My Games of the year! (part 1)

This year has seen the new Xbox 360 become an established and competition free addition to many homes throughout the country. Reportedly already shifting 10m units worldwide. However, the Nintendo Wii, only release at the beginning of December 06 has already shifted over 3 million units; an impressive achievement in less than a month.

Sony's year on the other hand has been less than impressive. After the cringeworthy press conference they gave at the E3 show they displayed an arrogance about the new PS3, bragging about the amazing 'new' (see copied) features of thee PS3 that seems to, as usual over-promise yet under deliver. Their tilt-sensing 'sixaxis' controller is a poor comparison the the truly revolutionary Wii remote as is their online proposition which pales against Xbox Live which is for me a 'killer app' on the Xbox 360.

The latter half of the year has seen the Xbox 360 really show of its potential. Anyone who has seen Gears of War played on an HD TV cannot fail to be impressed by the quality of the graphics. But such an over hyped game could have easiliy not delivered on the gameplay which I'm happy to say it didn't.

For me Gears of War is one of those games that takes a genre and adds many new and innovative gameplay features, like Halo did 5 years ago, that should make other games developers take note, and makes it one of my games of the year.

To be continued...