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Updating for the hell of it.
So, I decided to give some mini-reviews of the games I've been playing lately. These will be completely biased and unfair.

F.E.A.R./Extraction Point
While the base game will freak you out, all the fucked up shit that happens in the expansion makes Silent Hill look like a vacation spot. In terms of how good it is, the immersion factor is off the scale. By using ordinary, everyday environments, they allow the AI of the enemy soldiers and the things that are going on to stand out even more. As for the AI, the enemy soldiers seek cover, melee when you're close, scream "FUCK!" when a grenade goes off near them, hunt for a better shooting angle, try to flank you, and try to move to better cover when you hit them. And they have intelligent radio chatter between each other to coordinate these actions.

And then they send in the heavily armored units. Including 4 10-foot tall battle walkers in a parking garage that take more than 30 rockets to destroy.

And Alma is the core of it all. Where in the first game all she can do is force visions into your mind and rend the occasional group of people, in the second she can summon/create demonic creatures that kill people in extremely bloody, high-flying ways. Though there seems to be two of them in the expansion...

Quake 4
Space marine fights borg-like aliens called the Strogg. Gets captured and transformed nearly all the way into a Strogg soldier. Freed before the neural control device is activated. Is now the only one who can destroy the Strogg central mind. Blah blah blah, insert FPS/sci-fi cliche here. The Strogg-built weapons have some interesting abilities, but they have to be upgraded by a tech. And the lightning gun and Dark Matter gun are still the only really interesting weapons. And even then, you don't get enough ammo for them to really have fun with it. As for the AI, it's not much smarter than in the first Quake. Overall, it's just mediocre.

Battlefield 2142
I'd love this game more if it actually worked. It's fun, and once you get into it the upgrades start rolling in. But there's no reason for it to just suddenly stop loading up. Period.

World of Warcraft
Not much I can say that hasn't been said a thousand times already.

Sam & Max season 1
One of the few episodic games worth every penny. Truly the funniest series I have played in a long time. I recommend that anyone with a sense of humor and an appreciation for the bizarre should go buy this. Now. What the fuck are you still doing here?
http://www.telltalegames.com/samandmax

(no, I'm not getting paid for this)