Red Faction Guerrilla

Publisher: THQ
Developer: Volition Inc., Reactor Zero
Genre: Third person Shooter, Sandbox
Platform: Xbox 360, Playstation 3, Microsoft Windows
ERSB Rating: M for Mature

Character:
The player plays as the character Alec Mason. He is a miner and is sent to Mars to help mine. His brother was secretly part of a rebellion group called Red Faction, he tried to recruit Alec. While Alec was working with him when the EDF (Earth Defense Force) came and killed his brother right in front of his. Since this happened he had no choice but to join the rebellion.

Story:
Alec was just sent to Mars to mine there with his brother. When he got there his brother took him right to the mining job but was also trying to convince Alec to join the red faction rebellion against the EDF. Alec declined it but once the job was finished the EDF came and killed his brother. Alec went back to his house and the EDF were there and tried to kill him for being in the red faction which he wasn't at the time. Right as he was about to get killed some red faction people came and saved his life. Now he had no choice but to join the rebellion. He now has to go through the different towns and try to recruit more people by doing different missions like retrieving EDF intell or colonists out of EDF control.

Resources:
In the game the player has to watch after their ammunition, health, and the amount of money that they have to purchase things.

Assassins Creed

Publisher: Ubisoft
Developer: Ubisoft Montreal
Genre: Third person Action-Adventure
Platform: Xbox 360, Playstation 3, Microsoft Windows
ERSB Rating: M for Mature

Character:
The player plays as a guy named Desmond who used to be an assassin. He gets put into a machine called the Animus and then the player is playing the character named Altair who is a member of a creed of assassins who fight for the good of humanity.

Story:
Desmond is captured by a company called Abstergo and is put into an Animus daily to go back into his memories and try to find out where his ancestors hid an ancient artifact. When he goes into the Animus he becomes an ancestor named Altair, he is a member of a creed of assassins but he kills an innocent person and gets demoted back to a starting assassin to learn from his mistakes. His master has him kill a bunch of important but evil people in different cities to slowly regain his abilities. After he kills all of the evil people he is assigned to kill he then has to kill his master because he betrays Altair. After the player kills the master he then has to hide the artifact so no one can abuse its power.

Resources:
The resources that the player has to watch is their health until they get kicked out of the Animus and how many throwing knives they have left to use.

Challenge:
The player has to kill certain people who are guarded by lots of guards and once the assigned person is killed the player has to kill all of the guards that attack them.

Stranglehold

Publisher: Midway, Success
Developer: Midway Chicago, Tiger Hill Entertainment
Genre: Third person shooter, Action
Platform: Xbox 360, Playstation 3
ERSB Rating: M for Mature

Character:
The player gets to play as inspector "Tequila" Yuen. He is a cop who is fed up with all off the killings and gang violence so he decides to take matters into his own hands. He has the ability to slow down everything he sees so the player can plan out what they want to do.

Story:
Tequila has gotten fed up with all of the bad people in the area and that the police are barely doing anything about it. Since the cops wont do anything about it he has decides to take care of it himself. He uses his connections to find out information about the bosses of all of the gangs and drug producers and takes them all out one by one. While he is doing this one of the leaders takes his wife Billie hostage. Tequila does everything he can to get her back and succeeds. He find out that his old partner Jerry was behind that and hunts him down and kills him. After Jerry was apprehended Chief Lee returns Tequila's badge to him which was earlier confiscated.

Resources:
The resources in this game that the player has to watch out for is their ammunition and their health so they dont die or run out of ammo.

Challenge:

The farther the player gets in the game the harder the enemies get. They start to get more powerful guns and can take more damage to that the game is getting more difficult but at the same time the player is getting better

Mirrors Edge

Publisher: Electronic Arts
Developer: EA Digital illusions CE
Genre: First person, Action Adventure
Platform: Xbox 360, Playstation 3
ERSB Rating: T for Teen

Character:
The player plays the game as the character Faith. She is a member of the "runners," her and a few other people that are in the group are experts at parkour. They use their skills to transport messages around the city because the government took away all secure communication and they need some way to be able to transport information.

Story:
Faith is transporting a message to one of her partners Celeste and then she returns to their home. She is listening to the police radio and hears that her sister Kate is being arrested for murder. Since she hears this she goes over to Kate as fast as she can. When she gets there Kate explains herself to Faith and how this happened. She was framed. After Kate explains police are about to be there, Faith leaves so she can find out evidence that Kate didn't kill anyone. She hears about an ex runner named Jacknife who gave her information about the murder and who she could talk to to find more things about it. He gave her the name of the person who was murdered's head of security who is Ropeburn. Faith find him and gets information about Kate being framed then he was shot by a sniper that was on another building. She eventually finds out that the person who shot Ropeburn and framed Kate for the murder was Celeste. She tried to explain to Faith that she switched sides because she was tired of being chased by the police all the time, but she escaped from Faith because police came. Merc told Faith about where Kate is being held and that she is at gunpoint. Faith makes her way to the roof where Jacknife has a gun to Kates head and gets on a helicopter. Faith runs towards the helicopter as it takes off and she jumps onto it. When she did this the helicopter got out of control and Jacknife falls out of it. Kate almost fell out but Faith grabs her and stops her from falling.

