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There is a party game that is completely free of charge based on the former 1 vs. 100 show. It has basically the same game rules as the TV show and there is a different primetime game you can play every night. Sometimes there is actually an emcee, Chris Cashman, who talks during some intermissions. The rules of the game are simple, you can either be “The One”, “In the Mob”, or “The Crowd”. Chances are, you are always going to be in the crowd, but you do have a chance to get in “the mob”. If you are in the crowd, you are just like most of the other people, you can answer questions and get points for answering correctly and in a fast time. If you are chosen to be in “the mob” you are able to play against “the one” along with 99 other mob members. However, once you get a wrong answer, you are not able to participate with the rest of the mob, but just for your own personal points. If you are chosen as “the one”, you have to answer every question correctly, or you walk away with nothing. If you are not sure about a question, you can choose to trust the mob, trust the crowd, or trust the top 10 players. If you get it right, depending on how many mob members get it wrong, your prize goes up. The prize is Microsoft Points. It is a really fun game, but not something you can play for hours and hours. It is free to download from the Game Marketplace on the Xbox 360 and there is a schedule as to when games will be going on. Check it out!

One of the second games I bought for Xbox 360 is Halo 3: ODST. Like Modern Warfare 2, Halo 3: ODST has a pretty short campaign, but still very fun. The story is a prequel to the previous game, Halo 3. The main story of the game is that you land in this city being invaded by aliens and you have to trace down all the beacons left by one of your teammates. On the side you help your other teammates battle a whole group of aliens in a certain area. Towards the end you have to go find your captain in an underground part of the city and bring back an alien engineer with you and get off the planet. The controls took me a little longer to understand than Modern Warfare 2. This game also comes with a Halo 3 multiplayer disk so you can play on Xbox Live against your friends. Overall, it is a good buy and I highly recommend this game.

A few weeks ago when I bought Counter Strike: Source, I also bought a game called Team Fortress 2. This game plays a little similar to Counter Strike: Source, but the game itself, to me at least, is a little strange. Its not the general “shooter” game you would expect, but it is definitely entertaining and fun to play. Basically, you can choose your character to be a Pyro, a Heavy Gunner, Sniper, Medic, and and a few other ones. The maps you play on are not really regular shooter maps, but they are usually “3D like” worlds. Again, like Counter Strike: Source, Team Fortress 2 is a multiplayer only game to play on servers around the world.

Just recently, I have gotten more into first person shooters than I ever have before. This is one out of the three games I bought. Now, I have to say, out of all of the games I got, Call of Duty 4 is my absolute favorite and I play it a lot. However, Counter Strike: Source is my second favorite. This games graphics is not as good as Call of Duty 4, but the game play is as good as Call of Duty 4. Since Counter Strike: Source is only an online game, it has a bigger community than Call of Duty 4 which allows you to play it more. I can’t say it is my favorite game, but it is a game that everyone should at least play once or start out on.

I wasn’t to much interested in getting it when I first heard of it, but once I got my hands on World of Goo, I couldn’t stop playing it. Yesterday I got a copy of World of Goo on my Wii for 1500 Wii Points on the WiiWare part of the Wii Shop Channel. After playing that for a while, my friend decided to give me a copy of it for the Mac which is where I play it more often. Basically, World of Goo is an addicting game where you build goo towers or bridges or any other obstacles to get to the tube to suck a certain amount of goo balls in a tube. It may sound weird from my standpoint, but it is really fun and I think you should get it. It is available on the Wii for 1500 Wii Points. It is also available for Windows, Mac, and Linux for $20 from here.