Darrin Johnson's Weblog: Need for speed...

I have been an avid gamer all the way back to playing the original Oregon Trail from MECC via a "dumb" terminal connected to a central mainframe using an acoustic coupled modem. Fortunately gaming has come a long way especially playing on my Xbox 360 consoles (Standard and Elite thanks to my wife!). Here are my favorite Xbox 360 games (in order):

1. The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion - The ultimate console RPG with hundreds of hours of game play.
2. Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter (GRAW) 2 - This game turned me into a huge fan of tactical shooters.
3. Halo 3 - An outstanding first person shooter and likely the first to get me into online play.
4. Bioshock - An immersive first person shooter like no other. Who's your Big Daddy?
5. Command & Conquer 3 Tiberium Wars - Best darn RTS available on a console with easy to use controls.
6. Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six: Vegas - Another worthy tactical shooter.

How did these games get on my favorites list? Mostly because they are easy to learn (sorry I am not of the "combos" generation), immersive (it helps in HD), and allows with lots of interruptions with out penalizing the player.

There are others (e.g. Call of Duty 3, GRAW, Gears of War, FEAR, Crackdown, Lost Planet, etc.) which I own but haven't gotten around to playing so I can't rank them as of yet. However there are a number of cool games on the horizon that might keep me from getting around to the older games:

• Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare
• Blacksite: Area 51
• Tom Clancy's EndWar
• Grand Theft Auto IV

So many cool games and so little time to play.