Doom 3

While not exactly scary, Doom 3 is a pretty classic FPS by today's standards. No iron sights, no tactical lights (unless you download a mod for it), and not a huge focus on multiplayer. Maybe it's me looking through my nostalgia glasses, but I like Doom 3. Run around murdering demons in a dark, dank, Mars outpost. Fun stuff!

Defense Grid: The Awakening

When I first played Defense Grid, I wasn't sure what to think of it. I had gotten it for the Potato Portal 2 ARG thing, and it was one of the ones I had to glance over really fast. Coming back to it, I found myself actually liking the game itself. It's a cute little tower defense game. Build towers to make mazes and slow the enemies advance to your power generator. The plot is a bit dumb, and it doesn't usually matter, but the game itself is simple and fun.

If it's cheap, get it! I liked it.

Mass Effect 3

I've just completed Mass Effect 3 in a total of 28 hours. I think on the whole, it's generally a good game, though, with time to reflect, I'm sure I'll see it as a bit shit.

Most of the time I was playing involved:

Walking around the Citadel, not knowing where the hell I was going.
Scanning Planets and Systems in the hopes I'll find something useful.
Hiding in cover waiting for my shields to recharge.
Hiding in cover waiting for the enemies to poke their heads out.
Getting killed by insta-kill moves and things you have no time to react to.
Killing enemies that are completely boring cannon fodder.

The endings were also so horrible because it didn't matter what you did during any of the games because the choices are the same no matter how you went about it. A B or C. Take your pick. Literally 90% of the ending cutscenes are the same. It's stupid. As a game that prides itself on user decision affecting gameplay, this was really unforgivable.

Orcs Must Die

In Orcs Must Die you fend off waves of attackers from reaching your portal. You use traps, a spear, a crossbow, and a variety of special powers you'll never touch to stop them from advancing. The game is pretty good. I like it, but I was let down by the lack of online beyond leaderboards. This is a game dying for co-op, and it was boring without it. Maybe because it was too easy or something, but it is still a good game. Once you figure out overpowered the arrow walls are though, the game is pretty much over.

Supreme Commander

Supreme Commander is Command and Conquer. It's an RTS, it has aliens, and it has the good guys trying to keep/restore justice, and the guys that want shit to be evil. Only difference is that it's like Warcraft, in that your commander is actually a unit that builds stuff, instead of things just popping out of the ground in Command and Conquer.

It's a good game though. I found it in a bargain bin at Ollie's (greatest cheap store ever) for 3 dollars. 3 dollars! I know its sequel is out (I tried it once), but I'm too lazy/poor to even think about getting it.

Mortal Kombat (2011)

Mortal Kombat isn't the most technical of fighters. It'll probably never have the huge following Street Fighter or Marvel VS Capcom has, but it is a good game. Fatalities have replaced those retarded heroic brutality things from MKVDCU, and X-Ray attacks have replaced Rage mode. I haven't played any of the games on the PS or PS2, but I know that this is a good game. I like fighters. I play MvC3 and SF all the time. Maybe it's nostalgia of my SNES days, but this game is really good. A lot of bugs persist far into it's release, but I can see past that as it doesn't affect me that much.

People wonder if MK will last after the big fighting game tournament, EVO, this year. Netherrealm studios will make sure that it does last with all the DLC characters being released. Fuck yeah, Kenshi.

Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood

AC: Brotherhood is really good. The inclusion of multiplayer works surprisingly well, and the plot actually moves forward a whole lot even though the game seemed like an extended add-on to AC2. There aren't any new inventions from Leonardo, there isn't any traveling between cities, and the game as a whole feels like it's being held back to conform with the previous game. This is a very large add-on to Assassin's Creed 2, and it's still fun as the rest of the series. If you didn't find the early Assassin's Creeds amazing, this game won't change your mind. If you did find earlier installments good, then you'll have the same feeling for this game.

Civilization 5

Civ 5 majorly improves on past installments. One game can last around 20 hours if you want it to, and it's fun to build up your city and nuke the neighboring enemy. Although the inclusion of multiplayer is a joke, and very poorly done, playing with bots offline is still awesome. If you're even somewhat into strategy games, you will enjoy this game.