Resources:
The only resources in the game are the characters health which is not shown but when damage is taken the screen starts to turn red. The other resource is ammunition when she picks up enemies guns.

Challenge:
The game makes the player think in a different way. Since the character is skilled at parkour the player has to think of ways to climb and jump to get to their destination. although this makes it a little more difficult it also allows the player to do things that the player cant do in many other games.

Fallout 3

Publisher: Bethesda Softworks, ZeniMax Media
Developer: Bethesda Game Studios
Genre: Action Role Playing
Platform: Xbox 360, Playstation 3
ERSB Rating: M for Mature

Premise:
The player must stop the Enclave and help other characters with Project Purity.

Character:
The player gets to completely create their own character how they want to.

Story:
The character starts out as a baby being born. This is where the player gets to customize their player. Then it fast forwards to the age of 10 months where the player gets to customize what the characters attributes are. After that it takes the player to age 10 where there character gets their pipboy from the Overseer. Then the player turns 16 and their father left the Vault and no one knows why. The player has to go out and try to find him. He find out that his father is working on something called Project Purity. Once he finds his dad then he helps him work on the project. The father James sacrifices himself to stop the Enclave from getting control of the project. At the end of the game the Brotherhood of Steel has to reclaim the area where project Purity is at so a giant robot and a bunch of Brotherhood soldiers attack and win the game.

Resources:
The player has to watch out how much ammunition, health, and the condition of their weapons are in. All of these are shown on the players HUD

Gears of War 2

Publisher: Microsoft Game Studios
Developer: Epic Games
Genre: Third Person Shooter, Tactical Shooter
Platform: Xbox 360
ERSB Rating: M for Mature

Premise:


Character:
The main character in Gears of War 2 is Sergeant Marcus Fenix, a COG (Coalition of Ordered Governments) member and leader of Delta Squad.

Story:
COG is a all human alliance defending themselves from the Locust Horde who tries to sink every city on the planet to make an evolved race of the Locus called lament extinct, which would end up making humankind extinct also. To stop this from happening Delta squad must singlehandedly kill the gaint worm that the Locusts are using to destroy the cities. The Locus is still a threat to the humans though so they must go underground and find the Queen of the Locus's and kill her. Then they would slowly eradicate and no longer be a threat to the humans.

Resources:
The resources that the player must watch out for in the game is their ammunition and their health. Their health is not shown on the HUD like other games but when the character takes extreme damage a red COG symbol shows up on the screen.

Challange:
The campaign has three difficulties, Casual, Hardcore, and Insane. Parts of the game are more difficult then others, for example the player has to fight a newer type of Locust that has a double chainsaw weapon and they have to fight them with a chainsaw gun. There is also a mode called Horde which the player has to fight off as many waves of Locust as possible by themselves or with friends on Xbox Live.

Bioshock

Publisher: 2K Games
Developer: 2K Boston/2K Australia
Genre: First Person Shooter, Action-Adventure

Platform: PC, Xbox 360, Playstation 3

ERSB Rating: M for Mature

Character:
The character Jack was "chosen" by Frank Fontaine to get to Rapture. The player has to go through the game getting different "plasmids" and weapons to make their player more powerful and find their way out of Rapture.

Story:
The player starts out in the ocean near a tower after being the only survivor in a plane crash. The player then has to go into Rapture and explore what it is. They have to watch out for the big daddies who are the guardians of the little sisters. Once the big daddy is defeated then the player can choose to save the little sister or take the ADAM from her which kills her in the process. if u take it from her then the player gets a large amount of ADAM, if they save the little sister then they get less but Tenenbaum will give them a reward of ADAM and plasmids. The player has to go through all of the different areas in Rapture to get to Andrew Ryan. To get to this point the character has to get help from Atlas. Once the player finds Ryan he is forced to kill him because he said "would you kindly kill me" the phrase "would you kindly" is a way to control people into making them do things they dont want to do. Once Ryan is dead the player finds out that its not actually Atlas helping him, its actually Frank Fontaine tricking the character into doing whatever he wants them to do. The player gets a plasmid that stops the "would you kindly" phrase from working. The player has to find away to get to Fontaine then. Once they get to him they have to take all of his ADAM so he is weaker. Once all his ADAM is gone then the little sisters come and help them and finish Fontaine off.

Resources:
In Rapture the resources that the player has to watch are their ammunition, health, EVE, money, and ADAM. The player needs to watch their ammo and their EVE for when they have to fight splicers. The health shows how many more hits until the player dies. The money and the ADAM are used to buy ammunition and different plasmids that the player can use.

Challenge:
The farther the player gets in the game the more powerful they get but at the same time the splicers also get more powerful. The splicers will fight anyone to get the ADAM from them so they can splice more and become more powerful. Also the different types of splicers all pose a different threat. The spyder and Houdini splicers can sneak up on the player so they have to listen carefully to hear them. The lead splicers are the standard ones who carry guns or a melee weapon, that are also the weakest ones. The biggest threat is the big daddies who protect the little sisters who carry ADAM. In order to get that ADAM the player must first kill the big daddy.