on the game and such. First off, I will get some small details out of the way. I chose to play as the Hunter class. I got all the achievements that are possible on the first play through. There are a few more for reaching new levels (You can level up from 1 to 50), which can be done by playing the "second playthrough" option, which starts a new game and keeps all your stuff. Also, it scales. I completed the game at level 35. I did complete all the side quests as well. Now I shall only touch on a few notable points of the game. I am just going to keep it simplistic.

Borderlands, as you may or may not know is basically a shooter with loot. The quests that you do are set in an open world. There are different zones that you must load into, though. Each zone is quite large and fairly linear in design. As for the shooting, it works quite will, but the looting elements kept me coming back. The loot includes money, ammo, shields, weapons and a few other specific things. I really enjoyed the variety of guns in this game. The elemental damage, that is added to some guns, added to the diversity.

As for the story, well it's mediocre at best but to be honest, it doesn't bug me at all. The looting and gameplay easily mask it. I don't really feel like touching on any other aspect because I am not really writing a review. I'll just list off a few things that I didn't like about it.

One issue I have seen people talk about is that there is no "bank" that you can store weapons in. There are some pretty unique weapons and I would love to keep some and show them off, but they are useless to use because they are weak now. I would have liked to have a place to store them. Your backpack does upgrade but you are sharing it with all your other items so I ran out of room once it a while. To be honest, it is a small issue that really effected me maybe once of twice.

Another issue is the game is pretty easy. I guess I just over leveled with all the side missions but still, I beat all the missions and bosses with ease. I died maybe 5 times through the whole game. This again, is a very small issue, because I had a blast playing through it.

One other small point is the frame rate in a few spots. It drops when there is too much action on the screen at once. It sort of soils the near end of the game in a specific location. Over all, the frame rate is steady, though. Just two important spots in the game notably lag in frame rate, which is unfortunate.

Well to sum it up, Borderlands is easily the best game I played all year. I enjoyed it from start to finish. I do plan on playing the second playthrough and I am sure I will enjoy just as much. Obviously, I fully recommend getting this game.