From Uncharted: Drake’s Fortune to Crackdown, which were the best games of 2007? Matthew and Samuel share their top 10 lists, and delve into their memories of covering the early days of HD console gaming.
This week’s music is from the God Hand soundtrack by Masafumi Takada and Jun Fukuda, the Halo 3 soundtrack by Marty O’Donnell and the Hotel Dusk: Room 415 soundtrack by Satoshi Okubo.
Picks
Matthew
- Ghost Squad
- Tomb Raider Anniversary
- Zack and Wiki: The Quest for Barbaros’ Treasure
- Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare
- Picross DS
- The Legend of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass
- Hotel Dusk: Room 215
- BioShock
- Phoenix Wright: Trials and Tribulations
- Super Mario Galaxy
Samuel
- Final Fantasy XII
- Crackdown
- The Orange Box
- Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare
- Mass Effect
- Uncharted: Drake’s Fortune
- BioShock
- Super Mario Galaxy
- God Hand
- Halo 3
XL 24 Revisions
Matthew
- Hotel Dusk: Room 215 - Perhaps won’t revisit
- Zack and Wiki: The Quest for Barbaros’ Treasure - A locked happy memory
- Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare - Head and heart
- ✅？ The Orange Box
Samuel
- God Hand - Ultimate heart pick
- Halo 3 - Heart and head converge
- ❌？ Final Fantasy XII - Don’t love but respect
- Crackdown - Heart
- ❌？ The Orange Box - Head
- Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare - Head
- ⬇️？ ❌？ Mass Effect
- Uncharted: Drake’s Fortune - For then, not for now
- Bioshock - Head
- ✅？ The Darkness