It was a very good year, for games to play on my TV...Part 1

Man, 2006 may have sucked for a lot of things, but gaming certainly was not one of them. Hell, I probably left more games off the main list than I even played last year…and 07 is only gonna be better. So, here you go, my top 10 games of 06. And then some.


10. Dead Rising (Capcom for Xbox 360)

To paraphrase, "Dead Rising is one of the best broken games you'll ever play." That is to say, that this game has a lot of strikes against it (and let's not even count the bug that ended up killing a bunch of people's 360s, since that wasn't prevalent in every copy.) One save slot, unreadable tiny text on SD TVs, respawning enemies, mentally retarded AI, an aiming mechanic that is somehow worse than Metal Gear Solid's, and Otis…motherfucking Otis. Of course, you'll pretty much forget about all of this once you've started bashing zombies with electric guitars, knocking them over with bowling balls, mulching them with a lawnmower, or simply knocking them down and twisting their heads off like grapes.

And the achievements… There's definitely something to be said for a game that asks you to murder (or re-murder, I guess, since they're technically dead already) 54,000+ zombies for a lousy 20 Points. I mean, shit, I got more than that for clicking on a particular menu in Madden. Then again, I probably would have jumped at the chance to do the same thing in Madden (replacing "zombies" with "football fans") for no points at all. Plus, there's nothing like having the word "Genocider" on your gaming resume. As far as bragging rights go, it certainly beats the shit out of "Hatched an egg using Cluckles," don't it?