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Another crazy flood of holiday video games
I remember it well, the holiday season of 2007 when even the most hardened of video game players had to admit that they were being overwhelmed by fantastic games like “Rock Band,” “BioShock” “Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare” and “The Orange Box.”
Last year was great, but simply not in the same league. This year, however, we’ve already seen some serious Game of the Year contenders and more triple-A-list games are on the way.
I’ve been playing Sony’s extremely polished “Uncharted 2: Among Thieves,” which I’ll review here soon and it’s stellar. A new 2-D Mario game arrives soon for the Wii (“New Super Mario Bros. Wii”). On the horizon are two more high-profile sequels, “Assassin’s Creed 2” and “Left 4 Dead 2.”
The sequel to “Call of Duty 4,” titled, “Modern Warfare 2” hit stories today to great reviews. “Dragon Age: Origins” and “Tekken 6” both hit recently and though it seems like the enthusiasm for “DJ Hero,” “Brutal Legend” and “Ratchet and Clank Future: A Crack in Time” seems to be fading while earlier releases like “Beatles: Rock Band,” “Batman: Arkham Asylum” and “Borderlands” are riding high on good word-of-mouth.
How do I play all these games for my Statesman coverage? The simple answer is that I don’t. There’s never enough time to get to every game. In 2007, I never got very far into “Modern Warfare” because of the crunch (oh, the regret!) and to this day I’ve never played “Gears of War 2” or more than the first few hours of “Fallout 3.” Something has to give and I usually end up having played only about 30 percent of the titles I wanted to get to. A huge RPG like “Dragon Age” would be disastrous for me, but I will definitely give “Modern Warfare 2” and “Left 4 Dead 2” a go since those are much easier to get into in short doses. As soon as I’m finished with “Uncharted,” I’ll move on one of those games or maybe bypass them in favor of the new “Mario” game.
Do you have a plan of action for the holiday season? Do you usually just stick with one or two games through November and December or do you try to play everything in sight? Let me know in the comments.
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