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Here’s something a little different for you guys. While I, as a writer on the site, like sharing news with you guys as soon as I get it and like writing about my ideas on the business/marketing side of the industry. Sometimes it may be lost that I’m a fan of games just like you guys and play them alot (probably too much).

So I was sitting around tonight thinking about E3 and all the games that were going to be shown. Thinking about this E3 makes me sick, but of course in a good way. Compared to last year the amount of quality and depth that’s coming software-wise is crazy, and gonna make my wallet a very sad place next Fall. I started tinkering around with some of my video software (which I never do) and put together the video you see above of the five games I can’t wait to see at next weeks E3.

Well hopefully you guys find some brief enjoyment out of the video and if not then at least you get an idea on what one of these mystery writers on the hiphopgamer site is looking forward to. Hopefully this goes over better than the ridiculous and over the top sketch of the hipop white boy.

Well here’s some of my thoughts on the games, just as a fan and not a writer attending the event next week:

(NOTE: Both the videos and the list only reflect my thoughts and not those of the site as a whole)

Final Fantasy XIII:
Fans of Final Fantasy, I feel for you. The series made famous by Hironubo Sakaguchi and Squaresoft has had a very bad dry spell the past 6 years under the direction of Square-Enix and Yoichi Wada. Final Fantasy is personally my favorite gaming series. It’s probably the first series of games I got addicted to and just enjoyed every second of. The music, the visuals, the story, and the great RPG gameplay were just amazing. Unfortunately, XI and XII weren’t exactly what I was expecting and disappointed. While that may not be your opinion, I think we can all agree on that XIII has taken much longer that it should have to be released. The game has been in development since 2004 and was revealed in 2006. The fact that this game will take half a decade to complete along with a multiple month wait for Western fans is ridiculous.

Even with all this aggervation, the game still holds a special place in my heart and the trailers/articles released to the public have done nothing but impress me so far. Just release it already!

Modern Warfare 2:
I’ve played first person shooters before and enjoyed them, but COD4 did something to me. It made my love for the genre reach another level. I was actually one of those guys who played games like Halo for the story, and not the multiplayer. That all changed with COD4. I started playing for hours at a time and had no idea why. The game was just mindless fun, and the levels are still some of the most memorable I’ve played. The guns, the feel, the aesthetic of an Infinity Ward game is just something special. I stopped playing for a while to play WaW and I gotta say that when I fired up COD4 again, it almost brought back that warm nostalgic feeling you get when your reminded of good times.

I expect Modern Warfare 2 to have a great single player campaign with a large amount of memroable missions, and I expect online to be one of the best expierences avaialble to gamers.

Uncharted 2:
I’m actually playing the original as I’m writing this, which either shows that I really love games or that I need to do two things at once to keep my attention span up.

Basically, the first one was great and the second one looks even better. From what we’ve soon, it looks like they have improved on every single aspect of the game. As we all know the graphics look top notch, the animations look to be the best in the industry, the gameplay looks great, and multiplayer/co-op.

Do I really need to say more about this game?

God of War III:
Now this is going to piss people off. I know it, because after dealing with N4G the past couple of months, I know the internet. I have actually not played the first two God of War’s just yet. I know, I know fans of the HHG site are in a uproar. Actually, I’m buying a PS2 (since Sony is run by aholes who got rid of backwards compatibility) so I can play those two games along with some of my other favorite Ps2 games.

Basically I dont have much to say on the series because I have yet to play it, but the trailers released so far have looked great and according to everyone I know the games are great, so how can I not help but be intrigued. I really want to see how the developers push the hardware not visually but technically.

Mass Effect 2
I’m a big RPG guy, and the original is in my opinion probably the best RPG this gen and one of the best ever. It’s a space epic where your in control. I really like how BioWare is letting you carry over your Shepard to the next game along with the story you helped decide. The gameplay was fun, but some tweaks were needed (cover system/weapon balance) and it looks like they’ve improved it. The story looks darker which is nice.
And I mean really, did you think they were actually going to kill of Shepard? Come on…

So yeah guys I hope that was a nice change of pace from me, and I hope the video was halfway decent.