Crippling Debt

As far as Halo goes, this isn't a game in which you are an unstoppable super soldier shielded by the Mjolnir armor. You are an Orbital Drop Shock Trooper, an ODST. Not weak, not strong, just a soldier. Unlike the other games in which you fight alongside marines, face countless enemies against all odds, you are alone (for most of the game anyway). Starting off you play as the Rookie, the strong, yet silent protagonist. You crash land into the streets of New Mombasa, a war torn city on the brink of being glassed. Isolated from your ODST squad, you search for your comrades. All the while slipping past the enemy forces who are out for blood. Accompanied by jazz and hard falling rain, you silently eliminate any brute, jackal, or grunt who falls in your way. Slowly picking up a trail of your squad mates with help from the superintendent, New Mombasa's urban infrastructure AI. With each clue comes a story, entering different character perspectives such as Buck, Mickey, Dutch, and Romeo. These perspective changes are about the only time you'll get to experience some back and forth combat with the covenant. That good balancing is why ODST has a special place in my heart. In this game you get both, action packed firefights, and that stealthy feel. ODST is definitely one of favorite games and is totally worth checking out. TROOPERS! WE ARE GREEN, AND VERY, VERY MEAN!

This game truly is my favorite resident evil. I've played a fair share of resident evils, however this one definitely takes the cake. While playing this game you are all alone, isolated from your squad. The music that plays when you enter a new hall or room always has you tense and uncertain of what is to come. For example the dinning room in the Spencer Estate has very unique and tense music. This music sets the mood for the rest of game, set with the unsettling ticking of a nearby clock echoing throughout the hall. Ticking that reminds you of how small you are in this gigantic mansion. No matter how many times you may enter the same room with no zombies to be seen, the music tells you something is lurking. Having to backtrack through the long never ending hallways makes you tense. Hearing a distant moan as you open a new door makes you want to turn back and run. The fixed camera angles and tank controls make it scarier as you aren't confident in yourself to run or shoot. Ammo and healing items are limited, and just one zombie alone can take an entire magazine to drop to the floor. Once that zombie is down it won't get back up. That is at least what you would expect, however to kill a zombie you need to burn it with kerosene or blow it's head off. If you fail to incinerate them, they'll come back twice as strong and twice as fast. Aside from the monsters that wander the numerous halls, you are investigating the truth about how this came to be. Going through countless files of scientists who are writing down their final thoughts to loved ones as flesh eating monsters bang on their door. A diary of an infected individual going through the turning process. Or the suicide note of someone who has been locked in their room as the undead desperately try to force their way in. This game is my favorite resident evil and I would highly recommend playing through it. "Enter the survival horror..."