Stephen Lea Sheppard
Final Fantasy XIII
Final Fantasy XIII is a great game, but only if you play it on its own terms. It's a serious break from the way previous Final Fantasy games have played, which can be shocking or disappointing if you want a familiar experience.
Silent Hill: Shattered Memories
Silent Hill: Shattered Memories is an excellent game. It is also a giant middle finger to the Silent Hill fan base, which is awesome, and I say that as a member of said fan base.
Forza Motorsport 3
Forza Motorsport 3 really is quite good, in a lot of clever ways. Once again I am reminded that I like a good racing game, even though I hardly ever play them.
The King of Fighters XII
My problem with The King of Fighters XII is I can't think of a reason to play it.
Final Fantasy III
Third-party support like this is why Nintendo's winning the console wars. Sega may have violence, but the big N has class.
Dawn of Discovery
Most people are familiar with SimCity, and anyone who's been playing PC games for a few years is bound to have heard of Sid Meyer's Civilization. Dawn of Discovery is a cross between those two games.
Infamous Vs. Prototype
Infamous and Prototype are an interesting pair. Released near-simultaneously, both are sandbox games set in wrecked cities (like Spider-Man: Web of Shadows before them) with superpowered protagonists who fight mutants and monsters.
Ninja Blade
Ninja Blade is a third-person adventure brawler game thing where you play as Ken Ogawa, a member of an elite government-sponsored ninja special ops team, dispatched to Tokyo to root out an infestation of "Alpha Worms."
F.E.A.R. 2: Project Origin Vs. Killzone 2
Both F.E.A.R. 2 and Killzone 2 are the newest of first-person shooters. Graphics-wise, both are very good-looking, using head bob, motion blur, limited anti-aliasing, and a variety of graphic filters to supplement the normal array of detailed models...
Star Ocean: The Last Hope
About every hour, Star Ocean: The Last Hope shows me one of two things: either a) something really cool, that impresses me and leads me to decide it's a good game and I really like it, or b) something incredibly stupid, that depresses and angers me.