Popular Video Games
Most Popular Video Games
Popular video game lists change all the time, but here are some of the most popular video games on the market right now. You’ll notice a large number of sequels and franchises, but those obviously suggest these are successful games with reviewers and the buying public.
I’ve tried to include a wide variety, but no list is going to be complete. Hopefully, readers can find a couple of titles they wouldn’t have normally played. You’ll find games for the Wii, Playstation 3, XBOX 360 and the pc.
Readers will also find a few games that have just released or should release. In these instances, these are video games I expect to be popular or are from franchises that have been popular in the past.
- Guitar Hero: Modern Hits – You can choose you own favorite from the many new releases of Guitar Hero (On Tour, Decades), but if you prefer to listen to hits from the last 5 years, the latest edition of the Guitar Hero franchise might be to your liking. It didn’t receive the best of reviews, but you have to remember the reviewers are probably 30-somethings who might not prefer the latest music on the scene.
- Halo 3: ODST – Also known as “Halo 3: Recon” or “Orbital Drop Shock Troopers”, this game places the troopers during the events of Halo 2 and Halo 3. If you love Halo, you’re likely to love this release. If you want a lesson in humility, I suggest you go online to play “Halo Live” and play a few random 13-year olds. Here’s my favorite line from my online gaming experience: “I’m a ninja f—ing assassin!” Believe me; I wasn’t the one saying that line.
- PS2 LEGO Star Wars – When I first saw the Lego Star Wars game, I thought to myself, “This is gonna suck.” Lego Star Wars ended up being much more playable than most of the other Star Wars games put out over the years, and frankly was one of the best productions of all the Star Wars nonsense put out in the past ten years – movies included.
- Battlefield: Bad Company 2 – Modern battle is the setting, specifically the mountainous borders of Russia in this one. There’s also a Battlefield Vietnam game you can play. With Vietnam and Russia as backdrops for the action, you can get the idea of the brutal action they warrant. Battlefield includes “destructive environments”, that let you destroy whole buildings now.
- Mass Effect 2 – The sequel to the hard science fiction action rpg from XBoX, Electronic Arts and BioWare originally. This is the second in what is expected to be a trilogy of popular games. Sent to Eden Prime to recover really important lost tech on a colony world, your officer fights the geth and many other aliens in the original game. Expect more of the same, along with great graphics, in the sequel.
- Dark Void – This game just released a week ago and I hope it’s good enough to become one of the popular video games of 2010. Dark Void involves a pilot getting lost in the Bermuda Triangle and ending up on a world where he, Nikola Tesla and similar survivors fight an alien race known as the Watchers who were banished from Earth long ago. Retrofitting Watcher technology, the pilot fights against the godlike Watchers to hopefully return to Earth (or maybe just defeat them in this parallel world). This game seems to include the pulpish rocketeer warriors and a little bit of Flash Gordon action, but I could be wrong. I would appreciate any readers with a review or better idea of the game adding their comments.
- Aliens vs. Predator: Colonial Marines – Another in the long line of AVP games, whcih should be released some time this year. You pretty much know what you’re getting in these first person shooters: alien xenoforms, predators and space marines in a triangle war.
- The Sims 3 – Called a “strategic life simulation” game, Sims 3 was an instant hit, with 1.4 million sales in the first week alone. With an 86% approval rating from critics, you get to play in a living neighborhood full of simulated people.
- Killzone 2 – Killzone 2 was released in 2009 and is another tactical first-person shooter, this time for PlayStation 3. “The madness…begins.”
- Assassin’s Creed II – I wasn’t as big of a fan of this third-person shooter as many gamers, but there’s no denying that Assassin’s Creed was a popular video game, as evidenced by the recent release of a sequel. This game involves modern day Venice, the modern Knights Templar, 15th century Italian intrigues (including contemporaries Niccolo Machiavelli and Pope Alexander VI, aka Rodrigo Borgia), an artifact hunt and all kinds of other craziness. You can play on either the XBOX 360, Playstation 3 or Microsoft Windows operating systems.
- Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars – In the latest Grand Theft Auto edition, this time you’re going into Chinatown to shoot things up. Released in October 2009, this is (amazingly) the thirteenth installment in the Grand Theft Auto series.
- Ratchet & Clank Future: A Crack In Time – Another in the Ratchet and Clank franchise for PS3, which have been releasing since 2002. Control the exploits of an anthropomorphic bobcat and his robotic pal as they blow up a bunch stuff.
- Uncharted 2: Among Thieves – This 3rd person action-adventure game was the highest rated game of 2009 by the critics on Metacritic. ‘Nuff said.
- No More Heroes 2 – This action game for the Sony Wii is a sequel to No More Heroes and should be releasing any day now. Suda51 states that there will be cooler wrestling moves and better sidequests than the original game. The hero, “Travis Touchdown”, will also wield “dual beam katanas”. In the first installment of this franchise, Travis was a fan of professional wrestling and anime (described as an otaku) living in California. When he takes a job to assassinate a notorious killer, Travis becomes the #11 ranked assassin in the United Assassins Association. He sets out to move up the ranks. Now on top, it’s time for people to come out of the woodworks to get Travis, and Travis to arm himself with even cooler weapons than before.
- Tatsunoko vs Capcom – I don’t know if this fall into the popular games category, but I wanted to mention this game, just because it has great characters from my childhood. Characters you can play in this fighting game include Ken the Eagle, Jun the Swan and Joe the Condor from Science Ninja Team Gatchaman (aka Mark, Princess and Jason from G-Force or Battle of the Planets!), Casshan (Casshern) and Karas (Karas), along with numerous other classics, if you’re a fan of anime.
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