BioShock

Although you could argue that beating Guitar Hero's career mode in easy and medium would technically make GH my first game finished on the Xbox 360, my recent completion of BioShock on easy seems more worthy of the title, largely due to GH's career mode not really being the point of the game. Despite my initial reservations about playing a bloody shooter, BioShock has turned out to be one of my favorite games of all time, and certainly my favorite game on my new console. The game's story, presentation, look, controls, and depth are all so top-notch that I feel that pretty much anyone that doesn't mind a little video game violence (despite possibly not being shooter fans) would love this game.

The best thing about BioShock though is how well everything in it works together. There are a number of ways you could play through this game, both in terms of in-story choices as well as simple game mechanics (hell, you can even justifiably use only the wrench the whole game!), and all of these choices make sense within the given environment. One of the biggest choices you have to make in the game is whether or not to take the moral high-road when it comes to saving or killing these little girls that can make you more powerful when dead, and as I chose the high-road, I'm not sure how the story ends if you go the other way, so even if for nothing else, I'll need to play through this game again. In fact, I'm so itching to play it again I keep having to force myself to complete my other games first!

I had a tiny complaint here or there, but ultimately these were either too tiny in comparison to the good stuff or were most-likely the result of the difficulty setting being too low and will therefore be resolved soon. Let's just say I'm eagerly awaiting the release of BioShock 2 sometime this next year!