1) Stranglehold - Basically Max Payne 3 dressed up in John Woo garb. Short and rather derivitive, but fun, from the little I've played of it.
2)Assassins Creed - Bo-ring. I expected more, you know, assassination from my assassination game. But, in reality, it's mostly just wandering around Jerusalem gathering info.
3)Oblivion - An extremely fun action-adventure game with RPG trappings. You can basically play it any way you want. I played it as a dungeon crawler, took a character through about 50 hours of caves and ruins, and I didn't even get through half of the game's content.
4)NBA Live 08 - Haven't played it.
5)Orange Box - One of the best values out there. For $60, you get Half Life 2, two episodes, Portal (the best puzzle game released as of late), and a good multiplayer shooter. The PS3 port is plagued with a few bugs and framerate issues, but if you can't get it on anything else, it's still well worth a purchase.
"'Casual games' are something the 'Game Industry' invented to explain away the Wii success instead of actually listening or looking at what Nintendo did. There is no 'casual strategy' from Nintendo. 'Accessible strategy', yes, but ‘casual gamers’ is just the 'Game Industry''s polite way of saying what they feel: 'retarded gamers'."
-Sean Malstrom
