Modern Warfare, love it or hate it, IS one of the best games this generation. There is nothing overrated about it – the single player campaigns are incredibly fun, albeit a bit short, and the multiplayer is second to none apart from possibly Halo 3.

Bioshock is also undoubtably one of the best games this generation, and to date. There is as much weight behind your character as there is in every other FPS. i know youre going to say killzone, but killzone didnt have weight, it made it feel like you were controlling the gun with a piece of string instead of holding it in your hands, having to hold a direction for 2 seconds before the gun would even move. ive fired machine guns in real life, and that 'weight' in killzone is not real.

and bioshock having a dated engine? its a heavily modified version of unreal engine 3 – hardly old. and even if it was old, what does it matter? it looks brilliant and plays like a dream.

Forza 3 is THE best racing simulator ever released on a console, and right up there with the best on the PC. your comment shows that you are a PS fanboy through and through, and will blindly hate anything not on a sony console. Forza 3 is a much more realistic game than GT has ever been. GT focuses on graphics, forza focuses on simulation.

Modern Warfare doesnt use a middleware engine. Infinity Ward created it from the ground up hahahaha.

some games that i think are the bees knees: Borderlands, Modern Warfare 1/2, Bioshock, Forza 3, God of War 1/2/most likely 3, Shadow Complex, etc.

like i said, im up to chapter 23 in the game on normal difficulty. i was planning on then doing a hard one, then the hardest when ive unlocked it, but thats not gonna be happening as the game wont change apart from taking more damage in the shootouts as everything else is just connect the dots, no room for any change between play throughs – youll still have to make the same autojumps, climb the same big blue pipe up the wall and jump to the same out of place horizontal metal bar, then swing and autojump to the same conveniently sticking out brick trail on the wall lol.

what i love the most is the fact that purely because i dont think this game is the bees knees that i am a 'microsoft cock', and havent played the game hahahahahaha. where did you even read that i have a 360? oh right, you didnt. i do have one by the way, just like i have a wii too. last generation i had a dreamcast, gamecube, ps2 and xbox – because im a video game fan, not a video game COMPANY fan like yourself.

again, i do have the game, nearly completed it. like i said, ask me any question about the campaign so far and i can answer it as ive played through it.

games can be fluid without being one dimensional like uncharted 2 is. why didnt they make multiple 'climbing' paths to get to the next area? why not leave the jumping up to the players skill rather than auto-jump like it does? plenty of other games manage to stay 'fluid' while giving the player more than a set of dots to connect in only one way.

i agree, theres nothing wrong with linearity in game progression – but it should not just be like playing ‘connect the dots’ like Uncharted 2 is. id struggle to think of another ‘common action adventure title’ that has more linearity than U2.

the fact that you think its flawless says just about everything. bet you think killzone 2 is the greatest FPS of all time, and that Uncharted could never be done on the PS3 because of ‘teh Cell’.

let me clarify – yes, you spend lots of time controlling the character: but most of it is so mind-numbingly simple that a monkey could do it. all you have to do is hold forward and press x every now and then, then you get to a shooting bit where you just hide behind a rock and shoot a few guys.

it all looks nice, but its just not enough of a 'game'. the cutscenes are brilliant, the acting is incredibly well done, and the set pieces look fantastic, but its almost like they wanted to make this a movie but werent allowed to so they made it as much an interactive movie as they could by making the player have no option but to do exactly what their script required. want to advance to the next bit? you have to climb that blue pipe, then climb along the exact path of the bricks sticking out of the wall, then jump to the oddly placed horizontal bar, swing to the single open window……….its all 'leave your brain at your door' stuff. the platform jumping is even basically a quicktime event, as if you press jump near a ledge youre supposed to jump from, it auto-completes the jump – you cant miss.

so while all the 'little things' are great, such as the saying hello to people in the mountain village or the 'marco polo' in the pool – which i discovered by myself as i tend to 'play around' in games, they dont do enough to overcome the fact that the rest of the game is so devoid of original gameplay, and is more linear than any game i have ever played.

There was an U2 article on Gamasutra I recommend to you. It spoke about something that jumped out at me. Without spoiling anything, do you remember the scene where you are in that village, and you can actually interact with the villagers? That wasn't originally planned, it happened because the focus testers were attempting to punch the NPC in this region. Naughty Dog saw a need to give the player what they truly want and added the interaction. That's what separates a developer like Naughty Dog from the rest, they understand what it is to be a gamer and design their games around that, they don't take shortcuts or say something isn't possible, they make it possible.