The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion

Title: The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion
Platforms: Xbox360, PS3, PC
Trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vXWYWfFqlSw
Soundtrack clip: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E3kV1QqQIDM
ESRB information: M for blood and gore, language, sexual themes, use of alcohol, and violence.

Earlier this year I saw a trailer for Skyrim, the fifth elder scrolls title, and it looked awesome, so I bought the fourth one Oblivion. In the story you start as a prisoner in the imperial jail, captive in that place makes you the lowest of the low, but then you are visited by the last person you would expect to visit an inmate, it's the emperor, he tells you that he is going to die and gives you something that you have to take to the leader of Blades. The Blades are like the secret service for the emperor, when you give it to the Blade's grandmaster you find out that there is a secret heir to the throne named Martin. 
    You go to the city where Martin lives as a priest who doesn't know he's the emperor's son, but when you get there you find that a gate to the hellish realm of Oblivion opened and the monsters called Deadra are coming through the gate to attack. The city where Martin lives is called "Kvatch" which sounds dumb because.....The Game is great and controls are good, the art could be a bit better but what made this game not as good was the animation, lip sync was pretty bad and the jump animation made it look like I was being yanked up into the air by invisible ropes every time I jumped.
    Something that the developer Bethesda Game Studios does with all the Elder Scrolls  games is that you can switch between playing in first person or third person at anytime in game play.
Overall I give this game an 8.6 out of 10, because it was great but story and animation could be better, and will be better in Skyrim which comes out on 11.11.11.

Halo 4 is announced at E3

seven year olds who shouldn't be playing halo and gentlemen, I am now happy to say that Halo 4 has just been announced at E3 (Electronic Entertainment Expo) and it looks great. this page on IGN talks a bit about it and has the trailer for the next chapter in the groundbreaking Halo series, no information is clear yet accept that it's obvious that this is the next battle with Master Chief after the events of halo 3.

Alan Wake

Title: Alan Wake
Platforms: Xbox 360
Trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F0MsWKJVQ84
Soundtrack clip: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8rqbvEfXJ1Q&feature=related
ESRB information: T for blood, language, use of alchohol and drugs, violence.

I'm sitting at my computer two hours after beating one of my favorite games I've ever played: Alan Wake. I just drank a whole can of monster and don't feel good, I can't think very clearly but still I can explain how amazing this game was.
    You play as a writer named Alan Wake(of course). Wake and his wife Alice are going on vacation, they go to the rented cabin on the lake, after Alan and Alice have an argument, he walks outside but then the lights go off in the cabin and Alice starts screaming, he runs inside and she's gone, the railing on the back porch is broken to look like she was thrown through it into the lake, Alan jumps in after her and somehow wakes up in his car with a nasty bump in his head. A strange dream told Alan how to fight people possesed by darkness called Taken, but Alan finds out that it wasn't just a dream when he finds himself shining a flashlight at Taken to weaken them and then shooting them, he soon finds that a week had past between when he jumped into the lake and when he woke up in his crashed car, he not only lost Alice but also a week of his life.
    The game is supposed to be scary, to me I wasn't scared shooting down Taken with a revolver or shotgun but nothing made me more freaked out than being out of ammo or low on health.
    Wake's agent named Barry flies in, he helps with the fight to find out how to end the dark attacks.
    Shortly after waking up in the car, Alan starts finding pages to a book he doesn't remember writing, but what happens on a page starts coming true, either a page he finds is of something that already happened or is going to.
    Alan Wake is made by Microsoft Game Studios and Remedy, they created great cutscene animations, buitiful nature setting and an unpredictable story line that stays with you long after the strange ending. 9 out of 10 is what I'm giving to this fantastic work of art.

Pictures from IGN.