Games to get this Christmas - Part Two

Time certainately flies when you’re having fun. It’s only a month till Christmas. Like what I said in my previous posts, there are certainately lots of games to play this holiday season. In this three part feature, I wish to come up an elaborate Christmas games shopping list for all of you. Without much further ado, I wish to begin on part two of this three-part feature…

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Assassin’s Creed (PS3, Xbox 360, PC)

Ubisoft, the guys who brought us Splinter Cell and Prince of Persia has decided to bring us a game of 1191 Jerusalem, Damascus and Acre setting and do it with a twist. This game lets you climb and assassinate along your way, combined with parkour-inspired free-running. This results in possibilities for cat-and-mouse games with guards like nothing we’ve seen before.

Hellgate: London (PC)

Hellgate: London, the next benchmark in the evolution of the RPG genre, is brought to you by Flagship Studios – creators of the award-winning Diablo series and the godfathers of the action role playing genre. It combines the depth of traditional RPGs with the frenetic, visceral feel of first-person shooters and offers infinite replayability with dynamically created levels, monsters, items and events that gives each player their own unique hack-and-slash experience.

It is set in post-apocalyptic London that has been overrun by hordes of terrifying demons, leaving the city desolate and scorched by hellfire. The survivors now have to band together to save humanity. Hellgate: London comes in beautiful DirectX 10 features, but still runs gracefully on older PCs.

Uncharted: Drake’s Fortune (PS3)

The cute hop-n-bop platformers like Crash Bandicoot (Woah, I wish they had this game when I was nine), Viva Pinata (downright childish!), MapleStory (super-gay!) and Jak & Daxte (huh?) are now over and obeslete, with technology and creativity present in today’s games. With Uncharted: Drake’s Fortune, Naughty Dog, their developer, is going for something a little more realistic.

It’s the story of an ancient treasure map and the belief that Nathan is Sir Francis Drake’s heir that gives Uncharted:Drake’s Fortune it’s backstory. Like any other next-gen game, this gmae features HD graphics, which are being hailed as one of the PlayStation 3’s first true visual showpieces.

Rock Band (PS3, Xbox 360)

The faved studio, Harmonix Music Systems, who created the popular Guitar Hero franchise, is now back with Rock Band, the next-gen spiritual successor of the Guitar Hero franchise. After being picked up by MTV Games and parting with the Guitar Hero series that made the team sucess, Harmonix merged lead, rhythm and bass guitars, added karaoke-style vocals and created an all-new drum set mechanic, giving us the almighty Rock Band.

Gears of War (PC)

This game is great on the Xbox 360, but it’s even greater now that it’s ported over to the FPS-friendly PC. It’s a game that blends tactical action with survival horror (think Manhunt fused with Halo), thrusts gamers into a tale of mankind’s epic battle for survival against a nightmarish race of creatures called the Locust. Built around a revolutionary third-person tactical combat system and breathtaking, high-definition visuals from the Unreal Engine 3, Gears of War immerses you in a horrifying tale of war and survival.

Voila! This is the end of the second part of the three-part “Games to get this Christmas” feature. If you are anxiously waiting for the third part, kindly give us your comments so that I know how to write the list the way you want it to be. For example, what games do you think I have missed out and would like me to include in the third part? Watch out for Part Three on Friday!

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