"A Wonderfully Balanced and Addicting Addition to the Genre"

Defense Grid is an excellent tower defense game that does not venture too far from the basic principles of the genre, but instead decides to refine what is already there. It adds in a well written and acted storyline to keep driving you towards the end. The game features a number of well balanced and useful towers such as a chargable Tesla, ground-to-air Missile towers and Command towers that can reveal cloaked ships. The game features a large amount of DLC that adds new levels. After you beat the game, you have a number of extra modes to challenge yourself with, such as a mode where you cannot upgrade towers, a 99 Wave mode and an Adrenaline mode where the waves continuously get faster. The game has enough of a challenge to keep seasoned tower defense players puzzled while being accessible enough to ease newer players into the different strategies and possibilities available with your tower set-ups. It is highly recommende

" And Believe Me, I Am Still Alive"

Portal 2 is a game that had a lot to live up to. After the explosion the first game started, it was doubtful that the sequel could ever live up to the hype. Having been dragged back into the facility after escaping, Chell must help Wheatley, an A.I., find a way to get out of the facility without awakening the "sleeping" GLaDOS. Portal 2 manages to exceed expectations by maintaining the formula of the original game while simultaneously expanding on both the mechanics and the storyline, which is now far more complex and cinematic. You'll be encountering bridges made of light, bouncy liquids, lasers and many other new testing elements that you must combine with portals in brain-bending ways in order to progress. There is also the new co-op mode, which throws two friends into the fray to think with portals. Portal 2 keeps things fresh and new despite the four years of cake jokes preceding it, and that is what will make it a classic its own right.

"We Do What We Must Because We Can"

Portal tends to stand out not only for being unique itself, but for being one of Valve's only franchises to not be a shooter. Rather, Portal is a puzzle game where you take the role of a test subject named Chell. You are testing the Aperture Science Hand-Held Portal Device, a gun that can create, well, portals whereever you wish. You place both, go in one and come out the other. Pretty straight forward. The execution of this mechanic, however, is not so straightforward. There are so many different ways to use portals to move yourself and other things around that you'd be hard pressed to find any limits. As you progress, the game will ease you into how each trick works until you're thrown into the refiner's fire and must go from there on your own. The game has a simple yet immersive atmosphere, with plenty of little details to pick out and a helpful computer named GLaDOS guiding you through it all. See if you have what it takes to think with portals.