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There are five things inside The Orange Box: Half-Life 2, Half-Life 2: Episodes One and Two, Portal, and Team Fortress 2. All share Half-Life 2’s bleak, unsettling vision of a planet Earth devastated and defeated and picked over by horrific invading aliens, rendered by a beautiful physics engine and astonishingly evocative audio effects. The real surprise is Portal, a satanically innovative puzzle game involving a gun that creates wormholes that zap objects from place to place. And don’t forget Team Fortress 2, a multiplayer shoot-’em-up where players take on different roles and character classes. Taken all together — or for that matter, even in pieces — The Orange Box is an astounding achievement.

Like a pebble that has been rounded over the centuries by the gentle splashing of the ocean waves, Halo 3 has become the perfect hardcore first-person combat simulator. By dint of painstaking labor on the part of its developer, Bungie, it has been refined over three installments to the point where it delivers only pure, unadulterated gaming bliss. Every combat is even-sided and complex and can be waged in multiple ways, using an arsenal of long- and short-range weapons, plus grenades and hand-to-hand moves. Every level is perfectly paced and balanced and graced with soaring architectural compositions. Plus it’s graphically gorgeous. The epic storyline and the stirring score don’t hurt either. In one of the greatest years video gaming has ever seen, Halo 3 is the very best of the bunch.

Katana provides a first-person perspective and delivers arcade-style action. Armed with your motion-sensitive Wii Remote, journey back in time to do battle as a lethal samurai.

Multiple different modes include Musou mode, trial mode, and vs. mode. Musou mode takes you on an adventure through Feudal Japan. On each mission, samurai and allies will serve as your guide. Prevent pirates from invading your ships, rescue maidens from a burning castle, and explore caverns. These missions require quick reflexes, fast thinking, and precision marksmanship. Trial mode helps samurai-in-training prepare for battle in Musou mode. You can also earn gold in this mode that will help you on your quest in Musou mode. Vs. mode pits you versus a friend in head-to-head competition in eight mini-games.

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Role-playing games aren’t the hip thing in gaming these days, but Mass Effect brings back some of that old-school, story-driven, single-player magic. Set in a rich, original science-fiction universe, it approaches the long-sought-after ideal of game-as-interactive novel. You play a kind of galactic 007 agent on a mission to deal with another agent gone rogue. Choose a class, level up, earn weapons and armor, assemble your party, talk to startlingly realistic aliens. Mass Effect has all that good stuff that games used to be about before the Internet came along. Plus you get to shoot people — and there’s an alien make-out scene.