all games are not created equal

I think at this point in time, single player campaigns are being increasingly less important as the multiplayer experience keeps improving with FPS games.  I mean, who really bought MW2 for the single player?  Regardless, I still love myself a good solo campaign where I just run around and shoot crap and maybe be part of a cool story.

MW2 has a pretty short multiplayer campaign, even for a FPS.  However, there are some really cool action sequences and a lot of action in general that makes it interesting through the whole, albeit short, single player campaign.  The story jumps around between a couple characters, but this helps keep it interesting.

As for Killzone 2, even though I haven't finished the game yet, I can feel that I'm going to be pretty unimpressed.  There is just something that's too point A point B about this game.  Run somewhere and shoot some people.  Run somewhere else and shoot some more people.  Sometimes, shoot 'em a bunch of times because they just don't know how to die.  I really don't have a good feeling that this is all gonna wrap up in a fantastic way.

I think this is the best way to put it.  I beat MW2 over 3 sessions of at least 2 hours a piece.  For Killzone 2, I have trouble playing the game for longer than about 40 minutes in a sitting. 

Most of the time, FPS games all feel the same.  For some reason though, Killzone 2 just feels terrible when you're playing it, at least when compared to MW2.  Everything feels sluggish when compared to how quickly you can aim and shoot in MW2.  MW2 does provide a little bit of assistance with aiming (it snaps the crosshairs to the target if you're aiming close enough).  Killzone does not have this, but I'm pretty sure the addition of this wouldn't change the overall feeling.

I guess that in the end, maybe MW2 is just a much more finely tuned game than Killzone 2 where every aspect has been obsessed over to allow for the best playing experience.

Braid is just incredibly refreshing to play.  Killzone 2 is, at best, a totally typical FPS game.  It's a good one, but we've all played a game like that before.  It doesn't bring anything new to the table.

Braid is all new.  We'll, it did come out a little while ago, but it's fresh, just like when Portal came out.  Totally new way to play a game.  And totally awesome.  Worth the 15 bucks to play something unlike anything you've ever played before.  Try to find a friend that owns it though, because once you beat it, you're done and probably won't touch the game again.

This is such an easy win for Uncharted that it's not even funny.  We'll, it kind of is.

Killzone 2 has some of the worst voice acting I have heard in a while.  The soldiers have totally empty dialogue whose whole purpose is to make you think "man, these guys are tough".  They swear a bunch and say a lot of tough guy things, but they do it very unconvincingly, as if there is a convincing way to do it?  Anyway, I've learned to ignore practically every word that comes out of any characters mouth because it probably will only annoy me.

Uncharted.  Oh, Uncharted.  You are an amazing game.  You have great voice acting that, when I look back on it, just added to the feeling of playing a live-action movie.  Some really good stuff.  The lip-syncing too was great, from what I can remember, which just makes the impact of the voice acting that much bigger.