Portal

Mady By Valve
PC
First-Person > Action > Shooter > Sci-Fi
Rated: T
The game
Portal is a first person shooter that your only gun shoots portals from one place to another, you shoot a orange portal on the ceiling and shoot a blue portal on the wall (there is only orange and blue) and you jump through the blue you come out the orange. This system opens a new style of playing games, on some games you sometimes feel as though you are trapped in this hole and there is no way to get out. Portal removes that feeling and replaces it with a feeling of power and control that all other games remove, you need to get up on that balcony you can get there so easy. There is kinda a half-way story line, You wake up in a room with no exit (if you play it will be confusing at first), and a female voice starts talking to you about passing the some tests and how at the end there will be cake. You move through the tests and you learn many different things about the portal gun, then at the end you hop on a moving platform and you see yourself heading strait for a lava filled room...you then escape and start heading; following some arrows on the wall, written in blood, to the AI mind of the female voice.

The Good
A good puzzle game, it is a first person shooter so some people might get dizzy by the falling and jumping and coming out of walls a ceilings. The game is in some parts extremely comical, like right after you escape from falling in the lava the voice says "Haha, for a second there you thought that I was going to kill you, it was just a test"(She puts a lot of infuses on the cake)"now lay down on your stomach and put your hands behind your head." Later she says "remember when I tried to kill you? Someday we will look back and say 'haha.'"

The Bad
The blood writing on the wall is it.

Opinion
This is one of my most favorite games ever.

Conclusion
Good game, there will be a sequel. If you buy the game I recommend buing it in whats called the Orange Box, It includes Portal, Half Life 2 , and Team Fortress 2. 9/10

Quake Wars: Enemy Territory

PC/PS3/ Xbox 360
First-Person / Action / Shooter / Sci-Fi
Rated: T
The Game
The story line is that that the Strogg army has located Earth an plans to use its populous for "Human Food." The Strogg have been going through the galaxy and have using the meat of their last victims for food on their next planet invasion. The GDF (Global Defense Forces) is there to stop them. For starters this game is another game were it is set up in a battle field where you can capture spawn points, Quake Wars Though has a different spin on the usual Capture the enemy base games, there is only a little bit of that and they added in a assault type of element. You go from objective to objective Blowing things up, Hacking in to them or "Driving the MCP to the outpost so you can launch a SSM missile." It is complicated until you get to know the maps very well.

The good
There is a wide divercity of classes for the GDF and Strogg and you can unlock more weapons, faster reload, more ammo and all of the other stuff, there is huge maps that you can play in single player or online and each of the levels can be about 45 min. to 10 min. average online. There is quite a few veicles. There is no cussing on NPUs though there may be some from other people that are playing online.

The bad
Like I said there will be some cussing and rude things and if your parents are uncomfortable with fighting and shooting other people stay away! (the entire game is shooting other people)

Opinion
(New section)
I have a thing for first person shooters and Assult bassed games so some people will disagree with me.

Conclusion
A fun but fast paced game, you need a first person shooter, you got one of the best.
8/10