6 Upcoming games that will hurt my wallet.

Between now and till the end of this year, I will be buying about 6 games.  That could change but for now it 6 games.  What are those 6 fabulous games? Well let me tell you.  The list of games in release date order are as follows....

• Wet
• Halo: ODST
• Borderlands
• Forza Motorsports 3
• Left 4 Dead 2
  
• Modern Warfare 2

Wet is a stylized game that plays similar to Stranglehold.  Looks like a game straight from Quentin Tarantino himself.  Wet looks and play out like a movie which is fine for me.  To me that says "Hey I'm different play me now!"  Which I did with the demo I got off the Xbox Live Marketplace.  I must of played it 4 times already.

Halo: ODST  is the 4th halo game from Bungie.  We take the roll of a trooper that is dropped in on Mombasa.  ODST takes on a different approach than the traditional run and gun.  This time around, we have to plan out a strategy because our health is more fragile.  We can't duel wield.  A little sadden about that but it will work out.  On the plus side, we get firefight.  5 peeps against waves of enemies.  And there ever popular multiplayer.  It gonna rock.

Borderlands is a 4 player co-op FPS/RPG type game.That all I know really.  It looks good.  I'm a big fan of co-op type games.  And their looting!  Who wouldn't love to loot?  Their dueling.  To activate a duel, you pimp slap your friend, who has to pimp slap you back (by slap i mean melee hit).  A dome is created around you.  The fight begins.  Whoever gets knocked down wins.  You don't die but now your health is really low.  Plus their vehicle combat.  So far this is the only competitive type game mode within the game.  Graphics in this game are exactly like Crackdown.  Cell shaded/comic book type graphics.

Forza Motorsports 3 is my most recent pre-order.  Saw video that tempted me into buying.  What convince me to buy?  Well when i played the first Forza on the original xbox, I was put off by the tuning and upgrading to cars.  I don't know jack shit about tuning cars.  I was confused by all the fine details.  Jumping to Forza 2 which I did not bother buying.  Jumping to Forza 3, they changed all that.  You can simply tell the computer to upgrade the car for you.  SWELL IDEA!  I need this option.  Plus you can buy tuning upgrades from other players.  How awesome does that sound?  Over 400 cars including my personal favorite from Top Gear...the Bugatti Veyron.  Hell yes!  When hearing that this beast of a car was in this game, it peaked my interesting into getting Forza 3.  Also my favorite from Top Gear is the Aston Martin DB9.  This car is sexy looking and fast.  Looking forward to owning both these cars and possibly many others.  The only thing keeping me from liking Forza 3 is the driving.  I more of a arcade racer.  For example Project Gotham Racing series.  I love going around corners at full speed.  In Forza 3 the breaks will have to be used at almost every corner.  Forza 3 has automatic braking which sounds appealing but i may have to suffer some insults if I decide to use it.  Plenty of multiplayer options to keep this game fresh for many months.

Left 4 Dead 2 the sequel to the popular Left 4 Dead.  4 new characters, 4 new awesome campaigns with new badass infections and weapons.  Weapons like a katana. SLICE SLICE!  Frying pan, baseball bat, a mutha fuckin chainsaw, machete, new machine guns, shottys and pistols.  I believe there could be a flame thrower.  New infected like the Spitter and the Jockey.  Spitter is a female infected that spits acid.  Must be related to the boomer.  Once the acid hits you, your down for the count.  The Jockey ability is jumping on your back and controlling your character basically until he gets shot off.  Sounds like a fun infected to play on multiplayer.  A.I director 2.0 got some tricks up it sleeves.  For example, changing the paths the survivors can take.  You might take one path but it could be different next time thru.  It was somewhat dissapointing that the first game didn't get a lot of DLC.  All we got was The Last Stand game mode.  Soon a new campaign DLC but it really really short.  Valve could of done so much with L4D but no they didn't.  Don't get me wrong,  I'm still buying this game.

Modern Warfare 2 the badass sequel to a equally badass COD: Modern Warfare.  Single player on COD:MW just about blew my mind.  Infinity Ward really puts you in the shoes of a soldier fighting in a war.  From being a soldier on the battelfield to being a gunner on a AC130 plane to being a sniper picking off a single target.  It was just pure goodness.  To me, it was the most realistic shooter i ever played and now their a sequel.  I cannot wait to play and see what Infinity Ward has brought to the table in terms of single player.  I to enjoy the multiplayer side of Modern Warfare.  The perks made it more interesting.  Trying to complete challenges during matches, getting huge points on your kill streaks or watching your helicopter or fighter jets take out multiple enemies.  Now MW2 has included the AC130 plane to MP.  I'll be wetting my pants everytime i see that plane in the air.  Killcams will be making a return.  Gotta love watching that grenade fly over mile and land right next to your feet. Good times.


I really don't know what game is gonna take up most of my time.  Shoot I don't even know if I have the time this winter to play them all.  Including the games I bought recently like Prototype, Red Faction, Batman: Arkham Asylum (review coming soon) and Fallout 3. All I know is that it gonna be a busy winter playing all these game.  Fuck yeah...