…For the online commando: Call of Duty 4
Another game that we've mentioned before. Let's recap anyhow: CoD 4 multiplayer is fantastic. You've played most of these game modes before: deathmatch, capturing and defending power points, planting or defusing bombs. But they've never been this grungy, this intense, and this completely balanced. They've probably never looked this good either - the developers think the PS3 version has even better graphics than the eye-popping 360 version.
…Second option: Warhawk
You know how to tell when a game's developers focused on multiplayer? When they literally threw out the single-player mode. You know how to tell if it's fun? When we rave on about crazy aerial dogfights punctuated by on-foot gunplay.
…For the visually inclined (read: graphics whores): Ratchet & Clank Future: Tools of Destruction
The series that practically defined action games on PS2 with its light-hearted characters and huge arsenal of explosive weaponry arrives on PS3. It plays about the same - with the addition of disco-dancing enemies and penguins - but great balls of ninjas on fire, is it pretty. It looks like the best movie Pixar hasn't yet made, with colors that burst out of the screen and explosions big enough to give a supernova an inferiority complex.
Second option: Heavenly Sword
We understand why we can't look away from the lithe, panty-flashing babe with the sword on a chain and inhumanly long hair. It's that way we can't look away from the grotesque enemies either that proves how gorgeous this hack-and-slashing adventure is.
