Last of Us (9 out of 10)

Best game I've played in years.

The skinny: it's about 20 years since zombie doomsday and things aint so bad. There are governments and police and people eat ok. But the governments are gestapo-esque and everyone is jews, and while there is food everyone is food as well. You are on a mission that requires you walk all over the god damn place (seriously across several states and over years) to meet the radical Firefly group.

This game is beautiful.

If you are like me and hate missions in games where you can't let some weaker being die or else the mission is over and you have to restart, don't worry, that girl is full of kickass and you never have to worry about her.

My favorite parts were walking around and listening to her talk or occasionally she would spout something like "doopsy dop doo doo" from her noise hole.

The story and voice acting are the reason to play the game through in one or two nights. The game play is a 5 (if I had to find another palette to drag her ass across 10 feet of water..). Fight scenes are meh and the controls just aren't very intuitive. There was one point where I put the game from 'normal' to 'easy' and from not autolocking targets to autolocking them. I wasn't in it for the shooting I was in it to see where the hell this was going.

You can upgrade your weapons and your abilities but since this game play isn't that great I wouldn't worry too much about it. I upgraded them because that's how I do with games. My constant fear that keeps me up all through sleepless nights is that I missed some plant that would give me 5 extra points. It haunts me.

As a side note how do you all go through RPG's or adventure games' dungeons? I always go right and go to the room on the right and follow that procedure to make sure I don't miss a single thing.

I was a little harsh earlier, the gameplay is a 6.5. Just why couldn't she get on my back and I swim her the 10 feet across, huh? Women.

The measure of a good game or movie is how long you think about certain parts of it after you are finished. I never think about Cooking Mama (anymore) but I constantly find myself recalling scenes of this game and wondering how I would have reacted if things went a little bit differently. And when the expansion comes out (I want to say Feb. 5?) I'm going to get it.

Call of Duty is porn. Last of Us is substance. Never forget that kids.