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.