SOCOM US NAVY SEALs was one of Sony’s flagship franchises on the PlayStation 2 that served gamers a tactical based experience on the home consoles. Despite the fact that I never owned a SOCOM game at the time of the franchise’s release era, I had the opportunity to play them at my uncle’s place every-so-often. When I first played SOCOM online, Zipper Interactive changed my impression of online gaming completely. The cooperation from my team was outstanding and the tactical mindset needed to make my way to victory was incredible.

This was years ago.

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First off, this is not going to be an online infomercial for this product. I just happen to know a few people in the Florida area who got turned on to this product. Considering I am a gamer myself and I have an addiction for Energy drinks I figured that I would give The Gamers Edge a test drive. So I contacted the owners of this product and they gladly sent me a sample bottle to try out.

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Aaron Espinoza takes on the Ubisoft “Assassin’s Creed II”. Did the developers learn from the mistakes of the first Assassin’s Creed?

From Prince of Persia to Ghost Recon, Ubisoft has held a tight grip on their games. I absolutely love Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six Vegas 2 as well as Ghost Recon Advance Warfighter 2. In 2007, Ubisoft announced a new IP for the next generation of consoles titled Assassin’s Creed that played and looked very similar to their Prince of Persia franchise.

Unfortunately for Ubisoft, I found the game to be a disappointment due to it’s repetitive missions that got old after the first few times of play. Despite the repetition I still continued to play the game because of it’s intriguing storyline and how fun it was to control Altair through a religious city such as Jerusalem jumping from rooftop to rooftop. However, the game received high scores by various critics that, in my opinion, it did not deserve. Assassin’s Creed deserved an average of 7 out of 10.

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Yet another glitch hits Modern Warfare 2.

Infinity Ward’s “Modern Warfare” has been a Glitch and Hacker-fest since it was released in November for the Xbox 360, PS3 and PC. The company has already released quite a few patches to fix such hacks and glitches; like the “Javelin Glitch” and the “Prestige” hack. But much like my character after a pain in the ass “glitch” match (which is riddled with bullets from unexplained deaths and constant glitches) the game still seems to be riddled with horrible problems. The latest is the “Ice Skating” glitch.

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GCN’s top game picks for 2009.

The 2009 year  is officially over, and we now have the 2010 gaming year to look forward too. 12 glorious months of new games, new hardware like Project Natal and the PS3 wonder (or whatever the hell the damned thing will be called) and a new E3 to look forward too. Personally I my most anticipated game is Bioshock 2 and Treyarch’s Call of Duty (yes, I like Treyarch).

So before we bust out the party hats and celebrate how kick-ass this year will be in terms of gaming, I wanted to give a good, honest opinion about what GCN thought was the best of 2009. Now unlike every website out there, we are not going to give a “Best of” to every first-person shooter, every RPG, etc. So lets just cover the big three game systems, the two handheld systems and give you guys our thought on what was the biggest, most kick-ass game for every system.

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Many of Sony’s first party developers have always been listed among my favorites. Many of these include Naughty Dog Inc, Sucker Punch Studios, Zipper Interactive and many others to go on with the list. However, the one company that sticks out to me is Insomniac Games.

I felt that they have truly set the “Gold Standard” high for Action-Adventure Platformers. Spryo the Dragon was a great franchise during the PlayStation days and I still continue to play the games from that series every once in a while. As amazing as Spyro was, I was extremely blown away by what Insomniac managed to pull off in the PlayStation 2 era; Ratchet and Clank.

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I am going to take a different route with this review because it seems that everybody and their Grandmother have reviewed this game. So this review will be short, sweet and to the point.

As you all know, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 (or just Modern Warfare 2 depending on who you talk to) is the follow-up to Infinity Ward’s smash hit Call of Duty: Modern Warfare for the Xbox 360, Playstation 3 and PC. Modern Warfare 2 was pretty much the most anticipated game of 2009. All you have to do is look at the 24 hour sales for this game to see what I mean (something like 5 million+ sold in 24 hours).

What can I saw about this game? It is riveting; it is breathtaking at times, it is drop-dead gorgeous and easy on the eyes. Infinity Ward, love them or hate them, has pretty much made the perfect war-game.

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Writing an article about the state of Nintendo has been on my mind for some time now. So I think now is the perfect time to write an editorial about what I think about the current state of Nintendo. Now before anybody starts to send me hate mail or post a ton of comments calling me out as a Microsoft or Sony fanboy, let me tell you my history of Nintendo.

I grew up on the Nintendo Entertainment System. This gaming system is pretty much what got me back into being a hardcore gamer. Back in the 80’s I played the Nintendo morning, noon and night. I even remember taking a day off of school because I wanted to stay up all night and beat Super Mario Bros. 3.

I bought the SNES and N64 on day one, and purchased every game that launched. I used to freak out when E3 hit because I just loved what Nintendo stood for. It was all about fun and gaming. I guess you can say that I am a closet Nintendo fanboy, although my days when I worked for Mike Mullis and his Next Level Gaming website I was a full-fledged Nintendo fanboy. I would promote the Big N on NLG, doing pretty much every review for the Nintendo GameCube.

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