Portal 2 (single player mode)

Title: Portal 2
Platforms: Xbox 360, PS3, PC, Mac
Trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s79wHKe3DDM
Soundtrack clip: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yZYPTK3J3H4&feature=related
ESRB information: E10+ for fantasy violence and mild language

In the sequel to original 2007 blockbuster Portal: Still Alive, Chell finds herself in what appears to be a hotel room, but a male computer voice speaks and it sounds like Chell is still in a testing, but Chell is soon put into suspension and forgotten, Chell awakens to the hotel room looking a hundred years older, because it is. A small robot who travels around on a ceiling rail named Wheatly comes into the room and helps Chell escape.
So playing as Chell you run around a bit with your portal gun trying to escape, solving some minor puzzles, but then Wheatly accidentally powers up GLaDOS, the evil robot running the portal gun tests, she tosses out Wheatly and sends you into hardcore testing.

Portal 2 has the same game play mechanics as the original with slightly different controls. Portal's physics are amazing, the portal gun shoots a blue portal and an orange portal, these two portals connect to each other, you can go through the orange and come out the blue and viseversa. If you shot a blue portal on the wall next to you and then shot the orange portal at the bottom of a long shaft, jump down through the orange one and the force of gravity will shoot you out the blue like a cannon.

There are multiple gels that do various things, there is repulsion gel which is blue and if you jump on it, it bounces you into the air, there is propulsion gel which is orange and increases your speed when you run on a surface covered with it, there is conversion gel which is white and makes a surface able to have a portal shot onto it, and finally something that isn't actually a gel: water. water washes repusion, propulsion, and conversion gel of surfaces.
    Portal 2's artwork is great, the original game's graphics were amazing for 2007 but Portal 2 has some of the best animation and artwork I've seen in games.
    Developer and publisher Valve put the best writing ever put into a game with hularious diologue and an unexpected ending with great cutscene animation.

9 out of 10 for this great game. you can buy Valve products at their site called Steam

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Halo: Reach (campaign)

   

Title: Halo Reach

Platforms: Xbox 360
Trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5iWyoxv_V8o
Soundtrack clip: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wuS5O7tYFr4
ESRB information: M for blood and violence

Halo: Reach Is the sixth in the phenomenal Halo franchise, coming after Halo: Combat Evolved, Halo 2, Halo 3, Halo 3 ODST, and Halo Wars. It seems like the entire franchise has been leading up to Reach with amazing graphics, animation, game play, and great voice over in the campaign mode.

    In the campaign mode you play as Noble Six, the sixth member of Noble team. Your mission is to defend planet Reach from the invading Covenant forces.

    As for story, Reach doesn't have much creativity in the grand scale, but certain levels involve flying spacecraft for orbital defense, jumping around in zero gravity during a shooting, destroying massive anti-air guns, manning a huge cannon to shoot down banshees, and since it is a Halo game, loading your alien enemies full of bullets.

    Developer Bungie really put a lot of work into Reach.

 The game takes place a year before the events of Combat Evolved. Weapons have something new in store including concussion rifles and DMRs, dual wielding is taken away, but to take its place is a whole bunch of new stuff like jetpacks, armor lockup, sprint, hologram,evade, and active camo.

Your fellow Noble Team members are Jorge, Kat, Carter, Emile, and Jun.
    Game play is great and controls a good, but what I think Reach could have but doesn't is gameplay as the enemies, you can always play as an elite in custom game mode, but I've always wanted to run around in campaign as a brute or even a grunt.
    So even though Reach doesn't let you be a grunt running around yelling about heresy, I give it a 9 out of 10, this is definetely the best FPS right now, but will probably be remembered as an arcade classic in twenty years.