October Cometh

So Far Cry 2 failed its gauntlet run. No biggie. In the meantime we're now entering the season of gamers losing their tans and lightening their wallets. Last year my 360 game collection almost tripled between October and December. This year's not looking as impressive, though just as full of sequels, but less that I might be interested in. Here's the wish list thus far.

Wet

I love over the top Tarentino and Rodriguez style movies. This looks like playing an over the top Tarentino/Rodriguez style movie. Any questions?

Modern Warfare 2

I’m one of those gamers who only played CoD4 and left the rest of the franchise alone. I was happy enough with this game, it was cream of the FPS crop. The rest of the WWII era games of the franchise (I know they're not all WWII) tend make me a little uneasy on account of having a Grandfather I never met who fought. Now I’m not getting sentimental and thinking it’s disrespectful to his memory. He made it back. With medals. So when I play these games I feel a spectral backhand come across my noggin every time I die followed by the raspy whisper “that ain't how I did it!”

Dragon Age: Origins

This game looks awful. None of the trailers have sold me and the gameplay looks fucking boring. But if I had to pick a favourite game, it would be Mass Effect. When Bioware dropped the Star Wars universe for (a very similar) one of their own making they really created something special. I’m willing to invest enough nieve hope that the lightning can strike twice as they drop the D&D universe. Even if it is unplayable garbage it isn't like there aren’t any other new games I can trade it towards.

Assassins Creed II

Yeah ok, Assassin's Creed was enjoyable enough for me to give it a second look. Although this does look like they're pulling the Halo gambit on us by not developing much more than letting you duel wield the flagship weapon to play to the whole "2" thing. I can probably live with that.

Left 4 Dead 2

I'm usually not one for multiplayer. It tends to feel like you're sacrificing story line and game play for the sake of playing it with other people, most of whom are jerks. Which feels to me like breaking up with your girlfriend so you can reserve more time for getting kicked in the grill. But L4D was awesome fun to play local multiplayer and gave an interesting insight into my friends' gritty subconscious. I'd look up the sequel.

Bioshock 2 and Mass Effect 2 are listed as 2010 in Australia so I guess they don't count. Bioshock doesn't really feel like it needs a sequel and it certainly doesn't need multiplayer but I'll think on that closer to the date. Mass Effect 2 might be one I pick up first thing on release day.