[Games] "Halo 2" is still awesome

Just replayed a level in Halo 2, for shits and giggles. I must have forgotten how good this game is. I'm attacking some ruins, shooting little aliens left and right with my machine guns, and the nearby Marines are backing me up, making funny comments in their Australian accents. It's brilliant!

Then some drum music kicks in, and I'm driving over some mountains in the old Warthog 4x4 thing. Then I'm fighting a massive tank thing, somehow kill the guy driving, now I'm driving it! Some purple things called "Ghosts" or "Banshees" or something, start swooping down from the sky, so I'm blowing them up with massive balls of plasma from my tank, being careful not to run over my 2 little Marine friends who are shooting wildly between wisecracks. It's all very entertaining stuff.

Now my tank is half crippled and shooting sparks as it drags along the ground. Eventually I jump out, leap up onto a wall and hijack a Ghost, immediately I get rammed full speed by another Ghost and he's pushing me along, while my gun blasts the absolute shit out of the big alien riding it, suddenly BOOM it blows up, and kills me with it! Epic. You don't get flexible gameplay like this in today's games! (At least, I assume you don't ... Well maybe you do, what do I care?).

If you own it, go back and give it another play. It was 10 out of 10 back in the day, and it's just as good today.

Dual wielding energy pistols. Cortana talking shit in your ear. Elites circle-strafing you. BAM!

-Gray

[Games] Original Xbox - Top 5 Games

I bought a 360 but it died within a year, so I plugged in my original Xbox. Still running strong after all these years. So I've had it going again for the last 18 months or something. I don't play it often, but it's there when I need it.

I have 58 games, but here are my top 5:

Doom 3
  More atmosphere than a London dance club, and monsters more gruesome than Wizard Discount Pharmacy customers. You just can't beat this game for sheer adrenalin. Keep your Silent Hills and your Resident Evils -- exploring a darkened base on Mars with a torch is unbeatable.
  People either love it or hate it, though.
 
GTA: San Andreas 
  I don't need to explain this choice. Vice City is also still enjoyable to this day.


Sonic Mega Collection
  Classic gaming at it's best. Sure, I spent a few years with the Atari 2600, but I really remember the Sega Master System as my first proper console. My mate had a Mega Drive. Sonic the Hedgehog was just as great on both platforms.

Outrun 2006: Coast to Coast
  Brilliant arcade racing. Don't worry about silly things like "realism", when you can power-drift for 30 seconds around a ridiculous track with graphics that are good even by today's standards. It's a winner.

Project Zero 2: Crimson Butterfly
  I don't play this often due to it being slow-paced and a bit too scary, but I have to include it just for being so damn creepy. Explore, follow clues, and occasionally snap photos of horrific ghosts to dispell them. And they have cool names like "broken neck woman". Yes, her neck has been broken.

I also want to mention Elder Scrolls: Morrowind, which I just repurchased and is being shipped from an eBay seller. Looking forward to replaying that old chestnut.

-Gray