Title: Call of Duty World at War
Studio: Activision
Publisher: Activision
Genre: First Person Shooter
Platform: X-Box 360

Premise:

The premise of this game is that you are a marine, that is fighting in World War II. The whole story is how the United States entered the second world war and how there position in the second "Great War." Most of the game follows the story of America in Japan when they are trying to beat them.

Character:

The main character in this game is not specified exactly. You are a private who is helping America succeed in World War II. You are part of a group, or squad, fighting against the Japanese. You are also a Russian private who is fighting against the Germans trying to gain independence.

Game Play:

The game play for this game is great. Everything that has to do with environment is well made and has amazing texture. All the players have great movement and its very realistic. The way enemies die is very realistic.

Challenge:

The challenge to this game also varies. You have competitive player versus player which gets harder every time you level your character up, because it puts you with people that are the same level as you. You have the difficulty levels during the campaign which give significant differences to your game play.

God of War 2

Title: God of War 2
Studio: Ready at Dawn Studios
Publisher: Sony Computer Entertainment
Genre: Single Player Action/Adventure
Platform: PS2

Premise:

The premise for this game is that Kratos has defeated aries and is the God of War. He has been egging on his spartans to take over the cities. Kratos defeats the colossus of roads by putting all his godly powers into the blade of olympus to kill the colossus. When Kratos tries to kill Zeus, Athena gets in the way and dies for Zeus. Kratos then feels like hell because athena has been helping him through his godliness.

Character:

Kratos, Gaia, and the rest of the Titans and gods are the main characters in this game. Kratos is the ghost of Sparta. He was originally under the service of Aries. Aries had him do horrible things, and made kratos kill his family. The reason Kratos is white is because he is covered in his wife and daughter's ashes. He went to search for Pandora's box and finds it. He used the box's powers to kill the God of War. He therefor became the god of war.

Game Play:

The gameplay is amazing, you start out with Kratos' two swords and a whole bunch of powers that you can use to your advantage. After you loose your godly power, you loose all your powers and need to start from the begginning which gives you a bit more of a challenge. You are able to gain better weapons that help you become more powerful. You are able to get power up's from multiple enemies, which get harder and harder as you go on.

Challenge:

The challenge of the game is that you have to battle multiple amounts of insanely powerful enemies that just keep getting harder. The game makes it as though you need to know what's going on at all times.

Soul Calibur 4

Title: Soul Caliber 4
Studio: Namco
Publisher: Microsoft

Genre: Action/Adventure

Platform: PS3, XBox 360

Premise:

The premise for this game is that there are good people and bad people that are trying to retrieve two swords. One of the swords is bad, Soul Edge, and one of the swords is good, Soul Calibur. Each of the characters you play as have a different use of the swords. For example, Siegfried was possesed by Soul Edge for a long time and he feels that he needs to destroy the sword as penance. Nightmare is the Reincarnation of Soul Edge, which uses his body to live on his own.

Character:

In this game you have a choice between the story line of any character in the game. Which ever character you choose you follow there story. Each character has there own story and there own reason to get to each of the swords.

Game Play:

The game play is either PVE or PVP. You have a choice between going online and fighting other people from across the world, or you can do the tower of souls where you can either climb or descend from the tower. If you choose to ascend the tower you go through multiple challenges that you need to get through to achieve the next level of the tower. If you descend the tower there will be multiple challenges that start out hard and get easier and easier. You can also create your own character by buying items to increase you stats that make you more powerful, or increase your speed.

Engaging:

This game is a seriously addicting game. The story line that each player gets to follow is extremely engaging and makes it so that each player understands why they are playing there character. It brings the player closer to their character and helps them realize that there character is trying to destroy or achieve the sword that they are chasing.

Challenge:

The Challenge of this game varies. You have the challenge of online player versus player, or you have the challenge of arcade mode, which you can set the difficulty level, or the Tower of Lost Souls. Each game mode for this game has a difficulty level choice. You can go on easy, regular, or hard mode.