Honorable Mention(s):

Whoops! I think I dropped something! Nooch!

Title: Battlefield 1943

Platform: Xbox 360, PC & Playstation 3

Difficulty Rating: 8

Who knew flying WWII era fighter planes was so freaking hard? Battlefield 1943 is a solid game that could have been better, but man-oh-man is flying fun! The first time I actually shot down another fighter I almost called up friends and family to share the good news.

Talk to me goose!

Title: Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2

Platform: Xbox 360, PC & Playstation 3

Difficulty Rating: 7

I really enjoyed the single player campaign for MW2. It was engaging and action packed. It could have been a bit harder; I don’t think it is even as hard as the first Modern Warfare.

Still, I was happy to see that the game had not caught the grenade disease World At War carried.  I mention it on this list because of what I think is the best part about MW2 aside from playing with a bunch of people online: the Spec Ops missions.  Once you get past the Alpha missions, your teammate and you have your work cut out for you if you want to get 3 stars in every mission.

Counter this!

Title: Batman: Arkham Asylum

Platform: Xbox 360, PC & Playstation 3

Difficulty Rating: 7

This may seem a strange game to put into the list.  Don’t get me wrong, Batman really is one of the best games of the year, but it is not that hard to beat…unless you kick it to the max difficulty setting.  Playing through on normal, the random clown henchmen you run into are basically punching bags.  Even when faced by a huge crowd of goons, the counter indicator pretty much guarantees you can just keep swinging until everyone is down.

At its toughest, the game forces you to watch the subtle movement of your enemies in order to time your counter just right and use the ability to jump over people when your cornered.  Fighting Bane plus Joker’s clowns on normal was a cake walk…on Hard…not so much.

Now, I’m sure some of you must be thinking “I don’t like getting frustrated all the time, I just want to have fun.”  That’s fine.  I’m sure the rest of the kids in your playpen agree.

While you Easy/Normal setting chumps, and your casual “gaming” friends are out buying new pink golf shirts and color coded accessories for you IPhone, the real gamers of the world will be getting tattoos comemorating our most recent victories.

Or something macho like that…

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