Quick Impressions of Games I Haven't Finished

Dead Space - Someone merged Doom 3 and System Shock 2 and remade it using the Resident Evil 4 format. And it works really well.

Far Cry 2 - Not as mind-blowing as I hoped it would be, but once you get over the initial hurdles of almost instantly respawning enemy checkpoints and lots of driving there's a fairly deep and engaging free-roaming FPS game here. A good tagline would be "S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Lite, done right." Also it sometimes falls victim to shoddy dead-person-physics as well.

Fallout 3 - Yes, the people who have been saying "Oblivion with guns," especially in a disparaging fashion over at No Mutants Allowed, are not far off. It's got bugs, but it's not exactly like the originals didn't have them either, though the lackluster animation from Oblivion has carried over. In the end, though, there are ghouls and mutants, colorful characters, and pitch-black humor; This feels like Fallout, and it's very good.

-K.