Star Wars: Battlefront 2 - I've loved this game for years. Finding a copy for five dollars at my local Blockbuster was like a gift from the heavens. It's just as good as I remember, and if you have the Xbox version, with an active Live account and a valid credit card tied to said account, you can download content from Battlefront 1. Also Kit Fisto. Kit Fisto. 
The Golden Compass(Xbox 360) - This is what you do with The Golden Compass, if you're ever in a position where you have to play it. 1. Try to enjoy the first five minutes where you're a polar bear.
2. Endure the ten minutes where you play as a useless little girl.
3. Earn the 10GS for beating the first boss, as a polar bear.
4. Immediately remove the game from your console, return it to its case, and throw it out the window. Never speak of it again.
DiRT (Xbox 360) Your approach to DiRT should pretty much be the same as that concerning The Golden Compass; play the first mission, get a couple achievements, and then get rid of it. Unless you like racing games, and then you might be tempted to spend a little more time with it. If that's the case, then go for it, but since I don't like racing games, and never play them, it's difficult for me to comment on the quality. I will say that the game is pretty, and the graphics are impressive by any standard. 'Course, I was drinking when I played it, so take from that what you will. 
Condemned 2: Bloodshot (Xbox 360) - I only played this game for about twenty minutes, and it didn't hook me. Everything was dark and covered in black slime. Then there were monster things that burst into more black slime when you hit them. Graphics were good, though. 
Virtua Fighter 5 (Xbox 360) - Maybe if I'd played this back when it came out, I would have enjoyed it more, but in a world where Soul Calibur 4 has already spent several hours dozen in my console, and Tekken 6 is only a short ways away, Virtua Fighter didn't impress me. At all. The graphics and sound were acceptable. Everything has a glossy, plastic look to it. The controls were stiff, and I found combos to be a difficult thing to pull off. Meh. 
The Darkness (Xbox 360) - If you've ever watched Yahtzee's review of this game's demo, then you have a pretty good idea of what it's about. The controls weren't bad, but I had to manually adjust the aim sensitivity. The graphics were good. The narrative is interesting, but I didn't get far enough to really comment on it. Sound effects are good. All of these were purchased from the buy-one-get-one bin at Blockbuster. As for the good stuff,
Shadow Complex (Xbox 360) - Hell yes. Hell. Yes. This game wins on all fronts, as far as I'm concerned. You can read a full review at just about any major game site, but if you're looking for another recommendation, you've found it. At 1200 MS points, Shadow Complex is well worth it's weight in gold. Or something. Herm. Mass Effect: Pinnacle Station (Xbox 360) - At only five dollars, Pinnacle Station is a decent addition to the Mass Effect universe, but it's hardly a compelling one. It consists of a series of combat scenarios which, upon completion, award the player with a cumulative total 150GS. This bumps Mass Effect's total achievable Gamerscore up to 1200GS, if you're into that kind of thing. The early descriptions promised four hours of gameplay, but I completed it in about two, by my count. If anything, Pinnacle Station is a look at what multiplayer might look like when applied to the Mass Effect game model, and it's an interesting experiment.
Wet(Demo [Xbox 360]) - If you like guns, swords, hot chicks in tight leather, Quentin Tarentino, or extreme violence, give this demo a whirl. The demo contains a good twenty minutes of solid gameplay, and is a roller coaster ride of ludicrous, unadulterated fun. Slow-mo shooting and absurd acrobatics abound in this third person action game, as well as cinematic quick-time events ala God of War, and gameplay which will brings to mind John Woo's Stranglehold and even the Prince of Persia series. Try it. Go on.
Left 4 Dead - I suppose I'm late to the party on this one, but oh well. Left 4 Dead is a multiplayer survival-horror FPS extravaganza, which really doesn't do anything to revolutionize any one of the three. It does, however, do everything it sets out to do, providing players with several solid hours of good, clean, undead fun. Give it a rental, if nothing else. ODST comes out Tuesday. Expect a review.
