Marketed as the first 'role playing shooter', Borderlands proves itself to be a game of a different color with its Heavy Metal style graphics and its fabulously addicting mix of RPG and FPS gameplay...
Engineer Isaac Clarke chops, lops and purées his way through hordes of aliens aboard the spaceship USG Ishimura while trying to get to the bottom of a mysterious artifact. This excellent gory scarefest published in 2008 by EA is possibly the 21st century reference standard for survival horror video games...
Shape-shifting antihero Alex Mercer takes on monsters and the military in midtown Manhattan. This sandbox-style third person shooter gives you lots to play with but the chaotic gameplay and wonky controls make developing sound strategies and playing with finesse a real challenge...
I thought it might be difficult to go back to a corridor-style first person shooter after playing the likes of open-world masterstrokes like Far Cry 2 and Crysis but F.E.A.R. 2: Project Origin did not disappoint. This game is genuinely creepy at times and guarantees plenty of intense action-packed firefights but it does suffer from a kind of split-personality...
