So I haven't posted a blog in a while because I have been pretty busy at school. Anyways I have now reached level 30, which is Wicked Sick!. I'm pretty sure that this is a line in Unreal Tournament for 30 kills straight with no deaths.

Now that that's out of the way, 2009 has a lot of great games that are coming up, so I thought I would create a list that would tell you guys which games I'm looking forward to the most.

1. Empire: Total War

Developer: Creative Assembly (Published by Sega)

Release Date: March 3rd, 2009.

After playing a hell load of Medieval II: Total War, and it's expansion; Kingdoms plus watching/reading numerous previews and gameplay videos, I can safely say that this is going to be the game that I will be playing for a long time. The land battles have been improved, and the new feature of fully three dimensional naval battles is going to be awesome. I hope they tone up the A.I, and make Diplomacy actually work, unlike in the predecessor; Medieval II.

My PC can handle M2:TW at max settings, so I can probably get away with low-medium settings on this game. I'll probably upgrade my graphics card to get this to run better, but I don't care as long as I can play this thing.

Platform: PC

2. Killzone 2

Developer: Guerrilla Games (Publisher: SCEA)

Release Date: February 27th, 2009.

Platform: PS3

Hey, I have been waiting for this thing since 2005, and its finally going to come out this year. I loved the first Killzone, had hours on end of fun on it despite it's technical flaws. I really hope Guerrilla makes this one good, because of the time and resources they had to work with. I don't have a PS3 yet, but I still hope this thing does really well.

3. Halo 3: ODST

Developer: Bungie Software (Publisher: Microsoft Game Studios)

Release Date: Q4 2009.

Platform: Xbox 360

Everyone knows I love Halo right? So its a no brainer that I put it on my list here. I can't wait to see how Bungie approaches this game because you no longer play as Master Chief so bye bye Spartan shields.

4. StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty

Developer: Blizzard Entertainment (Publisher: Blizzard Entertainment)

Release Date: TBA

Platform: PC

Now I'm not sure if this is coming out this year or not, but as a RTS gamer, I am definitely looking forward to the next installment of the StarCraft series. I have loved the first StarCraft, and the similar Warcraft(RTS) games. Hopefully they give us a rich campaign because they did split it into three parts.

5. Diablo III

Developer: Blizzard Entertainment (Publisher: Activision Blizzard)

Release Date: TBA

Platform: PC

Hopefully Diablo III comes out this year as well, because I am definitely looking forward to this. Some of the gameplay that Blizzard showed us looks pretty good. Now if they would only tell us when it would come out...

Other Noteworthy Mentions:

Halo Wars(X360)

CoD: MW2(Multi-platform)

CoH: ToV(PC)

FEAR 2: Project Origin(Multi-platform)

Thats it for this blog, and thanks for reading if you have read it.